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Author : Henry Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Letters to the Farm Boy written by Henry Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James King Newton
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299024840
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (248 download)
Download or read book A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie written by James King Newton and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unlike many of his fellows, [James Newton] was knowledgeable, intuitive, and literate; like many of his fellows he was cast into the role of soldier at only eighteen years of age. He was polished enough to write drumhead and firelight letters of fine literary style. It did not take long for this farm boy turned private to discover the grand design of the conflict in which he was engaged, something which many of the officers leading the armies never did discover."--Victor Hicken, Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society "When I wrote to you last I was at Madison with no prospect of leaving very soon, but I got away sooner than I expected to." So wrote James Newton upon leaving Camp Randall for Vicksburg in 1863 with the Fourteenth Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry. Newton, who had been a rural schoolteacher before he joined the Union army in 1861, wrote to his parents of his experiences at Shiloh, Corinth, Vicksburg, on the Red River, in Missouri, at Nashville, at Mobile, and as a prisoner of war. His letters, selected and edited by noted historian Stephen E. Ambrose, reveal Newton as a young man who matured in the war, rising in rank from private to lieutenant. A Wisconsin Boy in Dixie reveals Newton as a young man who grew to maturity through his Civil War experience, rising in rank from private to lieutenant. Writing soberly about the less attractive aspects of army life, Newton's comments on fraternizing with the Rebs, on officers, and on discipline are touched with a sense of humor--"a soldier's best friend," he claimed. He also became sensitive to the importance of political choices. After giving Lincoln the first vote he had ever cast, Newton wrote: "In doing so I felt that I was doing my country as much service as I have ever done on the field of battle."
Author : Henry Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Letters to the Farm Boy written by Henry Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1938486080
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Letters from Hillside Farm written by Jerry Apps and published by Fulcrum Publishing. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Told through the correspondence between the young narrator and his grandmother, Letters from Hillside Farm provides a glimpse of life during the Great Depression of the 1930's. Young George moves from Cleveland, Ohio to a farm in central Wisconsin. He shares his discovery of rural life and the realities of tough times with his Grandmother Strunkmeyer.
Author : Ed Demerly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954786363
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (863 download)
Download or read book First Years written by Ed Demerly and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John J. Fry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135475288
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (354 download)
Download or read book The Farm Press, Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920 written by John J. Fry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-04-27 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on readers in town and cities, it examines Midwestern farmers. It also contributes to the "new rural history" by exploring the ideas of Hal Barron and others that country people selectively adapted the advice given to them by reformers. Finally, it furthers our understanding of American farm newspapers themselves and offers suggestions on how to use them as sources.
Author : Jerry Apps
Publisher : Wisconsin Historical Society
ISBN 13 : 0870205870
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (72 download)
Download or read book Limping through Life written by Jerry Apps and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Limping through Life A Farm Boy’s Polio Memoir Jerry Apps “Families throughout the United States lived in fear of polio throughout the late 1940s and early 1950s, and now the disease had come to our farm. I can still remember that short winter day and the chilly night when I first showed symptoms. My life would never be the same.” —from the Introduction Polio was epidemic in the United States starting in 1916. By the 1930s, quarantines and school closings were becoming common, as isolation was one of the only ways to fight the disease. The Sauk vaccine was not available until 1955; in that year, Wisconsin’s Fox River valley had more polio cases per capita than anywhere in the United States. In his most personal book, Jerry Apps, who contracted polio at age twelve, reveals how the disease affected him physically and emotionally, profoundly influencing his education, military service, and family life and setting him on the path to becoming a professional writer. A hardworking farm kid who loved playing softball, young Jerry Apps would have to make many adjustments and meet many challenges after that winter night he was stricken with a debilitating, sometimes fatal illness. In Limping through Life he explores the ways his world changed after polio and pays tribute to those family members, teachers, and friends who helped him along the way.
