The Ledger and the Dust
The ledger lay open on the kitchen table, its spine cracked at April 1929. The entries for that month ran in a neat, forward-slanting hand: seed corn, twelve dollars and forty cents; kerosene, three dollars and fifteen cents; flour, two dollars and eighty cents. Below each debit, a corresponding entry in pencil showed the price of wheat that week at the co-op in Guymon. The pencil marks were...
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