Prelude to the Dust Bowl : drought in the Nineteenth-Century Southern Plains / Kevin Z. Sweeney.

Author: Sweeney, Kevin Z., 1959-

Imprint:Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]

Descriptionxv, 283 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm

Note:Introduction -- The Great American Desert -- Long's report and Indian removal -- Between the droughts -- Drought and buffalo migration -- The Texas Indian reserves -- The retreating frontier of the mid-century -- The Five Tribes and the Confederacy -- The early Civil War years in Indian Territory -- The last war years in Indian Territory -- Crime in Civil War Texas -- Boomer bust -- Attempts at rainmaking -- And the skies are not cloudy all day -- Epilogue.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-271) and index.

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