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Book Synopsis My Farm on the Mississippi by : Heinrich Hauser
Download or read book My Farm on the Mississippi written by Heinrich Hauser and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1945, after an unsuccessful stint as a farmer in upper New York, a brief stay in Chicago, and the publication of three more books, Hauser purchased three hundred acres along the Mississippi near the little town of Wittenberg, Missouri (which succumbed to the Great Flood of 1993).".
Book Synopsis On the Land of My Father by : Bevelyn Charlene Exposé
Download or read book On the Land of My Father written by Bevelyn Charlene Exposé and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book evokes a time and place that is central to the American experience, a past to be remembered. This simple and direct narrative of family values and connections to the land is full of description. Land ownership bonded a black family to its white neighbors in segregated southern Mississippi in the 1940s. The author's father and brothers served in segregated armed forces to protect their country, and returned home to a segregated society. Working the land gave its workers identity, pride, and a feeling of competence. Education provided independence and freedom, and religion was the glue that held the family together.
Book Synopsis Down on Parchman Farm by : William Banks Taylor
Download or read book Down on Parchman Farm written by William Banks Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the story of Parchman Farm, from its beginnings as a penal farm at the turn of the century to the 1972 court decision that sealed its fate. Memories and opinions of former convicts and employees form the heart of this narrative. This work is a greatly revised edition of the author's Brokered Justice: Race, Politics, and Mississippi Prisons, 1798-1992, which was published in 1993 by the Ohio State University Press. Taylor is professor of criminal justice at the University of Southern Mississippi. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Life on the Mississippi by : Rinker Buck
Download or read book Life on the Mississippi written by Rinker Buck and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-05-16 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “Audacious…Life on the Mississippi sparkles.” —The Wall Street Journal * “A rich mix of history, reporting, and personal introspection.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch * “Both a travelogue and an engaging history lesson about America’s westward expansion.” —The Christian Science Monitor The eagerly awaited return of master American storyteller Rinker Buck, Life on the Mississippi is an epic, enchanting blend of history and adventure in which Buck builds a wooden flatboat from the grand “flatboat era” of the 1800s and sails it down the Mississippi River, illuminating the forgotten past of America’s first western frontier. Seven years ago, readers around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious curiosity about history launched him across the West in a covered wagon pulled by mules and propelled his book about the trip, The Oregon Trail, to ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Buck returns to chronicle his latest incredible adventure: building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the early 1800s and journeying down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. A modern-day Huck Finn, Buck casts off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage, Buck steers his fragile wooden craft through narrow channels dominated by massive cargo barges, rescues his first mate gone overboard, sails blindly through fog, breaks his ribs not once but twice, and camps every night on sandbars, remote islands, and steep levees. As he charts his own journey, he also delivers a richly satisfying work of history that brings to life a lost era. The role of the flatboat in our country’s evolution is far more significant than most Americans realize. Between 1800 and 1840, millions of farmers, merchants, and teenage adventurers embarked from states like Pennsylvania and Virginia on flatboats headed beyond the Appalachians to Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Settler families repurposed the wood from their boats to build their first cabins in the wilderness; cargo boats were broken apart and sold to build the boomtowns along the water route. Joining the river traffic were floating brothels, called “gun boats”; “smithy boats” for blacksmiths; even “whiskey boats” for alcohol. In the present day, America’s inland rivers are a superhighway dominated by leviathan barges—carrying $80 billion of cargo annually—all descended from flatboats like the ramshackle Patience. As a historian, Buck resurrects the era’s adventurous spirit, but he also challenges familiar myths about American expansion, confronting the bloody truth behind settlers’ push for land and wealth. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced more than 125,000 members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, and several other tribes to travel the Mississippi on a brutal journey en route to the barrens of Oklahoma. Simultaneously, almost a million enslaved African Americans were carried in flatboats and marched by foot 1,000 miles over the Appalachians to the cotton and cane fields of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, birthing the term “sold down the river.” Buck portrays this watershed era of American expansion as it was really lived. With a rare narrative power that blends stirring adventure with absorbing untold history, Life on the Mississippi is a muscular and majestic feat of storytelling from a writer who may be the closest that we have today to Mark Twain.
