Prairie City is the social history of a representative midwestern town - a composite of several Oklahoma small towns. Beginning with the one flashing moment of the 1889 land run, which opened the Oklahoma Lands for white settlement, Angie Debo depicts the struggles of the settlers on the vast prairie to build a community despite seasons of drought, prairie fire, and destitution. Solidly based on historical research, Prairie City chronicles the arrival of the railroad, the growth of political parties and educational institutions, KKK uprisings, the oil boom, the Depression and the New Deal, and the effects of two world wars on small-town America.
- ISBN13 9780806130941
- Publish Date 14 January 1944
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of Oklahoma Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English