Books by Laurie Winn Carlson

An informal social history-rich and surprising-of the centuries old relationship between cows and humans. "A far from humdrum book-it will open even jaundiced eyes."-Larry McMurtry.

Offers an innovative, well-grounded explanation of witchcraft's link to organic illness. While most historians have concentrated on the accused, this book focuses on the afflicted. It compares the symptoms recorded in colonial diaries to those of the encephalitis epidemic and argues that the victims suffered from the same disease.

Carlson views the Lewis and Clark expedition as just one of several schemes to seize Western lands from foreign powers and extend the United States.