The prairie winnows out its own : the West River Country of South Dakota in the years of depression and dust / Paula M. Nelson.
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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Nelson, Paula, 1951- |
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| Format: | eBook
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| Language: | English |
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Iowa City, IA :
University of Iowa Press,
©1996.
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| Subjects: |
HISTORY
> United States
> State & Local
> Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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| Online Access: | Click for online access
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