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The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families
The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families
The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families
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The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families

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Winner of the Minnesota Book Award and the Red River Heritage Award!

The Haymakers is an epic—the history of man's struggle with nature as well as man's struggle against machines. It relates the story of farmers and their obligations to their families, to the animals they fed, and to the land they tended. But The Haymakersis also an elegy—to a way of life fast disappearing from our landscape. In the most heartfelt essays, Hoffbeck chronicles his own family's struggle to hold onto their family farm and his personal struggle in deciding to leave farming for another way of life.

Hoffbeck also seeks to document and preserve the commonplace methods of haymaking, information about haying that might otherwise be lost to posterity. He describes the tools and the methods of haymaking as well as the relentless demands of the farm. Using diaries, agricultural guidebooks and personal interviews, the folkways of cutting, raking, and harvesting hay have been recorded in these chapters. In the end, this book is not so much about agricultural history as it is about family history, personal history—how farm families survive, even persevere.
LanguageEnglish
Release dateJun 1, 2010
ISBN9780873517362
The Haymakers: A Chronicle of Five Farm Families
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Steven R. Hoffbeck

Steven R. Hoffbeck is an assistant professor of history at Minnesota State University, Moorhead, with a specialization in agricultural history. His articles and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including North Dakota Horizons, Vermont History, and Minnesota History, where he is a frequent contributor and winner of the Solon J. Buck Award for the year’s best essay.

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