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Great American Desert - Digital History  ... in 1820, Major Stephen H. Long called the region "the Great American Desert. ... uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence. ... later, the "Great American Desert" received a new name, the Great Plains.
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Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | INDUSTRY  In the popular mind, the Great Plains of North America consists of vast open spaces ... the Plains, described by Edwin James, chronicler of Stephen Long's 1820 .... railroads were critically important in the development of Plains agriculture. .... A few so-called full-line farm machinery manufacturers located their factories on...
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Great American Desert - Wikipedia  The term Great American Desert was used in the 19th century to describe the western part of the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains in North America to about the 100th meridian. The area is now usually referred to as the High Plains, and the original term ... It was long thought that treeless lands were not good for agriculture; thus the...
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Stephen H. Long - NebraskaStudies.Org  Stephen H. Long dubbed the Great Plains the "Great American Desert". ... Long's group built their winter quarters nearby and called it "Engineer Cantonment." ... On June 6, 1820, Long and 19 men traveled up the north bank of the Platte and met ... and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture.
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Westward Expansion | Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture  Stephen H. Long of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, its mission was to search ... Bell and his remaining men were glad to reach Fort Smith on September 9, 1820. ... Oklahoma was part of the Great American Desert twelve months a year, ... as marginally useful for agriculture, as a suitable Indian Colonization Zone,...
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jeopardy/1301_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  ... REVIEWS THE 19th CENTURY | After an 1835 election loss, he told Tennesseans, "You may all go to Hell & I will go to Tex."; never did like his hat | Crockett.
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Nov 30, 2010 ... I was looking for the Country holding them as a colony, not the name of the colony. Ooops What was Great Britin ... As minister to this country from 1832-34, Buchanan helped create our first commercial treaty with it. Reply .
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"Silk Hopes in Colonial South Carolina" by Marsh, Ben - The Journal ...  (1) Yet these efforts to grow silk also embodied significant history, and silk hopes ... described sericulture in colonial South Carolina as a commercial failure, this article ... is not to attempt to refloat the vessel but rather to locate valuable materials. ... in turn, but first let us establish how colonial South Carolina's silk hopes have...
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Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | HORSE  The ensuing intermission in the history of Plains Indian horse use lasted until the ... Grande and the Arkansas River also supported about two million wild horses, ... of the mounted Plains warrior as the stereotype for all North American Indians.
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Crawford Long (1815-1878) | New Georgia Encyclopedia  Crawford Long, a north Georgia physician, is credited with the discovery of ... He performed his first surgical procedure using the gas on March 30, 1842, when he ... Though he performed more surgeries using anesthesia over the next several...
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Hard tomatoes, hard times: Failure of the land grant college complex  these people pour out of rural America into the cities. ... the Colleges of Agriculture, created in 1862 by the Morrill. Act. ... Lever Act completes the picture. ... Purdue University and Texas A & M University. ... land grant college complex or to read anything about the .... corporate assembly line extending from the fields through.
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History of agriculture in the United States - Wikipedia  The History of agriculture in the United States covers the period from the first British winter .... In New England, subsistence agriculture gave way after 1810 to production to ... The number of people living on farms grew from about 10 million in 1860 to ..... in 1975 under the dtente policy to supply the Soviets with grain over a...
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Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete by Albert Bigelow ...  families, and would talk about trilobites, the Old Red Sandstone period, and the .... He reconsidered his resolution not to lecture again, and closed with. Redpath for the ... As in a far later period, Mark Twain had resorted to lecturing to pay off debt. He ..... Bliss who had given the new book the title of Roughing It. Innocents at
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Ascent to Greatness - Chapter Ten: - Herbert W Armstrong Library  American speculators gladly agreed to settle large tracts of land. ... The fact that the Florida Treaty of 1819 (between the U.S. and Mexico) had given up ... first being forced by Sam Houston to sign a treaty granting Texas her independence. ..... Valley, and she would also cede about 19,000,000 acres south of the Gila River.
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jeopardy/1690_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  OIL IN THEM THAR STATES | In the 1850s a prairie wheat state was known as "Bleeding" this; today, oil might make it "Gushing" this | Kansas. right: Hank.
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constraints on the expansion of the global food supply - Die Off  Pimentel, Kindall, Food, Overpopulation, Human Overpopulation, Science, ... We examine whether and how global food production may be increased to ... much of the historic past; it was not until after 1900 that growth accelerated (1). ... in world crop yields with the rate of increase in total grain production declining slightly.
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Agricultural History - Edgefield County Historical Society  Edgefield County, like most of the South, became a one-crop economy, in which ... In the early 1920's, the boll weevil arrived in Edgefield County devastating cotton yields. This tiny insect triggered an extended decline in cotton production, causing a ... Later, from 1898 to 1913, the South Carolina Co-Educational Institute,...
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Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most ... - Amazon.com  Mao's Great Famine and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle. .... the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives. ... Tombstone: The Great Chinese Famine, 1958-1962 ... aspects of industrial production within 10 years, launched China's Great Leap Forward.
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Farmers, Mao, and Discontent in China: From the Great Leap ...  Dec 1, 2009 ... These include a misreading of the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural. ... that led to impressive gains in agricultural production and in people's lives. ... In addition, local and regional officials have sold farmland for development purposes, ... was an attempt to develop rapidly both industry and agriculture.
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Education - Scribd  In the course of time. and founded powerful kingdoms.britannica. the agricultural ..... No one will doubt that the legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of ...... we shall begin by observing the lessons which nature gives us. that the teacher ...... As the independent Department of Education from 1980.
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nature's metropolis - WordPress.com  Porkopolis. 225. Storing the Winter .... Urban historians rarely look beyond the outskirts of cities to the hinter ... never trade wheat or pork bellies on the Chicago futures markets depend ... the Ohio River or at Lake Michigan, and extended all the way to the ... "The Great West" is thus related to a much more controversial word,.