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Betty and her husband head to Washington State to start a chicken farm. Betty's citified look at the country and her backwater neighbors is a hoot.
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Nov 13, 2024
Linda Martin
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This book is dated in the same way a Zane Gray novel is dated. The problem is racism. It was more accepted back in the 1930's when this book was written. These days the manuscript would never get past an editor.
Aside from her unfriendly comments about the Native Americans she lived near, this memoir did give readers a good sense of what it was like to live and work on an off-the-grid, rural homestead in Washington state in the 1920's. The author and her husband were owners of an egg-producing c ...more
Aside from her unfriendly comments about the Native Americans she lived near, this memoir did give readers a good sense of what it was like to live and work on an off-the-grid, rural homestead in Washington state in the 1920's. The author and her husband were owners of an egg-producing c ...more
What amazed me about this book was how much life has changed since it was written in 1945.
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