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Great Plains Homesteaders / Richard Edwards.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Edwards, Richard, 1523?-1566, author.
Series:
Discover the Great Plains.
Discover the Great Plains Series
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Frontier and pioneer life--Great Plains.
Frontier and pioneer life.
African American pioneers--Great Plains--History.
African American pioneers.
Great Plains--History.
Great Plains.
Genre:
Electronic books.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (197 pages)
Edition:
First edition.
Place of Publication:
2024.
Lincoln, Nebraska : University of Nebraska Press, [2024]
Summary:
"In Great Plains Homesteaders Richard Edwards offers a concise and colorful overview of our country's successful experiment in populating the Plains with permanent settlers"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
Homesteaders
Origins of the Homesteading Idea
Moving to the Land in the Nineteenth Century
Settling In in the Nineteenth Century
Perils and Survival
Black Homesteaders
The Twentieth-Century Land Rush
Life on the Twentieth-Century Homestead
Homesteading Women
The Homesteaders' Legacy.
Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
9781496240606
149624060X
9781496240590
1496240596
OCLC:
1450190045

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