Download or read book Locust written by Jeffrey A. Lockwood and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the continent, turning noon into dusk, demolishing farm communities, and bringing trains to a halt as the crushed bodies of insects greased the rails. In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country." From the Dakotas to Texas, from California to Iowa, the swarms pushed thousands of settlers to the brink of starvation, prompting the federal government to enlist some of the greatest scientific minds of the day and thereby jumpstarting the fledgling science of entomology. Over the next few decades, the Rocky Mountain locust suddenly -- and mysteriously -- vanished. A century later, Jeffrey Lockwood set out to discover why. Unconvinced by the reigning theories, he searched for new evidence in musty books, crumbling maps, and crevassed glaciers, eventually piecing together the elusive answer: A group of early settlers unwittingly destroyed the locust's sanctuaries just as the insect was experiencing a natural population crash. Drawing on historical accounts and modern science, Locust brings to life the cultural, economic, and political forces at work in America in the late-nineteenth century, even as it solves one of the greatest ecological mysteries of our time.

Download or read book The Locust Plague in the United States written by Charles Valentine Riley and published by Chicago : Rand, McNally. This book was released on 1877 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Rocky Mountain Locust written by Charles Valentine Riley and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Rocky Mountain Locust written by Charles Valentine Riley and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Report on the Rocky Mountain Locust and Other Insects Now Injuring Or Likely to Injure Field and Garden Crops in the Western States and Territories written by Alpheus Spring Packard and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book LOCUST PLAGUE IN THE US written by Charles V. (Charles Valentine) 1. Riley and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Download or read book The Grasshopper Or Rocky Mountain Locust and Its Ravages in Minnesota written by John C. Wise and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Second Report for the Years 1878 and 1879 written by United States Entomological Commission and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rocky Mountain Locust written by M. I. Lastman and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Environmental Novel Elderly Jim Easom finds himself alone, having inexplicably survived a devastating pandemic. He sets out on an odyssey across the continent from his home in now-deserted Southern Ontario hoping to reach the Northwest Territories, to find other survivors, and to build a new home. He adopts just two: a sheltie puppy, and a thirteen-year-old girl. They, like him, have suffered much, with more sorrow to come. Together they make their way, trying to adapt to the shattering new world reality. Their story provides the framework for a critical analysis of the man-made crisis of the biosphere.

Download or read book Report of the United States Entomological Commission relating to the Rocky Mountain Locust written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book First and Annual Report of the United States Entomological Commission for the Year 1877 Relating to the Rocky Mountain Locust and the Best Methods of Preventing Its Injuries and of Guarding Against Its Invasions written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Report on the Rocky Mountain Locust and Other Insects written by A. S. Packard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-04 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Report on the Rocky Mountain Locust and Other Insects: Now Injuring or Likely to Injure Field and Garden Crops in the Western States and Territories The canons of the mountains (a very prevalent idea in the East) produce but very few grasshoppers - probably not 5 per cent; the higher canons none that ex er leave them. I suppose that the swarms that devastated Nebraska and Kansas in 1874 were na fives of the plains of the Upper Missouri branches, the Yellowstone, Powder River. And the North Platte - that great plateau-land lying between the Black Hills and Rocky Mountain chains in Montana and Northern Wyoming. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.