Frank Goodwyn
Auteur van Life on the King Ranch
Werken van Frank Goodwyn
Poems about the West 1 exemplaar
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This book was written in the 50's and so is quite dated in many ways. I doubt there are so many hands now 60 years later.
Additionally, most of the hands appeared to be Chicano or Mexican or whatever they were called in those days. I wonder how much discrimination there actually was; a lot, I imagine. Not mentioned here.
The folk tales of the hands are told in great detail and in many ways are the most interesting part of this book.
All in all, fairly interesting from a historical/sociological point of view. I would have liked more information about the powers-that-be and the King family in general, but this was apparently not within the scope of the writer.… (meer)