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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... living submarginal , exhausting to mind and body . The living was added to with what could be brought from the woods and creek - the game and fish - and the pigs and cows and chickens kept by barefoot wives and barefoot daughters . It ...
... living submarginal , exhausting to mind and body . The living was added to with what could be brought from the woods and creek - the game and fish - and the pigs and cows and chickens kept by barefoot wives and barefoot daughters . It ...
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... living somewhere else . The horses were hitched to the wagon , the wagon piled up with stove and beds and chairs ... living would be easier on the blackland . There was a saying at Pin Hook : " You can make a better living by accident on ...
... living somewhere else . The horses were hitched to the wagon , the wagon piled up with stove and beds and chairs ... living would be easier on the blackland . There was a saying at Pin Hook : " You can make a better living by accident on ...
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... living driving his team . With all helping , it might be a slim living , but there would be enough for me and I could go to school and get to be somebody . They did not know that I was awake , hearing them talk about me . I wanted to go ...
... living driving his team . With all helping , it might be a slim living , but there would be enough for me and I could go to school and get to be somebody . They did not know that I was awake , hearing them talk about me . I wanted to go ...
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