Book Synopsis Farm Labor Investigations by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Download or read book Farm Labor Investigations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Musing Through the Towns of Mississippi by : Wynelle Scott Deese
Download or read book Musing Through the Towns of Mississippi written by Wynelle Scott Deese and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 1999-08-24 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1890s through the 1920s, the postcard was an extraordinarily popular means of communication, and many of the postcards produced during this "golden age" can today be considered works of art. Postcard photographers traveled the length and breadth of the nation snapping photographs of busy street scenes, documenting local landmarks, and assembling crowds of friends and neighbors only too happy to pose for a picture. These images, printed as postcards and sold in general stores across the country, survive as telling reminders of an important era in America's history. This fascinating new history of Mississippi showcases more than two hundred of the best vintage postcards available, all organized into six geographical areas. Several family histories and other historical facts add to the richness of this book.
Book Synopsis Soybean by : Tennessee Valley Authority
Download or read book Soybean written by Tennessee Valley Authority and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This conference represents a multi-institutional, multi-disciplinary approach to identifying and developing the potentials for soybeans. It provides an opportunity to identify production systems for improving yields, to encourage the development of adequate and efficient marketing systems, and to identify the extent of market expansion in the 1970's.
Book Synopsis A Place Like Mississippi by : W. Ralph Eubanks
Download or read book A Place Like Mississippi written by W. Ralph Eubanks and published by Timber Press. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is the book all of us Mississippi writers, dead and alive, need to read. It is indeed a strange but glorious sensation to see your literary and geographic lineage so beautifully and rigorously explored and valued as it's still being created.” —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir In A Place Like Mississippi,award-winning author and Mississippi native W. Ralph Eubanks treats us to a literary tour of the evocative landscapes that have inspired writers in every era. From Faulkner to Wright, Welty to Trethewey, Mississippi has been both a backdrop and a central character in some of the most compelling prose and poetry of modern literature. The journey unfolds on a winding path, touching the muddy Delta, the rolling Hill Country, down to the Gulf Coast, and all points between. In every corner of the state lie the settings that informed hundreds of iconic works. Immersing us in these spaces, Eubanks helps us understand that Mississippi is not only a state but a state of mind. Or as Faulkner is said to have observed, “To understand the world, you must first understand a place like Mississippi.”
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1068 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (15 download)
Book Synopsis Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1983: Agricultural programs by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies
Download or read book Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1983: Agricultural programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, and Related Agencies and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1068 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :1138 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Preparation for the 1990 farm bill by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry
Download or read book Preparation for the 1990 farm bill written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :260 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (121 download)
Book Synopsis U.S. Department of Agriculture's Recommendations and GAO Report on Farm Program Payment Limitations by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar
Download or read book U.S. Department of Agriculture's Recommendations and GAO Report on Farm Program Payment Limitations written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Cotton, Rice, and Sugar and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Hearings by : United States. Congress. House
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 2092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Nomination of John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State-Designate by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
Download or read book Nomination of John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State-Designate written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rural Development and Farm Credit by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
Download or read book Rural Development and Farm Credit written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 932 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs by : Jimmye Hillman
Download or read book Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs written by Jimmye Hillman and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It's in the nature of things that whole worlds disappear," writes the poet Robert Hass in the foreword to Jimmye Hillman's insightful memoir. "Their vanishings, more often than not, go unrecorded or pass into myth, just as they slip from the memory of the living." To ensure that the world of Jimmye Hillman's childhood in Greene County, Mississippi during the Great Depression doesn't slip away, he has gathered together accounts of his family and the other people of Old Washington village. There are humorous stories of hog hunting and heart-wrenching tales of poverty set against a rural backdrop shaded by the local social, religious, and political climate of the time. Jimmye and his family were subsistence farmers out of bare-bones necessity, decades before discussions about sustainability made such practices laudable. More than just childhood memories and a family saga, though, this book serves as a snapshot of the natural, historical, and linguistic details of the time and place. It is a remarkable record of Southern life. Observations loaded with detail uncover broader themes of work, family loyalty, and the politics of changing times. Hillman, now eighty-eight, went on to a distinguished career as an economist specializing in agriculture. He realizes the importance of his story as an example of the cultural history of the Deep South but allows readers to discover the significance on their own by witnessing the lives of a colorful cast of characters. Hogs, Mules, and Yellow Dogs is unique, a blend of humor and reflection, wisdom and sympathy—but it's also a hard-nosed look at the realities of living on a dirt farm in a vanished world.