Hilty, Steven L.
Summary: With very few people engaged in agriculture today, it is no surprise that most Americans have little understanding of the challenges that modern farmers face. This book provides readers a glimpse into life on a modern Missouri farm where a variety of grains, grass seed, corn, and cattle are produced.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Missouri Press 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 363 HILVeit, Quentin F.
Summary: "Part memoir, part how-to manual, The Bumpy Road paints a vivid picture of life on the farm during the Great Depression. The author, recounting stories from his boyhood, brings to life the everyday trials and tribulations of his family and neighbors as they struggle to survive under daunting economic conditions. The hard work they put in was a given (to them), and their solutions to everyday...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Willow Bend Press 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: B VEIT VEIRhodes, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon and Schuster 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 630.9778 RHOWingate, Lisa.
Summary: When Kate and her husband and baby son move to her grandmother's Missouri farm in an effort to influence the grandmother to move to a nursing home, Kate is helped by the discovery of her grandmother's journal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WINCarleton, Jetta.
Summary: "On a farm in western Missouri during the first half of the twentieth century, Matthew and Callie Soames create a life for themselves and raise four headstrong daughters. Jessica will break their hearts. Leonie will fall in love with the wrong man. Mary Jo will escape to New York. And wild child Mathy's fate will be the family's greatest tragedy. Over the decades they will love, deceive,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CARWingate, Lisa.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WINGarlock, Dorothy.
Summary: Julir Joners knows what she is: a country girl, not beautiful but presentable, in skirts too long to be fashionable. A reponsible young woman who has been raising her brothers and sisters since her mother's death and helping her father on their hardscrabble farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Books 2001