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Prelude to the Dust Bowl - Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains (Hardcover)
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Prelude to the Dust Bowl - Drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains (Hardcover)
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Before the drought of the early twenty-first century, the dry
benchmark in the American plains was the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
But in this eye-opening work, Kevin Z. Sweeney reveals that the
Dust Bowl was only one cycle in a series of droughts on the U.S.
southern plains. Reinterpreting our nation's nineteenth-century
history through paleoclimatological data and firsthand accounts of
four dry periods in the 1800s, Prelude to the Dust Bowl
demonstrates the dramatic and little-known role drought played in
settlement, migration, and war on the plains. Stephen H. Long's
famed military expedition coincided with the drought of the 1820s,
which prompted Long to label the southern plains a ""Great American
Desert"" - a destination many Anglo-Americans thought ideal for
removing Southeastern Indian tribes to in the 1830s. The second dry
trend, from 1854 to 1865, drove bison herds northeastward,
fomenting tribal warfare, and deprived Civil War armies in Indian
Territory of vital commissary. In the late 1880s and mid-1890s, two
more periods of drought triggered massive outmigration from the
southern plains as well as appeals from farmers and congressmen for
federal famine relief, pleas quickly denied by President Grover
Cleveland. Sweeney's interpretation of familiar events through the
lens of drought lays the groundwork for understanding why the U.S.
government's reaction to the Dust Bowl of the 1930s was such a
radical departure from previous federal responses. Prelude to the
Dust Bowl provides new insights into pivotal moments in the
settlement of the southern plains and stands as a timely reminder
that drought, as part of a natural climatic cycle, will continue to
figure in the unfolding history of this region.
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