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We Sagebrook Folks

Annie Pike Greenwood

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Description:It is safe to say that no other book quite like this has ever been written and that in "We Sagebrush Folks" the American farm woman, her husband and family become articulate as never before. It is impossible to place the volume in any narrow classification; primarily, perhaps, it is autobiography, largely it is a description and interpretation of farm life and farm psychology, partly it is a plea for social and economic justice for those bound to the slavery of agriculture. When Annie Pike married Charles Greenwood there was no indication of what her destiny was to be. Cultured and intelligent like herself, Mr. Greenwood was lured from a promising position in Kansas to seek fortune and independence on the new Minidoka Irrigation Project in the sagebrush desert of southern Idaho. With her two children, Mrs. Greenwood followed, and it is the long, hard road from her first pioneer supper of potatoes and boiled beans and sow-belly to the auction that followed the loss of the farm, over which she conducts the reader.Much of the story is harsh and cruel, for Mrs. Greenwood saw poverty, squalor, and death. Her own health was wrecked by further child-bearing, and the best years of her life were passed in endless drudgery. Among the people around her, she saw lives twisted and ruined by lust and sex-starvation; she encountered stupidity and prejudice, malice and jealousy, dishonesty and greed; but the chief tragedy that hovered over the life of herself and her husband was the futility of their struggle, which is common to all American farming. Yet it is by no means a gloomy book. The poverty and sufferings are balanced by heroism and devotion, and pervading every page is the unique and courageous personality of the author who never once gave in to life's discouragements and found time to become a respected leader in her community and county. Here then is a book that almost defies description -- the intimate record of the reaction of an acute mind and sensitive spirit to the joys and sorrows, the labors and recreations, the hopes and tragedies, the poverty, politics, humors, and personalities in the author's experience of fifteen years as a farm woman on the last American frontier.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with We Sagebrook Folks. To get started finding We Sagebrook Folks, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 483

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: D. Appleton-Century Company

Release: 1934

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Description: It is safe to say that no other book quite like this has ever been written and that in "We Sagebrush Folks" the American farm woman, her husband and family become articulate as never before. It is impossible to place the volume in any narrow classification; primarily, perhaps, it is autobiography, largely it is a description and interpretation of farm life and farm psychology, partly it is a plea for social and economic justice for those bound to the slavery of agriculture. When Annie Pike married Charles Greenwood there was no indication of what her destiny was to be. Cultured and intelligent like herself, Mr. Greenwood was lured from a promising position in Kansas to seek fortune and independence on the new Minidoka Irrigation Project in the sagebrush desert of southern Idaho. With her two children, Mrs. Greenwood followed, and it is the long, hard road from her first pioneer supper of potatoes and boiled beans and sow-belly to the auction that followed the loss of the farm, over which she conducts the reader.Much of the story is harsh and cruel, for Mrs. Greenwood saw poverty, squalor, and death. Her own health was wrecked by further child-bearing, and the best years of her life were passed in endless drudgery. Among the people around her, she saw lives twisted and ruined by lust and sex-starvation; she encountered stupidity and prejudice, malice and jealousy, dishonesty and greed; but the chief tragedy that hovered over the life of herself and her husband was the futility of their struggle, which is common to all American farming. Yet it is by no means a gloomy book. The poverty and sufferings are balanced by heroism and devotion, and pervading every page is the unique and courageous personality of the author who never once gave in to life's discouragements and found time to become a respected leader in her community and county. Here then is a book that almost defies description -- the intimate record of the reaction of an acute mind and sensitive spirit to the joys and sorrows, the labors and recreations, the hopes and tragedies, the poverty, politics, humors, and personalities in the author's experience of fifteen years as a farm woman on the last American frontier.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with We Sagebrook Folks. To get started finding We Sagebrook Folks, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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