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The Cattle Guard

Its History and Lore

By: James F. Hoy

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With this study the cattle guard joins the sod house, the windmill, and barbed wire as a symbol of range country on the American Great Plains. A U.S. folk innovation now in use throughout the world, the cattle guard functions as both a gate and a fence: it keeps livestock from crossing, but allows automobiles and people to cross freely. The author blends traditional history and folklore to trace the origins of the cattle guard and to describe how, in true folk fashion, the device in its simplest form—wooden poles or logs spaced in parallel fashion over a pit in the roadway—was reinvented and adapted throughout livestock country Hoy traces the origins of the cattle guard to flat stone stiles unique to Cornwall, England, then through the railroad cattle guard, in use in this country as early as 1836, and finally to the Great Plains where, probably in 1905, the first ones appeared on roads. He describes regional variations in cattle guards and details unusual types. He provides information on cattle-guard makers, who range from local blacksmiths and welders to farmers and ranchers to large manufacturers. In addition to documenting the economic and cultural significance of the cattle guard, this volume reveals much about early twentieth-century farm and ranch life. It will be of interest not only to folklorists and historians of agriculture and Western America, but also to many Plains-area farmers, ranchers, and oilmen.

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260

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University Press of Kansas

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0700631569

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9780700631568

A Primer on Organizational Behavior

By: James L. Bowditch,Anthony F. Buono,Marcus M. Stewart

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A Primer on Organizational Behavior

By: James L. Bowditch,Anthony F. Buono,Marcus M. Stewart

This book introduces the reader to terms and concepts that are necessary to understand OB and their application to modern organizations. It also offers sufficient grounding in the field that enables the reader to read scholarly publications such as HR, CMR, and AMJ. This edition features new material on emotional intelligence, knowledge management, group dynamics, virtual teams, organizational change, and organizational structure.

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498

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470086955

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9780470086957

The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions

Managing Collisions Between People, Cultures, and Organizations

By: Anthony F. Buono,James L. Bowditch

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The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions

Managing Collisions Between People, Cultures, and Organizations

By: Anthony F. Buono,James L. Bowditch

This eye-opening study, based on the authors' direct and personal observation of a bank merger, has three basic analytical focuses: the human issues presented by mergers at both an individual and a cultural level, the organizational issues that these human concerns raise, and the resulting implications for managing the merger and acquisition process. With keen insight the authors delve into a complex web of reactions. The intrigues, cultural clashes, hostilities, and tensions that emerged from this friendly merger are mind-boggling. The dynamics that characterized the dual nature of the merger run the gamut of human responses to a stressful situation: trust and betrayal, openness and deception, hope and despair, support and retaliation - all driven by nascent opportunities or restricted options. This impressive study has many lessons to teach about the role that human resource considerations should play in any large-scale organizational change.

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340

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Beard Books

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1587981769

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9781587981760

The Authentic Wild West

By: James David Horan

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The Authentic Wild West

By: James David Horan

Accounts by eyewitnesses and the outlaws themselves.

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320

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New York : Crown Publishers, c1976-c1980.

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0517526808

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9780517526804

My Flint Hills

Observations and Reminiscences from America's Last Tallgrass Prairie

By: Jim Hoy

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My Flint Hills

Observations and Reminiscences from America's Last Tallgrass Prairie

By: Jim Hoy

Between the Nebraska border and Osage County, Oklahoma, are the Flint Hills of Kansas, and growing on those hills the last of the tallgrass prairie that once ranged from Canada to Texas, and on those fields of bluestem, cattle graze—and tending the cattle, someone like Jim Hoy, whose people have ranched there from, well, not quite time immemorial, but pretty darn close. Hoy has always called the Flint Hills home and over the decades he has made a study of them—their tough terrain and quiet beauty, their distinctive folk life and cattle culture—and marshaled his observations to bring the Flint Hills home to readers in a singular way. These essays are Hoy’s Flint Hills, combining family lore and anecdotes of ranching life with reflections on the region’s rich history and nature. Whether it’s weaning calves or shoeing horses, checking in on a local legend or a night of high school basketball in nearby Cassoday, encountering a coyote or a badger or surveying what’s happened to the tallgrass prairie over time, summoning cowboy traditions or parsing the place’s plant life or rock formations, he has something to say—and you can bet it’s well worth hearing. With his keen eye, understated wit, and store of knowledge, Hoy makes his Flint Hills come alive, and in the telling, live on.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700629939

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9780700629930

Book's by James F. Hoy

The Cattle Guard

The Cattle Guard

A Primer on Organizational Behavior

A Primer on Organizational Behavior

The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions

The Human Side of Mergers and Acquisitions

The Authentic Wild West

The Authentic Wild West

My Flint Hills

My Flint Hills

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