Billy Boll Weevil
Author: Hugh Maddox
Publisher: Strode Publishers
Published: 1976-01-01
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780873970976
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the Boll Weevil suggests that farmers plant peanuts instead of cotton he becomes a town hero.
Author: Hugh Maddox
Publisher: Strode Publishers
Published: 1976-01-01
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780873970976
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the Boll Weevil suggests that farmers plant peanuts instead of cotton he becomes a town hero.
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Published: 2013
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9780615766317
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When the Boll Weevil suggests that farmers plant peanuts instead of cotton he becomes a town hero.
Author: Sy Criswell
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2014-07-02
Total Pages: 49
ISBN-13: 1499045271
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book was written from the point of view of a 4 year old girl and is the way she remembers it. It is her experiences while traveling with her alcoholic, musician, father in the early 1940’s. This is just one year, from age three-and-one-half, when her mother died, to four-and-one -half. She drew strength from a Pow Wow where she was given her Indian name and a Totem. The half years made her feel important and more grown-up as she looked forward to what each new age would bring.
Author: James C. Giesen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012-08-01
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0226292851
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Between the 1890s and the early 1920s, the boll weevil slowly ate its way across the Cotton South from Texas to the Atlantic Ocean. At the turn of the century, some Texas counties were reporting crop losses of over 70 percent, as were areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. By the time the boll weevil reached the limits of the cotton belt, it had destroyed much of the region’s chief cash crop—tens of billions of pounds of cotton, worth nearly a trillion dollars. As staggering as these numbers may seem, James C. Giesen demonstrates that it was the very idea of the boll weevil and the struggle over its meanings that most profoundly changed the South—as different groups, from policymakers to blues singers, projected onto this natural disaster the consequences they feared and the outcomes they sought. Giesen asks how the myth of the boll weevil’s lasting impact helped obscure the real problems of the region—those caused not by insects, but by landowning patterns, antiquated credit systems, white supremacist ideology, and declining soil fertility. Boll Weevil Blues brings together these cultural, environmental, and agricultural narratives in a novel and important way that allows us to reconsider the making of the modern American South.
Author: Andrew F. Smith
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780252025532
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chock-full of photos, advertisements, and peanut recipes from as early as 1847, this entertaining and enlightening volume is a testament to the culinary potential and lasting popularity of the goober pea. 24 photos.
Author: Betsy Gould Hearne
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780252069284
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a tool for choosing books for children of all ages. This title offers practical guidance on sorting through the bewildering array of picture books, pop-up books, books for beginning readers, young adult titles, classics, poetry, olktales, and factual books.