TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nelson,Paula
TI  - The prairie winnows out its own: the West River Country of South Dakota in the years of depression and dust 
SN  - 1587291673
AV  - F656 .N455 1996eb
U1  - 978.3/032 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Iowa City, IA
PB  - University of Iowa Press
KW  - Agriculture
KW  - South Dakota
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - State & Local
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - United States
KW  - Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-242) and index; Preface; Introduction: After the West Was Won; Chapter 1. Room at the Bottom; Chapter 2. The Cow, the Sow, and the Hen; Chapter 3. If a Woman Is a True Companion; Chapter 4. Not a Young Chicago; Chapter 5. The Social Costs of Space; Chapter 6. Seedtime and Harvest Shall Not Cease; Chapter 7. In the Last Days, Perilous Times Shall Come; Chapter 8. The Plainsman Cannot Assume; Chapter 9. Outside the Shelterbelt; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
N2  - 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 "the last, best west" 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 "next year country"--While this year was hard, next year would be better
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