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Author : Mary W. M. Hargreaves
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UCAL:$B116958
Author : Mary W. M. Hargreaves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Dry farming
ISBN : 0700605533
Hargreaves reviews the changes in agricultural technology and farm management that occurred in the region (which in this study includes the eastern two-thirds of Montana and the western half of the Dakotas) through the 1920s, the introduction of federal programs as drought and depression recurred in the 1930s, and the realignment of concerns from drought to marketing instability during the recovery years that followed. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803247877
"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have
Author : Brian Frehner,Kathleen A. Brosnan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496225078
This collection of essays represents an attempt to move beyond degradation and exploitation as the defining ecological narratives of the Great Plains by examining the region through the interrelated themes of water, grasses, animals, and energy.
Author : H. Craig Miner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015040375191
Historian Craig Miner recounts the story of a former field hand whose joint enterprise with Wichita entrepreneur Ray Garvey created an agricultural wheat empire which still operates today. Miner details the daily decisions the men made which led to their success, as well as treating philosophical and historical questions about the relationship between agriculture and nature in a semi-arid region. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Douglas Helms
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781105678462
This volume is a collection of the writings of Douglas Helms on topics ranging from the history of the cotton boll weevil and the soils of the South to the history of soil and water conservation programs in the United States. They were authored over a more than thirty year career as a historian in the public service at the National Archives and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Author : Douglas Helms
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Soil conservation
ISBN : IND:30000044871626
Author : Claire M. Strom
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295802114
Profiting from the Plains looks at two inextricably linked historical movements in the United States: the westward expansion of the great Northern Railway and the agricultural development of the northern plains. Claire Strom explores the persistent, idiosyncratic attempts by the Great Northern to boost agricultural production along its rail routes from St. Paul to Seattle between 1878 and 1917. Lacking a federal land grant, the Great Northern could not make money through land sales like other railways. It had to rely on haulage to make a profit, and the greatest potential for increasing haulage lay in farming. The energetic and charismatic owner of the Great Northern Railway, James J. Hill, spearheaded most of the initiatives undertaken by his corporation to boost agricultural production. He tried, often unsuccessfully, to persuade farmers of the profitability of his methods, which were largely based on his personal farming experience. When Hill�s initial efforts to increase haulage failed, he shifted his focus to working with outside agencies and institutions, often providing them with the funding to pursue projects he hoped would profit his railroad. At the time, state and federal agencies were also promoting agricultural development through irrigation, conservation, and dryland farming, but their agendas often clashed with those of the Great Northern Railway. Because Hill failed to grasp the extent to which politicians� goals differed from those of the railroad, his use of federal expertise to promote agricultural change often backfired. But despite these obstacles, the railroad magnate ironically remained among the last defenders of the small-scale farmer modeled on Jeffersonian idealism. This fascinating story of railroad politics and development ties into themes of corporate and federal sponsorship, which are increasingly recognized as fundamental to western history. As the first scholarly examination of James J. Hill�s agricultural enterprises, Profiting from the Plains makes an important contribution to the biography of the popular and controversial Hill, as well as to western and environmental history.
Author : John Opie,Char Miller,Kenna Lang Archer
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496207265
The Ogallala aquifer, a vast underground water reserve extending from South Dakota through Texas, is the product of eons of accumulated glacial melts, ancient Rocky Mountain snowmelts, and rainfall, all percolating slowly through gravel beds hundreds of feet thick. Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land is an environmental history and historical geography that tells the story of human defiance and human commitment within the Ogallala region. It describes the Great Plains' natural resources, the history of settlement and dryland farming, and the remarkable irrigation technologies that have industrialized farming in the region. This newly updated third edition discusses three main issues: long-term drought and its implications, the efforts of several key groundwater management districts to regulate the aquifer, and T. Boone Pickens's failed effort to capture water from the aquifer to supply major Texas urban areas. This edition also describes the fierce independence of Texas ranchers and farmers who reject any governmental or bureaucratic intervention in their use of water, and it updates information about the impact of climate change on the aquifer and agriculture. Read Char Miller's article on theconversation.com to learn more about the Ogallala Aquifer.
Author : Walter Nugent,Martin Ridge
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1999-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 0253212901
The American West has generated exceptional attention in the past few years, and new scholarship and interpretations have enriched and enlivened the study of its history. Each of the seventeen exciting and provocative essays chosen for this book illuminates an important topic in Western history. Three opening essays by the editors define the West as frontier and region, and place American frontiers in comparative context. Then follow essays that consider women's property rights in Spanish-Mexican California; the mountain men and national identity; Indians and bison on the Great Plains in the early nineteenth century; the Mexican-American War of 1846-1848; the Latter-day Saints from 1830 to 1890; the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 as a case of Indian-white conflict; cowboys as wage workers in the 1880s; homesteading and the homesteading ideal; miners and ethnic conflict in early-twentieth-century Arizona; the Great Depression in Idaho; how World War II changed Los Angeles; Japanese-American women in World War II; African Americans in the West; and the Pacific Northwest since 1945. The editors also provide a general introduction to the study of Western history and a time line of important events.
Author : Gary D. Libecap,Richard H. Steckel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226479880
This volume takes a close look at the ways in which economies particularly that of the United States, have adjusted to the challenges climate change poses, including institutional features that help insulate the economy from shocks, new crop varieties, irrigation, flood control and ways of extending cultivation.
Author : Geoff Cunfer
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1585444014
"To support his theory, Cunfer looks at the entire Great Plains (450 counties in ten states), tapping historical agricultural census data paired with GIS mapping to illuminate land use on the Great Plains over 130 years. Coupled with several community and family case studies, this database allows Cunfer to reassess the interaction between farmers and nature in the Great Plains agricultural landscape."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jane M. Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Crops and climate
ISBN : UIUC:30112019112082
Author : Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135054984
First published in 2014. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Peter A. Russell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773587922
Nineteenth-century farm families needed land for the next generation. Their quest shaped agricultural settlement across Canada. This overview of rural history in Quebec, Ontario, and the Prairies provides a new perspective on the ways in which agriculture and the family farm were central to the country's expansion and essential to understanding social, political, and economic changes. How Agriculture Made Canada shows how differences between the agricultural development of Quebec and that of Ontario had a decisive influence on the settlement of the Prairies. Peter Russell demonstrates that farming families eventually ran out of land against the edges of the St Lawrence lowlands. While Quebec-based Habitants reached their region's limits earlier, Ontario encouraged people to migrate west. Russell argues that the thousands of relocated Ontario farmers changed Manitoba's bilingual openness to an exclusively English-speaking province that then assimilated East European arrivals. Thus, if not for the agricultural crises in the Canadas, Manitoba might have been at least as francophone as anglophone. The first comprehensive synthesis on the history of Canadian farming in decades, How Agriculture Made Canada reveals the lasting impact that nineteenth-century agricultural changes have had on the nation.
