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Nebraska sweet beets : a history of sugar valley / Lawrence Gibbs.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gibbs, Lawrence, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sugar beet industry--Nebraska--History.
- Sugar beet industry.
- North Platte River Valley--History.
- North Platte River Valley.
- Nebraska--History.
- Nebraska.
- United States--North Platte River Valley.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2020.
- Summary:
- Sugar beets are as tenaciously rooted in Nebraska's history as they are in its soil, especially in a seventy-mile stretch of the North Platte Valley that extended into eastern Wyoming. The state's first processing facility opened in Grand Island in 1890, boasting the largest mill in the world. The height of the beet boom occurred in the early part of the twentieth century as Wyobraskan towns courted factory locations as feverishly as rival sugar companies competed for territory, and an irrigation network turned the region into America's Valley of the Nile. Some rail lines have disappeared from the map, while catastrophes like the Scottsbluff and Bayard sugar bin explosions and the Gering Molasses spill will never be forgotten. From neglected beet dumps and abandoned rail spurs to silos ready for future harvests, explore Sugar Valley's heritage with Lawrence Gibbs.
- 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:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781439670156
- 1439670153
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