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Muzzled oxen : reaping cotton and sowing hope in 1920s Arkansas /
In the 1920s Genevieve Sadler left her home in California for what she thought would be a short visit to the Arkansas farm where her husband grew up. The visit lasted seven years, and Sadler's life was changed forever in the time she spent among the cotton farms near Dardanelle in Yell County,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Little Rock, Arkansas :
Butler Center Books,
2014.
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the 1920s Genevieve Sadler left her home in California for what she thought would be a short visit to the Arkansas farm where her husband grew up. The visit lasted seven years, and Sadler's life was changed forever in the time she spent among the cotton farms near Dardanelle in Yell County, Arkansas, on the eve of the Great Depression. Based on her long and detailed letters to her mother, she wrote this engaging memoir with its rich portrait of a small town and its inhabitants, many of whom were poor cotton farmers working on shares. |
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| Notas: | "In 1920, a sophisticated woman from Santa Cruz, California, moved with her husband to an Arkansas cotton farm. From letters home, she wove this keenly observant, lyrical narrative"--Back cover |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781935106708 1935106708 |