Out of the Black Patch : the autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, folk musician, artist, and writer

Out of the Black Patch the autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, folk musician, artist, and writer

Effie Marquess Carmack (1885-1974) grew up in the tobacco-growing region of southern Kentucky known as the Black Patch. As an adult she moved to Utah, back to Kentucky, to Arizona, and finally to California. Economic necessity primarily motivated Effie and her husband's moves, but her conve...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carmack, Effie Marquess, 1885-1974 (-)
Other Authors: Carmack, Noel A., editor (editor), Davidson, Karen Lynn, editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Logan, Utah : Utah State University, University Libraries 1999
1999.
Edition:1st ed
Series:Life Writings Frontier Women
Subjects:
Carmack, Effie Marquess, 1885-1974.
Authors, American > Biography.
Farm life > Kentucky.
Folk singers > United States > Biography.
Latter Day Saints > Kentucky > Biography.
Painters - > United States > Biography.
Kentucky > Biography.
Kentucky > Social life and customs.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430353506719
Table of Contents:
  • Contents; Foreword / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher; Preface; Introduction; 1. Pictures of Childhood; 2. Ponderous Milestones; 3. Raised in a Patch of Tobacco; 4. A One Horse Religion; 5. Dear Home, Sweet Home; 6. Bitterness and Sorrow Helped me Find the Sweet; Epilogue: The Outskirts of a Desert Town; Appendix One: The Song and Rhyme Repertoire of Effie Marquess Carmack; Appendix Two: Things to Accomplish; Appendix Three: Henry Edgar Carmack; Bibliography; Index

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