Cassie Gordon

Here’s a list of links that I’ve looked at to help create The Outcast with the Strawberry Patch. Some may be add-ons.

Strawberry farming and resources:

1. “The Strawberry: History, Breeding and Physiology” by George M. Darrow (1966)

2. https://homeguides.sfgate.com/grow-june-bearing-strawberries-everbearing-strawberries-75740.html#:~:text=For%20June%2Dbearing%20strawberries%2C%20dig,allows%20for%20good%20air%20circulation. (Growing guide)

3. https://modernfarmer.com/2018/07/growing-and-caring-for-organic-strawberries/

4. https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3126

5.http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/presentations/timeline/riseind/rural/

6. https://eh.net/encyclopedia/the-economics-of-american-farm-unrest-1865-1900/

7. https://www.austincc.edu/lpatrick/his1302/agrarian.html

8. https://www.mofga.org/Publications/The-Maine-Organic-Farmer-Gardener/Winter-2007-2008/Strawberries

9. Strawberry lifecycle https://strawberryplants.org/life-cycle-of-strawberry-plants/

Strawberry plant prices:

1. https://nashobawinery.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Weights-and-Approximate-Processed-Yields-for-Fruits.pdf

2. https://www.foodbankcny.org/assets/Documents/Fruit-conversion-chart.pdf

3. https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.html?number=C780&title=Weights%20and%20Processed%20Yields%20of%20Fruits%20and%20Vegetables

4. http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodfaq5.html

Political and social happenings:

1. https://www.ushistory.org/Us/41c.asp

2. https://ap.gilderlehrman.org/resources/grange-movement-1875

3. https://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h854.html

4. https://ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Grange

5. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmers%27_movement

6. https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/rise-of-industrial-america-1876-1900/rural-life-in-late-19th-century/ (quite a good source)

A doctor’s wages: http://blog.hsl.virginia.edu/feebill/

Limewash: https://www.nps.gov/articles/limewash-an-old-practice-and-a-good-one.htm

Vegetable guide:

1. https://www.daviddomoney.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/David-Domoneys-Vegetable-Planting-Calendar.pdf

2. Other websites.

Clothing:

1. https://www.mimimatthews.com/2016/10/03/a-century-of-sartorial-style-a-visual-guide-to-19th-century-menswear/

2.https://www.uvm.edu/landscape/dating/clothing_and_hair/1880s_clothing_men.php#:~:text=Men’s%20clothing%20in%20the%201880s,throat%2C%20barely%20revealing%20the%20necktie.

3. http://www.historicalmenswear.com/1800s/

4. http://www.ushist.com/19th-century_mens_morning_coat_suit.shtml

5. https://www.geriwalton.com/glove-etiquette/

6. https://lilyabsinthe.com/2016/04/19/a-brief-view-of-mens-clothing-the-sack-coat/

7. https://mentalitch.com/major-fashion-trends-and-styles-of-the-1800s/#:~:text=In%20the%20early%201800s%2C%20morning,that%20rested%20on%20gigot%20sleeves.

Language in the 19th century:

1. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/154/154-h/154-h.htm

2. https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/flummadiddle-bodacious-19th-century-americanisms

3.https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/some+pumpkins#:~:text=dated%20Someone%20or%20something%20that,%2C%20special%2C%20wonderful%2C%20etc.&text=He’s%20some%20pumpkins!

Iowan fauna:

1. https://uswildflowers.com/wfquery.php?State=IA

2. http://publications.iowa.gov/24841/1/Handbook%20of%20Native%20Trees%20of%20Iowa.pdf

Other areas I researched include the Homestead Act, Iowa climate, Swiss chalets, and which way rivers flow (yes, even that). There was more, but these are pretty much the ones I collected whilst researching. Who knew historical fiction could go so in-depth!