| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (358 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| 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. |
| Note |
"In 1920, a sophisticated woman from Santa Cruz, California, moved with her husband to an Arkansas cotton farm. From letters home, she wove this keenly observant, lyrical narrative"--Back cover |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Sadler, Genevieve Grant, 1893-1967.
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Sadler, Genevieve Grant, 1893-1967. |
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Cotton farmers -- Arkansas -- Biography.
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Cotton farmers. |
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Arkansas. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Arkansas -- History -- 20th century.
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Yell County (Ark.) -- History.
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Yell County (Ark.) -- Social life and customs.
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Yell County (Ark.) -- Biography.
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Science & Technology. |
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Agronomy -- Crop Science. |
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) |
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Manners and customs. |
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Arkansas -- Yell County. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
collective biographies.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Sadler, Genevieve Grant, 1893-1967. Muzzled oxen. First edition 9781935106692 (DLC) 2014003199 (OCoLC)871044197 |
| ISBN |
9781935106708 (electronic book) |
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1935106708 (electronic book) |
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9781935106692 |
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1935106694 |
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