A Windfall Homestead: The Life and Times of Henry Buckberry

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Literature: history & criticis

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Wordery

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Wipf & stock publishers

A Windfall Homestead: The Life and Times of Henry Buckberry : Resource Publications (CA) : 9781625642363 : 1625642369 : 18 Nov 2013 : In volume one of Henry Buckberry's stories (Get Poor Now, Avoid the Rush), we followed Henry from his early childhood in central North Dakota to the dark, dangerous woods of northern Wisconsin. Get Poor Now concluded in September of 1933, with Henry about to survey the devastation of a forest fire that almost burned up his log shack. A Windfall Homestead takes us into the next two decades of Henry's productive, energetic life, as he logs and hunts, clears land for farming, marries, has children, builds a new barn and house from windfall lumber. Henry's life exemplifies the fate of an essentially preindustrial rural culture about to be overwhelmed by post-World War II technology with its comprehensive commercial ""culture"" extruded by fossil fuel affluence. Henry's was not so much the ""greatest"" generation as it was the last unself-conscious rural subs

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