In early 1900s Texas, Samantha Gordon, heiress to a large cattle ranch, and Nathan Holloway, a charming farm boy, find their fates intertwined. As changes sweep the rustic countryside, their connection drives this narrative compulsively...
Agricultural laborers
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Author:Meacham, LeilaSummary: -
Author:Holubitsky, KatherineSummary:The year is 1903, and Charlie Sutherland, a sixteen-year-old orphan, is on the run. Three years earlier, he was sent by Dr. Barnardo’s Home in England to work on the remote Alberta homestead of Albert and Buck Brooks. Charlie has been...
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Author:Major-McGraw, ColetteSummary:Les descendants d’Ernest Potvin, le vieil ours, sont déterminés à trouver le bonheur malgré les soucis, les embûches et les drames. Heureusement, le lien qui les unit depuis le décès de leur mère est un baume pour leurs cœurs, malgré l’...
- Author:Ryan, Pam MuñozSummary:
Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of...
- Author:Addison, LincolnSummary:
South African agriculture is characterized by growing labour unrest, evinced in recent years by high-profile strikes, but little is known about the sources and forms of day-to-day struggle. In Chiefs of the Plantation Lincoln Addison...
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Author:Thompson, Richard A.Summary:The summer of 1919 is over, and on the high prairie, a small army of men, women, and machines moves across the land, bringing in the wheat harvest. Custom threshers, steam engineers, bindlestiffs, cooks, camp followers, and hobos join...
