Menu-icon
You have no items in your shopping cart.
Close

Old Farm: A History

$24.95
Paperback: $24.95
240 pages, 114 photos, 2 maps, 8 x 9"
ISBN: 9780870204067

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Ordering for retail, wholesale, school, library, or other tax-exempt organization?
- +

By Jerry Apps
Photographs by Steve Apps


One of the Midwest’s best-loved authors tells the story of his land, from the last great glacier that dug out its valleys and formed its hills, to his own family’s forty-year relationship with the beloved farm they call Roshara. In this quiet but epic tale, Apps describes the Native Americans who lived on the land for hundreds of years—tapping the maple trees and fishing the streams and lakes—as well as the first white settlers who tilled its sandy acres, ploughing the native grasses that grew taller than their teams of oxen. For all their work, the farm proved tough to tame. Hardscrabble farming methods—and hard luck—often brought failure, not success.

By Jerry Apps
Photographs by Steve Apps


One of the Midwest’s best-loved authors tells the story of his land, from the last great glacier that dug out its valleys and formed its hills, to his own family’s forty-year relationship with the beloved farm they call Roshara. In this quiet but epic tale, Apps describes the Native Americans who lived on the land for hundreds of years—tapping the maple trees and fishing the streams and lakes—as well as the first white settlers who tilled its sandy acres, ploughing the native grasses that grew taller than their teams of oxen. For all their work, the farm proved tough to tame. Hardscrabble farming methods—and hard luck—often brought failure, not success.

Products specifications
AuthorJerry Apps
Write your own review
*
*
  • Bad
  • Excellent
*
*
*
*
Products specifications
AuthorJerry Apps
Product tags
Customers who bought this item also bought
Picture of Horse-Drawn Days: a Century of Farming with Horses

Horse-Drawn Days: a Century of Farming with Horses

Paperback: $24.95
240 pages, 140 b/w and color photos and illus., 8 x 9
ISBN: 9780870204456

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Ordering for retail, wholesale, school, library, or other tax-exempt organization?
$24.95
Barns of Wisconsin book cover featuring image of red barn

Barns of Wisconsin

"Barns of Wisconsin" captures both the iconic and the unique, including historic and noteworthy barns, and discusses the disappearance of barns from our landscape and preservation efforts to save these important symbols of American agriculture.

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Orders for Trade, Library or Wholesale
$29.95
Settler's Year - Ernst

A Settler's Year: Pioneer Life through the Seasons

Hardcover
200 pages, 179 color and b&w photos, 8 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207143

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Ordering for retail, wholesale, school, library, or other tax-exempt organization?
$29.95
Book cover of "Wisconsin Agriculture" by Jerry Apps showing a stylized illustration of a red barn and fields of different colors. Rolling hills and wooded land in the distance.

Wisconsin Agriculture: A History

Hardcover: $34.95
336 pages, 192 color and b&w photos and illus., 2 maps, 8 x 9
ISBN: 9780870207242

Published by Wisconsin Historical Society Press

Ordering for retail, wholesale, school, library, or other tax-exempt organization?
$34.95