The last days of the rainbelt
(Adult Book)
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Adult Nonfiction - Main Library
978 WIS
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978 WIS
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Subjects
LC Subjects
Agriculture -- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century.
Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century.
Farmers -- Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Great Plains -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Great Plains -- Environmental conditions.
Great Plains -- History -- 19th century.
Human geography -- Great Plains.
Social change -- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century.
Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century.
Farmers -- Great Plains -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
Great Plains -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Great Plains -- Environmental conditions.
Great Plains -- History -- 19th century.
Human geography -- Great Plains.
Social change -- Great Plains -- History -- 19th century.
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Format
Adult Book
Physical Desc
xviii, 202 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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. Wisharts 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Wishart, D. J. (2013). The last days of the rainbelt . University of Nebraska Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wishart, David J., 1946-. 2013. The Last Days of the Rainbelt. University of Nebraska Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Wishart, David J., 1946-. The Last Days of the Rainbelt University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Wishart, David J. The Last Days of the Rainbelt University of Nebraska Press, 2013.
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