Tinged with Gold

Today hop growing remains a viable commercial enterprise only in parts of the far western United States—notably in Washington. But, as James Fenimore Cooper remembered, the mid-nineteenth century in Cooperstown, New York, was a time when "the 'hop was king,' and the whole countryside was one great hop yard, and beautiful". In Tinged with Gold , Michael A. TomIan explores all aspects of hop culture in the United States and provides a background for understanding the buildings devoted to drying, b