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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... Paris . Some of them went to Paris nearly every Saturday . Anybody who had never been to Paris was behind the times . Before then , I had not thought much of going to Paris . The talk I had heard had been of going to Purcell or Dallas ...
... Paris . Some of them went to Paris nearly every Saturday . Anybody who had never been to Paris was behind the times . Before then , I had not thought much of going to Paris . The talk I had heard had been of going to Purcell or Dallas ...
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... Paris . " What's wrong ? " I asked , sitting up . " Nothing . We hit the gravel . " Dewey had been over the road many times before . " We just come on the pike . " I knew about the pike , but no one had told me about the sound of wagon ...
... Paris . " What's wrong ? " I asked , sitting up . " Nothing . We hit the gravel . " Dewey had been over the road many times before . " We just come on the pike . " I knew about the pike , but no one had told me about the sound of wagon ...
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... Paris . I was more than afraid . It was easy to get lost in Paris . It'd be a heap easier in Dallas . Dewey sold the chicken at a store close to the wagonyard for a quarter . Then he stopped at a store on Bonham Street and traded it for ...
... Paris . I was more than afraid . It was easy to get lost in Paris . It'd be a heap easier in Dallas . Dewey sold the chicken at a store close to the wagonyard for a quarter . Then he stopped at a store on Bonham Street and traded it for ...
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