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Prairie madness or prairie fever was an affliction that affected settlers in the Great Plains during the migration to, and settlement of, the Canadian Prairies and the Western United States in the nineteenth century.
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Hundreds of thousands of settlers headed for the prairie West so recently claimed from the Native nations. Immigrants from eastern Canada, the United States, Britain and Europe began to stream into the Canadian plains, drawn by advertisements which called the region "the last best west" - the last part of North America that was not yet crowded.
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The prairies, they were promised, did not mean backbreaking toil because "settling on the prairie which is ready for the plow is different from plunging into a region covered with timber". The settlers were customers of the railroads, shipping their crops and cattle out, and bringing in manufactured products.
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Professor Grace Karskens’ latest book People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia is part of a new generation of more inclusive Australian histories. “The new wave of Australian history combines Aboriginal and settler history,” the highly-acclaimed author and historian from UNSW Sydney's Arts & Social Sciences says.
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Since wood was scarce, settlers first built homes made of prairie sod. These "soddies" had earth roofs, dirt floors and blocks of prairie sod as walls. Tarpaper shacks became popular with the arrival of the railroad. However, many settlers still opted for the protection offered by the sod houses against the elements.
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År fattade Butt och Prairie Pants beslutet att avsluta Corner Gas efter sin sjätte säsong, som sändes under säsongen – The author inaugurated the.
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Vilhelm Moberg () is considered the greatest Swedish writer of the 20th century and is best known for his four novels about a group of Swedish settlers.
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