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Out of the black patch : the autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, folk musician, artist, and writer /

"Effie Marquess Carmack (1885-1974) grew up in the tobacco-growing region of southern Kentucky known as the Black Patch. As an adult she moved to Utah, back to Kentucky, to Arizona, and finally to California. Economic necessity primarily motivated Effie and her husband's moves, but her con...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Carmack, Effie Marquess, 1885-1974 (Author)
Other Authors: Carmack, Noel A., 1967- (Editor), Davidson, Karen Lynn (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan : Utah State University Press, 1999.
Series:Life writings of frontier women ; v. 4.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher
  • Pictures of childhood
  • Ponderous milestones
  • Raised in a patch of tobacco
  • A one horse religion
  • Dear home, sweet home
  • Bitterness and sorrow helped me find the sweet
  • Epilogue [The outskirts of a desert town]
  • Appendix One: The song and rhyme repertoire of effie Marquess Carmack
  • Appendix Two: Things to accomplish
  • Appendix Three: Henry Edgar Carmack.