When Horses Pulled the Plow: Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910-1929 (Wisconsin Land and Life) - Softcover

Olaf Larson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 029928204X ISBN 13: 9780299282042

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press, 2011

Synopsis

In 1910, when Olaf F. Larson was born to tenant livestock and tobacco farmers in Rock County, Wisconsin, the original barn still stood on the property. It was filled with artifacts of an earlier time--an ox yoke, a grain cradle, a scythe used to cut hay by hand. But Larson came of age in a brave new world of modern inventions--tractors, trucks, combines, airplanes--that would change farming and rural life forever. When Horses Pulled the Plow is Larson's account of that rural life in the early twentieth century. He weaves invaluable historical details--including descriptions of farm equipment, crops, and livestock--with wry tales about his family, neighbors, and the one-room schoolhouse he attended, revealing the texture of everyday life in the rural Midwest almost a century ago. This memoir, written by Larson in his ninth decade, provides a wealth of details recalled from an earlier era and an illuminating read for anyone with their own memories of growing up on a farm.

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Review:

"Larson's memory is excellent, his description is detailed--and throughout the book his love of farming is constantly being expressed."--Agri-View

"Though artifacts from this era remain, we will lose our ability to understand and interpret them unless we preserve these sorts of complementary narrative accounts. The experience of life on a family farm is becoming distant today, but has been remarkably preserved in Olaf Larson's memory."--Robert J. Gough, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, author of Farming the Cutover

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 029928204X
• ISBN 13: 9780299282042
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168