Fiber Wars: The Extinction of Kentucky Hemp

by David P. West, Ph.D

(last modified: 3/20/96)
Copyright 1995. D. P. West.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Once Upon a Time

2. Plant Fibers in History

3. Domestic Bast Fibers

4. The Economy of Cotton

5. Hemp's Progress

6. The Twenties and the Rise of Chemurgy

7. The New Deal

8. Hemp Under Attack

9. Denouement

10.The Extinction of Kentucky Hemp