Then came the Great Flood of 19g3 and its unequalled havoc. For months, the floodwaters raged. When the waters finally abated, the landscape 7 (change), as had the lives of many people 8 lived and worked near the river. Thousands of acres of productive farmland, for example, had been...
How many acres did the Kansas-Nebraska Act affect? What state was the Homestead Strike in? How long was slavery legal in the United States? How long did the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo last? How long did it take to ratify the 13th Amendment?
Best Free Interior Design Apps of 2025 These apps help you brainstorm, budget and plan your next renovation or room design. Josephine NesbitJan. 15, 2025 How AI Can Help the Real Estate Industry Artificial intelligence continues to be implemented in the real estate industry, an...
I grew up in Kansas with broadacre farms on both sides of my family and a dairy farm that was still operating when I was little. After college, I moved to Los Angeles and started in Internet development in the 90s. That led to being involved in many startups and executive roles at So...
How many acres do you need to be self sufficient? The General Consensus is5-10 acresto be self-sufficient Even though a lot of those sources put the number at a lot less, the general consensus is that you really need at least 5 acres of land per person to be self-sufficient. And tha...
How many cattle drives were there?Cattle DrivesBeginning in 1866, cattle needed to be moved from their grazing grounds in Texas to the meathouses of Chicago. Some of that journey was accomplished by railroad beginning in Kansas. Otherwise the cattle had to be moved strictly on foot with the ...
Again, our land doesn’t have some kind of capitalist privilege. No one has built a shield over America. If climate were so bad in so many regions, we’d also already be starving, or at least having serious trouble growing anything. Even cows on scrub oak. So, you know? All of this...
Wildlife in the Ponds Many a night, during the mating season, we have high numbers of frogs in the duckweed ponds. We encourage everything here with the exception of cane toads. There are beetles and other aquatic life which have made their way into the ponds on the feet of herons. ...
The most brutal of summers in the San Joaquin Valley has come to a rest at last. Since June, the temperature has broken the 100° mark for 67 days, a new record. Drought won’t let go its grip on the land. Eight of the past 10 years have been ugly dry. This October morning, af...
Producers began voluntarilyadding iodine to saltin the U.S. in 1924 in an effort to curb the number of Americans with goiter. The move was promoted by many national health organizations, such as the American Medical Association and the American Public Health Association. ...