Sod Busting

How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains

Autor: David B. Danbom

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Oprawa: Miękka

Wydawca: Johns Hopkins University Press

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Prairie busting is central to the lore of westward expansion, but how was it actually accomplished w...

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Autor

David B. Danbom

Język

Angielski

Oprawa

Książka - Miękka

Data wydania

2014

strony

144

EAN

9781421414515

ISBN

1421414511

Enbook ID

04791938

Wydawca

Johns Hopkins University Press

Waga

204

Wymiary

152 x 229 x 9

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Prairie busting is central to the lore of westward expansion, but how was it actually accomplished with little more than animal and human power? In Sod Busting, David B. Danbom tells the story of Great Plains settlement in a way it has seldom been told before. Stretching beyond the sweeping accounts typical of standard textbooks, Danbom challenges students to think about the many practicalities of surviving on the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century by providing a detailed account of how settlers acquired land and made homes, farms, and communities. He examines the physical and climatic obstacles of the plains-perhaps America's most inhospitable frontier-and shows how settlers sheltered themselves, gained access to fuel and water, and broke the land for agriculture. Treating the Great Plains as a post-industrial frontier, Danbom delves into the economic motivations of settlers, as well as the physically and economically difficult process of farm making. He explains how settlers got the capital they needed to succeed and how they used the labor of the entire family to survive until farms returned profits. He examines closely the business decisions that determined the success or failure of these farmers in a boom-and-bust economy; details the creation of churches, schools, and service centers that enriched the social and material lives of the settlers; and shows how the support of government, railroads, and other businesses contributed to the success of plains settlement. Based on contemporary accounts, settlers' reminiscences, and the work of other historians, Sod Busting dives deeply into the practical realities of how things worked to make vivid one of the quintessentially American experiences, breaking new land.

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