... or yeoman farmers), their political think ing,wartime experiences, and reactions toReconstruction and the incursion of theNew South economy. The book paints a detailed portrait of life in the piney woods ofGeorgia-a stretch of south Georgia that lies between Geor gia's cotton belt and its tidewater...

... Blevins outlines the his? tory of cattle raising in Alabama. In six brief chapters, he argues that the roots of the industry can be traced to the humble Piney Woods drover and that during the early twentieth century Black Belt farmers interested in breaking their dependence on cotton began raising exotic...

..., paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-2991-9. With Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs, agricultural economist Jimmye Hillman has produced a nuanced view of life in south Mississippi s piney woods. This account of his childhood, largely spent on a Greene County subsistence farm during the Great Depression, is an effort...

..., Redemption, and the rise of cotton tenancy and sharecropping, railroads, and the timber industry.The plainfolk of the piney woods faced a postwar world that differed markedly from their prewar one-a world inwhich lumber companies, railroads, merchants, and large landownerrs eigned. In the end,Wetherington...

..., paperback, ISBN 978-0-8165-2991-9. With Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs, agricultural economist Jimmye Hillman has produced a nuanced view of life in south Mississippi s piney woods. This account of his childhood, largely spent on a Greene County subsistence farm during the Great Depression, is an effort...

... ing,wartime experiences, and reactions toReconstruction and the incursion of theNew South economy. The book paints a detailed portrait of life in the piney woods ofGeorgia-a stretch of south Georgia that lies between Geor gia's cotton belt and its tidewater-that was inhabited by small non slaveholding...

... that the roots of the industry can be traced to the humble Piney Woods drover and that during the early twentieth century Black Belt farmers interested in breaking their dependence on cotton began raising exotic cattle. Ironically, he notes, most contemporary cattle raisers in Alabama more closely resemble...

... and ghost-written transitions. Perhaps the most fascinating part of the book is the first chapter, where Neel describes in rich detail life in the 1930s and 1940s piney woods South. In the second chapter he explains how Stoddard, who lacked a high school diploma, pioneered wildlife research in the 1920s...

... to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption,” Tuskegee Experiment Station, Bulletin No. 31 ( 1915 ); Bailey and LeClerc , “The Peanut,” 289 , 293 ; Braund , “Hog Wild,” 23 – 25 ; Watson , Coffee Grounds , 105 ; Fred S. Watson , Piney Wood Echoes...

... in terest, particularly the company's desire to develop its service territory, in this case Georgia's coastal plains, by introducing new crops on cutover lands. The piney woods region experienced a significant economic transfor mation in the post-Civil War generation that preceded the creation of the G&F...

... indicates, a personal history and therefore should be judged as a memoir, not a scholarly history. As a first-hand account, although heavily edited, it offers valuable insight into the life ways of piney woods Southerners, the intrusion of business interests for both recreation (quail hunting) and profit...

... radicalism, race consciousness negated class consciousness, and religion condemned secular con? flict. Although lumberjacks of the Piney Woods and sharecroppers of the Mississippi Delta were among the most victimized and least powerful of all laboring groups, they were not without resources; such resources...

..., where Neel describes in rich detail life in the 1930s and 1940s piney woods South. In the second chapter he explains how Stoddard, who lacked a high school diploma, pioneered wildlife research in the 1920s and 1930s and broadened an exhaustive and highly respected study of bobwhite quail habitat...

..., the resort developed a technologically sophisticated system to transform the barren sandhills land.7 Development at Pinehurst echoed a process underway elsewhere in the United States. Along the southern seaboard, resorts in the piney woods of Georgia and Florida promised health and leisure to visitors...

... such as chestnut or walnut are associated with the most suitable soils, whereas piney landscapes were to be avoided. all of the indicators regarding crop suitability (climate, hydrography, relief, soils) also apply to various trees.20 There is no data regarding hardwood vegetation during early settlement in West...

... from environmental groups but little or none from local ranching communities.12 The piney Little Rockies have long been identified as a center of prayer and fasting, a destination for tribal members on vision quests, and a burial site. The small mountain range dramatically juts out of the surrounding...