books.google.com - Between 1900 and 1915, in the last great land rush, over one hundred thousand homesteaders flooded into the west river country of South Dakota, a land noted for its aridity and unpredictable weather, its treelessness, and its endless sky. The settlers of “the last, best west” weathered their first...http://books.google.com/books/about/The_Prairie_Winnows_Out_Its_Own.html?id=VVN-PFaS9RQC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Prairie Winnows Out Its Own