Mule South to tractor South
Subtitle: mules, machines, and the transformation of the cotton South
By: George B. Ellenberg.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 219
ISBN-13: 9780817315979
Subjects: Mules -- Southern States -- History; Farm tractors -- Southern States -- History; Agricultural innovations -- Southern States -- History
Description: Winner of the Anne B. and James B. McMillan Prize in Southern History.

George B. Ellenberg examines the rich and fascinating story of the central role of the mule in Southern agriculture and life. Better suited to agricultural work than the horse, mules emerged as a cultural icon, so much so the William Faulkner, in his 1929 novel Sartoris, exhorted, "Some Homer of the cotton fields should sing the saga of the mule and of his place in the South."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-200) and index.