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Farming the Dust Bowl : A First-Hand Account from Kansas by Lawrence Svobida (1986, Trade Paperback, Reprint)

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After northern Wisconsin was cleared by commercial loggers early in the twentieth century, enthusiastic promoters and optimistic settlers envisioned transforming this "cutover" into a land of yeoman farmers. Here thousands of families--mostly immigrants or second-generation Americans--sought to recreate old worlds and build new farms on land that would come to be considered agriculturally worthless. In the end, they succumbed not to drought or soil depletion but to social and political pressures from those who looked askance at their way of life. Farming the Cutover describes the visions and accomplishments of these settlers from their own perspective. People of the cutover managed to forge lives relatively independent of market pressures; and for this they were characterized as backward by outsiders and their part of the state was seen as a hideout for organized crime figures. State and federal planners, county agents, and agriculture professors eventually determined that the cutover could be engineered and the lives of its inhabitants improved. By 1940, they had begun to implement public policies that discouraged farming and they eventually decided that the region should be depopulated and the forests replanted. By exploring the history of an eighteen-county region, Robert Gough illustrates the travails of farming in "marginal" areas. He juxtaposes the social history of the farmers with the opinions and programs of the experts who sought to improve the region, and shows how what occurred in the Wisconsin cutover anticipated the sweeping changes that would transform American agriculture after World War II. Farming the Cutover is a readable story of the hopes and failures of people who struggled to build new lives in an inhospitable environment. It makes an important counterpoint to Turnerian myths and the more commonly-told success stories of farming history.

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Publisher
University Press of Kansas
ISBN-10
0700602909
ISBN-13
9780700602902
eBay Product ID (ePID)
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Book Title
Farming the Dust Bowl : a First-Hand Account from Kansas
Author
Lawrence Svobida
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Features
Reprint
Topic
United States / State & Local / MidWest (IA, Il, in, Ks, Mi, MN, Mo, Nd, Ne, Oh, Sd, Wi), United States / General
Publication Year
1986
Genre
History
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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8.5in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz

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Reprint
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"One of the best books ever to appear about Dust Bowl days . . .not only because it is well written, but also because its author was one of those plains farmers who fought the losing fight. . . . A highly recommended 'inside' account."-- Robert Athearn , author of The Coloradans and High Country Empire, "One of the best books ever to appear about Dust Bowl days . . .not only because it is well written, but also because its author was one of those plains farmers who fought the losing fight. . . . A highly recommended 'inside' account."- Robert Athearn , author of The Coloradans and High Country Empire, "Although factual and calm in style, this book is as moving as John Steinbeck's novels."-- The New Republic "Easily one of the most important books that has dealt with the dust bowl and its problems. Nowhere else can be found such penetrating and dispassionate comments, free from political bias, on the actual workings of governmental agencies in the attempt to deal with cumulative disaster to one-sixth of our national area. And what is said has bearing on problems far beyond the limits of the Great Plains."-- The Saturday Review of Literature "The author has a story to tell that is of first importance to all Americans. . . . [A story of the] drought and high winds [that] brought permanent ruin and tragedy . . . to a region as large as France, Germany, and most of the British Isles."-- American Library Association Booklist
Table of Content
Foreword Preface Introduction 1. I Harvest a Wheat Crop 2. The Land Begins to Blow 3. Enter the AAA 4. Winds of Chance 5. A Maize King Abdicates 6. Black Blizzard 7. Tragedies of Dust 8. Blow Dirt Farming 9. A New Menace Strikes 10. Heat 11. Dust Sickness 12. If I Should Leave the Dust Bowl 13. I Fight For a Harvest 14. Last Stand 15. Exodus 16. Conclusion
Copyright Date
1986
Lccn
86-080328
Intended Audience
Trade
Illustrated
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great explanation of a difficult time to be a farmer it explained a lot of fallacy about the dust bowl

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