...Whitney A. Snow [email protected] Powering American Farms: The Overlooked Origins of Rural Electrification . By Richard F. Hirsh . Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press , 2022 . 400 pp., $60.00 , hardcover, ISBN 9781421443621 . Copyright © 2024...

..., the removal of agriculture and waste recycling from Providence was an explicit mechanism to control and reform the laboring poor while also making way for lucrative development and rapidly capitalizing professionalized industries.56 670 Agricultural History Central to this story is Dr. Edwin Snow, Providence...

...C. Fred Williams From Missouri: An American Farmer Looks Back . By Thad Snow . Edited by Bonnie Stepenoff . Columbia : University of Missouri Press , 2012 . 304 pp., $25.00 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8262-1990-9 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2013 2013 Agricultural...

... in Southeast Missouri, 1939-1940," Missouri Historical Review 82 (Oct. 1987): 24-50 Arvarh E. Strickland, "The Plight of the People in the Sharecroppers’ Demonstration in Southeast Missouri," Missouri Historical Review 81 (July 1987): 403-16 Bonnie Stepenoff, Thad Snow: A Life of Social Reform...

... (1940 repr., Christchurch: Capper Press, 1977), 104 12 K. F. O’Connor , "The Role of Burning and Top-Dressing in Snow-Tussock Manage¬ ment," Tussock Grassland and Mountain Lands Institute Review1: 2 ( 1961 ): 19 -23 A. F. Mark , "The Narrow-Leaved Snow Tussock," TGMLI...

... landscapes and how environmental history upends assumptions about agricultural landscapes. The result is a changes-in-the-land tale with a twist. First Peoples, indians, and Euroamericans inhabited the kawuneeche for millennia, but geology forced all to adjust to thin air, long winters, heavy snows, and poor...

... Snow allowed the state STFU to organize on his land. Their participation and leadership encouraged mem? bership, action, and success for the STFU in the Bootheel. But not without a price, as planter retaliation, such as murders, lynchings, and evictions, became common in the mid-1930s...

... instruments, but it also increased the possibility for volunteers to damage the instruments. For instance, observers had to calibrate the dry thermometer to 0°C/32°F by placing it in snow or ice once a year. If the temperature did not drop to zero, the AMS cautioned the thermometer was likely broken. 71...

... history, and the memoir offers a certain genuineness lacking in less-personal studies. Andria Pooley Iowa State University From Missouri: An American Farmer Looks Back. By Thad Snow. Edited by Bonnie Stepenoff. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2012. 304 pp., $25.00, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8262-1990...

... with long-time residents of the mountains. With titles like "Sun Time," "A Mountain Garden," and "Snowed In," these chapters depict not only Crowe's adaptations to a primitive lifestyle, but also the joys of a life lived close to the land. The centrality of subsistence and the challenges Crowe faced...

... environmental learning. Holland first acknowledges that settlers adopted a limited amount of environmental knowledge from the indigenous Maori. He then discusses how settlers learned about the winds, warmth, and rains of South Island before turning to its surprises: floods, droughts, snow, and ice. Settlers...

... of the physical landscape are quite breathtaking. The photograph of Vogt herding his sheep to lower ground in Arizona during the "Big Snow" of 1931 is worth the price of the book by itself. For those of a more cultural bent, we learn that gamuza is a Spanish word of Arabic origin for "deer hide"?strips of which...

... Demonstration Agents, UASC. 74. “Annual Narrative Report, Navajo County, Arizona, January 1, 1953 to November 30, 1953,” AZ302 Annual Reports of Home Demonstration Agents, University of Arizona Special Collections, Tucson (hereafter UASC). 73. Milton Snow, “School Kitchen, Keams Canyon Boarding...

... Frame Construction" debunks earlier arguments that George Washington Snow or Augustine Deodat Taylor invented balloon framing. With numerous drawings and photographs, Peterson outlines the variations he found in nineteenth-century Wisconsin farmhouses. Travis C. McDonald Jr. focuses on the construction...

... Garden," and "Snowed In," these chapters depict not only Crowe's adaptations to a primitive lifestyle, but also the joys of a life lived close to the land. The centrality of subsistence and the challenges Crowe faced in the attempt to keep himself fed remind us of the realities of being completely...

..., such as the be? lief that winter feeding was unnecessary because the Chinook winds would 370 / Agricultural History always arrive to melt the snow in time. A particular strength of the study is the way it shows that even after these myths were disproved (by the killing winter of 1906-07 for example), they continued...

... to clean up the fields before snow flies you'11 have time for other pressing work. And the womenfolk won't have to cook and bother with extra help all through the fall.25 The United States' entry into World War II brought the use of the me? chanical corn picker in Iowa to a new high. Corn production...

... by water shortages. California farmers' dependence on mountain snows to fill the reservoirs that provide their annual allocations has been sorely tested over the past decade, during which the state has been more or less continually in drought conditions. Making matters worse is the shift among some farmers...

... the North Unit project as a great divide in the history of central Oregon. When the waters begin to flow "the world of the past will come to an end for the people of Jefferson County. . . . Water will sweep out the old and bring in the new." Referring to the spectacular snow-capped mountains to the west...

... John C. Dawson , High Plains Yesterdays (Austin: Eakin Press, 1955 ), 196 -197 Norma Young , The Tracks We Followed (Amarillo, Texas: South¬ westem Publications, 1991 ), 63 Lindsey L. Long , " Big Snow 1911–1912 ," in History of Beaver County , vol. 2 (Beaver...