The prairie winnows out its own :: the West River Country of South Dakota in the years of depression and dust /

Between 1900 and 1915, in the last great land rush, over one hundred thousand homesteaders flooded into the west river country of South Dakota, a land noted for its aridity and unpredictable weather, its treelessness, and its endless sky. The settlers of "the last, best west" weathered the...

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1. Verfasser: Nelson, Paula, 1951-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1996.
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Zusammenfassung:Between 1900 and 1915, in the last great land rush, over one hundred thousand homesteaders flooded into the west river country of South Dakota, a land noted for its aridity and unpredictable weather, its treelessness, and its endless sky. The settlers of "the last, best west" weathered their first crisis in the severe drought of 1910-1911, which winnowed out many of the speculators and faint of heart; they abandoned their founding hopes of quick success and substituted a new ethos of "next year country"--While this year was hard, next year would be better
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xxiv, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index.
ISBN:1587291673
9781587291678

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