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Overview
A good way to get a very readable copy of this Yerby without a dust jacket... good
Description
This history of one pioneering Southern family unfolds in a story of triumphs
and tragedies. It begins on the day in 1842 when Tom Benton arrives in the Red
River Valley, one jump ahead of a Texas posse bent on hanging him, and ends in
1920 when his wife Sarah, aged ninety-seven, dies peacefully in her rocker on
the veranda of the plantation house at Broad Acres, Set in the exotic and
mysterious Louisiana river country, this spellbinding story tells of four
brawling generations of Bentons and how the family came to a violent end by
its illicit Negro branch.
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