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Author Nelson, Paula, 1951-

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

Publication Info. Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, [1996]
©1996

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index.
Summary 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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
System Details 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. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
Processing Action digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL
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Subject South Dakota -- History.
South Dakota.
History.
South Dakota -- Economic conditions.
Economic conditions.
Agriculture -- South Dakota -- History -- 20th century.
Agriculture.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Nelson, Paula, 1951- Prairie winnows out its own. Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, ©1996 0877455252 (DLC) 95024904 (OCoLC)32970856
ISBN 1587291673 (electronic book)
9781587291678 (electronic book)
0877455252 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780877455257 (cloth ; alkaline paper)