...Kevin R. Hardwick Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement . David Hackett Fisher and James C. Kelly . Copyright 2001 Agricultural History Society 2001 Book Reviews / 363 Bound Away: Virginia and the Westward Movement. By David Hackett Fisher and James C. Kelly...

...Sherry L. Smith Feast or Famine: Food and Drink in American Westward Expansion . Reginald Horsman . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring sparklotsofclassdiscussionaboutissuesin environmentalismag,riculture, landuse,and socialproblemsb,othpastand...

... argues that farmers pushed the frontier westward. First Quebec, then Ontario, faced agricultural crises. These were brought about by different circumstances and produced different regional nationalisms but both resulted in the quest for more land and shaped the development of the prairies. The first half...

... Columbus State University North America Success Depends on the Animals: Emigrants, Livestock, and Wild Animals on the Overland Trails, 1840 1869. By Diana L. Ahmed. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2016. 144 pp., $31.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-87417-997-2. When most think of westward trails...

... that farmers pushed the frontier westward. First Quebec, then Ontario, faced agricultural crises. These were brought about by different circumstances and produced different regional nationalisms but both resulted in the quest for more land and shaped the development of the prairies. The first half of the book...

..., entitled The Transatlantic system, is symptomatic of what the reader should expect in the remainder of the book. kennedy gamely attempts to demonstrate how the growing international demand for cotton directly influenced the rapid spread of cotton and slavery in the American south, driving its westward...

... 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...

... Success Depends on the Animals: Emigrants, Livestock, and Wild Animals on the Overland Trails, 1840 1869. By Diana L. Ahmed. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2016. 144 pp., $31.95, hardback, ISBN 978-0-87417-997-2. When most think of westward trails in the nineteenth century, political, cultural...

..., and elite entitlement. Hamilton convincingly argues that these three factors ensured the power of tidewater elite families and individual men like St. George Tucker during the colonial period. The American Revolution changed all of that. Deference eroded, westward migration increased, eco? nomic competition...

... on Indigenous land was simply unthinkable. Instead, US westward expansion demanded the elimination of Indigenous peoples from the land, through either removal or assimilation. At the heart of Seeing Red is the massive land transfer from the Anishinaabeg to the United States as the newly independent...

..., paperback, ISBN 978-1-60781-208-1. In this engaging volume, Brock Cheney, an educator and public historian, describes and interprets the foodways of Mormon pioneers from their westward migration in 1846 1847 to the railroad s arrival in Utah in 1869. Cheney combed through the life writings of over fifty...

... inveterate gamblers, and farmers are no exception. The very act of moving westward was a gamble. Once there, the acquisition of land and competition for local, national, and global markets involved taking great risks, usually involving domination or adaptation of the natural environment. Idaho's farmers were...

... near the downtown area, linking the city with the campus (190). Frontier Manhattan takes an important local look at frontier life, Civil War politics, and westward expansion. Olson utilizes interesting vignettes to tell Manhattan s story, allowing both scholars and the larger public to get a local...

... and no regulation) westward and eventually northward. It has adapted over time to American historical moments but has always protected the interests of powerful oligarchs. But in reality, history shows that Ashley Cooper and his protégé John Locke, the hero of modern libertarians, had well-conceived plans...

... westward migration. More importantly, Moore offers a more refined, true-to-life portrait of the nineteenth-century overland trails saga in the United States. Tisa M. Anders Independent Scholar ...

... in the 1850s and continued westward settlement changed the dynamics of livestock marketing and the location of packing plants. Chicago showed the way. Its 1865 Union Stock Yard and Transit Company brought railroads, stockyards, and packing plants together in one district. The city provided workers, many...

.... The West Texas Frontier, in its entirety, encom- Book Reviews / 263 passes the area from the ninety-eighth meridian westward to El Paso, to just past the one hundred sixth meridian. By focusing only on the ninety-eighth to ninety-ninth meridians, their study completely ignores the bulk of this region...

...Jeanette Keith Folklife along the Big South Fork of the Cumberland River . Benita J. Howell . Copyright 2004 Agricultural History Society 2004 Book Reviews / 379 westward migration; the shift from patriarchalism to paternalism; slavery and abolition; and the collapse of deferential...

... for growers, just as migrants spread tobacco agriculture westward. The net effect was an open system where tangible characteristics, not origin or cultivation practices, largely defined the tobacco that reached the market. The federal government s desire to tax tobacco in the wake of the Civil War changed...

... States. Largely overlooked by historians of American slavery and Reconstruction, unfree labor was vital to the economy of New Mexico Territory, and its stubborn persistence during and after the Civil War forced Radical Republican reformers to extend their antislavery crusade westward beyond the confines...