Author: Everett StenhousePublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462801153
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
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The Improbable Pilgrimage
Author: Everett StenhousePublisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1462801153
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
There is no available information at this time.
Escape from the Texas Cotton Fields
Author: King WagnerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781542959544
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
I was born in Timpson, Texas on December 24, 1941. My parents were Calvin Roosevelt Wagner Sr. and Laura Roberts Wagner. My family moved out of Timpson during the same time that many families left for a better life. Some families moved to Wichita Falls, Texas, some to Dallas, Texas, and others to Houston, Texas. There were others who boarded buses and trains, having been told to get on if they wanted a good life in California. Then there were families like mine, The Wagners, who moved to the Blackland of Chisholm, Texas right in the middle of the cotton fields. During the years 1945 through 1955, when we would go back to Timpson for the annual Homecoming; all the boys my age were missing and a lot of fun was gone.I was always close to my mother. This book is a compilation of a few stories she passed on to me, as well as some memories I shall forever treasure.
Narrative of H. B. Brown who escaped from slavery enclosed in a box ... With remarks upon the remedy for slavery, by Charles Stearns
Author: Henry Box BROWNCotton Fields No More
Author: Gilbert C. FitePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 081318469X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
No general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture. Fite traces the decline and departure of King Cotton as the hard taskmaster of the region, and the replacement of cotton by a somewhat more democratically rewarding group of farm products: poultry, cattle, swine; soybeans; citrus and other fruits; vegetables; rice; dairy products; and forest products. He shows how such crop changes were related to other developments, such as the rise of a capital base in the South, mainly after World War II; technological innovation in farming equipment; and urbanization and regional population shifts. Based largely upon primary sources, Cotton Fields No More will become the standard work on post-Civil War agriculture in the South. It will be welcomed by students of the American South and of United States agriculture, economic, and social history.
Cajun Breakdown
Author: Ryan Andre BrasseauxPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190451114
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In 1946, Harry Choates, a Cajun fiddle virtuoso, changed the course of American musical history when his recording of the so-called Cajun national anthem "Jole Blon" reached number four on the national Billboard charts. Cajun music became part of the American consciousness for the first time thanks to the unprecedented success of this issue, as the French tune crossed cultural, ethnic, racial, and socio-economic boundaries. Country music stars Moon Mullican, Roy Acuff, Bob Wills, and Hank Snow rushed into the studio to record their own interpretations of the waltz-followed years later by Waylon Jennings and Bruce Springsteen. The cross-cultural musical legacy of this plaintive waltz also paved the way for Hank Williams Sr.'s Cajun-influenced hit "Jamabalaya." Choates' "Jole Blon" represents the culmination of a centuries-old dialogue between the Cajun community and the rest of America. Joining into this dialogue is the most thoroughly researched and broadly conceived history of Cajun music yet published, Cajun Breakdown. Furthermore, the book examines the social and cultural roots of Cajun music's development through 1950 by raising broad questions about the ethnic experience in America and nature of indigenous American music. Since its inception, the Cajun community constantly refashioned influences from the American musical landscape despite the pressures of marginalization, denigration, and poverty. European and North American French songs, minstrel tunes, blues, jazz, hillbilly, Tin Pan Alley melodies, and western swing all became part of the Cajun musical equation. The idiom's synthetic nature suggests an extensive and intensive dialogue with popular culture, extinguishing the myth that Cajuns were an isolated folk group astray in the American South. Ryan André Brasseaux's work constitutes a bold and innovative exploration of a forgotten chapter in America's musical odyssey.
Bulletin
Author: United States. Bureau of Biological SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Botany, Economic
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
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Author: The Demand and Price Situation for Forest Products
Author: A Forthnightly Review of the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, Vol. XVI, 1917
Author: Commissioner of Agriculture for the West IndiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
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