{"product_id":"wisconsin-tobacco-farming-a-history-9781467158985","title":"Wisconsin Tobacco Farming: A History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"The great concerns of the southern states have made their products so well known that few people realized that tobacco can be grown elsewhere than Virginia and Cuba.\" - Clarence Olson, \u003cem\u003eEdgerton Reporter\u003c\/em\u003e, 1953\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidely known as America's Dairyland, Wisconsin also has a long, fertile history with tobacco. For centuries, Indigenous tribes cultivated it for spiritual, medicinal, and ceremonial purposes. First introduced commercially in Dane and Rock Counties, and later Vernon County, the crop earned a reputation among generations of local farmers as the \"mortgage lifter.\" Specializing in the broadleaf tobacco used to bind cigars, local farms became major producers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--a lifeline for newly arrived Norwegian immigrants. Ultimately, the state's golden age of tobacco spawned the creation of the country's first cooperative tobacco marketing association. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor and Wisconsin historian Gail Klein surveys the Badger State's historic tobacco regions and the agricultural commodity's lasting impact.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781467158985\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160","brand":"Gail Klein","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52403601604789,"sku":"9781467158985","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6910cf14-9b5d-4b1a-ba1f-f10910923e3a.jpg?v=1774969898","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/wisconsin-tobacco-farming-a-history-9781467158985","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}