02237cam a2200325 4500 599497768 TxAuBib 20220602120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781439670156 1439670153 B086K2L752 Amazon d26755c6-1888-43c8-9862-87c54c5adc36 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 5511055 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Gibbs, Lawrence. Nebraska Sweet Beets [Libby eBook] : A History of Sugar Valley. Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2020. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 8MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Sugar beets are as tenaciously rooted in Nebraska's history as they are in its soil, especially in a seventy-mile stretch of the North Platte Valley that extended into eastern Wyoming. The state's first processing facility opened in Grand Island in 1890, boasting the largest mill in the world. The height of the beet boom occurred in the early part of the twentieth century as Wyobraskan towns courted factory locations as feverishly as rival sugar companies competed for territory, and an irrigation network turned the region into America's Valley of the Nile. Some rail lines have disappeared from the map, while catastrophes like the Scottsbluff and Bayard sugar bin explosions and the Gering Molasses spill will never be forgotten. From neglected beet dumps and abandoned rail spurs to silos ready for future harvests, explore Sugar Valley's heritage with Lawrence Gibbs. Nonfiction. Sociology. Business. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-31 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d26755c6-1888-43c8-9862-87c54c5adc36&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d26755c6-1888-43c8-9862-87c54c5adc36&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=d26755c6-1888-43c8-9862-87c54c5adc36&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)