Studies in the Land

David C. Smith is Emeritus Professor of History, Professor of Agricultural History and Quaternary Studies at the University of Maine and the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station.

• A. PrefaceB. Acknowledgements and DedicationSection One: General StudiesI. Maine's Changing Landscape to 1820II. Maine and Its Public DomainIII. Toward a Theory of Maine HistoryIV. The Logging FrontierSection Two: Forest and Logging StudiesV. Wood Pulp and Newspapers, 1867-1900 VI. Logging the IslandsVII. Virgin Timber: The Maine Woods as a Locale for Juvenile FictionSection Three: Tilling the Historic Past: Studies in Agricultural HistoryVIII. William A. Drew and the Maine ShakersIX. Middle Range Farming in the Civil War Era: Life on a Farm in Seneca County, New YorkX. Agriculture in New York State to 1880: The Impact of State (Public) FundsXI. North American Farmers and British Agriculture, 1795 -1885 XII. The Coastal Shipping Trade on the Eve of the Railroad: Gardiner, Maine in the Early 1830s