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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... Blossom , but we had moved out of the Blossom district to the Walnut Ridge district . No transfer had been made , and Blossom would not take us back , with- out payment as outsiders . We could go to Walnut Ridge , three miles away , or ...
... Blossom , but we had moved out of the Blossom district to the Walnut Ridge district . No transfer had been made , and Blossom would not take us back , with- out payment as outsiders . We could go to Walnut Ridge , three miles away , or ...
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... Blossom . We had no report cards , nothing to show what grade we were in at Walnut Ridge . My mother decided that we should go to the fourth grade room in Blossom . 32 Christmas came and went , with all of us at home and no one to visit ...
... Blossom . We had no report cards , nothing to show what grade we were in at Walnut Ridge . My mother decided that we should go to the fourth grade room in Blossom . 32 Christmas came and went , with all of us at home and no one to visit ...
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... Blossom . The land was too thin , and there was not enough of it . The house was too small and too far from neighbors . The school was good , but no good to us when we had to spend all our time working for enough to eat and for clothes ...
... Blossom . The land was too thin , and there was not enough of it . The house was too small and too far from neighbors . The school was good , but no good to us when we had to spend all our time working for enough to eat and for clothes ...
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