A Young Indiana Farmers Manuscript Journals Five Years Of A Life Tending The Fields On His Farm Near

by Indiana Donald Bixler Wwii

$750 · Offered by Bartleby's Books

Bourbon & Leesburg, Indiana: 1937-1942 . Seven manuscript journals kept in small top bound notebooks, each about 6 1/2 x 4 in., a total of approx. 1000 pages and 65,000 words. Bixler writes near daily entries between March 29, 1937 and April 15, 1942, a few paragraphs for each day describing his attempts at raising chickens and hogs, plowing, harvesting, cultivating a truck farm, etc., and faithfully recording the weather. He keeps an accurate record of his work life, but also notes local

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