Bootlegger's Other Daughter

Contents

contents list of illustrations ix series editor’s foreword xi acknowledgments xiii prologue 3 Making Sense of My Senses 5 End of the Beginning 19 On Our Own 21 Through the Eyes of a Bootlegger’s Daughter 35 Witnesses to the End of the Nineteenth Century 40 Witnesses to the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 53 Living in a Wagon Shed 64 Guilt by Association 69 A Safe Haven 72 A Trilogy of Diversions 78 Cotton Stamps, Socks, and Self-Respect 92 Yellow Dogs, Politics, and Racism 98 “Risins” and “Rheumatiz” 104 Daddy Leaves Home to Pick Cotton Out West 109 The Smell of Modernization 114 Murder or Accident? 117 Sounds of War 120 Of Sugar, Shoes, and Other Wartime Shortages 128 Puberty and War 134 Death Comes to Our House 139 An Alien in My Own Country 144 Conflicts of the Heart 150 Leaving East Texas 158 epilogue 163 index 169 Contents viii ...