This Stubborn SoilScribner, 1966 - 307 էջ In this remarkable American autobiography, William Owens gives an account of his childhood and youth in Texas. Born in a tiny place called Pin Hook, not far from the Oklahoma border, Mr. Owens eloquently records a frontier life that seems incredible in the twentieth century -- a struggle with desperate poverty, with the land, and above all a struggle to gain an education. |
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... Aunt Nellie came at the end of the meeting , in the wagon with her girls . We knew she was coming . She had sent word that she wanted my grandmother and me to go home with her for a visit . We could come home next time someone was ...
... Aunt Nellie came at the end of the meeting , in the wagon with her girls . We knew she was coming . She had sent word that she wanted my grandmother and me to go home with her for a visit . We could come home next time someone was ...
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... Aunt Nellie dipped with the new toothbrush and told us what it was like to go through a spell of typhoid fever . She ... Aunt Nellie had chartered a freight car to bring her furniture and tools , horses and wagon . " It might take till ...
... Aunt Nellie dipped with the new toothbrush and told us what it was like to go through a spell of typhoid fever . She ... Aunt Nellie had chartered a freight car to bring her furniture and tools , horses and wagon . " It might take till ...
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... Aunt Nellie's house . We kept on walking and found Aunt Nellie in the field , working her corn with a hoe . Their meeting was one of hugging and kissing , sunbonnet to sunbonnet , and of crying out loud , over the loss of Old Fan . " I ...
... Aunt Nellie's house . We kept on walking and found Aunt Nellie in the field , working her corn with a hoe . Their meeting was one of hugging and kissing , sunbonnet to sunbonnet , and of crying out loud , over the loss of Old Fan . " I ...
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