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Book Review

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Bonnie Lynn-Sherow. Red Earth: Race and Agriculture in Oklahoma Territory. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2004. Pp. ix, 186. $29.95.
Bonnie Lynn-Sherow offers a revealing history of settlement in Oklahoma that is both ecological and cultural. Capitalism and race relations figure largely in a story of resource exploitation. "An elite group of native-born white farmers," she observes, "were eventually triumphant over all others in ordering those resources into pathways of production and personal prosperity, although the bold traces of black and Indian efforts can still be seen throughout the former territory" (p. 146). Her research base is wonderfully rich, her argument well made. Lynn-Sherow is equally at home discussing political economy, historical ecology, and agricultural practice. This is a fine book, one worth arguing about.	1
The period of study is 1889–1906, the territorial period of Oklahoma; the geographical scope is the counties of Logan, Blaine, and Caddo. "I wanted to learn how the ecology of Oklahoma Territory had changed after the land runs," writes Lynn-Sherow (p. 7). She assesses the impact of general factors such as markets and technology, but she is particularly interested in the factor of culture. She investigates whether the presence of black settlers in Logan County, and of Kiowa in Caddo County, made a difference in comparison with the Anglo-American and German-American stock in Blaine County. For Lynn-Sherow, the concept of cultural diversity is related, at least by hypothesis, to that of biological diversity: "Was the ecology of Oklahoma Territory more diverse when farmers of different cultures and backgrounds worked side by side?" (p. 7).	. . .

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