Mitchell, John G.,
Change of Heartland. John G. Mitchell. - National Geographic, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 35, Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Change of Heartland, May 2004; pp. 2-29.
"After years of drought and depopulation, many parts of the Great Plains again meet the 19th-century definition of frontier territory: an area with no more than six people per square mile." (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC) This article discusses the reverse migration occurring in the Great Plains, noting that "as farmers and ranchers forsake the heartland, native prairie, native buffalo, and Native Americans are staging a comeback."
1522-3205;
American bison
Farmers
Indians of North America--Great Plains
Migration--Internal
Prairies
Ranchers
Return migration
Rural population
Great Plains
AC1.S5
050
Change of Heartland. John G. Mitchell. - National Geographic, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Article 35, Environment, 1522-3205; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2005. Originally Published: Change of Heartland, May 2004; pp. 2-29.
"After years of drought and depopulation, many parts of the Great Plains again meet the 19th-century definition of frontier territory: an area with no more than six people per square mile." (NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC) This article discusses the reverse migration occurring in the Great Plains, noting that "as farmers and ranchers forsake the heartland, native prairie, native buffalo, and Native Americans are staging a comeback."
1522-3205;
American bison
Farmers
Indians of North America--Great Plains
Migration--Internal
Prairies
Ranchers
Return migration
Rural population
Great Plains
AC1.S5
050