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Locust : the devastating rise and mysterious disappearance of the insect that shaped the American frontier / Jeffrey A. Lockwood.
Van Pelt Library SB945.R7 L63 2004
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lockwood, Jeffrey Alan, 1960-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rocky Mountain locust--West (U.S.)--History.
- Rocky Mountain locust.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 294 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, [2004]
- Summary:
- Drawing on historical accounts and modern science, Lockwood brings to life the cultural, economic and political forces at work in America in the late-nineteenth century, as he investigates the mysterious disappearance of the dreaded Rocky Mountain locust.
- Contents:
- The third horseman of the apocalypse
- Albert's swarm
- The sixth plague
- Humans strike back
- Politicians and pests
- Lord of the locusts
- The triumvirate
- The locust disappears
- A wolf in sheep's clothing?
- Beautiful theories and ugly facts
- Secrets in the ice
- The mother lode
- Pioneers on trial
- What have we learned?.
- ISBN:
- 0738208949
- OCLC:
- 53485241
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