Author : Robin Armstrong Brown
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1447798872
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (477 download)
Download or read book The Farmer's Boy written by Robin Armstrong Brown and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the memoir of a child growing up in England at war. Life on a small farm in Sussex was full of the beauties of the countryside; though it was peopled not only with all the rural characters - farmers and labourers, stockmen and squires, but also with poachers and poisoners, bobbies, blacksmiths, charcoal burners, pedlars, and maybe arsonists too. In the background, this was a countryside peopled with soldiers from many parts, tanks, Bren gun carriers, military convoys, and aria-singing prisoners. Overhead the Spitfires and the Hurricanes of the RAF battled with the Luftwaffe, and Typhoons practised the dangerous art of nudging Flying Bombs back towards the Channel. Life at a tough sports-mad public school on the coast was more to be endured than enjoyed. But a menace threatened from an unexpected quarter, which should have existed for our protection. It slowly became clear that our farm was fighting against the threat of intentional ruin.
Author : Monty Bryden
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789014727
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Farm Boy written by Monty Bryden and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-01-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monty Bryden’s story spans almost a century and takes him from his childhood idyll within the farming community of Argyll, in Scotland, through the precarious world of commodities trading, import and export. At times, his life story reads like an epic action movie escaping hired killers in the dark underbelly of Central Africa, facing years in jail for international fraud and battling two separate life-threatening cancers. The book details his life from the beginning, from meeting his great love to farm management, from leading a family life to adventures abroad in Venezuela to Europe and deepest Africa where he traded in commodities and beyond. As a young man, he came face-to-face with death: on the farm, trapped underwater, behind the wheel of a runaway oil tanker and during a treacherous flood in Italy when he spent a long and anxious night perched high up in the swaying branches of a none-too-secure tree, facing the fear that he lost his wife and young children as they were swept away by strong and violent currents. Yet his closest dice with death came at the hands of a paid killer in Africa, having become involved in a major international fraud which hoodwinked several global banking giants and brought some world-leading commodities brokers to their knees in a textbook anatomy of a major scam of mammoth proportions, aided by the incompetence and secrecy of the world banking community. Having also won the battle of two life-threatening cancers in his later years, Monty - now in his 90s - is about to embark on his next big adventure. His story is both an education and inspiration.
Author : Michael Morpurgo
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007382413
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Cool! written by Michael Morpurgo and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the beautiful stories of Michael Morpurgo, author of Warhorse and the nation’s favourite storyteller Michael Morpurgo’s inspiring story of Robbie, a boy in a coma – victim of a car accident. Locked inside his own head, able to hear but not move or speak, Robbie tries to keep himself from slipping ever deeper into unconsciousness.
Author : Henry Wallace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Uncle Henry's Letters to the Farm Boy written by Henry Wallace and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Henry Wallace
Publisher : Purdue University Press
ISBN 13 : 1557534934
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Uncle Henry Wallace written by Henry Wallace and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print for the first time in over a century, the real heart and soul of the eldest Henry Wallace is revealed in his open letters to America's farm families. These homespun, secular epistles show that Wallace never lost sight of his roots even as he hobnobbed with U.S. Presidents from Teddy Roosevelt to Woodrow Wilson, anchored the prestigious Country Life Commission, and edited the most famous agricultural magazine of its day, Wallaces' Farmer. Who better to yoke the sacred, agrarian arts of stewardship, husbandry, and parenting than writer-philosopher-farmer-conservationist-minister-educator-public benefactor extraordinaire Uncle Henry Wallace, the man who planted the seeds of honorable public service in his own world-famous son and grandson, Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace and Vice President and Presidential candidate Henry A. Wallace, respectively. Culled from more than a half dozen volumes of Wallace's writing for farm families, Uncle Henry Wallace: Letters to Farm Families captures the spirit of a man journalist Ray Stannard Baker called "a sort of oracle for advice on everything from the best ways of feeding calves to bringing up boys." Compiled and introduced by fourth-generation Iowa farmer's son Zachary Michael Jack, himself the great-grandson of famed agricultural writer Walter Thomas Jack, these timeless, down-to-earth missives that are meant to be shared, then as now, between farm-loving grandparents and grandchildren, parents and children, and teachers and students of all ages.
Author : Melinda M. M. Widgren
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1635682479
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Letters from a Boy Soldier written by Melinda M. M. Widgren and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toward the end of 1943, Warren was barely eighteen years old when he could finally join in the fight against the Nazis. He was youngest of three boys who grew up in logging country in the Pacific Northwest, Inland Empire, of Eastern Washington. See the life of a simple young corporal as he trudges through Europe, in Patton’s army, (70th Infantry Division, 2nd Bn HQ Co 274th Infantry - "the Trailblazers") through his letters to his folks back home.
