New England's Creatures: 1400-1900 (1993)

The Dublin Seminar for New England Folklife Proceedings from 1993. 

Farm animals, wildlife, domestic pets, and animal lore in New England and its adjacent regions. Essays on seventeenth- and eighteenth-century fish and game, animal control, and horses and livestock; animal husbandry and household pets in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; gaming birds and exhibition animals. Historic re-creation of farm animals. Animals in Native American legends. Bibliography. 216 pp. Illustrations, tables. Click here to view Table of Contents.