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Locust : the devastating rise and mysterious disappearance of the insect that shaped the American frontier

""In 1876, the U.S. Congress declared the locust ?the single greatest impediment to the settlement of the country between Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains." Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms""
eBook, English, 2004
Basic ; Oxford Publicity Partnership, New York, Oxford, 2004
History
1 online resource (xxv, 294 pages) : illustrations
9780738208947, 9780786738878, 9781282788787, 9786612788789, 0738208949, 0786738871, 1282788787, 661278878X
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The third horseman of the apocalypse
Albert's swarm
The sixth plague
Humans strike back
Politicians and pests
Lord of the locusts
The triumvirate
The locust disappears
A wolf in sheep's clothing?
Beautiful theories and ugly facts
Secrets in the ice
The mother lode
Pioneers on trial
What have we learned?
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