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Great Plains Homesteaders
Engelsk Paperback
Great Plains Homesteaders
Engelsk Paperback

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Great Plains Homesteaders tells the epic story of how millions of people, white and Black, women and men, young and old, and of many different religions, languages, and ethnic groups, moved to the Great Plains to claim land. Most were poor, so the government’s offer of “free” farms through the Homestead Act of 1862 seemed a godsend. The settlers found harsh growing conditions and many perils—including exploitation by railroads and banks, droughts, prairie fires, and bitter winters—yet they persisted. The settlers successfully “proved up” nearly a million claims between the 1860s and the 1920s. They filled up the immense grassland, transforming it into productive farms, the beginning of the region’s agriculture. They also created a distinct culture that continues to shape their estimated fifty million descendants living today.

Every homesteader’s experience was different, as particular and distinct as the people were themselves. Yet their collective story, with all its hardships and toil, its ambitions and setbacks, its fresh starts and failures and successes, is central to the American experience.
 
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
277
ISBN-13:
9781496238948
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
149623894X
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Udg. Dato:
1 sep 2024
Længde:
14mm
Bredde:
128mm
Højde:
202mm
Forlag:
University of Nebraska Press
Oplagsdato:
1 sep 2024
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