Muzzled oxen : reaping cotton and sowing hope in 1920s Arkansas / Genevieve Grant Sadler.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Foreword -- Hearts turned back to Dixie. Unto the mountain of Nebo -- Preview -- An exile from Erin? -- The profit of the earth is for all? -- The story of cotton -- You-all come! -- The bottomless pit of misery? -- That heap o' livin'. Poor little house? -- Pussy wants a corner -- My baby, sure enough -- Outa heart -- Poke and sassafras -- Emma Lee -- I see those big eyes peeping -- Fleshpots of Egypt -- All will be well -- You forgot the grease -- The Ozark mountain boys -- Wild geese -- Seen better days -- I never mind the weather when the wind don't blow -- Farming in dixieland -- Lidy's baby? -- Oh, sailor, come ashore -- Split-board sunbonnets -- Doodle-bug -- The square dance -- Grandmother's visit -- Indian summer -- Memories -- Old hames -- Arkansas blues -- The flower garden -- The land of can happen -- All-day singin' -- Stringtown -- Malaria -- The cropper speaks -- A jungle in the temperate zone -- The bargers and cranes -- Cypress and yew -- Philosophy -- Rain at night -- Harley's wife dies -- Pink lemonade -- The lady moon -- Day after day -- No sloven can make good butter -- The storm cellar -- Beautiful mountains -- Clouds of glory -- Bill Stafford -- Frankincense and myrrh -- New year's letter to a mother -- The missionary meeting -- Auld acquaintance -- The waters of life -- The holy rollers -- The slough of despond -- Cotton town -- Last letters to a mother -- October's bright blue weather.

"In 1920, a sophisticated woman from Santa Cruz, California, moved with her husband to an Arkansas cotton farm. From letters home, she wove this keenly observant, lyrical narrative"--Back cover.

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