Where the Wild Animals Is Plentiful: Diary of an Alabama Fur Trader's Daughter, 1912-1914

by May Jordan

This rare find--a journal of a young backwoods woman--provides a unique picture of rural life in southwestern Alabama early in the 20th century.

"I am a little Alabama girl living on the frontier where the wild animals is plentiful," wrote May Jordan in 1912. During the hunting season her father traveled Washington County buying furs, and May--already 23--accompanied him on two of these trips, cooking meals, helping out with the business,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817309802
• ISBN13: 9780817309800
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"