Empire of Dust

Empire of Dust
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Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9781552380857
ISBN-13 : 1552380858
Rating : 4/5 (858 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Empire of Dust by : David C. Jones

Download or read book Empire of Dust written by David C. Jones and published by University of Calgary Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This re-issue of the 1984 work includes a new preface. The saga of the failed town of Alderson, Alberta illustrates the greater story of drought and depopulation in the prairie dry belt of southwestern Alberta and eastern Saskatchewan from the turn of the century through the mid 1900s. According to Jones, a professor of history from Calgary, the doomed farmer exodus from the core of the continent, "part of a massive North American tragedy," was encouraged by boosterism, lightning expansion, and miscalculation. A substantial appendix lists population data and crop prices. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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