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The Prairie Winnows Out Its Own : The West River Country of South Dakota in the Years of Depression and Dust
author
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Nelson, Paula.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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0877455252
print isbn13
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9780877455257
ebook isbn13
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9781587291678
language
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English
subject
South Dakota--History, South Dakota--Economic conditions, Agriculture--South Dakota--History--20th century.
publication date
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1996
lcc
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F656.N455 1996eb
ddc
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978.3/032
subject
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South Dakota--History, South Dakota--Economic conditions, Agriculture--South Dakota--History--20th century.
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The Prairie Winnows Out its Own
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The Prairie Winnows Out its Own
The West River Country of South Dakota in the Years of Depression and Dust
Paula M. Nelson
University of Iowa Press Iowa City
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242 Copyright 1996 by the University of Iowa Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America
Design by Richard Hendel No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher. Printed on acid-free paper
Except as noted, all photographs are reproduced courtesy of the South Dakota Archives, South Dakota State Historical Society.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Nelson, Paula The Prairie winnows out its own: the west river country of South Dakota in the years of depression and dust / by Paula M. Nelson. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-87745-525-2 1. South DakotaHistory. 2. South DakotaEconomic conditions. 3. AgricultureSouth Dakota History20th century. I. Title F656.N455 1995 978.3032dc20 95-24904 CIP
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Close are the meshes, as bleak years have shown By which the prairie winnows out its own Evav K. Anglesberg, "The Mills of Destiny," 1938
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Contents
Preface
ix
Introduction: After the West Was Won
xiii
Chapter 1. Room at the Bottom
1
Chapter 2. The Cow, the Sow, and the Hen
15
Chapter 3. If a Woman Is a True Companion
38
Chapter 4. Not a Young Chicago
61
Chapter 5. The Social Costs of Space
92
Chapter 6. Seedtime and Harvest Shall Not Cease
116
Chapter 7. In the Last Days, Perilous Times Shall Come
145
Chapter 8. The Plainsman Cannot Assume...
164
Chapter 9. Outside the Shelterbelt
187
Notes
207
Bibliography
237
Index
243
Page ix
Preface
Between 1900 and 1942, in just two generations of settlement, the west river plains of South Dakota went from promised land to hinterland.1 My first book, After the West Was Won: Homesteaders and Town-Builders in Western South Dakota, 1900-1917, tells the story of the frontier years and the first great crisis of settlement. It is the story of the last great land rush on the Northern Plains, when more than 100,000 homesteaders flooded into the west river country of South Dakota, a land noted for its aridity and unpredictable weather, its treelessness and endless sky. The settlers of the "last great frontier" weathered their first great crisis in the severe drought of 1910-1911, which winnowed out many of the speculators and faint of heart; those who remained in the region abandoned their founding hopes of quick success and substituted a new ethos of "next year country"while this year was hard, next year would be better, an ironic outlook at once optimistic and fatalistic.
This book picks up the story at the end of World War I, with the next great crisis of west river life, the crash of the agricultural economy in the early twenties. It was here that west river residents learned that "next year" was rarely better. The collapse of the agricultural economy in the immediate aftermath of the boom years of World War I initiated a trend of regional decline amidst national prosperity and cultural change. The rise of radio and mass culture during this period increased rural folks' awareness of national trends and tastes, a development
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which paradoxically increased their sense of remoteness and isolation. The failure of the farm economy to recover to any substantial degree in the twenties caused a less dramatic, but cumulatively greater impact on the west river country's population and prospects than had the drought of 1910-1911.
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