During the 1970s, young boys rode their bicycles more frequently and in greater numbers than at a... more During the 1970s, young boys rode their bicycles more frequently and in greater numbers than at any other time in the United States’ past. Bicycle riding and racing became so popular in the 1970s that boys fashioned a culture of BMX, also known as bicycle motocross. The style of bicycles and riding that BMXers fashioned quickly grew from a niche within the industry into the most common form of bicycling in the United States. The 1970s has been dubbed the decade of the “bike boom” by industry publications and by historians who have written on the subject. Many factors likely contributed to the increased number of bicycle riders and sales. Most explanations of the increase tend to emphasize the political, economic, and environmental concerns of adults and neglect the role that younger people played in the boom.
This thesis tells a story of resource competition in central Nevada primarily between two groups-... more This thesis tells a story of resource competition in central Nevada primarily between two groups--Shoshone Indians who inhabited the region for centuries and European Americans who arrived in the nineteenth century. Although people who competed for control of the region's pinion pine trees generally fell into either of these categories, the labels of Indian and European grossly oversimplify the diversity within each group. Both Shoshone and Europeans comprised a variety of sub-groupings that utilized resources in a distinct manner and for purposes that often differed from those of the larger population. A number of different Shoshone bands and families competed against each other for food resources but particularly for pine nuts. Among Europeans, a variety of different racial, ethnic, class, and occupational groups competed for the same timber resources. These included middle- and working-class Italian immigrants, upper class businessmen and industrialists, as well as miners. Co...
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Local Knowledge 1. Vernacular Authorit... more List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Local Knowledge 1. Vernacular Authority in the Oil Field 2. Collaborative Authority: Nineteenth-Century Foundations of Petroleum Geology Part 2. Contested Knowledge 3. Shared Authority: Practical Oil Men and Professional Geologists 4. Institutional Authority: Field Work, Universities, and Surveys Part 3. Appropriated Knowledge 5. Geology Organized: Henry L. Doherty's Technological System Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Publikationsansicht. 22358628. Deep Time and the Texas High Plains: History and Geology (review) ... more Publikationsansicht. 22358628. Deep Time and the Texas High Plains: History and Geology (review) (2007). Frehner, Brian. Abstract. Southwestern Historical Quarterly - Volume 110, Number 3, January 2007. Details der Publikation. ...
Indians & Energy focuses on the American Southwest because it is particularly well suited for exp... more Indians & Energy focuses on the American Southwest because it is particularly well suited for exploring how people have transformed the region's resources into fuel supplies for human consumption. Not only do Native Americans possess a large percentage of the Southwest's total acreage, but on their lands reside much of the nation's coal, oil, and uranium resources. Regional weather and climate patterns have enabled native people to take advantage of solar and wind power as sources of energy. But issues related to energy and Indians transcend the region-and the nation. The contributors believe the lessons of the Southwest illuminate broader trends in other places. Their intent is not to end, but to join the conversation, and encourage others to do the same. This volume is the result of a symposium that was a cooperative venture between the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies and the School for Advanced Research in 2007-2008.
You might miss the monument sitting in front of the Belle Isle Library on the outskirts of Oklaho... more You might miss the monument sitting in front of the Belle Isle Library on the outskirts of Oklahoma City if driving by or walking hurriedly past. In the grass between the library and a sidewalk sits a five-foot-tall granite monument adorned with core samples and inscribed with words and images. If you study it, this is in part what you will read:
Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: The Beginnings of the Rule of Capture in the United States 1.... more Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: The Beginnings of the Rule of Capture in the United States 1. Naming and Blaming 2. The Leading Cases and their Legal Background 3. Practice and Belief in the Early Petroleum Industry Part II: Alternatives and Parallels 4. The Mineral Water Industry in France: Protection and Competition 5. Asphalt in Trinidad: Digging your Neighbour's Pitch 6. America's Early Oil Rivals: Petroleum and Property Rights in Galicia, Romania and Russia Part III: Modified Capture: The United States in the 20th Century 7. Correlative Rights and the Beginnings of Conservation 8. Oil and Gas in the Public Lands 9. Conservation Regulation and the Institutionalization of Capture Part IV: Evading Capture? 10. Securing Unified National Control of Petroleum Resources 11. Capture Revivified? Competitive Acreage Allocation by Governments 12. The Cross-Boundary Petroleum Deposit as a Federal and International Issue Part V: Conclusion 13. The Least Worst Property Rule? References
During the 1970s, young boys rode their bicycles more frequently and in greater numbers than at a... more During the 1970s, young boys rode their bicycles more frequently and in greater numbers than at any other time in the United States’ past. Bicycle riding and racing became so popular in the 1970s that boys fashioned a culture of BMX, also known as bicycle motocross. The style of bicycles and riding that BMXers fashioned quickly grew from a niche within the industry into the most common form of bicycling in the United States. The 1970s has been dubbed the decade of the “bike boom” by industry publications and by historians who have written on the subject. Many factors likely contributed to the increased number of bicycle riders and sales. Most explanations of the increase tend to emphasize the political, economic, and environmental concerns of adults and neglect the role that younger people played in the boom.
