Horse and Buggy Days on Hatchet Creek - An Alabama Boyhood in the 1890s

Informationen zum Autor Mitchell B. Garrett was Professor of Modern European History at the University of North Carolina. When he retired in 1952, he and his wife settled in a century-old farmstead in upstate New York, near Canton, and he began writing this memoir of his beloved boyhood home in Alabama. He died in 1959, just two years after the publication of Horse and Buggy Days on Hatchet Creek. Klappentext Since its first publication in 1957! Horse and Buggy Days on Hatchet Creek has been a favorite of readers who have enjoyed the entertaining! highly readable account of a southern boy's life in the 1880s and 1890s. With a wry sense of humor and clear-eyed affection! Mitchell Garrett recalls growing up in a verdant valley of the Appalachian foothills in eastern Alabama. Zusammenfassung With a wry sense of humour and clear-eyed affection! Mitchell Garrett recalls growing up in a verdant valley in eastern Alabama. The Hatchett Creek community was his whole world and he tells of the life led by the hill folk and the happy childhood spent in this close-knit community.

Product details

• Authors: Mitchell B Garrett, Mitchell B. Garrett, Mitchell Bennett Garrett
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2003
• EAN: 9780817312596
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1259-6
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Library of Alabama Classics; Library of Alabama Classics; Library Alabama Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Regional and national histories