Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains

by David B. Danbom

Book Overview

How settlers transformed America's most inhospitable frontier into an economic powerhouse

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421414511
• ISBN13: 9781421414515
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 9.3"