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Americans and Their Forests: A Historical Geography (Cambridge UP, 1989), a major scholarly study; Wilson, Donald A. Logging and lumbering in Maine (Arcadia Publishing, 2001) online. Wood, Richard G. A History of Lumbering in Maine, 1820-1861 (U of Maine Press, 1971) Wynn, Graeme. "On the History of Lumbering in Northeastern America, 1820-1960."
As of 1999 Texas was the tenth largest timber producing state in the nation. [3] The primary wood product is the Southern yellow pine largely supplying the housing sector in the state. [3] Cities like Nacogdoches, Lufkin, Beaumont, and Marshall still have large lumber firms that make up a substantial portion of their economies.
Grady, Lee. "McCormick's Reaper at 100," Wisconsin Magazine of History (2001) 84#3 pp.10-20. Looks at the marketing of agricultural equipment 1831 to 1931. Hirsch, Arthur. “Efforts of the Grange in the Middle West to Control the Price of Farm Machinery, 1870–1880.” Mississippi Valley Historical Review 15 (1929): 473–96. Hounshell, David A.
Graybill, Andrew (Summer 2005). "Rural Police and the Defense of the Cattleman's Empire in Texas and Alberta, 1875-1900". Agricultural Historical Society. 79 (3): 255. JSTOR 3745069. Johnson, Marilynn S. (2014) [2009]. Violence in the West: The Johnson County Range War and the Ludlow Massacre—A Brief History with Documents. Waveland Press.
A scythe consists of a shaft about 170 centimetres (67 in) long called a snaith, snath, snathe or sned, traditionally made of wood but now sometimes metal. Simple snaiths are straight with offset handles, others have an "S" curve or are steam bent in three dimensions to place the handles in an ergonomic configuration but close to the shaft. The ...
The Reaper: A History of the Efforts of Those Who Justly May Be Said to Have Made Bread Cheap (New York: Greenberg, 1931), popular. Thwaites, Reuben Gold. Cyrus Hall McCormick and the reaper (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1909) online; Winder, Gordon M. (2016) [2013]. The American Reaper: Harvesting Networks and Technology, 1830–1910 ...
The city had reached 260,000 population by 1929 when the effects of the Stock Market Crash hit Texas, causing a sharp drop in the prices ... The City in Texas: A History
A Massey-Harris reaper-binder pulled by a tractor (Rutland, England, 2008) A modern compact binder for rice (2006) The reaper-binder, or binder, is a farm implement that improved upon the simple reaper. The binder was invented in 1872 by Charles Baxter Withington, a jeweler from Janesville, Wisconsin.