Download or read book Okie Boy the Great Depression and World War II written by Gene Ralston and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not everyone who lived on an Oklahoma farm during the 1930s, the time known for the "dust bowl," abandoned their farms and headed for California. Although many suffered crop failures and financial ruin, there were just as many or more who were able to make it through. The dust bowl, coupled with the Great Depression which struck America at the same time, resulted in hardship and suffering, both for the farmers who went looking for a new life, and for those who were able to stick it out. This book is a story about a family who "stuck it out." Gene Ralston tells the story of the lives of a family of seven who lived in a two-room house, scratching out their lives on a dry-land farm, running a few cattle and several hundred White Leghorn chickens. Without running water, electricity or a telephone, the family existed on a survival level, gradually growing out of it as their fortunes improved. Having survived the dust bowl, the family was dumped into the rationing and shortages we all experienced during World War Two. This book is about people. Real live people, some with real, live problems, such as one epileptic brother, another who was an alcoholic, some real characters, such as the real live cowboy, Gene's Uncle George Ralston, larger than life and a legend in his own time. This book is filled with these people, and tells the inside story of them and of Gene and his family.

Download or read book Okie Boy The Great Depression and World War Ii written by Gene Ralston and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not everyone who lived on an Oklahoma farm during the 1930s, the time known for the dust bowl, abandoned their farms and headed for California. Although many suffered crop failures and financial ruin, there were just as many or more who were able to make it through. The dust bowl, coupled with the Great Depression which struck America at the same time, resulted in hardship and suffering, both for the farmers who went looking for a new life, and for those who were able to stick it out. This book is a story about a family who stuck it out. Gene Ralston tells the story of the lives of a family of seven who lived in a two-room house, scratching out their lives on a dry-land farm, running a few cattle and several hundred White Leghorn chickens. Without running water, electricity or a telephone, the family existed on a survival level, gradually growing out of it as their fortunes improved. Having survived the dust bowl, the family was dumped into the rationing and shortages we all experienced during World War Two. This book is about people. Real live people, some with real, live problems, such as one epileptic brother, another who was an alcoholic, some real characters, such as the real live cowboy, Genes Uncle George Ralston, larger than life and a legend in his own time. This book is filled with these people, and tells the inside story of them and of Gene and his family.

Download or read book A Boy s Eye View written by Bob Peters and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boyas Eye View relives a defining period of American historyathe Great Depression and World War IIaas seen through the eyes of a young boy living the time in San Francisco, California. In addition to his own Depression and war-time adventures, the author, a son of an Austrian mother and a German father, comments on how his parents and their sisters and brother cope with the challenges of a new life, a new language, and a new culture. In addition to their Depression struggles, family members must also deal with the looming war with their homeland and the distinct possibility that one of the sons would soon be dropping bombs on relatives still living in Germany.

Download or read book The Great Depression and World War II written by Sheryl Peterson and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the history of the United States from the Great Depression through World War II. This book, which follows a student researcher investigating primary sources, will be an excellent selection for readers who want to know more about this challenging period in US history.

Download or read book I Must Remember This written by George Youngblood and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe, George, and Richard Youngblood, three white brothers growing up in the rural South during the Great Depression, live in a world of paradoxes: love and hate; doubt and faith; and sadness and humor. In his poignant memoir I Must Remember This: A Southern White Boy's Memories of the Great Depression, Jim Crow, and World War II, author George Youngblood shares stories about everything from the brothers' first awareness of death, sex, and race to the truth about Santa Claus. They smoke rabbit tobacco, tremble at ghost and snake stories, watch haircuts for excitement, get baptized, and gawk at locomotives and alligators. Hard times draw the Youngblood family closer to their father's black farm workers. With one family in particular they form a symbiotic relationship in the hostile world of poverty, disease, and segregation. I Must Remember This is Youngblood's family story as they hope, work, and laugh with little cause-and succeed with basic honesty, respect, and an astounding sense of humor.

Download or read book The Great Depression and World War II 1929 1949 written by George Edward Stanley and published by Gareth Stevens. This book was released on 2004-12-30 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1929, the United States was plunged into the Great Depression. This book tells the story of how Americans struggled to regain economic stability under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal policies. It also tells how World War II was fought in Europe and in the Pacific, and how in the age of atomic weapons, the strained relationship between the U.S. and the Soviet Union degenerated into the Cold War. Book jacket.

Download or read book Great Depression and World War II 1929 1945 written by Susan E. Hamen and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step back in time and witness a turbulent time period for the Unites States: the Great Depression through World War II. The past will come to life with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs, diagrams, timelines, and maps, multiple prompts, and more. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Core Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Download or read book Okie Boy written by Richard Merriman and published by Publish America. This book was released on 2004-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Okie Boy presents the Milligan family as they struggle out of the Great Depression into the consequences of leaving the land that has sustained them through several generations. They migrate to the Pacific Northwest where they find themselves locked in a battle to subsist in a workaday society in which they do not fit. Most of the narrative is through the eyes of Julian, the only boy of the nine Milligan offspring. It begins with his earliest awareness and stays with him until he is twelve, the time of his family's most critical test. Most of the characters, as well as the author himself, convey their strongest emotions in verse. The author does not attribute the many pains and failures to hard times only. He lets us see how weaknesses within the characters themselves often cause their greatest and most lasting pain.

Download or read book A Boy s Journey written by Jack Paquette and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Boy's Journey is the poignant, often humorous, memoir of Jackie, a child growing up in the Midwest during the 1930s and early 1940s. The boy's story initially focuses on the joys and sorrows of a motherless working class family striving to cope with the hardships of the Great Depression. However, the chronicle takes a macabre turn when Jackie's alcoholic father loses his job and attempts to commit suicide. Jackie and two of his brothers are taken to the county orphanage. The author's bittersweet account of his life in the orphanage and subsequent experiences as an adopted teenager concludes as the Depression ends and he enters the U. S. Navy during World War II.

