Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889

by Jon K. Lauck

Book Overview

American democratic ideals, civic republicanism, public morality, and Christianity were the dominant forces at work during South Dakota's formative decade.

What?

In our cynical age, such a claim seems either remarkably na ve or hopelessly outdated. Territorial politics in the late-nineteenth-century West is typically viewed as a closed-door game of unprincipled opportunism or is caricatured, as in the classic film The Man Who Shot Liberty...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806141107
• ISBN13: 9780806141107
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.7" x 8.6"