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From Missouri : an American farmer looks back /

After years of subjecting the editors of St. Louis newspapers to eloquent letters on subjects as diverse as floods, tariffs, and mules, Thad Snow published his memoir From Missouri in his mid-seventies in 1954. He was barely retired from farming for more than half a century, mostly in the Missouri B...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Snow, Thad, 1881-1954
Otros Autores: Stepenoff, Bonnie, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, ©2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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