...,WherebyWeThrive:A Historyof AmericanAgriculture,1607-1972 (Ames:Iowa StateUniversityPress, 1972), 252; KeithE. Roe, Corncribs:In History,Folklife,& Agriculture(Ames:Iowa StateUniversityPress, 1988), 38. 2. PaulC. Johnson,FarmInventionsin the Makingof America(Des Moines, Iowa:WallaceHomesteadBook Company,1976), 84...

... Index/ 7 Agriculturaflairs AlabamaState,31:4:48 harnessracingand,27:2:71-75 historyof, 27:2:71-72 Virginia,in nineteenth-century2,6:3:87-88 AgriculturalGeography4, 4:1:167-68 AgriculturalHistory,27:1:8-10, 31-32, 46:1:124,46:2:259, 48:1:1,75, 125 Agriculturahl istory aggregate,46:1:65-70 AgriculturaHl...

..., overnmentdocumentsa, nddiariesp, roducedtwohundredsixtypageson the historyof Ontarioagricultureduringthe 1880sthatsatisfiedmy committee andcompletedthe requirementsformyMA degreein 1946.1 Dr.JamesJ.Talmant,he associatelibrariana, lsoa memberof my advi- 438 / Agricultural History sory committee,was acquaintedwith...

... reflectthe prosperityexperiencedby some Shubutansat one time. The book has a few shortcomingsT. here are severalambitiousattemptsby the authorto incorporatethe historyof AfricanAmericansinto the narrative, butin some areasof the book she fallsshort.The attentiongivento...

... ofthe 105 AgriculturHalistory Winter region'smostsuccessfulbusinesspartnershipsand cooperative organizations. Because of California's long and dark historyof anti-Asian activityand legislation,it is possible that the Japanese in the Pajaro Valley intendedsuch cooperative organizationsand business...

... itsintendedacademicaudience andto anyoneinterestedinthehistoryofideasorinthesocialandcultural historyof the late nineteenthand earlytwentiethcenturiesR. eaders will learnaboutaspectsoftheBritishdietand foodpolicybefore1940;butfrom timeto timetheymay,as I did,wonderwhethertheyreallyare readinga book thatmatchesitstitle...

... at six months; Shay wanted many more such conversion experiences across the eastern counties. In 1921, he conducted his first public demonstration in Halifax County. The farmer who allowed Shay the use of his stock had lost 7. Schaub,"W.W. Shay";Curtis,Historyof Livestock,92-93; JamesJones,"Historyof...

... MarianoGuadalupeVallejo'sRancho Petalumain northernCalifornia.By employing historical archaeology,Sillimanseeks to provide a historyof the Mexican era in Californiafrom the perspectiveof CaliforniaIndians. Ranchos were private estates in Spanishand Mexican California.During the Spanishera (1769-1821...

...,governmentauthoritiesdispatchedtheirruralconstabularies-the TexasRangersandthe North-WestMountedPolice-to protecta closedbutembattledrange. NationalHistoryDay,Historyof AgriculturaendRuralLifeAward Thesocietyestablishedthe Historyof AgricultureandRuralLifeAward to raise awarenessof agriculturaland rural history among secondary...

...,andsmartlywrittenbook is one of the latest to shine a light on the once neglected historyof early republicanMexico.Ducey presentsevidence that ruralvillagersparticipatedin the violent rebellions and coups (pronunciamientos)of the earlynineteenthcenturyas conscious,rationalactorswithdefinedpoliticalgoalsandrealstakesin...

... of the essays."Whenthe drive for racialequalityreached a new level of intensityin the yearsof the Black Revolution,I was amongthose who arguedthat if the American public were better informed of the role of AfricanAmericansin the historyof this country,perhapsthere would be a greater appreciationof...

... field.It workswell to define geographerSimon Evans's The BookReviews/ 483 Bar U & CanadianRanchingHistory-a nearly four-hundred-pagebook on the historyof Alberta's North West Cattle Co. (or Bar U Ranch) and how it fits as a case studyof the largerhistoryof ranchingin the CanadianWest.The book is part...

... looks at the historyof the seed industry(primarilycereals) with an eye to the role of the state in the industrializationof Swissagriculture;he has relativelylittle to say about the details of breeding in the public or private sectors.And, since his book was writtenpartlyin response to the wish...

... littleattentions,o I wantedto focuson them.I consideredwritingabout German women in Texas, but about the same timeI resumed contact withmy mother'sfamilyand rediscoveredthe historyof my German immigrangtrandmotherwho settledin northernWisconsinin the 1890s. Teaching at the Universityof Wisconsinin 1987 gave me...

... American Indian Policy Studies fromthe Universityof Arizona, where he is now completinghis doctorate specializingin the historyof Indian water rights.He is currentlythe acting projectmanager of the Pima-Maricopa IrrigationProject withinthe Gila River Indian Communityin Arizona...

... theCharlesReddCenterforWesternStudiesforfunding. 1. Paul W. Gates, Historyof Public Land Law Development(Washington,D.C: Government PrintingOffice, 1968), 654; R. Douglas Hurt,AmericanAgriculture:A BriefHistory(Ames: Iowa StateUniversityPress, 1994),239. AgriculturaHl istory,Vol.no. 76, Issueno. 2, pages 188-207. ISSN 0002-1482?2002...

... thatrecognizestheconstrainttshatarepresent intoday'senvironmenatnd society. CharlesFrancis UniversitoyfNebraska-Lincoln The Historyof Cotton.By theSouth Carolina CottonMuseum.Columbia: Universityof South Carolina Press,2007. 64 pp14.95,paperback, ISBN 978-1-57864-295-7. Thisthins,horthistoryofcottonp, uttogetherbytheSouthCarolinaCotton...

...-noimntanerscvoinewdustchtaetduhnadveertbheeeanustphiecebsaosfitshoefWboortkhs Theda Perdue's NationsRememberedA: n Oral Historyof theCherokees, ChickasawsC, hoctawsC, reeksa,nd Seminolesin Oklahoma,1865-1907and 259 AgriculturHalistory Spring David La Vere'sLifeamongtheTexasIndians.BakerandHenshawfocused theirresearchin theIndianPioneerPaperson thoseinterview"scollected...

...,whiletheflavorfunlutswerebotha popularfood crop and a reliable foodsourceforwildlifeA. dditionallyt,hedarktanninsinthebarkwere importantto theleather-tanniningdustryB.ythe1950s,however8,0 percent ofthechestnutreeshad died. Withher recentbook,AmericanChestnutF,reinkelprovidesa muchneeded historyof theculturaland...

... TheAndyGriffitShhow and GomerPyle,USMC. Hall's bookis a valuablecontributiotnothegrowingandimportanwt orkon early radioscholarship. JasonLoviglio UniversitoyfMaryland-BaltimoreCounty Democracy's UniversityA: Historyof Colorado State University1,9702000.By JamesE. HansenII. FortCollins:ColoradoStateUniversity...