Research Catalog

Title

The west wind blows : the autobiography of Edward Everett Dale / edited and with an introduction by Arrell Morgan Gibson.

Author

Dale, Edward Everett, 1879-1972

Publication

Oklahoma City : Oklahoma Historical Society, 1984.

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Details

Additional Authors

Gibson, Arrell Morgan.

Description

xix, 423 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

• Dale, Edward Everett, 1879-1972
• Historians > United States > Biography

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Arrell Morgan Gibson -- Preface -- Pioneer forebears -- Home on the range -- Growing up with the country -- Schooling and an "inside job" -- Cowhand and ranchman -- The great land lottery [ 1901 ] -- Teaching at Deep Red -- Village schoolmaster and student -- Fair Harvard -- Fledgling instructor -- O. U. and Beacon Hill -- Two busy years -- And so they were married -- -- Honeymoon in Cambridge -- Mother, home, and Harvard -- O. U. and the Department of Agriculture -- Trailing the Indians -- More Indian trails -- The Indian trail ends -- Department chief -- Our Indian daughter -- Adventures in authorship -- Visiting professor -- The closing years -- Looking back.
• Illustrations: Picnic party at the Navajoe Mountains, southwestern Oklahoma -- Frederick Jackson Turner, professor of history at Harvard University, advocate of the Frontier Thesis of American history, and Edward Everett Dale's mentor -- Cheyenne woman; Pima Indian homes near Casa Blanca, Arizona; Santa Clara Pueblo; Miss Mark at Santo Domingo Pueblo; Lewis Meriam at Santo Domingo Pueblo: photographs illustrating the itinerary of the Meriam Survey [ survey of the economic and social condition of the American Indians, made by the Institute for Government Research, 1928 ] / Edward Everett Dale -- Edward Everett Dale, Henry Roe Cloud, Lewis Meriam, and Herbert Edwards with agency engineer at site of Coolidge Dam -- Students at Riverside School parade for inspection -- Miss Mary Louise Mark at the Missouri River.

ISBN

0941498409

LCCN

^^^84060270^

OCLC

• 10900203
• SCSB-13428554

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library