When Horses Pulled the Plow: Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910–1929 (Wisconsin Land and Life)
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (811 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 029928204X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 202 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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M. Pohlman said Enjoyable. Very interesting, well written story of farm life nearly 100 years ago. Informative as to farming and rural life.. Excellent story about life on the farm in Wisconsin. Olaf writes it as if it were yesterday. Loved the pictures included as well Julie Rygh Green Excellent story about life on the farm in Wisconsin. Olaf writes it as if it were yesterday. Loved the pictures included as well. If you enjoy history, this book is wonderful. I am from Wisconsin and there is truly a lot of history there about family farming.. Sandra Roark said years old---really lets the reader know what life was like on a farm before all the modern machines were. This book was written by a relative when he was 98 years old---really lets the reader know what life was like on a farm before all the modern machines were used. I especially liked seeing pictures of relatives when they were young.
“Though artifacts from this era remain, we will lose our ability to understand and interpret them unless we preserve these sorts of complementary narrative accounts. Gough, University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire, author of Farming the Cutover. The experience of life on a family farm is becoming distant today, but has been remarkably preserved in Olaf Larson’s memory.”—Robert J
Larson was born to tenant livestock and tobacco farmers in Rock County, Wisconsin, the original barn still stood on the property. It was filled with artifacts of an earlier time—an ox yoke, a grain cradle, a scythe used to cut hay by hand. But Larson came of age in a brave new world of modern inventions—tractors, trucks, combines, airplanes—that would change farming and rural life forever. When Horses Pulled the Plow is Larson’s account of that rural life in the early twentieth century. This memoir, written by Larson in his ninth decade, provides a wealth of details recalled from an earlier era and an illuminating read for anyone with their own memories of growing up on a farm. . He weaves invaluable historical details—including descriptions of farm equipment, crops, and livestock—with