Poke Greens For Breakfast: True Stories of Rural Arkansas, Oklahoma Dust Bowl Days, & South Dakota Sheep Wagon Tales

by Walta Sorrels Jennings

Overview

In this book you will see life through a child's eyes, romping with a pet pig, becoming "hobbled" when you're unable to button your drawer-waist, and riding beside Grandpa in his buggy. You will survive the 1919 flu pandemic, suffer through the Great Depression, know the bitter cold of South Dakota Blizzards and discover strength and courage in the lives of isolated sheepherders in the foothills of the Black Hills. Add to this a bit of humor and a lot of wit, and you'll have Poke Greens for Breakfast!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462092437
Publisher:	iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/17/1999
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	196
File size:	569 KB

About the Author

Walta Comet Jennings (nee Sorrels) was born in October, 1909, while Halley's Comet was in view, and died in December of 1985 soon after Halley's Comet returned. Her witty style has been compared to that of Mark Twain, who was born and died in conjunction with the same comet.

Walta's vivid telling of events, sights, and smells carries the reader to a rural area of Arkansas during the early part of the century, through the Depression years in Oklahoma, to a sheep town in South Dakota and beyond.

Table of Contents

	A New Comet is Born	1
	Pleasant Grove Years	5
	The Birdsview Years	39
	The Waldron Years	68
	Oklahoma	106
	The South Dakota Years	140
	Texas	169
	Georgia	174
	Ohio	179
	Epilogue	189