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If the Creek Don't Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War

If the Creek Don't Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War

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If the Creek Don't Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War

by Williams, Rita

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ISBN 10
0151011540
ISBN 13
9780151011544
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U.S.A.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. A clean, crisp, hardcover copy inscribed by the author in very good condition; light shelf wear. Near fine DJ in mylar cover; faintly rubbed. . Very Good. Hardcover. 2006.

Synopsis

When Rita Williams was four, her mother died in a Denver boarding house. This death delivered Rita into the care of her aunt Daisy, the last surviving African American widow of a Union soldier and a maverick who had spirited her sharecropping family out of the lynching South and reinvented them as ranch hands and hunting guides out West. But one by one they slipped away, to death or to an easier existence elsewhere, leaving Rita as Daisy's last hope to right the racial wrongs of the past and to make good on a lifetime of thwarted ambition. If the Creek Don't Rise tells how Rita found her way out from under this crippling legacy and, instead of becoming "a perfect credit to her race," discovered how to become herself. Set amid the harsh splendor of the Colorado Rockies, this is a gorgeous, ruthless, and unique account of the lies families live-and the moments of truth and beauty that save us.

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Bookseller
Maxwell's House of Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
022860
Title
If the Creek Don't Rise: My Life Out West with the Last Black Widow of the Civil War
Author
Williams, Rita
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Near Fine
Quantity Available
1
ISBN 10
0151011540
ISBN 13
9780151011544
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Place of Publication
U.S.A.
Date Published
2006
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
LCCN
2006000335
Keywords
CIVIL WAR BLACK WIDOW

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