Cotton-Picking Folks - Lewis, Preston
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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 of the sharecropping and crop lien system. As the grandson of a tenant farmer, Lewis in the 1970s…mehr

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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 of the sharecropping and crop lien system. As the grandson of a tenant farmer, Lewis in the 1970s collected the written and oral histories of his grandfather's five daughters and two sons. Born into a poverty that demanded their child labor, all seven siblings picked cotton before they could read, and all faced a biscuit-and-gravy existence that typified the farm tenancy system in the cotton South in the first five decades of the twentieth century. The seven children matured as tenant farming reached its Texas zenith in a labor-intensive industry that sucked children into the state's cotton fields to feed the voracious global hunger for the versatile fiber. Their coming-of-age recollections are enlightening and touching testaments to the enduring spirit and faith of the Greatest Generation, whose work in the cotton fields was little different than it had been the previous century. In the 78,000-word volume with 18 photographs, Lewis provides a 16,000-word essay that puts the Depression-era cotton culture in perspective, then lets those who worked in the fields and farm homes tell their stories through their letters and recollections. Cotton-Picking Folks: Eulogy for a Texas Depression Era Family is a heartfelt tribute to a farm generation poor in material goods but rich in spirit.
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Autorenporträt
Author and historian Preston Lewis has written more than 50 fiction and nonfiction works. In 2021 he was inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters for his literary accomplishments. His writing honors include two Spur Awards from Western Writers of America and three Elmer Kelton Awards from the West Texas Historical Association. He has received nine Will Rogers Medallion Awards for western humor, short stories, traditional westerns and nonfiction articles. In 2024 he earned an inaugural Literary Global Independent Author Award in the Western Nonfiction category for Cat Tales of the Old West as well as two finalist designations in the Memoir and Humor categories. Lewis is best known for his eight-book comic western series "The Memoirs of H.H. Lomax," which has garnered him a silver and three gold Will Rogers Medallion Awards. His nonfiction articles and short stories have appeared in True West, Wild West, Persimmon Hill, Journal of the Wild West Historical Association, Dallas Morning News, Dallas Times-Herald and Louis L'Amour Western Magazine. He is a past president of Western Writers of America and the West Texas Historical Association, which named him a fellow in 2016. Lewis holds degrees in journalism from Baylor and Ohio State universities and a master's degree in history from Angelo State University. He resides in San Angelo with his wife Harriet Kocher Lewis.