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The Life and Death of Barrett, Kansas

Roberta Reb Allen

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Description:The Life and Death of Barrett, Kansas follows Anna Regina Reb, German emigrant and pioneer settler of Marshall County, and her children from the official end of the frontier in 1890 to tthe 1960s when the small village of Barrett, among the first settlements in the county and near which the family farm was established, is destroyed by the building of the Tuttle Dam. The work is based on several hundred family letters as well as considerable research in the newspapers published in Marshall County. It chronicles the everyday life of the Reb family and their neighbors and friends during the “golden age of agriculture,” showing that farmers at that time were far more mobile and experienced more yearly change than is often pictured today. The family story is told in tandem with the tenacious survival of the once prominent small village of Barrett. A subsidiary theme is the hard scrabble life of one sibling in Missouri as he tries to start a farm from scratch, including living in a log cabin, as his father had many years previously.Continuity is maintained by following several story arcs over the entire book or sometimes for a number of chapters. For the village of Barrett itself, this involves the fate of its major institutions—the school house (first in the county), the mill, the train depot, the post office, the general store and the Methodist church. In addition, selected members of the community are traced. For example, Chapter 6 introduces Landon Austin as he drives a sleigh past the Reb farm. In Chapter 7 we learn he has become crippled and the young people of Barrett put on a play to raise money to help him out. In Chapter 9 he is being treated by “Indian” John. In Chapter 12 he is given a surprise birthday party by his neighbors in Barrett. In Chapter 13 with winter coming they help him out by cutting wood and when he can no longer take care of himself, neighbors in Barrett, the Lockas, take him in and care for him until his demise. In Chapter 15 the Lockas are among the last families to vacate Barrett where they celebrate their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary.There are a large number of varied voices in the narrative, most notably among the women and their life is not circumscribed by Barrett as family members attend and even work at three world’s fairs and visit Arizona and California for health reasons.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life and Death of Barrett, Kansas. To get started finding The Life and Death of Barrett, Kansas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The Life and Death of Barrett, Kansas follows Anna Regina Reb, German emigrant and pioneer settler of Marshall County, and her children from the official end of the frontier in 1890 to tthe 1960s when the small village of Barrett, among the first settlements in the county and near which the family farm was established, is destroyed by the building of the Tuttle Dam. The work is based on several hundred family letters as well as considerable research in the newspapers published in Marshall County. It chronicles the everyday life of the Reb family and their neighbors and friends during the “golden age of agriculture,” showing that farmers at that time were far more mobile and experienced more yearly change than is often pictured today. The family story is told in tandem with the tenacious survival of the once prominent small village of Barrett. A subsidiary theme is the hard scrabble life of one sibling in Missouri as he tries to start a farm from scratch, including living in a log cabin, as his father had many years previously.Continuity is maintained by following several story arcs over the entire book or sometimes for a number of chapters. For the village of Barrett itself, this involves the fate of its major institutions—the school house (first in the county), the mill, the train depot, the post office, the general store and the Methodist church. In addition, selected members of the community are traced. For example, Chapter 6 introduces Landon Austin as he drives a sleigh past the Reb farm. In Chapter 7 we learn he has become crippled and the young people of Barrett put on a play to raise money to help him out. In Chapter 9 he is being treated by “Indian” John. In Chapter 12 he is given a surprise birthday party by his neighbors in Barrett. In Chapter 13 with winter coming they help him out by cutting wood and when he can no longer take care of himself, neighbors in Barrett, the Lockas, take him in and care for him until his demise. In Chapter 15 the Lockas are among the last families to vacate Barrett where they celebrate their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary.There are a large number of varied voices in the narrative, most notably among the women and their life is not circumscribed by Barrett as family members attend and even work at three world’s fairs and visit Arizona and California for health reasons.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Life and Death of Barrett, Kansas. To get started finding The Life and Death of Barrett, Kansas, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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