Download or read book Homesteaders Hopes written by Larry Opseth and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homesteading the unbroken buffalo grass Great Plains in the late 1800s wasn't for the weak or fainthearted. Settlers like my grandparents arrived with little more than hope and the promise of free land. They fought snow, forty degrees below zero temperatures, and blizzards that lasted for days. They suffered through the summer heat, untimely droughts, prairie fires, grasshoppers, exploitation by the railroads and the crooked politicians.Homesteaders came from all over including the flood of European Immigrants. They set up their own society with the strangers who happened to homestead next to them. Working together was essential for survival. Many of them failed or died trying. These were hard working folk who knew if they failed they could starve and lose everything. Theirs are the stories that were repeated by the thousand-fold.Those Homesteaders were hardworking, determined people who had successes and failures and endured the Great Depression and the dust bowl of the Dirty Thirties that forever changed the landscape of that rural society. Many of my family and friends will recognize some of the people, places, and stories in this novel even though I have changed the names and places to protect their privacy.
Download or read book Taming the Wild Prairie written by Ruth Shonle Cavan and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Taming the Wild Field written by Willard Sunderland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stretching from the tributaries of the Danube to the Urals and from the Russian forests to the Black and Caspian seas, the vast European steppe has for centuries played very different roles in the Russian imagination. To the Grand Princes of Kiev and Muscovy, it was the "wild field," a region inhabited by nomadic Turko-Mongolic peoples who repeatedly threatened the fragile Slavic settlements to the north. For the emperors and empresses of imperial Russia, it was a land of boundless economic promise and a marker of national cultural prowess. By the mid-nineteenth century the steppe, once so alien and threatening, had emerged as an essential, if complicated, symbol of Russia itself.Traversing a thousand years of the region's history, Willard Sunderland recounts the complex process of Russian expansion and colonization, stressing the way outsider settlement at once created the steppe as a region of empire and was itself constantly changing. The story is populated by a colorful array of administrators, Cossack adventurers, Orthodox missionaries, geographers, foreign entrepreneurs, peasants, and (by the late nineteenth century) tourists and conservationists. Sunderland's approach to history is comparative throughout, and his comparisons of the steppe with the North American case are especially telling.Taming the Wild Field eloquently expresses concern with the fate of the world's great grasslands, and the book ends at the beginning of the twentieth century with the initiation of a conservation movement in Russia by those appalled at the high environmental cost of expansion.
Download or read book Hand taming Wild Birds at the Feeder written by Alfred G. Martin and published by Alan C Hood. This book was released on 1991 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many species of wild birds can become your friends and feed from your hand. In this engaging book. Al Martin explains the techniques he developed over more than fifty years to gain the trust of wild birds. Many of Al's visitors, young and old alike, experienced the thrill of birds landing on them to receive the food they had been trained to expect! And readers of this book may look forward to similar experiences.
Download or read book The Prairie Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 1148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A leading agricultural magazine founded by the Union Agricultural Society of Chicago and a champion of farmers' rights ... Besides articles on agriculture, horticulture, and stock raising, it provided general and market news, a children's column, and departments dealing with health, household problems, and veterinary medicine." Cf. American periodicals, 1741-1900.
Download or read book The Horsecatcher written by Mari Sandoz and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1986-01-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unable to kill, a young Cheyenne is scorned by his tribe when he chooses to become a horse catcher rather than a warrior.
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Download or read book Wild Prairie Sky written by Cheri Michaels and published by Simon Pulse. This book was released on 1985 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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