here is a link to
History Of American Beekeeping | by Frank Chapman Pellett
http://chestofbooks.com/animals/bees/History/index.html "This history is designed to cover American beekeeping down to the time of the World War. In some cases it has been necessary to cover events since that date in order to complete the story of subjects initiated prior to that time."
Very interesting reading.
It is hard to know where you are going when you don't know where you came from.
Those that don't learn from the mistakes of the past are likely to repeat them.
