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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Throughout the nineteenth century, swarms of locusts regularly swept across the continent, turning noon into dusk, demolishing farm communities, and bringing trains to a halt as the crushed bodies of insects greased the rails. In 1876, the U.S. Co...

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