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    1. A study of small-town life in the Texas cattle country, 1880-1890, as reflected in the press of the area and period

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Agee, Warren Kendall (author)
    Format:
    Ph D. dissertation abstract
    Publication Date:
    1955
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 24 Document Number: B02479
    Journal Title Details:
    Dissertation Abstracts Volume 15, pages 1603-1604
    Notes:
    James F. Evans Collection, St. Paul, MN : University of Minnesota, 1955. 2 p. (Ph D. dissertation abstract)

    2. Barbed wire telephone lines brought isolated homesteaders together (and then let them snoop on each other)

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Frost, Natasha (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2017-09-25
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10032
    Journal Title:
    Atlas Obscura
    Notes:
    11 pages, Author examines how two inventions of the 1870s (barbed wire and the telephone) changed the lonely lives of frontier Americans.

    3. Before the big yellow bus: remembering the one-room schools of Richland County, Illinois

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Scherer, Ron E. (author) and Meckfessel, Yvonne Scherer (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2015
    Published:
    USA: Persimmon Grove Publishing, Claremont, Illinois.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 141 Document Number: D06237
    Notes:
    295 pages., Reports the history of 80-plus one-room schools in a southeastern Illinois county, including an examination of an education system that helped both slow and bright students. Identifies teachers at those rural schools and some of the "pupils who learned their lessons well." Traces the demographic shift from farm to city in Richland County.