Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms on the Nineteenth-Century Plains

(Part of the How Things Worked Series)

by David B. Danbom

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How settlers transformed America's most inhospitable frontier into an economic powerhouse

Prairie busting is central to the lore of westward expansion, but how was it actually accomplished with little more than animal and human power? In Sod Busting, David B. Danbom tells the story of Great Plains settlement in a way it has seldom been told before.

Stretching beyond the sweeping accounts typical of standard textbooks,...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1421414511

ISBN13:9781421414515

Release Date:September 2014

Publisher:Johns Hopkins University Press

Length:144 Pages

Weight:0.45 lbs.

Dimensions:0.2" x 5.6" x 9.3"

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