1996 "Shiloh Autumn" by Bodie & Brock Thoene
- Condition : New
- Dispatch : Not given
- Brand : None
- ID# : 36527524
- Quantity : 1 item
- Views : 1129
- Location : United States
- Seller : the_old_money_desk (+5807)
- Barcode : None
- Start : Wed 13 Mar 2013 08:35:46 (EDT)
- Close : 7 days > 1st bid
- Remain : 7 days > 1st bid
Seller's Description
In Shiloh, Arkansas, folks are used to hard times. By the fall of 1931, they are about to find out that things can get a whole lot worse.
Since the 1929 Wall Street bust, they had known better than to keep what little cash they had in banks. Mattresses or loose floor planks were safer places. Better yet was a garden full of vegetables, a barn with livestock, and rows of home-canned produce in the cellar. But even that security would soon be threatened by a nosedive in the price of cotton, followed by drought, dust, locusts, and a polio epidemic.
When the pestilences come, neighbors help neighbors as best they can. Those with money -- or produce -- help those without, and those with faith bolster the faith of those with little left. People start talking about going to the Promised Land -- California. In the meantime they turn to a "friendly" couple in nearby Meribah. Caroline and Garrick Jenson, of Jenson Consolidated, "generously" extend their easy credit policies to help the fine citizens of Shiloh get back on their feet.
The story line of Shiloh Autumn centers around Birch and Trudy Tucker who live with their three sons on a farm near Shiloh. At first, they are better off than most of their neighbors because their farm isn't mortgaged. But when tragedy strikes, they too are forced to borrow money from the Jensons. In desperation, Birch signs papers without realizing the terms. Birch, and his neighbor and longtime friend, Jefferson Canfield, decide to join the Veterans March to Washington, D.C., to demand early payment of a bonus promised by the government for their service in the World War. During their long absence, Trudy, her children, and their neighbors work with their hands and their wits to save their land. Jefferson's mother, Willa Mae Canfield, daughter of a former slave, helps Trudy overcome bitterness and fear after the Ku Klux Klan burns their recently opened cafe.
When the Veterans March on Washington ends in tragedy and the conniving Caro-line destroys their way of life in Shiloh, the Tuckers and Canfields look to California as their only hope.
Detailed item info
| Size | |
| Length: | 470 pages |
| Height: | 9.3 in. |
| Width: | 6.3 in. |
| Thickness: | 1.5 in. |
| Weight: | 28 oz. |
| Publisher's Note | |
| Chronicles the lives of two Arkansas families as they try to recover from the collapse of the cotton market in 1931 |
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Listing Information
| Listing Type | Free Listing |
| Listing ID# | 36527524 |
| Start Time | Wed 13 Mar 2013 08:35:46 (EDT) |
| Close Time | 7 days > 1st bid |
| Starting Bid | $5.95 |
| Item Condition | New |
| Bids | 0 |
| Views | 1129 |
| Dispatch Time | Not given |
| Quantity | 1 |
| Location | United States |
| Auto Extend | No |
| Subject | Drama |
