Agriculture Books

by W. Duncan MacMillan

TO SAY THAT the MacMillans have achieved financial success would be understating the fact considerably. The MacMillans, with their Cargill cousins, are today the owners of the largest privately held company in the world: Cargill, Inc. An engrossing saga of pluck and daring, love and loss, triumph and failure, MacMillan is the last great American success story with its roots in the nineteenth century.

"This is not only a surprisingly readable business history, but also the story of an unsurprisingly fascinating family." —St. Paul Pioneer Press

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Independent Publishers’ Award (IPPY) for Best Biography

Midwest Independent Publishers Award for Best Biography

DEATH OF THE DREAM: Farmhouses in the Heartland

by William G. Gabler

The industrialization of the American economy between 1862 and 1893 provided pioneer farm families with the means to realize their dream on the Minnesota prairie. Now the last of their original farmhouses are disappearing. "There was no way to save them," writes author William Gabler, "but their great homeliness and variety could be recorded in photographs.  The text is illuminating, the photographs stunning.

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"The thorough text is complemented by historic photographs of vibrant farmhouses juxtaposed with Gabler’s haunting photographs of farmhouses in decline. . . . His dust-to-dust depiction of the prairie farmhouse serves as a reminder—and a retainer—of the past." —Minneapolis Star Tribune