This book begins with an overview of the first five round barns built across America, including one in New York State Elliott Stewart, who built the first octagon barn in the Empire State in 1874, is revealed to be a passionate original whose vigorous editorial campaign led to the construction of a dozen such barns. The author next introduces John McArthur who constructed a polygonal (sixteen-sided, double octagon) barn so huge it was the biggest in the state and second largest in the nation Case histories document five other singular New York barns of varying configurations. Abundant photos...
This book begins with an overview of the first five round barns built across America, including one in New York State Elliott Stewart, who built the f...
Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation s western involvement in the approaching conflict often gets short shrift. Slavery was the catalyst for fiery rhetoric on both sides of the Mason-Dixon line and fiery conflicts on the western edges of the nation. Driven by questions regarding the place of slavery in westward expansion and by the increasing influence of evangelical Protestant faiths that viewed the institution as inherently sinful, political debates about slavery took on a radicalized, uncompromising fervor in states and...
Despite the immense body of literature about the American Civil War and its causes, the nation s western involvement in the approaching conflict of...
