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Sweeney Kevin Z. <1959-> |
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Prelude to the Dust Bowl : drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains / / Kevin Z. Sweeney |
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Norman, Oklahoma : , : University of Oklahoma Press, , 2016 |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Droughts - Southwestern States - History |
Droughts - United States - History |
Droughts - Social aspects - Southwestern States |
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Southwestern States History |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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