Indiana's pioneers came to southern Indiana to turn the dream of an America based on family farming into a reality.
The golden age prior to the Civil War led to a post-War preserving of the independent family farmer.
Salstrom examines this independence and finds the label to be less than adequate.
Hoosier farming was an inter-dependent activity leading to a society of borrowing andloaning.
When people talk about supporting family farming, as Salstrom notes, the issue is a societal one with a greater population involved than just the farmers themselves.
About author(s): Paul Salstrom holds a Ph.
in comparative history from Brandeis University and teaches history at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College near Terre Haute, Indiana.
An authority on the early rural history of Appalachia, he is the author of Appalachia's Path to Dependency (1994).
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Purdue University Press From pioneering to persevering: family farming in indiana to 1880, paperback/paul salstrom
