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Garden City: The development of an agricultural community on the Great Plains (Kansas).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Garden City: The development of an agricultural community on the Great Plains (Kansas)./
Author:	Graves, Russell.
Description:	307 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 3111.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International65-08A.
Subject:	Geography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3143206
ISBN:	0496011820

Garden City: The development of an agricultural community on the Great Plains (Kansas).
Graves, Russell.

Garden City: The development of an agricultural community on the Great Plains (Kansas). - 307 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 65-08, Section: A, page: 3111.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2004.

On the Great Plains, where most agricultural histories recount depressing tales of economic hardship and human suffering, finding stories of progress and hope proves to be a difficult task. Garden City, Kansas, offers one possible counter-example to the typical Plains narrative, existing outside the usual accounts of regional decline while remaining inescapably mired in its own set of historical dilemmas. Within the last half-century, Garden City has experienced economic and demographic growth on par with any community in Kansas, let alone the semiarid western half of the state. When compared to the Great Plains as a whole, this recent boom seems all the more impressive. Bucking regional trends of twentieth-century population decline and agricultural disaster, Garden City has emerged as a regional benchmark for successful economic development. Still, while Garden City has succeeded in enhancing its economic and demographic stature over the past few decades, its "success" has skirted dangerously close to the bounds of the more common Plains theme of land-use "failure." Garden City's prosperity has hinged upon really only one factor: groundwater availability. With the rise of center-pivot irrigation in the 1960s came the emergence of local cattle feeding operations which, in turn, attracted two large packing plants to Garden City in the 1980s. The beef trade brought further economic growth to the Garden City community---it also attracted a large, unskilled labor force of mostly Mexican and Vietnamese background to town. Through the 1990s, Garden City residents of all ethnicities and experiences learned to deal with mounting environmental and social concerns, even as the foundation for their developmental success began to wane.

ISBN: 0496011820Subjects--Topical Terms:

524010
Geography.

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