Wisconsin tobacco farming : a history / Gail R. Klein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klein, Gail R., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tobacco industry--Wisconsin--History.

Tobacco industry.

Tobacco farms--Wisconsin--History.

Tobacco farms.

Tobacco--Wisconsin--History.

Tobacco.

Physical Description:

157 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

illustration

map

Place of Publication:

Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2026.

Summary:

Widely known as America's Dairyland, Wisconsin also has a long, fertile history with tobacco. For centuries, Indigenous tribes cultivated it for spiritual, medicinal, and ceremonial purposes. First introduced commercially in Dane and Rock Counties, and later Vernon County, the crop earned a reputation among generations of local farmers as the "mortgage lifter." Specializing in the broadleaf tobacco used to bind cigars, local farms became major producers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--a lifeline for newly arrived Norwegian immigrants. Ultimately, the state's golden age of tobacco spawned the creation of the country's first cooperative tobacco marketing association.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 149-153) and index.

ISBN:

1467158984

9781467158985

OCLC:

1569367059

Publisher Number:

90104723766