Download When Horses Pulled the Plow: Life of a Wisconsin Farm Boy, 1910-1929: Wisconsin Land and Life AudioBook Free
In 1910, when Olaf F. Larson was born to tenant livestock and cigarette farmers in Rock and roll County, Wisconsin, the initial barn still stood on the house. It was filled with artifacts of an earlier time - an ox yoke, a grain cradle, a scythe used to cut hay by hand. But Larson came old in a courageous " new world " of modern inventions - tractors, trucks, combines, airplanes - that could change farming and rural life permanently. When Horses Drawn the Plow is Larson's accounts of that rural life in the first 20th hundred years. He weaves important historical details - including explanations of plantation equipment, crops, and livestock - with wry tales about his family, neighbours, and the one-room schoolhouse he attended, revealing the consistency of every day life in the rural Midwest almost a hundred years earlier. This memoir, written by Larson in his ninth decade, provides a prosperity of details recalled from an earlier time and an illuminating listen for anyone using their own stories of growing up on a farm. The booklet is posted by the University of Wisconsin Press.
