Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1989
Abstract
In his 1895 graduation thesis from the state agricultural college at Manhattan, Kansas, Fred E. Rader declared of the windmill, "Without, we must emigrate; with it, we can irrigate."1 Rader summarized the feelings of many farmers in the Arkansas and Platte valleys and elsewhere across the Great Plains in the mid-1890s. He wrote in the heyday of windmill irrigation in the area, when machines employing the free power of the wind to pump water from the ground were seen as the salvation of the region.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly [GPQ 9 (Fall 1989): 216--230] .Copyright 1989 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.