Forged in a Country Crucible, 2nd Edition

by Joseph C. White


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 9/22/2006

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 248
ISBN : 9781425946975

About the Book

This is a true story of a family struggling to survive during the depression of the 1930s. They farmed with two mules and crude farm implements. The land was rocky and the topsoil thin. The boys wore shirts and slept under sheets made from fertilizer sacks, and the mother and the only daughter often wore dresses and underwear made from flour sacks that came with print designs. But they were proud of their independence and didn’t want charity. The book gives details about how they farmed in those days and about the families of relatives and friends.


About the Author

The oldest of seven children, the author grew up on a hardscrabble farm in Tennessee during the worst part of the great depression of the 1930s. They had no electricity, no gas, and no indoor plumbing. The WPA built them a privy in 1933, and before that they went either behind the barn or across the road and into the woods. The family got electricity while the author was serving as an army air corps pilot during World War II.

After the war he became a real estate salesman, broker, and investor. In 1953 he joined the US Border Patrol as a GS-6 trainee, and he retired twenty-one years later in GS-15. He gained national recognition as a competitive pistol shooter, and after retirement was national senior pistol champion six times (age 60 or older). He also worked in the executive suite of the national rifle association for three and a half years, the last two years as deputy to Harlon Carter, the CEO. He has written two other memoirs and is working on a novel about romance in the mountains of East Tennessee.

He lives with his wife, Linda, in South Carolina. He has three adult children and his wife has two, in each case by former marriages. His E-mail address is josephcwhite@comporium.net, and he would welcome comments or questions from readers.  For more information, visit www.josephcwhite.com