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• Machine generated contents note: Foreword / by Jordan Larson
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Plymouth
• 2. Off and Running
• 3. Have Setters, Will Travel
• 4. The Building
• 5. Rhymes with Growth
• 6. Bertrand
• 7. How the West Was Warned
• 8. Firth
• 9. Ogallala
• 10. Waco
• 11. Blair
• 12. Heights and Sounds
• 13. First at Last
• 14. Thanksgiving.

"Nebraska Volleyball is the first book to tell the fifty-year story of how volleyball took hold at the University of Nebraska, going from its early origins to its first national championship and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.
"When Title IX was enacted in 1972, the University of Nebraska volleyball program, like many across the country, received a fraction of the funding and attention given to the school's mighty football program. The players had to organize a run from Lincoln to Omaha to raise money for uniforms. The women were asked to wait their turn to use the weight room. Today the Nebraska women's volleyball team is one of the sport's most decorated programs-with more career wins than any other program and five NCAA National Championships-and draws standing-room-only crowds at home games in the 8,000-seat Devaney Center.Nebraska Volleyball is the first book to recount how volleyball took hold at Nebraska, through Pat Sullivan, the team's first coach; through such early figures as Cathy Noth, a decorated player and later an assistant coach into the 1990s; through Terry Pettit, who coached the team for twenty-three seasons and led it to its first National Championship in 1995; and through John Cook, who took over as head coach in 2000. John Mabry highlights the small Nebraska towns that have sent some of the best players to the program and helped build statewide support for the team. Public television helped too, with its power to broadcast games early on and thus build a following across the state. The success of Nebraska's volleyball program is one of the greatest stories in sports. As Karch Kiraly, head coach for the U.S. National Women's Volleyball Team, said: "If you want to learn about women's college volleyball, your first stop has to be Lincoln, Nebraska.""-- Provided by publisher.

• [Series I]. [no. 1]. Freak laws
• [no. 2]. Early Oregon farm life
• [no. 3]. About prehistoric Oregon
• [no. 4]. Miscellaneous
• [no. 5]. Odd place names and their origin
• [no. 6]. Transportation
• [no. 7]. Historic monuments.

• [Series II]. [no. 1]. Stock brands
• [no. 2]. Native Oregon plants
• [no. 3]. Mining legends
• [no. 4]. Cowboy talk
• [no. 5]. Loggers' Jargon
• [no. 6]. Oregon firsts
• [no. 7]. Beaver state money I
• [no. 8]. Beaver state money II
• [no. 9]. Oregon marine history I
• [no. 10]. Oregon marine history II
• [no. 11]. Oregon oddities radio series
• [no. 12]. Pioneer days and ways
• [no. 13]. Questions and answers
• [no. 14]. Trees--oregana
• [no. 15]. Lost treasure
• [no. 16]. Ghost towns
• [no. 17]. Wildlife
• [no. 18]. Gala days
• [no. 19]. News of earlier days (Special for newspaper men's convention.).

• [Series III]. [no. 1]. History of education
• [no. 2]. Birds
• [no. 3]. Early Oregon schools I
• [no. 4]. Early Oregon schools II
• [no. 5]. Paul Bunyan
• [no. 6]. Bells
• [no. 7]. Indian legends
• [no. 8]. Railroads
• [no. 9]. Snakes in Oregon
• [no. 10]. Place names and their origin
• [no. 11]. Historic hostelries
• [no. 12]. Summer edition, July 20, 1940
• [no. 13]. Summer edition, Aug. 1, 1940
• [no. 14]. Summer edition, Aug. 15, 1940.

• [Series IV]. [no. 1]. Prehistoric lands in Oregon
• [no. 2]. Vanishing wildlife I
• [no. 3]. Vanishing wildlife II
• [no. 4]. Slavery in Oregon
• [no. 5]. Famous Oregonians
• [no. 6]. Defense resources
• [no. 7]. Early Oregon marriages
• [no. 8]. Christmas in Oregon
• [no. 9]. The Oregon scene, part 1
• [no. 10]. The Oregon scene, part 2
• [no. 11]. Willamette meteorite
• [no. 12]. Oregon wild flowers, part 1
• [no. 13]. Oregon wild flowers, part 2
• [no. 14]. Disasters -- shipwrecks
• [no. 15]. Fire and flood
• [no. 16]. Horticulture, part 1
• [no. 17]. Horticulture, part 2.

"This volume of the Jewish Publication Society's highly acclaimed Bible Commentary series provides the Hebrew text of Psalms 120-150 along with the JPS English translation and a line-by-line commentary"-- Provided by publisher.

