A Handmade Wilderness

A memoir of an interracial gay couple bringing eighty acres back to life in 1960s Southern Mississippi: "This is no ordinary back-to-the-land book" (Sue Hubbell).

In 1968, when Don G. Schueler and Willie Brown bought eighty acres in Mississippi, all they could afford was a piece of "least worst land"—a parcel that had been logged, burned, and ravaged, about twenty-five miles from the Gulf Coast. Moonshiners and poachers tried to scare them off, but the two stuck it out, restoring "The P...