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Author Larson, Olaf F.

Title When horses pulled the plow : life of a Wisconsin farm boy, 1910-1929 / Olaf F. Larson.

Publication Info. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxv, 176 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Wisconsin land and life
Wisconsin land and life.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-176).
Summary In 1910, when Olaf F. Larson was born to tenant livestock and tobacco farmers in Rock County, Wisconsin, the original barn still stood on the property. It was filled with artifacts of an earlier time: an ox yoke, a grain cradle, a scythe used to cut hay by hand. But Larson came of age in a brave new world of modern invention, tractors, trucks, combines, airplanes, that would change farming and rural life forever. "When horses pulled the plow" is Larson's account of that rural life in the early twentieth century. He weaves invaluable historical details, including descriptions of farm equipment, crops, and livestock, with wry tales about his family, neighbors, and the one-room schoolhouse he attended, revealing the texture of everyday life in the rural Midwest almost a century ago. This memoir, written by Larson in his ninth decade, provides a wealth of details recalled from an earlier era and an illuminating read for anyone with their own memories of growing up on a farm.
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Subject Larson, Olaf F. -- Childhood and youth.
Larson, Olaf F.
Larson, Olaf F.
Farmers -- Wisconsin -- Edgerton -- Biography.
Farmers.
Wisconsin -- Edgerton.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Tobacco farmers -- Wisconsin -- Edgerton -- Biography.
Tobacco farmers.
Farm life -- Wisconsin -- Edgerton -- History -- 20th century.
Farm life.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Tobacco farms -- Wisconsin -- Edgerton -- History -- 20th century.
Tobacco farms.
Edgerton (Wis.) -- Rural conditions -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Electronic books.
Autobiographies.
Autobiographies.
Other Form: Print version: Larson, Olaf F. When horses pulled the plow. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, ©2011 9780299282042 (DLC) 2010041463 (OCoLC)671916615
ISBN 9780299282035 (electronic book)
0299282031 (electronic book)
1283114305
9781283114301
9780299282042
029928204X