The Last Days of the Rainbelt

by David J. Wishart

Book Overview

Looking over the vast open plains of eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska, where one can travel miles without seeing a town or even a house, it is hard to imagine the crowded landscape of the last decades of the nineteenth century. In those days farmers, speculators, and town builders flooded the region, believing that rain would follow the plow and that the "Rainbelt" would become their agricultural Eden. It took a mere decade...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803246188
• ISBN13: 9780803246188
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Bison Books
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.1"