This thesis tells a story of resource competition in central Nevada primarily between two groups-... more This thesis tells a story of resource competition in central Nevada primarily between two groups--Shoshone Indians who inhabited the region for centuries and European Americans who arrived in the nineteenth century. Although people who competed for control of the region's pinion pine trees generally fell into either of these categories, the labels of Indian and European grossly oversimplify the diversity within each group. Both Shoshone and Europeans comprised a variety of sub-groupings that utilized resources in a distinct manner and for purposes that often differed from those of the larger population. A number of different Shoshone bands and families competed against each other for food resources but particularly for pine nuts. Among Europeans, a variety of different racial, ethnic, class, and occupational groups competed for the same timber resources. These included middle- and working-class Italian immigrants, upper class businessmen and industrialists, as well as miners. Co...
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Local Knowledge 1. Vernacular Authorit... more List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1. Local Knowledge 1. Vernacular Authority in the Oil Field 2. Collaborative Authority: Nineteenth-Century Foundations of Petroleum Geology Part 2. Contested Knowledge 3. Shared Authority: Practical Oil Men and Professional Geologists 4. Institutional Authority: Field Work, Universities, and Surveys Part 3. Appropriated Knowledge 5. Geology Organized: Henry L. Doherty's Technological System Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Publikationsansicht. 22358628. Deep Time and the Texas High Plains: History and Geology (review) ... more Publikationsansicht. 22358628. Deep Time and the Texas High Plains: History and Geology (review) (2007). Frehner, Brian. Abstract. Southwestern Historical Quarterly - Volume 110, Number 3, January 2007. Details der Publikation. ...
Indians & Energy focuses on the American Southwest because it is particularly well suited for exp... more Indians & Energy focuses on the American Southwest because it is particularly well suited for exploring how people have transformed the region's resources into fuel supplies for human consumption. Not only do Native Americans possess a large percentage of the Southwest's total acreage, but on their lands reside much of the nation's coal, oil, and uranium resources. Regional weather and climate patterns have enabled native people to take advantage of solar and wind power as sources of energy. But issues related to energy and Indians transcend the region-and the nation. The contributors believe the lessons of the Southwest illuminate broader trends in other places. Their intent is not to end, but to join the conversation, and encourage others to do the same. This volume is the result of a symposium that was a cooperative venture between the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies and the School for Advanced Research in 2007-2008.
You might miss the monument sitting in front of the Belle Isle Library on the outskirts of Oklaho... more You might miss the monument sitting in front of the Belle Isle Library on the outskirts of Oklahoma City if driving by or walking hurriedly past. In the grass between the library and a sidewalk sits a five-foot-tall granite monument adorned with core samples and inscribed with words and images. If you study it, this is in part what you will read:
Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: The Beginnings of the Rule of Capture in the United States 1.... more Preface and Acknowledgments Part I: The Beginnings of the Rule of Capture in the United States 1. Naming and Blaming 2. The Leading Cases and their Legal Background 3. Practice and Belief in the Early Petroleum Industry Part II: Alternatives and Parallels 4. The Mineral Water Industry in France: Protection and Competition 5. Asphalt in Trinidad: Digging your Neighbour's Pitch 6. America's Early Oil Rivals: Petroleum and Property Rights in Galicia, Romania and Russia Part III: Modified Capture: The United States in the 20th Century 7. Correlative Rights and the Beginnings of Conservation 8. Oil and Gas in the Public Lands 9. Conservation Regulation and the Institutionalization of Capture Part IV: Evading Capture? 10. Securing Unified National Control of Petroleum Resources 11. Capture Revivified? Competitive Acreage Allocation by Governments 12. The Cross-Boundary Petroleum Deposit as a Federal and International Issue Part V: Conclusion 13. The Least Worst Property Rule? References
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