Description |
1 online resource : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
Contents |
Preface and acknowledgments -- Introduction to "Stories of survival" -- Meet the survivors -- Stories of survival : Arkansas farmers during the Great Depression -- Epilogue -- Appendix. |
Summary |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Language |
English. |
Subject |
Depressions -- 1929 -- Arkansas.
|
|
Depressions. |
Chronological Term |
1929 |
Subject |
Arkansas. |
|
Farmers -- Arkansas -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
|
|
Farmers. |
|
Economic conditions. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Rural families -- Arkansas -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
|
|
Rural families. |
|
Farm life -- Arkansas -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Farm life. |
|
History. |
|
Arkansas -- Rural conditions.
|
|
Rural conditions. |
|
Agriculture -- Social aspects -- Arkansas -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Agriculture -- Social aspects. |
|
Farmers -- Arkansas -- Biography.
|
Genre/Form |
Biographies.
|
Subject |
Arkansas -- Biography.
|
Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
|
History.
|
|
Biographies.
|
Other Form: |
Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe Downs Jr., William. Stories of Survival : Arkansas Farmers during the Great Depression. Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, ©2015 9781557286895 |
ISBN |
9781610755757 (electronic book) |
|
1610755758 (electronic book) |
|
9781557286895 |
|