Muzzled Oxen: Reaping Cotton and Sowing Hope in 1920s Arkansas

Muzzled Oxen: Reaping Cotton and Sowing Hope in 1920s Arkansas
ISBN-10
1935106708
ISBN-13
9781935106708
Category
History
Pages
379
Language
English
Published
2014-04-01
Publisher
Butler Center Books
Author
Genevieve Grant Sadler

Description

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.

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