Book Review: Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier

Authors

Ken Baake, Texas Tech University

Date of this Version

2006

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY 26:2 (Spring 2006). Copyright © 2006 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Locust is a hybrid academic study and popular science mystery that tells of the locust plague that swept out of the Rocky Mountains to eviscerate much of the Great Plains' fledgling agriculture in the late nineteenth century.