The Woodsman's Designs to Extinguish the Western Cattleman and His Grass

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Culture of a Contemporary Rural Community: The Old Order Amish of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

Excerpts from the report Foreword: This is a report on one of six communities which were studied contemporaneously by six different participant observers or field workers during the year 1940. Each study was sufficiently independent of the other five to make separate treatment and publication desirable, but the reader will gain full understanding of the findings only when he has read the reports of the six studies as a group. Lancaster County was selected as an area in which probably the most stable community life of America could be found. The community studied there is not geographically integral, but is exceptionally cohesive because its constituents are all members of the Old Order Amish church; many of them are House Amish