Magnificent Failure

A Portrait of the Western Homestead Era

Szerző: John Martin Campbell

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Kötés: Kemény kötésű

Kiadó: Stanford University Press

Elérhetőség: Utánnyomás

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In words that are as clean and precise as his haunting, starkly beautiful photographs, the author vi...

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Szerző

John Martin Campbell

Nyelv

Angol

Kötés

Könyv - Kemény kötésű

Kiadva

2002

oldal

200

EAN

9780804738866

ISBN

0804738866

Enbook ID

05135843

Kiadó

Stanford University Press

Súly

912

Méretek

267 x 216 x 19

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In words that are as clean and precise as his haunting, starkly beautiful photographs, the author vividly recreates the life and times of the Western Homestead Era, that period beginning around 1885 when the prairie lands lying westward from the longitude of the western Dakotas became available to pioneering farmers. Some 70 black-and-white duotone photographs, with detailed captions, record the bleak landscapes and the abandoned farms, outbuildings, farm implements, and hand tools that are mute testimonies to the failed hopes of several million families who settled on these arid and semi-arid lands. The author explains how their failure resulted from a deadly combination of natural and economic causes. Neither the federal government nor the homesteaders themselves were aware that some of the western homestead land was so dry that artificial irrigation often was required. But irrigation was unavailable to most of these farms, and many thousands of them failed within a few years. On most of the homestead lands, however, dry farming by which crops are watered by falling rain and snow permitted the newcomers to plant and reap a variety of crops. For several decades, these regions produced flourishing farms, towns, railroad lines, and dirt and gravel roads.

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