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As a Farm Woman Thinks - 9780896727106

Un libro in lingua di Spikes Nellie Witt Cunfer Geoff (EDT) Scofield Sandra (FRW) edito da Texas Tech Univ Pr, 2010

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In twenty-five years of syndicated columns in small-town Texas newspapers between 1930 and 1960, Nellie Witt Spikes described her life on the High Plains, harking back to earlier times and reminiscing about pioneer settlement, farm and small-town culture, women's work, and the natural history of the flatlands and canyons. Spikes's life spanned the arrival of Euro-American settlers, the transition from ranching to farming, the drought and dust storms of the 1930's, and the irrigation revolution of the 1940's. Engaging and eloquent, her "As a Farm Woman Thinks" columns today conjure up a vivid portrait of a bygone era.

Spikes's best pieces, organized topically and then chronologically here by Geoff Cunfer, are illuminated by black-and white historical photographs featuring people, landscapes, small towns, farms, and Touches that populated the caprock-and-canyon country of her West Texas. Cunfer's introduction and editorial commentary provide context.

For historians, As a Farm Woman Thinks enlarges our understanding of a wide land and its-culture. For the rest of us, Spikes's "poetry of plate" still captures the spirit of the Plains and, decades later, inspires imagination and memory.

Geoff Cunfer, a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Texas Tech University. and the University of Texas, teaches American, Great Plains, and environmental history at the University of Saskatchewan. He is the author of On the Great Plains: Agriculture and Environment, winner of the Social Science History Association's 2003 President's Book Award and the Agricultural History Society's 2006 Theodore Saloutos Book Award.

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