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...Warren Elofson Your Affectionate Brother, Francis Ogley Thompson: A Yorkshire Emigrant’s Letters from Canada and the USA, 1857-1864 . Hazel Moffat . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 260 / Agricultural History ment in chapter five. The strongest sections of the book...

...Clare V. J. Griffiths Matthew and George Culley: Farming Letters, 1798–1804 . Anne Orde . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Spring Evans'staskwas immensea,nd he has succeededadmirablyp,roducinga wonderfusltudyof earlycontinentailntegratiotnhatis...

... © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 The Anguish of Displacement: The Politics of Literacy in the Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park . Katrina M. Powell . ...

...Thomas Hallock © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Letters from an American Farmer and Other Essays . By J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur . Edited by Dennis D. Moore . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2013 . 416 pp., $35.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-05181-2...

...Richard S. Kirkendall Uncle Henry Wallace: Letters to Farm Families . Zachary Michael Jack . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 BookReviews thatresidenttsakeprideintheircommunitiehs,elpneighborisnneed,andlet loose at theannualcombinedemolitionderbyA. gain...

... the continuing integration of law into southern political and economic history. James L. Hunt Mercer University Lives and Letters ofan Immigrant Family: The Van Dreveldts' Experiences along the Missouri, 1844-1866. By Kenneth Kronenberg. Lincoln: Univer? sity of Nebraska Press, 1998. 224 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-8032...

...James Tuten Twilight on the South Carolina Rice Fields: Letters of the Heyward Family, 1862–1871 . Edited By Margaret Belser Hollis and Allen H. Stokes . Columbia : University of South Carolina Press , 2010 . 480 pp., $39.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-57003-894-5 . © the Agricultural...

...Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Abstract The Farm Crisis of the 1980s was not just an economic crisis, but an identity crisis for the two-thirds of Iowa farm families that risked losing their livelihoods. Confronted with a situation that was well outside of their control, they sent thousands of letters...

...Brad D. Lookingbill Letters from the Dust Bowl . Alvin O. Turner . Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 706 / Agricultural History better terms of engagement with the new economy, not as apostles of an earlier agrarian order. Gender relations shifted, as well, as bourgeois...

... of the publishers and editors of farm newspapers lived in cities and were influenced by progressive reformers, farm newspapers often reflected urban reform ideas. At the same time, farm newspapers provided space for opposing viewpoints by publishing letters to the editor. The coverage of agricultural education...

... resources to be husbanded--for the idea that they were "technological"--publicly owned tools to be engineered in the service of social ends. Second, how the shifting uses of rural roads, from groups of urban cyclists touring the countryside to mail carriers delivering letters to farmhouses, not only...

...Brian Q. Cannon Abstract Over the past century films and literature have reflected and reinforced popular understandings of homesteading and contemporary cultural currents. In the 1910s Elinore Pruitt Stewart's Letters of a Woman Homesteader and Oscar Micheaux's The Homesteader minimized...

... medicine brochures and horse care handbooks. Information on horse medicine found in the newspapers was often in the form of a letter to the editor or as an excerpt from another periodical. Collectively, newspapers served as a national clearinghouse for popular veterinary knowledge. An examination...

.... This family memoir uses the letters written between Olava Williamson and her children to gain a first-hand account of dairy farming in early twentiethcentury Wisconsin. although not without problems, this is a charming book because the letters, mostly between the daughters and their mother, are detailed...

..., reflecting the experience ofwhite settlers on theGreat Plains between themid-1850s and about 1920. Mostly complete letters, they are grouped into chapters with themes such as migration, farming, family, and socializing. More than fifty photographs complement the narratives. The author, St. Paul-based inde...

...-976-2. This family memoir uses the letters written between Olava Williamson and her children to gain a first-hand account of dairy farming in early twentiethcentury Wisconsin. although not without problems, this is a charming book because the letters, mostly between the daughters and their mother...

...-572-6. 900Miles fromNowherepresentsaboutsixtmy anuscriptdocumentsd,rawn from fourteen repositories fromMinnesota to Oklahoma, reflecting the experience ofwhite settlers on theGreat Plains between themid-1850s and about 1920. Mostly complete letters, they are grouped into chapters with themes...

... was an authoritarian stick. The French National Archives are replete with letters from farmers addressed to the SAFER, the Ministry of Agriculture, and to the President of the Republic himself seeking recourse in the wake of what they deemed unjust decisions regarding land redistribution. But remedy was rarely granted...

... also spur the continuing integration of law into southern political and economic history. James L. Hunt Mercer University Lives and Letters ofan Immigrant Family: The Van Dreveldts' Experiences along the Missouri, 1844-1866. By Kenneth Kronenberg. Lincoln: Univer? sity of Nebraska Press, 1998. 224 pp...

... of previously unknown source material: perhaps account books, diaries, letters, or other personal 131 Agricultural History Winter documents that reveal the inner workings of a subject s mind, the secrets of a business, or the intimacies of home and family. Daniel Tyler is one of the few lucky historians to make...