Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1988
Abstract
After the West Was Won is about pioneering in western South Dakota on land unsettled by agriculturalists before 1900. Lakota hunters and Texas ranchers had lived successfully in this land of bountiful grass. Agricultural settlement, however, was a story "of dreams and ambitions thwarted" as farmers and townspeople alike learned "to make a virtue of living with less" than did those who had pioneered earlier frontiers.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly SUMMER 1988 .Copyright 1988 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska—Lincoln.