Sod Busting How Families Made Farms on the 19th-Century Plains |
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| Author:
| Danbom, David B. |
| Series title: | How Things Worked Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-4214-1450-8 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Publisher: | Johns Hopkins University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $47.00 |
Book Description:
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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 ......
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 ......