EPISODE · May 14, 2008 · 9 MIN
Grasshoppers! Plague of the Prairie
from A Kansas Memory: The Kansas Historical Society Library and Archives Podcast · host Pat Michaelis
In the mid 1870s, settlers trying to establish homes and farms in Kansas had to deal with grasshopper invasions that would destroy crops. This pod cast will feature excerpts from a reminiscence that provides a word picture of an invasions in 1874 and from a diary that contains numerous references to these insects in May of 1875.
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