Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History

by Rebecca S Wingo, Richard Cluff Edwards, Jacob K Friefeld

Book Overview

2018 Nebraska Book Award
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, selected by Choice

Homesteading the Plains offers a bold new look at the history of homesteading, overturning what for decades has been the orthodox scholarly view. The authors begin by noting the striking disparity between the public's perception of homesteading as a cherished part of our national narrative and most scholars' harshly negative and dismissive treatment...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803296797
• ISBN13: 9780803296794
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.0"