"Farming the Cutover revisits a sad chapter in American agricultural history, and this time puts a human face on on it. The strength is in the narrative which weaves together the lives of many people who struggled against the environment—physical, financial, social, and political—to start new lives in the cutover."—H-Net Reviews
"This book is valuable for readers interested in the sustainable agricultural movement, as the values of that movement are similar to the values of the cutover farmers."—Journal of American History
"A detailed, informative, and enjoyable account of the agricultural settlements and farms that sprouted in the desolate ‘cutover’ region of northern Wisconsin."—Choice
"A major contribution to the agricultural history of Wisconsin and American agriculture in general."—Wisconsin Magazine of History
"An important study for understanding the human experience in the denuded forest lands of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota."—Michigan Historical Review
"Gough tells a fascinating story of the people who inhabited the farms of the cutover and the social and economic world they built."—Annals of Iowa
"A tender elegy to yeoman farming and to the American dream that it represented for centuries. Gough sets forth a tenacious indictment of those who fancied themselves the best and the brightest, who wrought the destruction of that dream. His achingly sad account teems with tantalizing implications for our understanding of our history as a rural society and of our fragile future as a capitalist nation."—Michael Zuckerman, author of Almost Chosen People: Oblique Biographies in the American Grain
"Gough has an ear for the telling anecdote. He really knows the cutover and demonstrates an admirable affection for it."—David Danbom, author of A History of Rural America
"A meticulously researched analysis of one of the sadder episodes in the rural history of the United States that is informed by both the new rural history and an understanding of environmental and policy issues."—Hal S. Barron, author of Those Who Stayed Behind: Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century New England
"An engaging history."—John Gjerde, author of The Minds of the West
