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- catalog abstract "Farming the Cutover describes the visions and accomplishments of these settlers from their perspective. People of the cutover managed to forge lives relatively independent of market pressures, and for this they were characterized as backward by outsiders and their part of the state was seen as a hideout for organized crime figures. State and federal planners, county agents, and agriculture professors eventually determined that the cutover could be engineered by professional and academic expertise into a Progressive social model and the lives of its inhabitants improved. By 1940, they had begun to implement public policies that discouraged farming, and they eventually decided that the region should be depopulated and the forests replanted. By exploring the history of an eighteen-county region, Robert Gough illustrates the travails of farming in marginal areas. He juxtaposes the social history of the farmers with the opinions and programs of the experts who sought to improve the region. Significantly, what occurred in the Wisconsin cutover anticipated the sweeping changes that transformed American agriculture after World War II.".
- catalog contributor b10396899.
- catalog coverage "Wisconsin History 1848-".
- catalog coverage "Wisconsin Social conditions.".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "By 1940, they had begun to implement public policies that discouraged farming, and they eventually decided that the region should be depopulated and the forests replanted. By exploring the history of an eighteen-county region, Robert Gough illustrates the travails of farming in marginal areas. He juxtaposes the social history of the farmers with the opinions and programs of the experts who sought to improve the region. Significantly, what occurred in the Wisconsin cutover anticipated the sweeping changes that transformed American agriculture after World War II.".
- catalog description "Farming the Cutover describes the visions and accomplishments of these settlers from their perspective. People of the cutover managed to forge lives relatively independent of market pressures, and for this they were characterized as backward by outsiders and their part of the state was seen as a hideout for organized crime figures. State and federal planners, county agents, and agriculture professors eventually determined that the cutover could be engineered by professional and academic expertise into a Progressive social model and the lives of its inhabitants improved.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-284) and index.".
- catalog description "The Cutover in 1900 -- Building a new life in the Cutover, 1900-1920 -- The shaping of the Cutover by agricultural experts, 1895-1925 -- Struggles with adversity, 1920-1940 -- A new view of the Cutover, 1925-1940 -- The Cutover in the late 1930s: last rfforts at yeoman farming.".
- catalog extent "viii, 295 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Farming the cutover.".
- catalog identifier "0700608508 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Farming the cutover.".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas,".
- catalog relation "Farming the cutover.".
- catalog spatial "Wisconsin History 1848-".
- catalog spatial "Wisconsin Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Wisconsin".
- catalog subject "977.5/041 21".
- catalog subject "Agriculture Wisconsin History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Cutover lands Wisconsin History 20th century.".
- catalog subject "F586 .G68 1997".
- catalog subject "Farm life Wisconsin History 20th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The Cutover in 1900 -- Building a new life in the Cutover, 1900-1920 -- The shaping of the Cutover by agricultural experts, 1895-1925 -- Struggles with adversity, 1920-1940 -- A new view of the Cutover, 1925-1940 -- The Cutover in the late 1930s: last rfforts at yeoman farming.".
- catalog title "Farming the cutover : a social history of Northern Wisconsin, 1900-1940 / Robert Gough.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".