Author : Will Fellows
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299150836
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (991 download)
Download or read book Farm Boys written by Will Fellows and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1998-03-15 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Homosexuality is often seen as a purely urban experience, far removed from rural and small-town life. Farm Boys undermines that cliche by telling the stories of more than three dozen gay men, ranging in age from 24 to 84, who grew up in farm families in the midwestern United States. Whether painful, funny, or matter-of-fact, these plain-spoken accounts will move and educate any reader, gay or not, from farm or city. “When I was fifteen, the milkman who came to get our milk was beautiful. This is when I was really getting horny to do something with another guy. I waited every day for him to come. I couldn’t even talk to him, couldn’t think of anything to say. I just stood there, watching him, wondering if he knew why.”—Henry Bauer, Minnesota “When I go back home, I feel a real connection with the land—a tremendous feeling, spiritual in a way. It makes me want to go out into a field and take my shoes off and put my feet right on the dirt, establish a real physical connection with that place. I get homesick a lot, but I don’t know if I could ever go back there and live. It’s not the kind of place that would welcome me if I lived openly, the way that I would like to live. I would be shunned.”—Martin Scherz, Nebraska “If there is a checklist to see if your kid is queer, I must have hit every one of them—all sorts of big warning signs. I was always interested in a lot of the traditional queen things—clothes, cooking, academics, music, theater. A farm boy listening to show tunes? My parents must have seen it coming.”—Joe Shulka, Wisconsin “My favorite show when I was growing up was ‘The Waltons’. The show’s values comforted me, and I identified with John-Boy, the sensitive son who wanted to be a writer. He belonged there on the mountain with his family, yet he sensed that he was different and that he was often misunderstood. Sometimes I still feel like a misfit, even with gay people.”—Connie Sanders, Illinois “Agriculture is my life. I like working with farm people, although they don’t really understand me. When I retire I want the word to get out [that I’m gay] to the people I’ve worked with—the dairy producers, the veterinarians, the feed salesmen, the guys at the co-ops. They’re going to be shocked, but their eyes are going to be opened.”—James Heckman, Indiana
Author : Kristin Hannah
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429927844
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Firefly Lane written by Kristin Hannah and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah comes a powerful novel of love, loss, and the magic of friendship. . . . now a #1 Netflix series! In the turbulent summer of 1974, Kate Mularkey has accepted her place at the bottom of the eighth-grade social food chain. Then, to her amazement, the "coolest girl in the world" moves in across the street and wants to be her friend. Tully Hart seems to have it all---beauty, brains, ambition. On the surface they are as opposite as two people can be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret that is destroying her. They make a pact to be best friends forever; by summer's end they've become TullyandKate. Inseparable. So begins Kristin Hannah's magnificent new novel. Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives. From the beginning, Tully is desperate to prove her worth to the world. Abandoned by her mother at an early age, she longs to be loved unconditionally. In the glittering, big-hair era of the eighties, she looks to men to fill the void in her soul. But in the buttoned-down nineties, it is television news that captivates her. She will follow her own blind ambition to New York and around the globe, finding fame and success . . . and loneliness. Kate knows early on that her life will be nothing special. Throughout college, she pretends to be driven by a need for success, but all she really wants is to fall in love and have children and live an ordinary life. In her own quiet way, Kate is as driven as Tully. What she doesn't know is how being a wife and mother will change her . . . how she'll lose sight of who she once was, and what she once wanted. And how much she'll envy her famous best friend. . . . For thirty years, Tully and Kate buoy each other through life, weathering the storms of friendship---jealousy, anger, hurt, resentment. They think they've survived it all until a single act of betrayal tears them apart . . . and puts their courage and friendship to the ultimate test. Firefly Lane is for anyone who ever drank Boone's Farm apple wine while listening to Abba or Fleetwood Mac. More than a coming-of-age novel, it's the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you---and knows what has the power to hurt you . . . and heal you. Firefly Lane is a story you'll never forget . . . one you'll want to pass on to your best friend.
Author : Nathaniel Willis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Youth's Companion written by Nathaniel Willis and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes music.
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Total Pages : 808 pages
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Download or read book Prairie Farmer written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
