portada Great Plains Homesteaders (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Richard Edwards

Editorial

Bison Books

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

198

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN13

9781496238948

Categorías

Ee. uu. región del medio oeste
Ee. uu. región del oeste
Historia de américa
Historia local

Great Plains Homesteaders (en Inglés)

Richard Edwards (Autor) · Bison Books · Tapa Blanda

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Great Plains Homesteaders tells the epic story of how millions of people, white and Black, women and men, young and old, and of many different religions, languages, and ethnic groups, moved to the Great Plains to claim land. Most were poor, so the government's offer of "free" farms through the Homestead Act of 1862 seemed a godsend. The settlers found harsh growing conditions and many perils--including exploitation by railroads and banks, droughts, prairie fires, and bitter winters--yet they persisted. The settlers successfully "proved up" nearly a million claims between the 1860s and the 1920s. They filled up the immense grassland, transforming it into productive farms, the beginning of the region's agriculture. They also created a distinct culture that continues to shape their estimated fifty million descendants living today. Every homesteader's experience was different, as particular and distinct as the people were themselves. Yet their collective story, with all its hardships and toil, its ambitions and setbacks, its fresh starts and failures and successes, is central to the American experience.