Author: University of Arkansas (Fayetteville campus). Agricultural Extension ServicePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Life on Arkansas Farms
Author: University of Arkansas (Fayetteville campus). Agricultural Extension ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Stories of Survival
Author: William Downs Jr.Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 1557286892
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Through dozens of in-depth interviews representing all sections of the state, farm families recall their best times, their worst times, and day-to-day experiences such as chores, washing, bathing, clothes making, medical care, home remedies, spiritual life, courtship and marriage, and school experiences. Their stories reveal how ordinary men and women, frequently living in abject poverty, endured cataclysmic natural disasters and economic collapse with extraordinary courage, faith, resourcefulness, and a good sense of humor.
Life of Arkansas Farms - 1949 Annual Report of the University of Arkansas Agricultural Extension Service
Author: University of Arkansas (Fayetteville campus). Agricultural Extension ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Pfeiffer Country
Author: Sherry LaymonPublisher: Butler Center Books
ISBN: 098008976X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
"Paul Pfeiffer left his comfortable life in Saint Louis, Missouri. He left his prosperous business along the mighty Mississippi: the information super-highway of his day. Fancy restaurants would no longer be a part of his life. He would no longer entertain the elite of a great metropolis. He left all of that behind when he moved to the bottomlands of Eastern Arkansas in 1902. If he did so to make a difference in the lives of thousands of poor farmers, then he made the mark he intended. Pfeiffer came to own much of Clay County, Arkansas. He joined a much-disliked strata of American society: landowners whose 'sharecroppers' were often helpless to improve their lot, or that of their children. But Paul Pfeiffer did make a difference in the lives of those who paid him in-kind to work his land. He eschewed the usual cycle of poverty for his workers, eventually giving them the land they worked. He was a soul who lived--and fashioned the lives of others--several generations 'ahead of his time.'"-- Back cover.
Life at Brentwood
Author: Marguerite Evans Dent EilandPublisher:
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Category : Woodruff County (Ark.)
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Farm Life in Arkansas
Author: St. Louis, Iron Mountain, and Southern Railway CompanyPublisher:
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Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Adventures in Arkansas History
Author: Arkansas Farm Bureau FederationPublisher:
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Category : Farm life
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Life of a Southern Arkansas Farming Family
Author: Sarah WashamFarm Tenancy in Arkansas and Its Effect on Life and Work
Author: Lyman T. BargerPublisher:
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Category : Farm tenancy
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
During Wind and Rain
Author: Margaret Jones BolsterliPublisher: University of Arkansas Press
ISBN: 9781610751346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
n telling the story of five generations of her family and its farm in the Arkansas Delta, Margaret Jones Bolsterli brings together her own research, historical perspective, and family lore as it reaches her from the days of her great-grandfather down to her nephew. The result is a family saga that is at once universal and personal, historical and timeless. During Wind and Rain moves from the land’s acquisition in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the 1927 Flood, the Great Depression, and the drought of 1930 to the modern considerations of mechanization, fertilizer, pesticides, and irrigation. The transformation of dense swamp and forest to today’s commercial agriculture is the story of two hundred acres worked by people sowing their fate with sweat, ingenuity, and luck. From the hoes of Bolsterli’s great-grandfather Uriah’s time to her nephew Casey’s machinery capable of cultivating an acre in five minutes, During Wind and Rain poignantly portrays five generations of farmers motivated by dreams of “a crop so good that the memory of it can warm the drafty floors of adversity for the rest of one's life.”