Review of Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains: Years of Readjustment, 1920-1990 By Mary W. M. Hargreaves

Authors

David C. Jones, University of Calgary

Date of this Version

1996

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 16:1 (Winter 1996). Copyright © 1996 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Abstract

There can be few quibbles with this masterwork. Perhaps the maps might be crisper; perhaps a few pictures might enhance the presentation, and a few more graphs might lay out complex and often serpentine trends. Possibly a few more farmers might speak so that in the end one knows that certainly behind the statistics dwell real people with real dreams. Generally, the more pleasing the presentation, the wider the audience-and this scholarship deserves a wide audience. Dry Farming is a superlative history of farm policy on the northern Plains by one of the most meticulous students of the phenomenon in the past half century.