04938nam 2200637Ia 450 991096979360332120240418015501.097808262729040826272908(CKB)2550000001039461(EBL)3440825(SSID)ssj0001037033(PQKBManifestationID)12385253(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001037033(PQKBWorkID)11042722(PQKB)10958158(MiAaPQ)EBC3440825(OCoLC)846986119(MdBmJHUP)muse26968(Au-PeEL)EBL3440825(CaPaEBR)ebr10678890(Perlego)1704342(EXLCZ)99255000000103946120130417d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrFrom Missouri an American farmer looks back /Thad Snow ; edited by Bonnie Stepenoff1st ed.Columbia University of Missouri Pressc20121 online resource (352 p.)Issued in 2012 with a new introduction by Bonnie Stepenoff; originally published in 1954 by Houghton Mifflin, Boston.Includes index.9780826219909 082621990X Includes bibliographical references and index.Intro -- Editor's Introduction -- Editor's Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- Chapter 15 -- Chapter 16 -- Chapter 17 -- Chapter 18 -- Chapter 19 -- Chapter 20 -- Chapter 21 -- Chapter 22 -- Chapter 23 -- Chapter 24 -- Chapter 25 -- Chapter 26 -- Chapter 27 -- Chapter 28 -- Chapter 29 -- Chapter 30 -- Chapter 31 -- Chapter 32 -- Chapter 33 -- Chapter 34 -- Chapter 35 -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Index -- About the Editor.After years of subjecting the editors of St. Louis newspapers to eloquent letters on subjects as diverse as floods, tariffs, and mules, Thad Snow published his memoir From Missouri in his mid-seventies in 1954. He was barely retired from farming for more than half a century, mostly in the Missouri Bootheel, or "Swampeast Missouri," as he called it. Now back in print with a new introduction by historian Bonnie Stepenoff, these sketches of a life, a region, and an era will delight readers new to this distinctive American voice as well as readers already familiar with this masterpiece of the American Midwest. Snow purchased a thousand acres of southeast Missouri swampland in 1910, cleared it, drained it, and eventually planted it in cotton. Although he employed sharecroppers, he grew to become a bitter critic of the labor system after a massive flood and the Great Depression worsened conditions for these already-burdened workers. Shocking his fellow landowners, Snow invited the Southern Tenant Farmers Union to organize the workers on his land. He was even once accused of fomenting a strike and publicly threatened with horsewhipping. Snow's admiration for Owen Whitfield, the African American leader of the Sharecroppers' Roadside Demonstration, convinced him that nonviolent resistance could defeat injustice. Snow embraced pacifism wholeheartedly and denounced all war as evil even as America mobilized for World War II after the attack on Pearl Harbor. In the late 1940's and early 1950's, he became involved with creating Missouri's conservation movement. Near the end of his life, he found a retreat in the Missouri Ozarks, where he wrote this recollection of his life. This unique and honest series of personal essays expresses the thoughts of a farmer, a hunter, a husband, a father and grandfather, a man with a soft spot for mules and dogs and all kinds of people. Snow's prose reveals much about a way of life in the region during the first half of the twentieth century, as well as the social and political events that affected the entire nation. Whether arguing that a good stock dog should be left alone to do its work, explaining the process of making swampland suitable for agriculture, or putting forth his case for world peace, Snow's ideas have a special authenticity because they did not come from an ivory tower or a think tank--they came From Missouri .FarmersBiographyFarmersMissouriBiographyMissouriSocial life and customs20th centuryMissouriSocial conditions20th centuryFarmersBiography.FarmersBiography.630.92Snow Thad1881-1954.1809170Stepenoff Bonnie1949-1113323MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910969793603321From Missouri4359828UNINA02917nam 22004693 450 991015629090332120250827080354.097817862580831786258080(CKB)3710000000985816(BIP)054487178(Perlego)3018853(MiAaPQ)EBC32203012(Au-PeEL)EBL32203012(Exl-AI)993710000000985816(OCoLC)1534804315(EXLCZ)99371000000098581620250827d1946 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierEddie Rickenbacker1st ed.Waipu :Pickle Partners Publishing,1946.©1946.1 online resource (306 p.) A gripping biography of Eddie Rickenbacker, an American fighter ace in World War I and Medal of Honor recipient, who lived on the frontline of aviation, military and civilian.Written by his close friend Colonel Hans Christian Adamson, this book contains a fascinating look at Rickenbacker's rise from Columbus, Ohio to becoming the leading American Ace of World War I and aviation icon. A daredevil from an early age, he was fascinated by machines of all kinds but especially aeroplanes. He enlisted in the U.S. army as early as he could in 1917 and arrived in France in June 1917, initially he was thwarted in his efforts to get his 'wings' by officers who wanted to retain him as a ground based mechanic. However, his rise to 'ace' status was rapid once he got into the air. Having only shot down his first enemy aircraft on the 29 April 1918, by the end of the war he had claimed 26 victories and become commander of the famous 'Hat-In-the-Ring' squadron. The inter-war years saw Rickenbacker cement his relationship with Eastern Air Lines, which he would one day lead, and a number of forays into motor racing. His service in World War II saw him range far and wide on missions across America and further afield to Russia; during one of his inspection tours his B-17 Flying Fortress was forced to ditch in the Pacific Ocean. In his most famous death-defying feat Rickenbacker, Adamson and a few of the crew survived adrift in life rafts for 24 days; held together by Rickenbacker's leadership they were rescued on November 13 off the coast of Nukufetau in Tuvalu.A highly recommended biography of one of American Aviation's greatest heroes.Fighter pilotsUnited StatesGenerated by AISurvival at seaGenerated by AIFighter pilotsSurvival at sea629.13/092/4 BAdamson Hans Christian1377801MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910156290903321Eddie Rickenbacker3600620UNINA