Servants of the land : God, family, and farm : the trinity of Belgian economic folkways in southwestern Minnesota
Joseph Anthony Amato (Author)
"A part of the lore of agricultural regions throughout the world concerns those groups of farmers who succeed on the land and those who fail. It is no different in Lyon County, located in the southwestern corner of Minnesota... Lyon County, like much of the trans-Mississippi west, was opened in the post-Civil War period by the government and the railroads to feed the growing populations of the nation's new urban centers... When it comes to farming the land, no group here matches the Belgians... Of the 20,000 people that comprise the county, approximately 3,500 to 4,000 people trace themselves to Belgian ancestry... Belgians pride themselves on their hard work... They are - as I will suggest in the conclusion of this work - a kind of peasant-capitalist, a common breed in the Low Countries."--Pages 1-9
Print Book, English, 1990
Crossings Press, Longmont, CO., 1990