![]() ![]() ![]() The Homestead Acts promise the American dream: wealth, prosperity and “every man a landlord!” (36). However, it's the government's push to settle the High Plains by offering free land through the Homestead Acts (beginning in 1862) that draw the greatest number of settlers to the Great Plains. Railroad companies print brochures in German, targeting German Russians (like George Ehrlich), who are desperately fleeing the czar. Rain follows the plow? Damn right!” (24).Īuthors write books on how to get rich quickly on the prairie. Farmers are told that “the act of plowing itself would bring additional rain, causing atmospheric disturbances. agricultural office) assures prosperous farming and recommends farmers to use dust to moisturize the soil. Campbell’s Soil Culture Manual (stamped and approved by the U.S. ![]() One real estate company in Boise City, Oklahoma sells fraudulent lots by distributing fliers with false pictures of trees and a gushing water fountain in the center of town. In the first section of The Worst Hard Time (“Promise: The Great Plow-up, 1901-1930”), Egan describes how real estate agents, railroads, writers, and the United States government entice settlers to inhabit the Dust Bowl region. ![]()
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