Lucas Adams, Author at Modern Farmer
Illustrated Accounts of Farmers Encountering UFOs, Hoaxes and The Unknown

Aliens and glowing things in the sky? Secure your sheep!

Lucas Adams
January 20, 2015
The Illustrated, Odd and True Tale of Dave’s Killer Bread

From the son of an organic breadmaker to felon to breadmaker back to (alleged) felon:... (more)

Lucas Adams
April 28, 2014
An Illustrated Account of ‘The Great Die-Up’ of the 1880s

How a cattle boom in Badlands followed by a hard winter led to 9 out... (more)

Lucas Adams
April 2, 2014
An Illustrated Account of the 1830’s Mulberry Craze

In the 1830s, lured by the promise of becoming rich from the domestic silk worm... (more)

Lucas Adams
February 25, 2014
An Illustrated Account of the Great Maple Syrup Heist

How thieves in Quebec made off with over $18 million in maple syrup.

Lucas Adams
January 16, 2014
An Illustrated Account of the Pleasant Valley Sheep War

The Pleasant Valley Sheep War broke out in Arizona in the 1880s between two families,... (more)

Lucas Adams
December 11, 2013
The Illustrated Journals of a Dairy Farmer in 1941

Lucas Adams retraces his great-grandfather's steps at the present-day site of High Acres farm.

Lucas Adams
November 12, 2013
The Illustrated Journals of a Dairy Farmer in 1941

In the early 1940s William George Pope, and his wife Mildred “Moodie” Pope, left Utica,... (more)

Lucas Adams
November 5, 2013
The Illustrated Journals of a Dairy Farmer in 1941

The continuing journals of dairy farmer W.G. Pope from 1941, as illustrated by his great-grandson.... (more)

Lucas Adams
October 29, 2013
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