From Prairie to Corn Belt: Farming on the Illinois and Iowa Prairies in the Nineteenth Century

Allan G. Bogue

Iowa State University Press, 1963 - Technology & Engineering - 309 pages

This is a study of the development of farming in the prairie states. The book emphasises the individual farmer (the man with dirt on his hands and dung on his boots), and the problems and developments that have forced him to make decisions about his farm business.

About the author

Allan G. Bogue is emeritus professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has served presidential terms for the Agricultural History Society, the Economic History Association, and the Organization of American Historians. His many publications include "Frederick Jackson Turner: Strange Roads Going Down.

Bibliographic information

• Title: From Prairie to Corn Belt: Farming on the Illinois and Iowa Prairies in the Nineteenth Century
• Author: Allan G. Bogue
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Iowa State University Press, 1963
• ISBN: 0813822181, 9780813822181
• Length: 309 pages
• Subjects: Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General