Wheat and Woman
Wheat and Woman is a fascinating record of a gifted and determined woman's experience in prairie farming and a unique document in Canadian social history.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto :
University of Toronto Press,
2006.
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Edición: | 2nd ed. |
Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Contents
- PART I: HARVEST HOME
- 1 Of agricultural equipment, horses, and hired men
- 2 The custom of deferred payment
- a prairie storm
- 3 A vagabond garden
- 4 Of harvest, wages, the cost of implements and plant
- 5 Threshing
- 6 Wheat sales
- the fall of the leaf
- Le Bret
- 7 Friends and acquaintances in Fort Qu'Appelle
- 8 Winter quarters
- Springbrook school
- a political meeting
- 9 At home by the lake shore
- of Canadian diversion
- 10 Nancy
- the second payment
- the first loss
- PART II: SPRING
- 1 A daughter of the prairie
- the coming of Nancy
- 2 The mirage of spring
- my first chore-boy
- a new horse and a new man
- seeding
- 3 Chore-boys
- 'the beautiful necessity'
- the story of a plough
- 4 Dairy-produce
- fencing
- milking
- gardening
- Victoria Day
- 5 An Irishman's fortune
- stoning the land
- 6 The rains of June
- haying
- harvest
- 7 The harvest of my first seeding
- PART III: WINTER
- 1 Of fuel and fear
- the end of the year
- 2 Preparing seed-grain
- newcomers
- 3 The seeding month
- the coming of Felicity
- 4 The land and the man
- 5 Shadow and scythe beneath the sword
- 6 Summer diversion
- law and labour
- Patrick O'Hara and Si Booth
- 7 The frozen harvest of 1907
- 8 The day of reckoning
- auf wiedersehen
- PART IV: THE TURN OF THE TIDE
- 1 The seed
- the passing of a prairie fire
- 2 The blade
- the ear
- the full corn
- 3 Sales, mortgage
- 'a larger heaven'.