Men Against the Desert

Gray, James H.

Verlag: Western Producer Book Service, Saskatoon

Beschreibung

1974, 3rd printing. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 250pp. Map endpapers, photographs, index. The spine is lightly worn at the top and bottom edges. "While doing research for his book, the WINTER YEARS, James Gray discovered many significant facts relating to the conquest of the prairie drouth. He found that the dust bowl of the dirty thirties didn't just disappear of its own accord when the rains came back, that many dedicated Canadians cworking in the agricultural field mounted a massive campaign to prevent the western farmland from deteriorating into a wind-blown wasteland of sand dunes, buckbrush and pasture sage". Book about Dust Bowl & Weather. Time Period 1930's. Locale: Alberta--Canada; Manitoba--Canada; Palliser Triangle; Prairie Provinces; Saskatchewan--Canada; Western Canada. (Western Canada, Agriculture, Depression, Farming). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 153668

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Men Against the Desert

Verlag: Western Producer Book Service, Saskatoon

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag