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Book SynopsisBeginning in 1820, settlers broke the tall grass prairies of mid-America. By the 1870s they had begun to use the term "Corn Belt" to describe much of the region. In From Prairie to Corn Belt, Allan G. Bogue chronicles this remarkable transformation and challenges the view that the post–Civil War period constituted thirty years of unrelieved agricultural depression. His book remains the only study of Midwestern agricultural development that focuses on the farmers themselves, the entire range of production problems they had to solve on their land, and the diversity of their responses.
Table of ContentsPreface to the Reprint Edition Preface to the First Edition Introduction: The Land Lies Waiting Chapter 1: The People Come Chapter 2: They Take the Land Chapter 3: "Free Land" Is Not Free Chapter 4: Farms on the Breaking Chapter 5: The Passing of the Lean Kine Chapter 6: The Lesser Beasts and Draft Stock Chapter 7: The Crops in the Field Chapter 8: How to Farm Siting Down Chapter 9: Three Production Costs: Money, Labor, Taxes Chapter 10: Some Are Innovators Chapter 11: They Call It the Corn Belt Chapter 12: Farmers in the New Settlements Chapter 13: The Farmer in the "Old" Community Conclusion: The Threshold of the Golden Age
