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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Hearts turned back to Dixie -- Unto the mountain of Nebo -- Preview -- An exile from Erin? -- The profit of the earth is for all? -- The story of cotton -- You-all come! -- The bottomless pit of misery? -- That heap o' livin' -- Poor little house? -- Pussy wants a corner -- My baby, sure enough -- Outa heart -- Poke and sassafras -- Emma Lee -- I see those big eyes peeping -- Fleshpots of Egypt -- All will be well -- You forgot the grease -- The Ozark mountain boys -- Wild geese -- Seen better days -- I never mind the weather when the wind don't blow -- Farming in dixieland -- Lidy's baby? -- Oh, sailor, come ashore -- Split-board sunbonnets -- Doodle-bug -- The square dance -- Grandmother's visit -- Indian summer -- Memories -- Old hames -- Arkansas blues -- The flower garden -- The land of can happen -- All-day singin' -- Stringtown -- Malaria -- The cropper speaks -- A jungle in the temperate zone -- The bargers and cranes -- Cypress and yew -- Philosophy -- Rain at night -- Harley's wife dies -- Pink lemonade -- The lady moon -- Day after day -- No sloven can make good butter -- The storm cellar -- Beautiful mountains -- Clouds of glory -- Bill Stafford -- Frankincense and myrrh -- New year's letter to a mother -- The missionary meeting -- Auld acquaintance -- The waters of life -- The holy rollers -- The slough of despond -- Cotton town -- Last letters to a mother -- October's bright blue weather |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sadler, Genevieve Grant, 1893-1967.
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| SUBJECT |
Sadler, Genevieve Grant, 1893-1967 fast |
| Subject |
Cotton farmers -- Arkansas -- Biography
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Cotton farmers
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Arkansas -- History -- 20th century
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| Subject |
Arkansas
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781935106708 |
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1935106708 |
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