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Biografisk notat
Richard Edwards is director emeritus of the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is author or coauthor of numerous books, including The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration (Nebraska, 2023) and Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History (Nebraska, 2017).
"Using several short, interesting, readable, true chapters from the Great Plains, . . . Edwards describes the trials, tribulations and success stories of many real homesteaders-Black, white, men, women, famous and not-so-famous, of different ages, religions, nationalities, ethnicities, languages and occupations. As a Plains historian, I found this book lo be a real treasure<br /> and a pleasure to read."-Jean A. Lukesh, <i>Roundup Magazine</i> “History buffs will learn significant new things, but you don’t need a lot of background knowledge to understand <i>Great Plains Homesteaders</i>. Richard Edwards does an excellent job of summing up and evaluating the various topics, such as whether Black homesteading should be regarded as a success or failure, or the characteristics of women’s homesteading, or evaluating the number of people who sold out after proving up and the subsequent consolidation of farming and declining rural population. This is all done in a clear and readable manner and reflects current knowledge.”-David L. Bristow, author of <i>Nebraska History Moments</i> “<i>Great Plains Homesteaders</i> is very accessible to all readers and makes particular topics related to homesteading easy to find in the book.”-Benjamin T. Arrington, author of <i>The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880</i>
Every homesteader’s experience was different, as particular and distinct as the people were themselves. Yet their collective story, with all its hardships and toil, its ambitions and setbacks, its fresh starts and failures and successes, is central to the American experience.
1. Homesteaders
2. Origins of the Homesteading Idea
3. Moving to the Land in the Nineteenth Century
4. Settling In in the Nineteenth Century
5. Perils and Survival
6. Black Homesteaders
7. The Twentieth-Century Land Rush
8. Life on the Twentieth-Century Homestead
9. Homesteading Women
10. The Homesteaders’ Legacy
Acknowledgments
Suggested Readings
Index
"Using several short, interesting, readable, true chapters from the Great Plains, . . . Edwards describes the trials, tribulations and success stories of many real homesteaders-Black, white, men, women, famous and not-so-famous, of different ages, religions, nationalities, ethnicities, languages and occupations. As a Plains historian, I found this book lo be a real treasure<br /> and a pleasure to read."-Jean A. Lukesh, <i>Roundup Magazine</i> “History buffs will learn significant new things, but you don’t need a lot of background knowledge to understand <i>Great Plains Homesteaders</i>. Richard Edwards does an excellent job of summing up and evaluating the various topics, such as whether Black homesteading should be regarded as a success or failure, or the characteristics of women’s homesteading, or evaluating the number of people who sold out after proving up and the subsequent consolidation of farming and declining rural population. This is all done in a clear and readable manner and reflects current knowledge.”-David L. Bristow, author of <i>Nebraska History Moments</i> “<i>Great Plains Homesteaders</i> is very accessible to all readers and makes particular topics related to homesteading easy to find in the book.”-Benjamin T. Arrington, author of <i>The Last Lincoln Republican: The Presidential Election of 1880</i>
Every homesteader’s experience was different, as particular and distinct as the people were themselves. Yet their collective story, with all its hardships and toil, its ambitions and setbacks, its fresh starts and failures and successes, is central to the American experience.
1. Homesteaders
2. Origins of the Homesteading Idea
3. Moving to the Land in the Nineteenth Century
4. Settling In in the Nineteenth Century
5. Perils and Survival
6. Black Homesteaders
7. The Twentieth-Century Land Rush
8. Life on the Twentieth-Century Homestead
9. Homesteading Women
10. The Homesteaders’ Legacy
Acknowledgments
Suggested Readings
Index