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Nebraska sweet beets : a history of Sugar Valley / Lawrence Gibbs.
Lippincott Library HD9107.N2 G53 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibbs, Lawrence, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sugar beet industry--Nebraska--History.
- Sugar beet industry.
- History.
- North Platte River Valley--History.
- North Platte River Valley.
- Nebraska--History.
- Nebraska.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 188 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, plans ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2020.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: 1. Sugar
- 2. The Sugar Beet Industry in the United States
- 3. The Sugar Beet Industry in Nebraska
- Grand Island
- Norfolk
- Ames
- 4. Sugar Valley
- 5. The Factories
- Scottsbluff, Nebraska
- Housing the Workers
- The Sugar Beet Demonstration Trains
- Disputes between Growers and Great Western Sugar
- Handling the Finished Sugar Product
- Gering, Nebraska
- Bayard, Nebraska
- Mitchell, Nebraska
- Minatare, Nebraska
- Lyman, Nebraska
- Torrington, Wyoming
- 6. Factories That Might Have Been but Never Were
- Bridgeport, Nebraska
- Another Possible Factory
- 7. The Railroads and the Beet Spurs
- 8. The Beet Dumps
- 9. TheDinkies
- 10. The Sugar Beet Industry in the North Piatte Valley Since the Construction Phase.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-186).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- ISBN:
- 1467144274
- 9781467144278
- OCLC:
- 1132240780
- Publisher Number:
- 99985537306
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