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Originally Posted by robertjohnson
Please read 'Badland' by J. Rabin. ISBN : 0679759069. Homesteading in eastern Montana early last century.
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Or for a brief synopsis of the problem, see
Marmarth, North Dakota - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[indent]
Marmarth is in some respects a fossil itself, as it offers a well-preserved example of a common phenomenon of the Great Plains -- a once-booming town that has dwindled to a fraction of its former size. -snip -
It wasn't just the "con job" being pulled by the railroad magnates; the brief decades of favourable climate for dryland farming were also a large factor. When the climate went back to its drier norm, which unfortunately overlapped the Great Depression
and preceded modern soil-conservation techniques, we got the Dust Bowl and a lot of failed farms everywhere.
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