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An American harvest : the story of Weil Brothers Cotton / by George S. Bush.

Title
An American harvest : the story of Weil Brothers Cotton / by George S. Bush.
Author
Bush, George S.
Publication
Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall, c1982.

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Description
xiii, 495 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"This is the story of the struggles and stratagems, failures and successes, of the Weil family enterprise, now in the hands of the third generation of brothers, whose founders came to the tumultuous Reconstruction of the South from the Bavarian Palainate as young boys, entrusted to the care of uncles. In 1878, barely out of their teens, they formed a partnership to run a small country store in Opelika, Alabama, that took raw cotton in payment for merchandise when farmers had no money. It was thus, by an expedient for survival, that the Weils came to reap a share of the American harvest." -- Book jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • History
  • History.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [459]
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
0130274585 :
LCCN
^^^82009797^
OCLC
8476914
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library