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Except for a widespread El Nino drought in 1888, the late 1880s and early 1890s were a period of extremely heavy rainfall [1] over New South Wales, Queensland and to a lesser extent Victoria and the settled areas of Tasmania and South Australia. Lake Eyre is believed to have filled with water from Cooper Creek in 1886/1887, 1889/1890 and 1894 ...
The 1890s drought, between 1890 and 1896, was the first to be widely and adequately recorded by rain gauges, with much of the American West having been settled. Railroads promised land to people willing to settle it, and the period between 1877 and 1890 was wetter than usual, leading to unrealistic expectations of land productivity.
The urban proportion was now 35%, comprising 22 million living in 2700 cities of 2500 or more people. In 1890 65% of the national population, or 36 million people, lived in rural areas. Of these 2.7 million lived in 13,000 towns of less than 2500 people. and 36 million --mostly farmers--lived in open country.
Waiting for a Chinook, by C.M. Russell.Overgrazing and harsh winters were factors that brought an end to the age of the Open Range. The winter of 1886–1887, also known as the Great Die-Up, was extremely harsh for much of continental North America, especially the United States.
Image credits: Old-time Photos To learn more about the fascinating world of photography from the past, we got in touch with Ed Padmore, founder of Vintage Photo Lab.Ed was kind enough to have a ...
Early settlers discovered that the Great Plains were not the "Great American Desert," but they also found that the very harsh climate—with tornadoes, blizzards, drought, hail storms, floods, and grasshopper plagues [40] —made for a high risk of ruined crops. Many early settlers were financially ruined, especially in the early 1890s, and ...
As nearly 40% of the country is currently in drought, scientists are looking to the largest rodent in North America for help: the beaver.Researchers in California and Utah found that dams made by ...
In the mid-1890s, notes Paul Campos of the University of Colorado Boulder, per-capita gross domestic product shrank from $6,400 to $5,500 (in 2017 dollars). As of the second quarter this year, it ...