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Gilded Age and Progressive Era

 

Gatch, Loren C., “‘An’ the West Jes’ Smiled’: Oklahoma Banking and the Panic of 1907,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, 87 (Spring 2009), 4–33.

Maines, Rachel, “Rocky Landscape with Cheese Factory: The Stone Mills Union of LaFargeville, New York, 1896–1925,” New York History, 89 (Summer 2008), 257–76.

Sautter, John A., “Social Transformation and the Farmers’ Alliance Experience: Populism in Saunders County, Nebraska,” Nebraska History, 90 (no. 1, 2009), 6–21.

Savagian, John C., “A Question of Respect: Herbert Tanner’s Quest to Restore Hendrick Aupaumut to the Historical Record,” Wisconsin Magazine of History, 92 (Summer 2009), 2–13. Heavily illustrated.

Stevens, Mark H., “The Enigma of Meyer Lissner: Los Angeles’s Progressive Boss,” Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 8 (Jan. 2009), 51–81.

Sweeney, Michael S., “Julius F. Taylor and the Broad Ax of Salt Lake City,” Utah Historical Quarterly, 77 (Summer 2009), 204–21.

Tarr, Joel A., “The Horse Era in Pittsburgh,” Western Pennsylvania History, 92 (Summer 2009), 28–41. Heavily illustrated.

Young, Davis A., “Origins of the American Quantitative Igneous Rock Classifications: Part 1,” Earth Sciences History, 27 (no. 2, 2008), 188–219.

 

Alexander, June Granatir, Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1870–1920: How the Second Great Wave of Immigrants Made Their Way in America. (Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007. xvi, 332 pp. Paper, $16.95, isbn 978-1-56663-830-2.)

Conway, J. North, King of Heists: The Sensational Bank Robbery of 1878 That Shocked America. (New York: Lyons, 2009. xvi, 224 pp. $24.95, isbn 978-1-59921-538-9.)

Fowler, Giles, Deaths on Pleasant Street: The Ghastly Enigma of Colonel Swope and Doctor Hyde. (Kirksville: Truman State University Press, 2009. xii, 251 pp. Paper, $22.95, isbn 978-1-931112-91-8.)

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