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Farming the Dust Bowl (P)

Farming the Dust Bowl (P)

Svobida, Lawrence

Paperback

20th Century United States HistoryRegional: Midwest

ISBN10: 0700602909
ISBN13: 9780700602902
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: Apr 14 1986
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.54 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.48
Language: English

This is a powerful original account of one man's efforts to raise wheat on his farm in Meade County, Kansas, during the 1930s. Lawrence Svobida tells of farmers fighting in the front-line trenches, putting in crop after crop, year after year, only to see each crop in turn destroyed by the elements. Although not a writer by trade, Svobida undertook to record what he saw and experienced to help the reader to understand what is taking place in the Great Plains region, and how serious it is. He wrote of the need for better farming methods--the only way, he felt, the destruction could be halted or confined. Well before the principles of an ecological movement were widely embraced, Svobida urged a public acceptance of the sovereign rights of the states and the nation to regulate the use of land by owners . . .so that it may be conserved as a national resource.

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