• From the Borderland to the Midwest
• Las Baracas
• Harvesting madness
• Changes to the migrant cycle
• Return to migrant labor camps
• Political activism in Madison
• Organizing the migrant march
• Striking and organizing for recognition
• Targeting the multinationals
• La Voz Mexicana
• Fighting for recognition
• Building support
• Organizing from the picket line
• Intersecting movements
• Chicano and Latino self-determination
• UMOS, migrant advocate
• Direct action and self-determination
• Access to higher education
• Politics and protest
• Community organizing and Latino politics
• UMOS and welfare rights manifestations
• Free Chacon and Puente protests
• Split decision
• Legislative progress on Campus
• Legacy of the farmworkers movement.

"In a genre-defying blend of history and first-person narrative, Jesus Salas examines the history of migrant labor in the United States and the migrant farmworkers' movement of the 1950s-1970s. He begins with his grandparents' relocation in 1906 from Coahuila, Mexico, to the semi-arid but fertile floodplains along Comanche Creek in southcentral Texas. Their community of tens of thousands of Mexican settlers, recruited by land speculators to cultivate, plant, and harvest vegetables, were joined by thousands more fleeing the Mexican Revolution and the chaos that followed. Salas describes the resulting system of borderland apartheid, of segregated schools, poll taxes, and "white primaries," and examines the values of the "mutualists," or mutual aid societies, that sustained the farmworkers and would form the basis for the Wisconsin farmworkers' "social unionism." As the Great Depression dislocated the settlements and forced laborers to seek work elsewhere to survive, whole communities began to migrate to the Texas gulf counties and Panhandle, to the Plains States, and to the Great Lakes region, a generational pattern that began with Salas's grandfathers, continued in the 1940s with his parents, and persisted in the 1950s by Salas and his five brothers, who ultimately relocated to Wautoma, Wisconsin. While Mexican and Tejano workers fueled the growth of Wisconsin's agriculture and food processing industries, they paid a profound personal toll, and Salas provides a firsthand account of the migrant farmworker experience: brutal working conditions; overcrowded and unsanitary labor camps; physical and mental devastation, particularly harmful to women and children. He describes a life of uncertainty, constant fear of injury, his brother's broken bones, the hospitalization of his mother-all of it on reflection feeling like a "harvest of madness." Salas recounts how the gross violation of Wisconsin's social and progressive legislation and administrative code that protected migrant workers-child labor laws, migrant housing codes, minimum-wage law-led him and others in 1966 to form Obreros Unidos (Workers United), a farmworker union based on the tenets of the mutual aid societies in the Texas borderlands. That August, at age twenty-two, Salas led the union's protest march from Wautoma to Madison to draw attention to their cause. The first Wisconsin farmworkers' strike soon followed. Not solely concerned with improving the wages and working conditions of its members, Obreros Unidos offered meeting spaces, published a newspaper, provided free legal services, opened a gasoline cooperative, and later assisted in the establishment of the first migrant health clinic in the area. Salas recalls the greatest challenge of serving and organizing migrant families living in labor camps dispersed across a three-county area; he describes meeting with migrant families after church services and while shopping in downtown Wautoma, organizing rallies, and setting up grape boycott pickets in support of California striking workers. In the late 1960s, Obreros Unidos continued its community development strategies, but the environment changed; with increasing mechanizing on farms and in processing plants, for the first time the majority of OU organizers now lived in an urban industrial setting. In Milwaukee, one of the country's most segregated communities and recently convulsed by 200 consecutive days of open-housing marches, the NAACP Youth Council and the farmworkers' movement intersected in a profound manner. OU and Latino community leaders joined the Youth Council's protest of employment discrimination in summer of 1969; that fall Father Groppi joined OU's picket of Kohl's Foods, and attorney Lloyd Barbee helped organize a grape boycott rally for Latino and African American labor and community leaders. The next year both communities supported protests of Wisconsin's "welfare reform," the dismantling of the safety net for indigent families. Most significantly, OU organizers adopted the Youth Council's direct action strategies in its action for Latino civil rights. Salas demonstrates how the farmworkers' movement and Latino activism of the 1960s led to later action and lobbying efforts on a number of migrant labor and other Latino issues, including the creation of a Hispanic Desk in the Wisconsin governor's executive office, the offering of a Chicano Studies program at UW-Madison, Wisconsin's Bilingual/Bicultural Act and Wisconsin Migrant Labor Law, and the Migrant Tuition Bill"-- Provided by publisher.