The Wichita real estate boom
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Authors
Long, Earl V. M.
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Issue Date
1931-05
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Thesis
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Abstract
In treating the Wichita real estate boom, I was particularly impressed with the fact that so many intelligent people were caught in that fever of speculation, who were ordinarily of calculating temperament . Many probably would not have been caught in the emotional excitement of a revival, and they would probably have remained cool under gun play. What then caused these self-contained people to lose their heads so completely? Why were so many of these people unable to explain afterwards how they could have been so foolish as to believe so many of those impossible Wichita prosperity yarns that were so cleverly spread about at the time?
Table of Contents
Chapter -- The American type and the significance of the Great American Migration -- Tracing the development and effects of restricted land hunger -- The play of centralized business on the frontier psyhology -- The fight for land narrows, and the hunger is more intense -- Immediate events leading up to the mob psychology of the Wichita boom -- The frontier type unrestrained -- American type unrestrained -- Conclusion _ Bibliographical note -- Bibliography
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Thesis (M.A.)-- University of Wichita, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Dept. of History
Publisher
Wichita State University