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Following the Harvest: A Novel
Following the Harvest tells the story of sixteen-year-old Will Haley, who journeys north in the summer of 1943 as a member of a wheat-harvesting crew.Traveling with his father, along with a hump-backed hired hand, a whiny truck driver and his pretty wife, two cousins from Mississippi, and his fathers, and sixteen books of nonfiction, has also had a distinguished career in ...more
Paperback, 282 pages
Published
February 13th 2006
by University of Oklahoma Press
(first published September 2004)
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The author, Fred Harris, is a 2 time ex-senator from Oklahoma who teaches political science at UNM. This is a story about a young man, between 10th and 11th grade, traveling with his father and crew to harvest wheat in the Great Plains. Starting in Oklahoma and finishing in North Dakota, it chronicles his becoming a man and a responsible member of the combine crew. Far more responsibility than kids take today, but it takes place during World War II when there is a shortage of able bodied men....more
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