@article{334619,
      note = {"Some portions of this work have previously been  published, in slightly different form. Parts of the  introduction, chapter 1, and chapter 4 appeared previously  as "Dependent Harvests: Grain Production on the American  and Canadian Plains and the Double Dependency with Mexico,  1880-1950," Agricultural History 80 (winter 2006): 35-63,  and are reprinted here with permission from the University  of California Press. Parts of chapter 5 have appeared in  three separate articles: "Prison-Made Binder Twine: North  Dakota's Connection with Mexico in the Early Twentieth  Century," North Dakota History 68 no. 1.: 20-36, (c) 2001,  State Historical Society of North Dakota, Used by  permission; "From Kanasín to Kansas: Mexican Sisal, Binder  Twine, and the State Penitentiary Binder Twine Factory,  1890-1940" appeared in Kansas History 24 (winter  2001-2002): 276-99, Kansas State Historical Society; and  "Entwined in Conflict: The South Dakota State Prison Twine  Factory and the Controversy of 1919-1921," appeared in  South Dakota History 35 (summer 2005): 95-124, South Dakota  State Historical Society. These portions are used here with  permission from those journals."},
      author = {Evans, Sterling,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/334619},
      title = {Bound in twine : the history and ecology of the  henequen-wheat complex for Mexico and the American and  Canadian Plains, 1880-1950 /},
      publisher = {Texas A&M University Press,},
      recid = {334619},
      pages = {xxiii, 314 p. :},
      address = {College Station :},
      year = {2007},
}