The prairie winnows out its own: the West River Country of South Dakota in the years of depression and dust
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Beteilige Person: Nelson, Paula (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Iowa City, IA University of Iowa Press ©1996
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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 & ldquo;the last, best west & rdquo; 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 & ldquo;next year country & rdquo; & mdash;while this year was hard, next year would be better
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ISBN:0877455252
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