Download or read book From the Great Depression to World War II written by Joseph Szalay and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Author Joseph Szalay thru the Great Depression as the son of Hungarian immigrants, thru his service during World War II with the 102nd Infantry Division. Candidly written through various artlcles that appeared over the course of more than 10 years in "The Herald Democrat" newspaper in Sherman, Texas

Download or read book The Great Depression and World War II written by Rodney P. Carlisle and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changing International affairs and the forces of technological innovation shaped the lives of Americans in the last decades of the 20th century. While the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union gave rise to hopes of peaceful international relations, the Gulf War and the attacks of September 11, 2001 on the World Trade Center in New York shattered these aspirations. In the social sphere, cell phones, CDs, and the Internet completely transformed the ways by which people communicated and conveyed information. The election of an African-American man to the presidency marked the successful continuation of the struggle for equal civil rights, bolstering America's reputation as a radically changing place in this contemporary period.

Download or read book The Elusive Eden written by Richard B. Rice and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2019-09-13 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California is a region of rich geographic and human diversity. The Elusive Eden charts the historical development of California, beginning with landscape and climate and the development of Native cultures, and continues through the election of Governor Gavin Newsom. It portrays a land of remarkable richness and complexity, settled by waves of people with diverse cultures from around the world. Now in its fifth edition, this up-to-date text provides an authoritative, original, and balanced survey of California history incorporating the latest scholarship. Coverage includes new material on political upheavals, the global banking crisis, changes in education and the economy, and California's shifting demographic profile. This edition of The Elusive Eden features expanded coverage of gender, class, race, and ethnicity, giving voice to the diverse individuals and groups who have shaped California. With its continued emphasis on geography and environment, the text also gives attention to regional issues, moving from the metropolitan areas to the state's rural and desert areas. Lively and readable, The Elusive Eden is organized in ten parts. Each chronological section begins with an in-depth narrative chapter that spotlights an individual or group at a critical moment of historical change, bringing California history to life.

Download or read book Brothers Four written by Jock Davis and published by . This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brothers Four: Reliving the Great Depression and WWII is one man's personal story of growing up during the Great Depression and going off to war with all three of his brothers. Jock Davis' story epitomizes the grit, determination, and striving for excellence that resonates from our accurately named "Greatest Generation." Despite years of economic hardship, the horrors of war, and the challenges of getting a college education and a job in postwar Arkansas, Davis climbed the ladder to success in the fledgling poultry industry and left a legacy of military achievement and business success for his family. In this intensely personal story, Davis walks readers through the history of his boyhood home, his career in the National Guard after WWII, and his many civic achievements and service opportunities. Brothers Four will again remind you why the WWII generation represents the very best of what America has to offer. But for the sake of love of family and friends during this traumatic time, plus Patriotism and love of country, victory would not have been possible.

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Download or read book Cashville Dilution of Original Country Music Identity Through Increasing Commercialization written by Stephanie Sch„fer and published by Diplomica Verlag. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where I come from, it?s cornbread and chicken... This line from Alan Jackson?s country hit defines the genre as the music of the American South. All its ambiguity set aside, the South stands proudly for its hospitality, politeness, sense of place and community. Family and religion are traditionally more important down there than in the rest of the country. As Southern culture becomes more and more americanized and the music of the small town Southern man (another Jackson song) is adapted for a mainstream audience, the original rustic identity that defines the true American genre loses its charm. Modern country music has become slick and professionalized and sounds more and more like common pop music to make it more profitable. This study focuses on the authentic country music identity and how it is threatened by increasing commercialization. It defines said identity and the working class culture from which it springs. It traces the history of country music and its different genres from the 19th and early 20th century cowboy music over Western Swing and Honky-Tonk of the 1930s and 1940s, the progressive movements of the 1960s and 1970s up to today?s mainstream Country Pop, and shows how its target audience has changed over time and how the opposition tries to preserve traditional sounds. Authentic Texas Country is set in contrast to the commercial Nashville recording industry and both are compared in their respective developments over the years. In the face of terrorism, which poses a threat to the American National identity, country music with its representative American values has become increasingly popular and enforces a strong collective identity on a national level. However, in doing so, it also dilutes the original identity that was once restricted to life in a small town community rather than the country as a whole. What sets country music as a genre apart is its narrative structure. Every song has a story to tell: Be it about ?The Cold Hard Facts of Life?, a prayer finally answered, or the first kiss on a Saturday night.

Download or read book The Great Depression and World War II written by Marty Gitlin and published by Av2 by Weigl. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presidents of the United States takes readers on a journey through each era in American history as it relates to the leaders of the country.

Download or read book Trips to Town written by Lori Lipsky and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating recollection of a 1930s and 40s boyhood. Neil Nelson's stories of growing up in Iowa during the Great Depression and World War II will keep you engaged and wanting more. You'll meet the timid boy, born on a farm, whose hard-working parents keep going despite scarcity and whose grandpa teaches him to hunt and fish. Follow the family to their modest cottage on the shores of Big Spirit Lake. Neil introduces you to his sisters, relatives, friends, and neighbors, all of whom influence his development into an independent, determined young man.You'll read about an inspiring school superintendent, a bootlegger, and a bandleader whose growing fame makes his name a household word. You'll witness resourcefulness born of hard times, classmates who find ways to socialize without money, and boys called to serve in WWII-some of whom never return, and some who come home as men bearing scars. Be uplifted by these remarkable-yet-ordinary folks. People who faced the difficult 1930s and '40s with diligence and fortitude. These snippets of life are told in Neil Nelson's unassuming voice and punctuated by the enjoyment of trips to town.