Portrait of America: From Reconstruction to the presentHoughton Mifflin, 1978 |
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Page 159
... took place in federal district court in Chicago in the sum- mer of 1918. Relentlessly the prosecutors drew around one hundred defendants a net of ru- mors and accusations charging them with con- spiring to burn crops , drive spikes in ...
... took place in federal district court in Chicago in the sum- mer of 1918. Relentlessly the prosecutors drew around one hundred defendants a net of ru- mors and accusations charging them with con- spiring to burn crops , drive spikes in ...
Page 296
... took the place of grain fields , and vegetables to feed the world spread out on the bottoms : lettuce , cauli- flower , artichokes , potatoes - stoop crops . A man may stand to use a scythe , a plow , a pitch- fork ; but he must crawl ...
... took the place of grain fields , and vegetables to feed the world spread out on the bottoms : lettuce , cauli- flower , artichokes , potatoes - stoop crops . A man may stand to use a scythe , a plow , a pitch- fork ; but he must crawl ...
Page 299
... took up . Ol ' Fairfiel ' , he went into San Fran- cisco to the bars , an ' he got him three hunderd stew bums . Them bums took up the lan ' . Fair- fiel ' kep ' ' em in food an ' whisky , an ' then when they'd proved the lan ' , ol ...
... took up . Ol ' Fairfiel ' , he went into San Fran- cisco to the bars , an ' he got him three hunderd stew bums . Them bums took up the lan ' . Fair- fiel ' kep ' ' em in food an ' whisky , an ' then when they'd proved the lan ' , ol ...
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Thunder in D Alexander Brown | 42 |
the West 5 Day of the Cattleman | 50 |
Gilded Age Bernard A Weisberger | 84 |
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