From Burton Lysecki Books, ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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About this Item
1974, 3rd printing. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 250pp. Map endpapers, photographs, index. The spine is lightly worn at the top and bottom edges. "While doing research for his book, the WINTER YEARS, James Gray discovered many significant facts relating to the conquest of the prairie drouth. He found that the dust bowl of the dirty thirties didn't just disappear of its own accord when the rains came back, that many dedicated Canadians cworking in the agricultural field mounted a massive campaign to prevent the western farmland from deteriorating into a wind-blown wasteland of sand dunes, buckbrush and pasture sage". Book about Dust Bowl & Weather. Time Period 1930's. Locale: Alberta--Canada; Manitoba--Canada; Palliser Triangle; Prairie Provinces; Saskatchewan--Canada; Western Canada. (Western Canada, Agriculture, Depression, Farming). Seller Inventory # 153668
Bibliographic Details
Title: Men Against the Desert
Publisher: Western Producer Book Service, Saskatoon
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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