Bøker av Bryan L. Jones

A collection of humorous essays portraying western Nebraska life and culture of the 1950s. It includes anecdotes on small-town baseball and the polio epidemic of 1952 that provide a historic backdrop to the story of a wide-eyed boy exploring the limits of his universe.

Gives descriptions of the lending policies of banks, the government price controls and the production methods of agribusiness that make it difficult for the independent farmer to compete. This title provides portraits of different types of farmers, then the various barbed asides in the three long essays on how farmers can and do make money.