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Shucks, shocks, and hominy blocks : corn as a way of life in pioneer America /

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Main Author: Hardeman, Nicholas Perkins.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, ©1981.
Subjects and Genres:
Corn > United States > History.
Frontier and pioneer life > United States.
Zea mays > history.
Maïs > États-Unis > Histoire.
Corn.
Frontier and pioneer life.
United States
United States.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface.
  • Monarch
  • This fabled plant
  • Meeting of East and West
  • Corn land and the American dream
  • Corn was work and fun
  • Fields in woods clothing: the seedbed
  • In the light of the moon: planting
  • First the blade: cultivating
  • Fruits of toil: harvesting
  • Cob, cache, crib, and keg: storage
  • Shelling and grinding
  • One hundred ways: food uses
  • One hundred proof: pioneer spirits
  • Jack of all aids: other uses
  • Against the grain: corn's enemies
  • Enemies continued
  • Corn is a four-letter word: cultural manifestations
  • Corn on the hoof: commerce.

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