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George Washington: Farmer

Paul Leland Haworth

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The first president was, above all, a devoted and inventive farmer. Paul Haworth draws on Washington's own papers and estate map to show the man rotating crops, breeding stock, and running Mount Vernon as a working plantation. A fresh portrait of a founder in his fields. Meet George Washington the agriculturist, plow in hand.

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48 chapters

  1. 1GEORGE WASHINGTON: FARMER
  2. 2BEING AN ACCOUNT OF HIS HOME LIFE AND AGRICULTURAL ACTIVITIES
  3. 3PAUL LELAND HAWORTH
  4. 4THE PATH OF GLORY, RECONSTRUCTION AND UNION AMERICA IN FERMENT, ETC.
  5. 5WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS FACSIMILIES OF PRIVATE PAPERS, AND A MAP OF WASHINGTON'S ESTATE DRAWN BY HIMSELF
  6. 61915
  7. 7PREFACE
  8. 8CONTENTS
  9. 9CHAPTER
  10. 10LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  11. 11GEORGE WASHINGTON: FARMER
  12. 12CHAPTER I
  13. 13A MAN IN LOVE WITH THE SOIL
  14. 14CHAPTER II
  15. 15BUILDING AN ESTATE
  16. 16CHAPTER III
  17. 17VIRGINIA AGRICULTURE IN WASHINGTON'S DAY
  18. 18CHAPTER IV

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