TY - BOOK AU - Fremon,Suzanne Strait AU - Wilson,Morrow TI - Rural America T2 - The Reference shelf AV - HN57 .R78 U1 - 301.35/0973 PY - 1976/// CY - New York PB - H. W. Wilson KW - Country life KW - United States KW - History KW - Local KW - Rural conditions N1 - 920601; Bibliography: p. 201-206; The nineteenth century picture: De Tocqueville, A. The American wilderness. De Tocqueville, A. Life in the wilderness. Thoreau, H. D. Experiment in homesteading. Twain, M. Growing up in Missouri. Twain, M. Mississippi River pilots. Moore, T. E. Peddlers. Rourke, C. Traveling players. Garland, H. Life on an Iowa farm. Opening up Oklahoma.--The twentieth century picture: Wilson, C. M. American peasants. Wilson, C. M. Law makers and breakers. Allen, F. A. When the farms blew away. Lerner, M. The way of the farmer. Lerner, M. The decline of the small town. Brogan, D. W. Political influence of the farm bloc. Black, R. C. The American farmer. Our first "hybrid." Walsh, J. U.S. agribusiness and agricultural trends.--Shifting patterns in rural areas: Ellis, W. N. The new ruralism. Logsdon, G. America's rural poor. Terkel, S. Working the land. Terkel, S. Second chance ER -