Locust: The Devastating Rise and Mysterious Disappearance of the Insect that Shaped the American Frontier by Jeffrey A. Lockwood

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

Jeffrey A. Lockwood

320 pages first pub 2000 (editions)

nonfiction history nature science adventurous slow-paced

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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 of locusts regularly swept across the American ...

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