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The Western Frontier Library Ser.: Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier : On the Trail of the Corn Belt Farmer 1909 by Judith Fabry and Richard Lowitt (2007, Trade Paperback)
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PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-100806139250
ISBN-139780806139258
eBay Product ID (ePID)109272143
Product Key Features
Number of Pages244 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHenry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier : on the Trail of the Corn Belt Farmer 1909
Publication Year2007
SubjectEnvironmental Conservation & Protection, Ecology
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaNature
AuthorJudith Fabry, Richard Lowitt
SeriesThe Western Frontier Library Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight18.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
Series Volume Number58
Dewey DecimalB
SynopsisWhen Henry A. Wallace had completed his junior year at Iowa State College in 1909, his family sent him on a western tour "on the trail of the Corn Belt Farmer." Wallace's articles, collected and reprinted here for the first time, are lively descriptions of up-and-coming western locales such as Amarillo, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; the orange groves of southern California;the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys; and the Greeley District of Colorado. Wallace made a specialty of down-home conversation with farming families and of cross-examining the real-estate agents who profited from the government's commitment to sell water rights to the new property owners. Modern day readers will prize Wallace's clear, expert analysis of the different environments that he visited and his farmer-conservationist ethic. Social historians will be interested as he explains how the closer proximity of irrigated farms and greater abundance of neighbors would produce prosperous communities. They will be fascinated to learn how the cooperative aspects of irrigation farming tempered the independence of the immigrants from the Corn Belt. "Wallace, a future Secretary of Agriculture, Vice President, and candidate for the presidency, had not yet celebrated his twenty-first birthday when he made the tour on which his contribution to the book was based, and his essays testify to the strength of the young man's intellect and his talents as a traveler and illustrate his point of view."---Richard S. Kirkendall, University of Washington, When Franklin D. Roosevelt?s agriculture secretary and vice-president, Henry A. Wallace, had completed his junior year at Iowa State College in 1909, his family sent him on a western tour ?in search of the Corn Belt farmer.? Young Henry was to report to the family journal, Wallace?s Farmer, how former Corn Belt farmers were prospering in the districts newly irrigated under public or private auspices, such as Arizona?s Salt River, Idaho?s Boise-Payette and Twin Falls, and farms on the Arkansas River near Garden City, Kansas. Wallace?s articles, collected and reprinted here for the first time, are lively descriptions of up-and-coming western locales such as Amarillo, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; the orange groves of southern California; the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys; and the Greeley District of Colorado. Along the way, the young reporter and agriculturist critiqued dry farming in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and wrestled calves on a Matador Land Company ranch in the Texas panhandle. Henry Wallace made a specialty of down-home conversation with farmers and their wives and of cross-examining the real-estate agents who profited from the government?s commitment to sell water rights to the new property owners. He wrote what today we call New History, concentrating on the impact of irrigation on individuals more than technology, law, or institutions. Modern-day readers will prize Wallace?s clear, expert analysis of the different environments that he visited and his farmer-conservationist ethic. Social historians will be interested as he explains how the closer proximity of irrigated farms and greater abundance of neighbors would produce prosperous communities with schools, roads, and social institutions better than most that then prevailed in America?s rural regions. They will be fascinated to learn how the cooperative aspects of irrigation farming tempered the independence of the immigrants from the Corn Belt., When Franklin D. Roosevelt's agriculture secretary and vice-president, Henry A. Wallace, had completed his junior year at Iowa State College in 1909, his family sent him on a western tour "in search of the Corn Belt farmer." Young Henry was to report to the family journal, Wallace's Farmer, how former Corn Belt farmers were prospering in the districts newly irrigated under public or private auspices, such as Arizona's Salt River, Idaho's Boise-Payette and Twin Falls, and farms on the Arkansas River near Garden City, Kansas. Wallace's articles, collected and reprinted here for the first time, are lively descriptions of up-and-coming western locales such as Amarillo, Texas; Phoenix, Arizona; the orange groves of southern California; the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys; and the Greeley District of Colorado. Along the way, the young reporter and agriculturist critiqued dry farming in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and wrestled calves on a Matador Land Company ranch in the Texas panhandle. Henry Wallace made a specialty of down-home conversation with farmers and their wives and of cross-examining the real-estate agents who profited from the government's commitment to sell water rights to the new property owners. He wrote what today we call New History, concentrating on the impact of irrigation on individuals more than technology, law, or institutions. Modern-day readers will prize Wallace's clear, expert analysis of the different environments that he visited and his farmer-conservationist ethic. Social historians will be interested as he explains how the closer proximity of irrigated farms and greater abundance of neighbors would produce prosperous communities with schools, roads, and social institutions better than most that then prevailed in America's rural regions. They will be fascinated to learn how the cooperative aspects of irrigation farming tempered the independence of the immigrants from the Corn Belt.
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