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Cotton-Picking Folks: Eulogy for a Texas Depression Era Family Farm

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Children of the Cotton Patch

Cotton-like the families that produced it-is today undervalued for its contribution to Texas's wealth and heritage, but for the region's first century as a colony, a nation and then a state, the fluffy commodity carried the Lone Star economy bale by bale toward prosperity. In Cotton-Picking Folks, award-winning author of fiction and nonfiction Preston Lewis explores one family's experiences on dryland tenant farms during the Great Depression and the waning years ...