Dr. Leslie Hewes (1906 - 1999)

Education:

Ph.D. University of California - Berkely (1940)
B.A. University of Oklahoma(1928)

Research Interests

Cultural geography, historical geography, and Great Plains geography

Book length Publications

The Suitcase Farming Frontier, University of Nebraska Press, 1973.

Occupying the Cherokee Country of Oklahoma, University of Nebraska Studies N.S. 57, 1978.

Selected Publications (1996 and later)

Hewes, Leslie, and Nina Veregge, "Sonora, 1931", Journal of the Southwest, Vol. 38, #1, Spring 1996, pp. 23-36.

Hewes, Leslie, "Making a Pioneer Landscape in the Oklahoma Territory", The Geographical Review, Vol 86, #4, October 1996, American Geographical Society, January 1998, pp. 589-603.

Hewes, Leslie, "Humanitarians on the Frontier, Examples from Northeastern Logan County, Oklahoma Territory", Great Plains Quarterly, Vol. 18, Winter 1998, pp. 39-45.

Hewes, Leslie, \0x201CGleanings from the Coulter School Memoirs: Recollections of Pioneering in Logan County,\0x201D Chronicles of Oklahoma 77, Summer 1999, pp. 184-195.