Leslie Hewes

Causes of Wheat Failure in the Dry Farming Region, Central Great Plains, 1939-1957

ToHE Central Great Plains constitutes a region of high risk. The term Dust Bowl, especially applicable to southwestern Kansas and southeastern Colorado, conjures up associated specters of drought, wind, ruined crops, blasted hopes, and damaged land. Risk is a central theme for the understanding of the area, with dry-farming considered especially vulnerable. The success or failure of wheat, the chief crop of most of the area, is an indicator of the success or failure of dry farming on the dry margin of the American Good Earth.

Indian Land in the Cherokee Country of Oklahoma

the former Indian Territory in what is now eastern Oklahoma is the existence of a large amount of Indianowned land, much of which is restricted against sale and is tax-exempt. In the Cherokee Country there is much Indian land. It has seemed pertinent to inquire into the extent, quality, and use of such land, with the purpose of evaluating the broad significance of Indian land. Emphasis will be given land in the eastern, wooded, or Ozarkian portion of the former Cherokee Nation (Figure 1), which served as culture hearth for the Cherokees in Oklahoma, and is still the home of the majority.

Huepac: An Agricultural Village of Sonora, Mexico

_]f T_ UEPAC is located in north central Sonora on the Sonora River (Figure 1). Hermosillo, the capital of the state, lies to the southwest; Cananea, a copper-mining town, to the north; and Nacozari, another copper center, to the northeast. All three are approximately one hundred miles by road f rom Huepac. Hermosillo is a stop on the Sud-Pacifico de Mexico, and Cananea and Nacozari are railhead towns. Huepac is on no railway and has only the road, the old camino real. By the site of Huepac passed explorer, conqueror, and missionary. Huepac, itself, was a Jesuit mission foundation. Now the occasional passage of an automobile gives only limited contact with the outside world, and Huepac remains a rather remote agricultural village, depending chiefly upon its own fields and grazing lands.

Cultural Fault Line in the Cherokee Country

VTp lHE Oklahoma Ozarks have long been the home of the majority of the Cherokee Indians. Indian land continues to present difficult problems in the area. This article is concerned with a comparison of some significant cultural features of the eastern, generally speaking the wooded, or Ozarkian, portion of the Cherokee nation, which is conveniently bounded by the Grand, or Neosho, and Arkansas rivers on the west and south, with the cultural features of the bordering portion of the Arkansas and Missouri Ozarks. Such a comparison should indicate the importance or unimportance of Indian occupance as a theme in the cultural geography of the Oklahoma, or Cherokee, Ozarks.