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[Photograph 2012.201.B1292.0674]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An American Agriculture member identified as Texas farmer Don Kempo braves the chill in his open-cab tractor Tuesday as he and more than 100 other 'tractorcade' participants roll to-ward El Reno."
Date: January 16, 1979
Creator: Vahlberg, Bob
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1292.0677]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "About 80 tractors and 120 other vehicles departed from a Bushland, Texas, farm Monday, one of eight American Agriculture starting points across the nation, in a massive tractorcade 1979' is scheduled to arrive Fed. 2 in the capital for the opening of the 96th Congress."
Date: January 16, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1292.0698]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A group of tractors driven by farmer associated with the American Agriculture Movement winds its way up U.S. 95 near Warrenton, Va. on the road to Washington."
Date: February 2, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1292.0739]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "An assortment of signs protesting government farm policies are attached to tractors at the American Agriculture Movement's gathering spot in Bull Run Park, Va."
Date: February 6, 1979
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1292.0684]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A line of tractors moves down a street near the Capitol Wednesday as police allowed protesting farmers to parade to the Agriculture Department in the third day of a continuing protest of farm prices."
Date: February 8, 1979
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1292.0686]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "A group of tractors that made the trek to Washington, D.C., for the national farm price protest "tractorcade" are parked outside the Comanche Stockyards in southwestern Oklahoma where area American Agriculture Movement members plan to hold regular monthly meetings."
Date: February 20, 1979
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Government Policy and Indian Farming on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation: 1869-1880

Description: Article describes the agricultural programming the United States government promoted for Cheyenne and Arapaho lands in the late nineteenth century. William D. Pennington describes the attempt and ultimate failure of the policies in transforming nomadic groups into agrarian ones.
Date: Summer 1979
Creator: Pennington, William D.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Troubled Times: Homesteading in Short-Grass Country, 1892-1900

Description: Article discusses the results of the 1893 land run after the opening of lands on the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation, including the difficulties settlers faced. Michael H. Reggio describes how the poor crop yields, pests, droughts, and lack of transportation impacted the lives of homesteaders.
Date: Summer 1979
Creator: Reggio, Michael H.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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