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Bibliography/Further Reading

1820-1850: A New State & Prosperity

Albion, Robert G., William A. Baker, and Benjamin W. Labaree. New England and the Sea. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1972.

Anderson, Mark. "Image of Nineteenth Century Maine Farming in the Prose and Poetry of R.P.T. Coffin and C.A. Stephens." Agricultural History 63 (Spring 1989): 120-29.

Babcock, Robert H. "The Rise and Fall of Portland's Waterfront, 1850-1920." Maine Historical Society Quarterly 22 (Fall 1982): 63-98.

Battick, John F. "The Searsport 'Thirty-Six': Seafaring Wives of a Maine Community in 1880." American Neptune 44 (Summer 1984): 149-54.

Cass, Edward C. "A Town Comes of Age: Pownalborough, Maine, 1720-1785." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maine, 1979.

Coolidge, Philip T. History of the Maine Woods. Bangor, Maine: Furbush-Roberts Printing Company, 1963.

Cox, Thomas R., Robert S. Maxwell, Phillip Drennon Thomas, and Joseph J. Malone. This Well-Wooded Land: Americans and their Forests from Colonial Times to the Present. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

Cummings, Richard O. The American Ice Harvests: A Historical Study in Technology, 1800-1918. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949.

Day, Clarence Albert. Farming in Maine, 1860-1940. Orono: University of Maine Press, 1963.

Day, Clarence Albert. A History of Maine Agriculture, 1604-1860. Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 1954.

Hubka, Thomas C. Big House, Little House, Back House, Barn: The Connected Farm Buildings of New England. Hanover, New Hampshire: University Press of New England, 1984.

Judd, Richard W. Aroostook: A Century of Logging in Northern Maine. Orono: University of
Maine Press, 1989.

Judd, Richard W., Edwin A. Churchill, and Joel W. Eastman, eds. Maine : The Pine Tree State from Prehistory to the Present (Orono, Maine: University of Maine Press, 1995)

Maine Farmer, 1833-1900.

Marriner, Ernest, "Frozen Gold." In David C. Smith and Edward S. Schriver, eds. Maine: A History Through Selected Readings. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt, 1985.

Potter, Edward W. "Public Policy and Economic Growth in Maine, 1820-1857." Ph.D. dissertation, University of Maine, 1975.

Smith, David C. A History of Lumbering in Maine 1860-1930. (Orono: University of Maine Press, 1965)

Stahl, Jasper Jacob. History of Old Broad Bay and Waldoboro in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Portland, Maine: Bond Wheelwright, 1956).

Wasson, Samuel. A Survey of Hancock County, Maine. (Augusta, Maine: Sprague, Owen & Nash, 1878), 45.

Wasson, George S. Sailing Days on the Penobscot. (New York, Library Editions, 1970).