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Locust - The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier (Paperback, New Ed)
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Locust - The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier (Paperback, New Ed)
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In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust "the single greatest
impediment to the settlement of the country between Mississippi and
the Rocky Mountains." Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of
locusts regularly swept across the American continent, turning noon
into dusk, devastating farm communities, and bringing trains to a
halt. The outbreaks subsided in the 1890s, and then, suddenly--and
mysteriously--the Rocky Mountain locust vanished. A century later,
entomologist Jeffrey Lockwood vowed to discover why."Locust" is the
story of how one insect shaped the history of the western United
States. A compelling personal narrative drawing on historical
accounts and modern science, this beautifully written book brings
to life the cultural, economic, and political forces at work in
America in the late nineteenth century, even as it solves one of
the greatest extinction mysteries of our time.
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