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Author Wilkes, Stephany, author

Title Raw material : working wool in the West / Stephany Wilkes
Published Corvallis : Oregon State University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 272 pages)
Contents Emigrant -- Greenhorn -- Kindred -- Bale and sale -- Husbandry -- Mill -- Apprentice -- Barn raising -- Camaraderie -- Carbon farmer -- Shepherds -- Black sheep -- Bureaucracy -- Local color -- Slow money -- Flock -- Epilogue. Two years later
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 14, 2018)
Subject Wilkes, Stephany
Sheep shearers (Persons) -- West (U.S.) -- Biography
Sheep industry -- West (U.S.)
Wool industry -- West (U.S.)
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Animal Husbandry.
Sheep industry
Sheep shearers (Persons)
Wool industry
West United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018028907
ISBN 9780870719523
0870719521