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出版Arcadia Publishing, 2012
主題History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)Photography / Subjects & Themes / RegionalPhotography / Subjects & Themes / HistoricalSocial Science / Customs & TraditionsTravel / PictorialsTravel / United States / Midwest / West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, ND, NE, SD)
ISBN07385935249780738593524
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=jOKWt5-JNiIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The area that now encompasses Spink County was virgin prairie grassland 140 years ago, inhabited by Native American Sioux who survived by hunting the millions of roaming buffalo. The land was surveyed a few years after the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 in accordance with the Land Ordinance of 1785 and the Homestead Act of 1862. Within 25 years, the land was completely covered with farms, ranches, and towns and connected to the rest of the United States by a grid of railroads. Thanks to the then new science of photography, the amazing transformation of vast, treeless, sparsely populated prairie into a completely settled agricultural community is recorded here in wonderful and fascinating detail. Spink County is the pictorial record of an amazing historical movement.