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John R. Wunder, Series Editor <br />American Outback <br />The Oklahoma Panhandle <br />in the Twentieth Century <br />RICHARD LOWITT <br />521.95 hardback <br />The story of the Oklahoma Panhandle is an integral part of the story <br />of the Great Plains. Richard Lowitt surveys the history of this geo- <br />graphical anomaly, from the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s through the <br />mega hog farms of the 199os and on into the twenty -first century. <br />Railwayman's Son <br />A Plains Family Memoir <br />HUGH HAWKINS <br />Introduction by H. Roger Grant <br />$ 95 hardback <br />Hugh Hawkins was seven years old when his father's <br />job with the Rock Island Railroad forced his family to <br />relocate to far western Kansas. Before he turned twelve <br />the family had lived in three "Rock Island towns ": Her - <br />ington, Kansas; Goodland, Kansas; and finally El Reno, <br />Oklahoma. Such was the life of a railwayman's son <br />during the Great Depression. <br />America's tooth Meridian <br />A PlainsJourney <br />Photographs and text by <br />MONTE HARTMAN <br />With an essay by William Kittredge <br />$3995 hardback <br />FRI <br />R " <br />Resulting from an arduous series of six journeys along the two - thousand -mile <br />line that divides East from West, Monte Hartman's perceptive photographs <br />provide the intimate yet dispassionate observations of a person who chose to <br />explore the meanings inherent in the great "empty middle" between our coasts. <br />