Blizzard 1949
Author: Roy V. Alleman
Publisher: Nebraska Wealth Publishing
Published: 2003-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780974620602
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Author: Roy V. Alleman
Publisher: Nebraska Wealth Publishing
Published: 2003-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780974620602
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James C Fuller
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2019-11-04
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1439664900
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Wyoming historian shares an in-depth look at the historic storm and its devastating aftermath through the stories of those who survived. The Blizzard of 1949 took Wyoming and neighboring states by surprise. In January of that year, snow, wind and frigid temperatures devastated the northern plains. The storm stranded hundreds of motorists on the highways and stalled nearly two dozen trains at depots throughout the state. For nearly two months, towns and ranches were marooned by enormous drifts, some reportedly eighty feet tall. Communities pulled together to assist not only their neighbors but also anyone unable to escape the snowstorm. Drawing on meticulous research and numerous in-person interviews, author and historian James Fuller recounts these harrowing stories of tenacity and fortitude.
Author: David W. Mills
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9781946163035
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe blizzards that devastated the West eventually ended when every farmer and rancher in need of bulldozer crews had received the required assistance. Life began to return to normal for the people who experienced the extreme hardships evident throughout that infamous winter, but the effects remained in the consciousness of the leaders who had to react to those challenges. One reason the blizzards of 1949 devastated the West was because state and federal governments had no methodical approach to deal with natural disasters. They could not offer an organized response to national emergencies in which local, county, and state governments required assistance to save livestock and human residents. After these blizzards, authorities began to implement changes to disaster response and fundamental changes appeared in the following decades.Citizens, soldiers, and federal contractors worked to end the ordeal of the blizzards, quickly opening routes throughout the region. State and federal road crews liberated many farmers and ranchers, who quickly went to grocery stores for the first time in weeks or months to restock their food shelves. Newspapers across the country reported when portions of the affected states were finally free to leave their isolated homes. The folks who witnessed the blizzards of 1949 still remember them, and newspapers routinely commemorate the event on relevant anniversaries. In the end, however, the importance of the blizzard conditions as examined here are not the misery they inflicted on the populace, not the stories of heroism or heartbreak, but the snapshot in time the affair provides the reader today.
Author: Maury Klein
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published:
Total Pages: 676
ISBN-13: 1452908745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1987.
Author: Mari Sandoz
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1986-01-01
Total Pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9780803291614
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen a school bus overturns in a blinding blizzard, a young teacher and her pupils are stranded miles from anywhere for eight days.
Author: Barry Seegebarth
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2023-09-18
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 143967910X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1948-49, Nebraska experienced a winter like never before. Brutal cold, unbearable winds and record snowfall made roads impassable and life difficult for locals. Farmers and ranchers struggled with hunger due to a dwindling supply of coal and food. The governor requested federal aid, and the U.S. Air Force dropped bales of hay into pastures for animals. Many locals perished in the weather, and icy roads forced the state to redesign and rebuild highways. Author Barry Seegebarth details the tragedy and courage of the Nebraska winter of 1948.
Author: Aldo Leopold
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2020-05
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0197500269
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1949 and praised in The New York Times Book Review as "full of beauty and vigor and bite," A Sand County Almanac combines some of the finest nature writing since Thoreau with a call for changing our understanding of land management.
Author: William E. Akin
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-08-13
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1476619344
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe small and midsized cities of western Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia reached their peaks of population and prosperity in the second quarter of the 20th century. The baseball teams from these towns formed the Middle Atlantic League, the strongest circuit in the low minors and the one with the most alumni to advance to the majors. This thorough history chronicles the MAL through three distinct phases from its 1925 inaugural season to its dissolution in 1952. During the first several seasons, most clubs hung one step from financial disaster despite support from local communities. Then the league flourished during the Great Depression as president Elmer Daily magically found investors and night baseball boosted working class attendance. Now enjoying a modicum of financial stability and an infusion of young talent, the clubs became talent farms for major league teams. Both the league and its cities went into decline as the country underwent seismic cultural and economic shifts following World War II.
Author: David W. Mills
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2015-03-11
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0806149388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost communists, as any plains state patriot would have told you in the 1950s, lived in Los Angeles or New York City, not Minot, North Dakota. The Cold War as it played out across the Great Plains was not the Cold War of the American cities and coasts. Nor was it tempered much by midwestern isolationism, as common wisdom has it. In this book, David W. Mills offers an enlightening look at what most of the heartland was up to while America was united in its war on Reds. Cold War in a Cold Land adopts a regional perspective to develop a new understanding of a critical chapter in the nation’s history. Marx himself had no hope that landholding farmers would rise up as communist revolutionaries. So it should come as no surprise that in places like South Dakota, where 70 percent of the population owned land and worked for themselves, people didn’t take the threat of internal subversion very seriously. Mills plumbs the historical record to show how residents of the plains states—while deeply patriotic and supportive of the nation’s foreign policy—responded less than enthusiastically to national anticommunist programs. Only South Dakota, for example, adopted a loyalty oath, and it was fervently opposed throughout the state. Only Montana, prodded by one state legislator, formed an investigation committee—one that never investigated anyone and was quickly disbanded. Plains state people were, however, “highly churched” and enthusiastically embraced federal attempts to use religion as a bulwark against atheistic communist ideology. Even more enthusiastic was the Great Plains response to the military buildup that accompanied Cold War politics, as the construction of airbases and missile fields brought untold economic benefits to the region. A much-needed, nuanced account of how average citizens in middle America experienced Cold War politics and policies, Cold War in a Cold Land is a significant addition to the history of both the Cold War and the Great Plains.
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 1284
ISBN-13:
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