"In Great Plains Homesteaders Richard Edwards offers a concise and colorful overview of our country's successful experiment in populating the Plains with permanent settlers"-- Provided by publisher.
Item Details
ISBN:
9781496238948 (trade paperback)
9781496238948
Description: 181 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Homesteaders
Origins of the homesteading idea
Moving to the land in the nineteenth century
Settling in in the nineteenth century
Perils and survival
Black homesteaders
The twentieth-century land rush
Life on the twentieth-century homestead
Homesteading women
The homesteaders' legacy.
LCCN: 2024009775
Control Number: 3362112
Publisher: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]
