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FARM ANIMALS

  • Allen, Lewis F. History of the Short-Horn Cattle: Their Origin, Progress and Present Condition. Buffalo, NY: Lewis F. Allen, 1874.

  • Johnson, Paul C. Farm Animals in the Making of America. Des Moines, Ia.: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1975.

  • Miller, Lynn. The Workhorse Handbook. Eugene, Ore.: Small Farmers Journal, 1981.

  • Telleen, Maurice. The Draft Horse Primer: A Guide to the Care and Use of Horses and Mules. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale Press, 1977.

  • YOUNG READERS

  • Wilder, Laura Ingalls. Little House on the Prairie, New York: Harper and Row, 1953.


  • ------. Farmer Boy. New York: Harper and Row, 1953.

    ------. Little House in the Big Woods. New York: Harper and Row, 1953.

    ------. These Happy Golden Years. New York: Harper and Row, 1953.

  • Woods, Thomas and Mary Ellen Schutz.
    The Kelley Farm Activity Book.

  • St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1985.


    The Kelley Farm Activity Book cover.  Click to go to MHS press information on this book.

    AGRICULTURAL TOOLS AND MACHINERY

  • Ardrey, Robert L. American Agricultural Implements: A Review of Invention and Development in the Agricultural Implement Industry in the United States. 1st edition, Chicago: R.L. Ardrey, 1894; 2d edition, New York: Arno Press, Inc., 1972.

  • Blandford, Percy W. Old Farm Tools and Machinery, An Illustrated History. Fort Lauderdale, Fla: Gale Research Co., 1976.

  • Hurt, R. Douglas. American Farm Tools From Hand-Power to Steam-Power. Manhattan, Kan.: Sunflower University Press, 1985.

  • Johnson, Paul C. Farm Invention in the Making of America. Des Moines, Ia.: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1976.

  • Johnson, Paul C. Farm Power In the Making of America. Des Moines, Ia.: Wallace-Homestead Book Co., 1979.

  • Rogin, Leo. The Introduction of Farm Machinery in Its Relation to the Productivity of Labor in the Agriculture of the United States During the Nineteenth Century. University of California Publications in Economics, Vol. 9; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1931; reprint, New York: Johnson Reprint Corporation, 1966.

  • Rosenberg, S.H., ed.Rural America a Century Ago St. Joseph, Mich. American Society of Agricultural Engineers.:1979.


  • GARDENING AND HORTICULTURE

  • Ashworth, Suzanne. Seed to Seed., Decorah, Iowa:
    Seed Savers Exchange Publications, 1991.

  • Rogers, Marc. Growing and Saving Vegetable Seeds. Charlotte, Vt.: Garden Way Publishing, 1978.

  • Weaver, William Woys. Heirloom Vegetable Gardening. New York: Henry Holt and Co., 1997.

  • Wilson, Gilbert L., Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden.
    St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1987.


  • Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden book cover.  Click to go to MHS press information on this book.

    UNITED STATES AGRICULTURAL HISTORY

  • Atack, Jeremy, and Fred Bateman. To Their Own Soil: Agriculture in the Antebellum North. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1987.

  • Baker, Gladys, Wayne Rasmussen, Vivan Wiser and Jane Porter. Century of Service: The First 100 Years of the United States Department of Agriculuture. Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Agriculture, 1963.

  • Bidwell, Percy Wells, and John I. Falconer. History of Agriculture in the Northern United States 1620-1860. Baltimore: The Lord Baltimore Press and the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1925.

  • Danhof, Clarence H. Change in Agriculture: The Northern United States, 1820-1870. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1969.

  • Faragher, John Mack. Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie. New Haven:
    Yale University Press, 1986.

  • Fite, Gilbert C. The Farmers' Frontier, 1865 - 1900. New York:
    Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1966.

  • Gates, Paul. Agriculture and the Civil War. New York: Alfred Knopf, 1965.

  • Gates, Paul. The Farmer's Age: Agriculture 1815-1860. New York:
    Holt, Reinhart and Winston, 1960.

  • Goodwyn, Lawrence. Democratic Promise, The Populist Movement in America. London: Oxford University Press, 1976.

  • Kelsey, Darwin P. Farming in the New Nation: Interpreting American Agriculture 1790-1840. Washington, D.C.: The Agricultural History Society, 1972.

  • Schlebecker, John T. Agricultural Implements and Machines in the Collection of the National Museum of History and Technology. Smithsonian Studies in History and Technology, no. 17. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1972.

  • ------. Whereby We Thrive: A History of American Farming, 1607-1972. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1975.

    GRANGE HISTORY

  • Atkeson, Thomas Clark. Semi-Centennial History of the Patrons of Husbandry. New York: Orange Judd Co., 1916.

  • Buck, Solon Justus. The Granger Movement: A Study of Agricultural Organization and its Economic, Social and Political Manifestations 1870-1880, Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1963 [1913].

  • Howard, David. People, Pride and Progress, 125 Years of the Grange in America. Washington D.C.: National Grange Press, 1992.

  • Gardner, Charles M. The Grange—Friends of the Farmer. Washington D.C: The National Grange, 1950.

  • Kelley, O.H. Origin and Progress of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry in the United States. Philadelphia: J.A. Wagenseller, 1875.

  • Martin, Donald. Women of the Grange. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1991.

  • Martin, Edward Winslow. History of the Granger Movement or the Farmers' War Against Monopolies. Philadelphia: National Publishing Co., 1873.

  • Nordin, Sven. Rich Harvest: A History of the Grange 1867-1900. Jackson: University of Mississippi Press, 1974.

  • Robinson, W. L. The Grange 1867-1967: The First Century of Service and Evolution. Washington, D.C.: National Grange Publications, 1966.

  • Woods, Thomas A. Knights of the Plow. Ames: Iowa State University Press, 1991.
  • RURAL WOMEN'S HISTORY

  • Beecher, Catherine E. and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The American Woman's Home. Hartford, Conn.: The Stowe-Day Foundation, 1869.

  • Fink, Deborah. Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition and Change. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986.

  • Jensen, Joan. Loosening the Bonds: Mid-Atlantic Farm Women 1750 - 1850. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1986.

  • Martin, Donald. Women of the Grange. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press, 1991.

  • Riley, Glenda. The Female Frontier: A Comparative Perspective of Women of the Prairie and on the Plains. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1988.

  • Sachs, Carolyn., The Invisible Farmers: Women in Agricultural Production. Torawa, N.J.: Rowman and Allenheld, 1983.

  • Wilcox, Estelle. Buckeye Cookery and Practical Housekeeping. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1988.

  • MINNESOTA AGRICULTURAL HISTORY

  • Blegen, Theodore C., ed. Minnesota Farmers' Diaries: William R. Brown, 1845-46; Mitchell Y.Jackson, 1852-63. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1939.

  • Bowen, Ralph H. A Frontier Family in Minnesota: The Letters of Theodore and Sophie Bost, 1851-1920. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981.

  • Jarchow, Merrill E. The Earth Brought Forth: A History of Minnesota Agriculture to 1885. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1949.

  • Robinson, Edward Van Dyke. Early Economic Conditions and the Development of Agriculture in Minnesota. The University of Minnesota Studies in the Social Sciences, no. 3. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1915.

  • NATURAL HISTORY

  • Tester, John. Minnesota's Natural Heritage, An Ecological Perspective. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995.

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