Chase Ford was the first of four generations of Ford men to leave Comanche County, Colorado. For Chase, leaving saved the best and hid the worst. But now, he's come home. His friends are right there waiting for him--and so are his enemies.
In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him.
Most of all, this is a story of the place we carry in us always: home.
This photo essay project juxtaposes the rural Mississippi of the 1970s and the mid-2010s with Ford's personal reflections drawn from his journals, interviews, and archival notes.
Valerie Matsumoto chronicles conflicts within the community as well as obstacles from without as the colonists responded to the challenges of settlement, the setbacks of the Great Depression, the hardships of World War II internment, and ...
A grandmother tells her grandchild their family history, from the time that their house was built to the time that the grandchild's parents added on a nursery.
In this illuminating book, anthropologist Kirstin Erickson explains how members of the Yaqui tribe, an indigenous group in northern Mexico, construct, negotiate, and continually reimagine their ethnic identity.
Through this collection of original recipes, we can begin to understand our female ancestors' daily routine of hard work that provided seasonal foods for their family and better understand how to create tasty, nutritious meals from the ...
Reproduced from the 1948 edition of The Home Place, the Bison Book edition brings back into print an important early work by one of the most highly regarded of contemporary American Writers.
Challenging many of the preconceptions of conventional folk-architecture studies, Williams examines traditional houses from the perspective offered by oral histories rather than using artifacts or documentary evidence.
Eight stories capture the life of twelve-year-old Irene Hutto, growing up on a cotton farm in Texas in the 1930s, based on the life of Harriet Burandt's mother.