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Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs - Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains (Paperback)
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Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs - Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles: 11 400
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Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs is a panorama on a continental
canvas: the Great Plains of North America, stretching from Texas to
Alberta. Onto this surface the author lays the large features of
regional practice in the harvesting and threshing of wheat during
the days before the combined harvester-harvesting with binder and
header, threshing with bull thresher and steam engine. Into the
picture he places the key figures who accomplished the task of
gathering the grain-the farm men and women, the custom threshermen,
and the bindlestiffs, or itinerant laborers. Affectionately he
sketches the small details of folklife that comprised the everyday
work and culture of the wheat belt-building shocks, loading racks,
constructing stacks, pitching bundles into the separator, hauling
water to the engine, drinking deep from the crockery water jug.
Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs is a profusely illustrated study of
a complex, vigorous regional culture concerned with the production
of wheat-a culture that centered around the annual harvest and
declined with the advent of the combine. This is an examination of
the interaction of culture, environment, and technology with import
for the fields of agricultural history and regional history. More
than that, with its grassroots research, its descriptions of tools
and customs, and its lavish illustrations, it is a re-creation of a
proud phase of regional life previously captured only in yellowed
albumen photographs.
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