...Gary S. Hartshorn In Search of the Rain Forest . Candace Slater . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 265 a Living," which ranges across the landscape to cover the coal towns and lumber camps, as well as root gathering and the more recent production...

...Jeannie Whayne During the Wind and Rain: The Jones Family Farm in the Arkansas Delta, 1848-2006 . Margaret Jones Bolsterli . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 2010 Book Reviews absenceoftheintervenincgohortof agriculturaelconomichistorianws ho mighthavedoneso...

... of practicing agriculture in a marginal environment and their ability to succeed in the face of periodic, intense, drought. An extension of older weather modification theories—such as rain follows the plow—rainmaking facilitated hope and empowered believers. Doubters, meanwhile, participated under the guise...

... in Agricultural Manitoba (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2011). An important exception is Donald Green. His study details the role of fossil fuels in the development of industrial irrigation on the High Plains but was published before the energy crisis. Donald E. Green, Land of Underground Rain: Irrigation of the Texas...

...Sara Gregg Zoro’s Field: My Life in the Appalachian Woods . Thomas Rain Crowe . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Spring velopment of the tin can, and the invention of large ironclad ships have all had impacts on food supply and dietary habits...

... and rain, and the plant-mother rituals attended the other-than-human forces of the Earthly World that protected plants and that determined the course of seasons. This is not to suggest that the specific Thunderbird and plant-mother rites were the same across Indigenous groups, for they varied greatly...

... of Appalachian Folkways is that it raises a series of important questions that should be on the mind of anyone who cares about rural culture and its preservation. Sara M. Gregg Iowa State University In Search of the Rain Forest. Edited by Candace Slater. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003.328 pp., $22.95...

... when it rained heavily, serious erosion in the form of “nude sore spots” occurred. The erosion became worse on the steeper areas of the farm, and the practice of monoculture coupled with constant crop harvesting meant considerable soil infertility. 8 Turning to photographs from 1930s north...

... [the] earth [is] sorry and weeps. It rains or is angry and makes rain, fog & bad weather" (20). Turner compares the concept to James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis and argues that many traditional management practices have been lost or forgotten, and, not coincidentally, the productivity of the lands and waters...

... hoop skirts and mint juleps and more about hoeing and spreading manure. This book admirably drives home thatmessage. Between splitting rails, planting corn, and plowing, weather was a constant concern. At least two hurricanes rav ished the plantations and complaints about toomuch rain, not enough rain...

... the Agricultural History Society, 2017 DOI: 10.3098/ah.2017.091.2.171 172 Agricultural History harvest, and very often a new crop would spring up unbidden after the first rains. As stripper-harvesters replaced strippers, recovery declined leaving yet more seed to germinate, though even with the advent of more...

...figure 7. Cartoon satirizing the harvest hand recruitment process. “Rain in South Dakota,” Marshalltown (IA) Evening Times-Republican , August 4, 1903 ( https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85049554/1903-08-04/ed-1/seq-1/ ). ...

... fleshed out. California bore the mystique of westward migration, evolved from a free state yet it, too, had racial troubles and enjoyed a more consistently pleasant climate, though not altogether free of disease and without Florida s replenishing rains. Boosters in both states emphasized Mediterranean...

.... By Thomas Rain Crowe. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2005. 240 pp., $27.95, hardback, ISBN 0-8203-2734-4. Zoro's Field begins with Thomas Rain Crowe's return to the Southern Appalachians after decades away, and in this literary memoir Crowe describes his ambitions for a return to the land. The author...

... events, such as the relocation of Indian tribes from the eastern United States to the southern Great Plains, and explores interactions between displaced Indians, white settlers, the US and Mexican governments, and the Plains tribes that had understood and adapted to the cycles of rain and drought...

.... Flowers, plants & grass especially the latter are the covering or blanket of the earth. If too much plucked or ruthlessly destroyed [the] earth [is] sorry and weeps. It rains or is angry and makes rain, fog & bad weather" (20). Turner compares the concept to James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis and argues...

... flood. That year, weeks of heavy rains turned the Central Valley into a lake six or more feet deep, driving settlers from their homes and killing tens of thousands of cattle. Today 6.5 million people live in the Central Valley, and the wetlands that helped prevent the 1862 flood from being even worse...

... as light rains that add little if any moisture to the subsoil. However, heavy downpours are not unknown and severe flooding has wrought devastation at times. And, of course, the amount and distribution of precipitation has a very direct bearing on agriculture. The low annual rainfall has made...

... insteadforwhiteheronschokingon fishhooks,forblackbearsendangeredbyhighwaytravelersa,nd for naturetrailsstrewnwiththelitterofdisrespectfuhlikers.One exceptionis an essay by Thomas Rain Crowe entitled"You Are What You Eat," in whichCroweclaimsto "be" blueberriesb, lackberriesc,ucumbersa,nd new potatoes.Toutingorganicfarminags...