Author: Virginia
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Languages : en
Pages : 1216
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Annual Reports of Officers, Boards and Institutions of the Commonwealth of Virginia
Author: Virginia
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Languages : en
Pages : 1216
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Languages : en
Pages : 1216
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Report of the State Librarian
Author: Virginia State Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Biennial Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Author: Kansas. State Board of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Vols. for 1874-76 include also "Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science."
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Vols. for 1874-76 include also "Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science."
The Last Days of the Rainbelt
Author: David J. Wishart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496209427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Looking over the vast open plains of eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska, where one can travel miles without seeing a town or even a house, it is hard to imagine the crowded landscape of the last decades of the nineteenth century. In those days farmers, speculators, and town builders flooded the region, believing that rain would follow the plow and that the "Rainbelt" would become their agricultural Eden. It took a mere decade for drought and economic turmoil to drive these dreaming thousands from the land, turning farmland back to rangeland and reducing settlements to ghost towns. David J. Wishart's The Last Days of the Rainbelt is the sobering tale of the rapid rise and decline of the settlement of the western Great Plains. History finds its voice in interviews with elderly residents of the region by Civil Works Administration employees in 1933 and 1934. Evidence similarly emerges from land records, climate reports, census records, and diaries, as Wishart deftly tracks the expansion of westward settlement across the central plains and into the Rainbelt. Through an examination of migration patterns, land laws, town-building, and agricultural practices, Wishart re-creates the often-difficult life of settlers in a semiarid region who undertook the daunting task of adapting to a new environment. His book brings this era of American settlement and failure on the western Great Plains fully into the scope of historical memory.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496209427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Looking over the vast open plains of eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska, where one can travel miles without seeing a town or even a house, it is hard to imagine the crowded landscape of the last decades of the nineteenth century. In those days farmers, speculators, and town builders flooded the region, believing that rain would follow the plow and that the "Rainbelt" would become their agricultural Eden. It took a mere decade for drought and economic turmoil to drive these dreaming thousands from the land, turning farmland back to rangeland and reducing settlements to ghost towns. David J. Wishart's The Last Days of the Rainbelt is the sobering tale of the rapid rise and decline of the settlement of the western Great Plains. History finds its voice in interviews with elderly residents of the region by Civil Works Administration employees in 1933 and 1934. Evidence similarly emerges from land records, climate reports, census records, and diaries, as Wishart deftly tracks the expansion of westward settlement across the central plains and into the Rainbelt. Through an examination of migration patterns, land laws, town-building, and agricultural practices, Wishart re-creates the often-difficult life of settlers in a semiarid region who undertook the daunting task of adapting to a new environment. His book brings this era of American settlement and failure on the western Great Plains fully into the scope of historical memory.
Report of the Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Author: Kansas. State Board of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Department Circular
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1404
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Bulletin
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Category : Animal industry
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Category : Animal industry
Languages : en
Pages : 660
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Bulletin
Author: United States. Bureau of Animal Industry
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Category : Domestic animals
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Category : Domestic animals
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Annual Report of the Library Board to the Virginai State Library to which is Appended the Annual Report of the State Librarian
Author: Virginia State Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Special reports and monographs are issued as part of some of the Reports
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Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Special reports and monographs are issued as part of some of the Reports
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift Division
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.