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Appalachia.
Geographically, Appalachia includes the mountains and valleys of states eastward from the Ohio River to the piedmont and northward from Georgia to Maine. Appalachia most often refers to the more ...
Fur Trade.
Animal pelts have probably been exchanged in North America since the beginning of human habitation, but large-scale fur trade began only after the arrival of Europeans. As the Eastern Hemisphere's ...
Homestead Act
(1862)A US Act to encourage migration west. The Homestead Act gave any citizen who was head of a family and over 21 years of age 65 ha (160 acres) of surveyed public land for a nominal fee. Complete ...
Land Policy, Federal.
In a country where private property is a sacred ideal, the federal government has, ironically, always been the nation's largest landowner. Following the lead of European imperialism, the United ...
lumber industry Reference library
Ian Radforth
The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
No manufacturing industry has had a longer or larger impact on as many parts of Canada as the lumber industry. Sawmills and retail lumber outlets have peppered the country since the ...
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Lumbering. Reference library
Thomas R. Cox
The Oxford Companion to United States History
From the early Colonial Era, European settlers tapped North America's forests. Initially, lumbering was more an adjunct of farming than an industrial activity. In the early eighteenth ...
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Middle West, The.
Among the great subnational regions of the United States, the Middle West is the vaguest in location and identity. Although some situate the area entirely west of the Mississippi River ...
Ottawa
Canada's capital city. Ottawa has changed often since it emerged in 1826 from a beaver swamp on a high bluff above the Ottawa River, some 200 km west of Montreal. ...
Rural Life
No revolution has more profoundly changed America than the long transition from farm to city. This change was especially wrenching since the national mythology, dating to Thomas Jefferson's day, had ...
Sikh
The name given to the disciples of Gurū Nānak, and so by extension to the followers of the religious tradition now known as Sikhism.
technology
[Ge]The application of knowledge to facilitate the obtaining and transformation of natural materials. Technology involves the creation of material instruments (such as machines) used in human ...
West, The.
The American West is both a place and a state of mind, and the two are not easily disentangled, since no agreement exists about either its geographic boundaries or its ...
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