[PDF.86sy] Farming the Cutover: A Social History of Northern Wisconsin, 1900-1940

Farming the Cutover: A Social History of Northern Wisconsin, 1900-1940

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 | #1003671 in Books |  University Press of Kansas |  1997-10-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x1.09 x6.20l,1.41 | File type: PDF | 300 pages

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| This Ain't Plowed Ground|By Stanley|Hardly anybody knows what or where the Great Lakes Cutover Region is. That's a shame. Covering the northern parts of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, this land area is greater than New England and is the former site of the great white pine forest. The trees were mostly gone by the start of the twentieth century begging the question, "Wha| |"A tender elegy to yeoman farming and to the American dream that it represented for centuries. Gough sets forth a tenacious indictment of those who fancied themselves the best and the brightest, who wrought the destruction of that dream. His achingly sad accou

After northern Wisconsin was cleared by commercial loggers early in the twentieth century, enthusiastic promoters and optimistic settlers envisioned transforming this "cutover" into a land of yeoman farmers. Here thousands of families—mostly immigrants or second-generation Americans—sought to recreate old worlds and build new farms on land that would come to be considered agriculturally worthless. In the end, they succumbed not to drought or soil depletion bu...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.Farming the Cutover: A Social History of Northern Wisconsin, 1900-1940   |  Robert Gough. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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