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A moving account of women's lives on Texas cotton farms during the first half of the 20th-century, this book reveals their substantial contributions to the southern agricultural economy and to family life. Found Inside: "Bertha Blackwell, the wife of a Navarro County tenant farmer and the mother of nine children, was deadly serious about food, and she carefully shared her views with her seven daughters. Louise Blackwell Dillow recalled her mother's equation of wasting food with evil: My first concept of sin was learned one cold winter evening as we children ate our supper huddled around the fireplace I tossed a biscuit-half int the fire to watch it kindle burn ". . . Read more Look inside

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Early Life in Texas County by County

Books about Texas People and Places

Amazing People from Texas County by County