Chasing Utopia (eBook, ePUB)
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Fourteen-year-old Fred Warren Harker was anxious when Dad asked him to quit school forever in summer 1924 and take off to far west, desert Texas, while the younger kids got to hang around home, get Mama's cooking and a clean bed to sleep in. Dad's ideas were extreme. He wanted to raise cotton some place where the banks, ginners and the retailers had nothing to do with anything by gathering a community of like-minded farmers, working out the details and forming a cooperative. And Fred was supposed to make the gas and food money for the trip. It turned out he was one of the best cotton pickers a...
Fourteen-year-old Fred Warren Harker was anxious when Dad asked him to quit school forever in summer 1924 and take off to far west, desert Texas, while the younger kids got to hang around home, get Mama's cooking and a clean bed to sleep in. Dad's ideas were extreme. He wanted to raise cotton some place where the banks, ginners and the retailers had nothing to do with anything by gathering a community of like-minded farmers, working out the details and forming a cooperative. And Fred was supposed to make the gas and food money for the trip. It turned out he was one of the best cotton pickers anybody had ever seen. There were pretty girls in the cotton patch and fun in between work and traveling. Then there were also wonderful folk of all cultures for their polka and waltz across Texas, accompanied by Dad's charming fiddle playing.
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