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Others had it worse : sour dock, moonshine, and hard times in Davis County, Iowa /

In 1977, while studying journalism at the University of Iowa, Chris Baker gave his grandmother a notebook and asked her to write about her childhood. Years later, long after her death in 1990, he found the tattered yellow notebook. In twenty-nine handwritten pages, the woman he knew as Grandma Cover...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Covert, Vetra Melrose Padget, 1916-1990
Other Authors: Baker, Chris D., 1956-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2013]
Series:Bur oak book.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A Family Portrait Reframed / Chris D. Baker
  • The Log Cabin
  • Family Life
  • Getting By
  • Life on the Farm
  • Moonshine
  • Hunting
  • The Neighbors
  • Country School
  • Social Life.