Description Gathering eggs, planting crops, feeding hogs: firsthand experience of these grows more distant with each new generation.
She is the author of several publications on farm and ranch life..
She lived on a farm within eighty miles of De Loach\'s for sixteen years.
About the Author Janet Neugebauer is the assistant archivist for the Southwest Collection at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, where De Loach\'s Diary is located.
For anyone who ever lived on a farm or visited relatives\' farms, as well as for those interested in this aspect of our national history, this book will prove a real treasure.
Few farmers had time or inclination to keep a record of their day-to-day lives, but William De Loach\'s perseverance has left us with a rich history of one family\'s triumphs and failures during half a century.
This work provides an overview of fifty years of national and international history as well as an intimate account of the life of an ordinary man in a changing world.
Graceful and accurately detailed sketches by Charles Shaw provide the visual backdrop for De Loach\'s story.
She exPlains the frustration farmers felt from overproduction, the price-cost squeeze, the exodus of young people into the cities, and the increasingly strong role the government played in what was shifting from a family\'s way of life to a corporate industry.
Her history is a book unto itself that gives the context of the farming experience on the Great Plains.
The diary\'s editor, Janet Neugebauer, supplies interweaves explanations to round out the picture that De Loach offers in his personal descriptions.
In doing so, he not only chronicled the life changes that everyone experiences but also kept a record of the developments taking place across the country and around the world.
He described weather, plantings, harvests, births, and deaths in his diary.
De Loach quietly recorded this life-style.
From 1914 to 1964, however, a West Texas farmer named William G.
Description Gathering eggs, planting crops, feeding hogs: firsthand experience of these grows more distant with each new generation
