An American harvest
Subtitle: the story of Weil Brothers Cotton
By: George S. Bush.
Publisher: Prentice-Hall
Published: 1982
Place of publication: [Englewood Cliffs, N.J.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 495
Subjects: Weil Brothers Cotton -- History.; Cotton trade -- United States -- History.
Description: "This is the story of the struggles and stratagems, failures and successes, of the Weil family enterprise, now in the hands of the third generation of brothers, whose founders came to the tumultuous Reconstruction of the South from the Bavarian Palainate as young boys, entrusted to the care of uncles. In 1878, barely out of their teens, they formed a partnership to run a small country store in Opelika, Alabama, that took raw cotton in payment for merchandise when farmers had no money. It was thus, by an expedient for survival, that the Weils came to reap a share of the American harvest." -- Book jacket.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 459.
Includes index.