Legendary Frontier, The: Unique Developments in Western Agriculture
Farm life on the Great Plains is different than farming in the Midwest or points east. Western farmers build sod houses, design steel plows uniquely shaped to cut through the sod, and develop barbed wire to keep grazing animals away from crops. Alth...
Legendary Frontier, The: Rapid Agricultural Growth in the Plains Region
The arrival of the miners, the empire building of the cattle ranchers, the dispersal of the Indian tribes--all serve as a prelude to a massive movement of farmers into the plains region. There is rapid agricultural growth in Great Plains and West be...
Hard Times: Despair of Farmers
Farmers in Oklahoma, Mississippi, Alabama are the hardest hit. People are forced off their lands and the great migrations begin. In 1932, the drought worsens on the great plains. Gigantic dust storms on a scale no one has seen before, cover houses a...
Warrior to Priest...Presidents of the Early 1900s: Roosevelt and Conservation
Theodore Roosevelt is involved with Gifford Pinchot and Carl Schurz in conservation efforts as early as the 1890s. As the first director of National Forest Service, Pinchot establishes a legacy of government involvement in wilderness areas primarily...