ABSTRACT
Drawing on primary documents such as farmer's diaries, small rural papers of the 19th century, and the publications of state agricultural societies, this provocative study presents an intelligent overview into the driving forces of that shaped American history in the Northeast.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section One|73 pages
General Studies
section Two|51 pages
Forest and Logging Studies
section Three|102 pages
Tilling the Historic Past: Studies in Agricultural History
chapter Nine|16 pages
Middle Range Farming in the Civil War Era
Life on a Farm in Seneca County, New York 1862–1866
chapter Twelve|24 pages
Coastal Shipping Trade On the Eve of the Railroad
Gardiner, Maine in the Early 1830’s
