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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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0151011540
ISBN 13
9780151011544
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Harcourt, 2006. First Edition. Soft Cover. Fine/No Jacket. Soft bound in green printed covers, 314 pp, 23 cm tall, octavo, uncorrected proof. Author's first book. Rear cover shows corner crease.

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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Seller's Inventory #
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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
Soft Cover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0151011540
ISBN 13
9780151011544
Publisher
Harcourt
Place of Publication
Orlando, Fla
Date Published
2006
LCCN
2006000335
Keywords
Black Interest Colorado Uncorrected Proof
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Biography;

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