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Yonnondio from the thirties
- Title
- Yonnondio from the thirties / by Tillie Olsen.
- Author
- Olsen, Tillie
- Publication
- [New York, N.Y.] : Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, [1974]
- ©1974
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- Description
- 196 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- The story of the Holbrook family as they migrate from coal-mining town to farm to industrial city, struggling for a more tolerable existence. Their lives, made unforgettably real, reveal both the maiming power of circumstance and the sources of human endurance and hope.
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Rural families > Fiction
- Tenant farmers > Fiction
- Poor families > Fiction
- Depressions > 1929 > Fiction
- Coal miners > Fiction
- Migration, Internal > United States > History > 20th century > Fiction
- Migration, Internal
- Coal miners
- Depressions
- Poor families
- Rural families
- Tenant farmers
- Nebraska > Fiction
- Wyoming > Fiction
- United States
- Nebraska
- Wyoming
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Domestic fiction.
- Fiction.
- Contents
- The nineteenth century picture: De Tocqueville, A. The American wilderness. De Tocqueville, A. Life in the wilderness. Thoreau, H.D. Experiment in homesteading. Twain, M. Growing up in Missouri. Twain, M. Mississippi River pilots. Moore, T.E. Peddlers. Rourke, C. Traveling players. Garland, H. Life on an Iowa farm. Opening up Oklahoma. -- The twentieth century pisture: Wilson, C.M. American peasants. Wilson, C.M. Law makers and breakers. Allen, F.A. When the farms blew away. Lerner, M. The way of the farmer. Lerner, M. The decline of the small town. Brogan, D.W. Political influence of the farm bloc. Black, R.C. The American farmer. Our first "hybird." Walsh, J.U.S. agribusiness and agricultural trends. -- Shifting patterns in rural areas: Ellis, W.N. The new ruralism. Logsdon, G. America's rural poor. Terkel, S. Working the land. Terkel, S. Second chance.
- ISBN
- 0440091969
- 9780440091967
- 080328621X
- 9780803286214
- LCCN
- 73015555
- OCLC
- ocm00701673
- 701673
- SCSB-120637
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library