Six miles to the windmill by Annie King Greaves & John Gordon Greaves - 1998: the personal recollections of Annie King Greaves and John Gordon Greaves for the period 1908-1913

1976. Soft cover. Very Good. Book has slight curling to front cover and spot on lower first page, as well as a mark on the bottom page edges. Between the covers of this book the reader will find a key to the questions of why homesteaders left what they knew, and understood, to undertake a risky venture, and why they stayed with their homesteads despite discouragement and disillusionment. Annie King Greaves wrote her account of these times more than 40 years after the event. She wrote her recollections in longhand in her home in Portales amid the distractions of World War II. She didn't revise her manuscript, and relied upon her memory, with help from her husband, John Gordon Greaves. For this book two of her manuscripts are used. Both are incomplete, and there are puzzling gaps. We don't know, for instance, the outcome of her sometimes painful experience of attending a girls' school in Alabama, nor does she reveal the circumstances that led her and her childhood sweetheart to be married in the… Read More