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Reviewed by Ginette Aley | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.3 | The History Cooperative
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From Pioneering to Persevering
Family Farming in Indiana to 1880

By Paul Salstrom
West Lafayette, Ind.: Purdue University Press, 2007. Pp. xii, 208. Illustrations, notes, index, bibliography. Paperbound, $23.95.)

"Hoosiers still care about family farming," asserts Paul Salstrom, author of From Pioneering to Persevering: Family Farming in Indiana to 1880. This, despite the fact that notably absent from the historiography of Indiana's past is a book-length study of the history of the state's agricultural development and rural life, particularly as they relate to Indiana's beginnings. Good relevant sub-regional and community studies have been done, including Stephen A. Vincent's Southern Seed, Northern Soil (1999) and Richard Nation's At Home in the Hoosier Hills (2005). Salstrom hopes that his broadly conceived history of Indiana agriculture will close that gap; however, given the growth and dynamism of the fields of rural and agricultural history and the important connections being made to larger themes and narratives of nineteenth-century history, the project looms as a tall (but not impossible) order to fill. . . .
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