Prelude to the Dust Bowl : drought in the nineteenth-century southern plains / Kevin Z. Sweeney.
2016
QC929.27.S68 S94 2016eb
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Prelude to the Dust Bowl : drought in the nineteenth-century southern plains / Kevin Z. Sweeney.
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9780806158488 (electronic book)
9780806153407
9780806153407
Published
Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
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1 online resource (xv, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps
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QC929.27.S68 S94 2016eb
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978/.02
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The Great American Desert
Long's report and Indian removal
Between the droughts
Drought and buffalo migration
The Texas Indian reserves
The retreating frontier of the mid-century
The Five Tribes and the Confederacy
The early Civil War years in Indian Territory
The last war years in Indian Territory
Crime in Civil War Texas
Boomer bust
Attempts at rainmaking
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Epilogue.
The Great American Desert
Long's report and Indian removal
Between the droughts
Drought and buffalo migration
The Texas Indian reserves
The retreating frontier of the mid-century
The Five Tribes and the Confederacy
The early Civil War years in Indian Territory
The last war years in Indian Territory
Crime in Civil War Texas
Boomer bust
Attempts at rainmaking
And the skies are not cloudy all day
Epilogue.