New England's creatures, 1400-1900
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The (in)significance of Atlantic salmon in New England / Catherine C. Carlson -- Game as food in New France / Marc R. Lafrance and Yvon Desloges -- The Pettaquamscut purchase of 1657/58 and the establishment of a commercial livestock industry in Rhode Island / Daniel A. Romani, Jr. -- "Breachy" sheep and mad dogs : troublesome domestic animals in Rhode Island, 1750-1800 / Ruth Wallis Herndon -- The horses and horse trades of colonial Boston / James E. Kences -- "if the Worcester boys want to see cattle haul, they must come to Kennebec" : the trial of working oxen as an expression of regional agricultural values, 1818-1860 / Jochen Welsch -- Fair-weather friends : Merino sheep and the origins of the modern American agricultural fair / Mark A. Mastromarino -- Animal house : pet keeping in urban and suburban households in the northeast, 1850-1900 / Katherine C. Grier -- The chewed leg and the empty collar : mementos of pet ownership in New England / Nancy C. Carlisle -- To the curious : bird and animal exhibitions in New England, 1716-1825 / Peter Benes -- Cockfighting in North America and New England, 1680-1900 / Peter W. Cook -- Songs " so beautiful that this man wishes to listen to them forever" : the whaleperson in Micmac and Passamaquoddy myth / Chris Duplisea -- "Cattle of every kind do fill the land" : historical re-creation of farm animals and animal husbandry practices of 1627 New Plymouth / Elizabeth A. Lodge.
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