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Bibliography/Further Reading

Living Off the Land & Sea

Acheson, James M. The Lobster Gangs of Maine. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1988.

Barton, Bruce. The Man Nobody Knows: a Discovery of the Real Jesus. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1925.

Beam Lura. A Maine Hamlet. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, 2000.

Blano, James W. The Log of the Skipper’s Wife. Camden, Maine: Down East Books, 1979.

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

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.

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

Lears, T.J. Jackson. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920. New York: Pantheon Books, 1981.

Paine, Lincoln. Down East: A Maritime History of Maine. Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House Publishers, 2000.

Rolde, Neil. The Interrupted Forest: A History of Maine’s Wildlands. Gardiner, Maine: Tilbury House Publishers, 2001.

Rowe, William Hutchinson. The Maritime History of Maine: Three Centuries of Ship Building and Seafaring. Gardiner, Maine: The Harpswell Press, 1989.

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

Smith, John. A Description of New England (1616). In Electronic Texts in American Studies, edited by Paul Royster, 24-25. Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006.

Smith, Stewart. "Maine Agriculture: Adapting to a More Complex Setting." In Changing Maine, 1960-2010, edited by Richard Barringer, 389. Gardiner, ME: Tilbury House, 2004.

Thoreau, Henry David. The Maine Woods. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press, 1972.

Toynbee, Arnold J. A Study of History, vol. II. London: Oxford Univ. Press, 1947-50.

Ulrich, Laurel Thatcher. A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812. New York: Vintage Books, 1990.

Woodard, Colin. The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier. New York: Penguin Books, 2004.