| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.1

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Book Review

From Pioneering to Persevering: Family Farming in Indiana to 1880. By Paul Salstrom. (West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2007. xiv, 208 pp. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 978-1-55753-453-8.)

Publication of a short, accessible overview of a state's agricultural history is a worthwhile goal, and one supported by the Indiana Historical Society when it commissioned Paul Salstrom. Salstrom would seem to have been a good choice: he believes in the "new rural history," which focuses on the lives of ordinary people, and he teaches locally at St. Mary-of-the-Woods College. Unexpected things happened in the writing process, however, as the author admits in his introduction. The result is a book that, while still short and accessible, is caught between purposes and no longer satisfies the original objective.

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