The Formative Years Of Benjamin Bird

Download or read book The Formative Years of Benjamin Bird written by MD Gage and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-11-09 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Benjamin Bird is set in Western Oklahoma in the Dust Bowl years of the Great Depression. Benjamin was born in 1934, the third child of a sharecropper. Ben's heritage encompasses the history of late nineteenth-century frontier America, for his grandfathers were born in the aftermath of the Civil War. His paternal grandfather was the son of a former slave owner, and his maternal grandfather, the youngest son of a Confederate veteran, was from an extended family who, for generations, h