Grain Elevators of the Great Plains

 



BOOKS AND ARTICLES

Online Bibliography: http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~simmins/grain2.html

Baird, W. David. 1992. Cathedrals of the Plains: The grain elevators of western Oklahoma. The Chronicles of Oklahoma 70: 4-25.

Grain Elevators by Lisa Mahar-Keplinger (Paperback - August 1996) Our Price: $15.96 / Average Customer Review:

Wheat Kings : Vanishing Landmarks of the Canadian Prairies by Greg McDonnell Boston Mills Press (Hardcover - May 1999) Our Price: $20.96

Measures of Emptiness: Grain Elevators in the American Landscape - Frank Gohlke, Johns Hopkins University Press

Disappearing Giants: Western Canada's Country Grain Elevators - Bill Henderson & Bill Brennan, Heritage Magazine, Fall 99

From the Top of a Grain Elevator - Barbara Nickel, Beach Holme Publishing (children's poetry about small town life watched over by the local elevator

INTERNET SITES:

http://www.gomontana.com/grainelevator/
Home page of the Country Elevator Historical Society. Internal links include: About the Society, Members. Membership Form, Aritlces and Links (a bit sparse), Elevator Diaries, Photo Gallery, and Elevator Q&A.

http://www.harvestsite.com/_disc2/00000026.htm
Discussion Forum Entry

http://stewart.railfan.net/rail/grain3.htm
Excellent pitures.

http://www.sbsd.org/front/icon/elevator.htm
Grade 5 student pages with diagram of the inside of a grain elevator.

http://library.northernlight.com/AA20000515180006926.html?cb=0&sc=0#doc
Chronicle of Higher Education article: With a humanistic bent, a geographical studies grain elevators, a river in Los Angeles, andcollege towns

http://www.donlam.com/elevate1.htm
Links to Photos,Thumbnail Photos, "Pictures of Rod Rousell's Working Model of a Grain Elevator" ,

http://www.vigenconstruction.com/elevatrp.htm
Pictures of Large modern grain elevators.

http://bhw.buffnet.net/grain/history/history.htm
http://bhw.buffnet.net/grain/Welcome.html
Buffalo NY Grain Elevotor: History, The Scoopers, Function, Location, Map

http://www.muskoka.com/busmall/shards/grain.html

Searches:

http://www.osu-ours.okstate.edu/report94/as/geog.html
This project will involve on-site evaluation of forty-three grain elevators in OKSHPO Management Regions 6 and 7, provide photo-documentation of each elevator, and prepare National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Nomination for all eligible elevators as well as a National Register of Historic Places form for each individual elevator.

http://gis2.cagis.uic.edu/geography/wg161sq3.html
Geog. 161. INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY. QUESTIONS FROM THIRD HOUR EXAMS

*** http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/GEO/geog11.htm
From AN OUTLINE OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY, "The Great Plains and Prairies".

http://radio.cbc.ca/programs/ideas/shows/horizon/horizon.htm
Monday, January 31, 2000, 9:05 P.M. on CBC Radio One

http://apecon.agri.umn.edu/masters.html
Master's Theses and Plan B Papers
Department of Applied Economics
University of Minnesota

http://geography.ou.edu/research/giants.html
Giants on the Plains: Grain Elevators and the Making of Enid, Oklahoma Blake Gumprecht, Great Plains Quarterly 18:4 (Fall 1998), pp. 305-325.