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The Washington Apple
Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture
Today, as this book reveals, the apple industry continues to evolve in response to shifting consumer demands and accelerating climate change. Yet, through it all, the Washington apple maintains its iconic status as Washington’s most valuable agricultural crop.
When Money Grew on Trees
A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
Born in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond built an empire of wood that stretched from Puget Sound to Arizona—and in the process had reshaped the American West and the nation’s way of doing business. When Money Grew on Trees follows Hammond from the rough-and-tumble world of mid-nineteenth-century New Brunswick to frontier Montana and the forests of Northern California—from lowly lumberjack to unrivaled timber baron.
Uneasy Money
Uneasy Money was written for the countless Americans after World War II who were confused by the most pressing economic problem of that day: whether the inflated prices and values created by the war could be carried over into the era of peace, with the promise of economic security for all.
Cotton and Conquest
How the Plantation System Acquired Texas
Kennedy begins with a detailed chronicle of the commerce linking British and French textile mills and merchants with Southern cotton plantations. When the cotton states seceded from the Union, they overestimated British and French dependence on Southern cotton. As a result, the Southern plantocracy believed that the British would continue supporting the use of slaves in order to sustain the supply of cotton—a miscalculation with dire consequences for the Confederacy.
Buffalo Inc.
American Indians and Economic Development
Some American Indian tribes on the Great Plains have turned to bison ranching in recent years as a culturally and ecologically sustainable economic development program. This book focuses on one enterprise on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation to determine whether such projects have fulfilled expectations and how they fit with traditional and contemporary Lakota values.
Aldrovandi on Chickens
The Ornothology of Ulisse Aldrovandi (1600) Volume II Book XIV
Aldrovandi on Chickens, written in 1598, is the first English translation of any work by the Italian naturalist Ulisse Aldrovandi. It exemplifies the spirit and the letter of Renaissance science—the former, in the extensive classical references; the latter, through careful examination of every process involved with the raising or use of chickens.
C.C. Slaughter
Rancher, Banker, Baptist
Trail driver, Texas Ranger, banker, philanthropist, and cattleman, he was one of America’s most famous ranchers. David J. Murrah’s biography of C. C. Slaughter (1837–1919), now available in paperback, still stands as the definitive account of this well-known figure in Southwest history.
Plains Folk II
The Romance of the Landscape
As in the first volume, Plains Folk: A Commonplace of the Great Plains, the authors write about hardy plains dwellers—a rare breed who feel out of place anywhere except on the prairie—and their cultural heritage, derived from many countries in both the Old World and the New. Here are stories about plains folklore, animals, food, lifestyles, and artifacts in a land of buttermilk and blabs, Bigfoot and bindweed.
The Matador Land and Cattle Company
The Scots, a people noted for their frugality, invested with almost reckless abandon in American cattle-raising ventures in the 1880s. Among the companies thus financed, the Matador Land and Cattle Company was unique. It operated first and foremost as a business enterprise designed to produce profit over a long period of time; sun, sweat, and stable leather were only incidental to the primary purpose of raising quality beef.
Panhandle Pioneer
Henry C. Hitch, His Ranch, and His Family
In the history of the tristate Panhandle region—the three corners of Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas—the saga of Henry C. Hitch and his ranch is also the story of the social, cultural, and economic fortunes of the region.
The Washington Apple
Orchards and the Development of Industrial Agriculture
When Money Grew on Trees
A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
Uneasy Money
Cotton and Conquest
How the Plantation System Acquired Texas
Kennedy begins with a detailed chronicle of the commerce linking British and French textile mills and merchants with Southern cotton plantations. When the cotton states seceded from the Union, they overestimated British and French dependence on Southern cotton. As a result, the Southern plantocracy believed that the British would continue supporting the use of slaves in order to sustain the supply of cotton—a miscalculation with dire consequences for the Confederacy.