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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Annual Report of the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture for the Year
Author:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Annual Report
Author: Nebraska. State Board of Agriculture
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Annual Report of the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture for the Year
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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Annual Report and Statements of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on the Foreign Commerce and Navigation, Immigration, and Tonnage of the United States for the Fiscal Year Ending ...
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics
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Category : Commercial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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Category : Commercial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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Annual Report and Statements of the Chief of the Bureau of Statistics on the Foreign Commerce and Navigation, Immigration, Tonnage of the United States for the Fiscal Year Ending ...
Author: United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Statistics
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Category : Commercial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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Category : Commercial statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 948
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The Last Days of the Rainbelt
Author: David J. Wishart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496209427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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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.
Bulletin of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Transactions
Author: Massachusetts Horticultural Society
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Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Languages : en
Pages : 870
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Monthly List of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Division of Documents
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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Annual Report of the Nebraska State Board of Agriculture
Author: Nebraska. State Board of Agriculture
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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