Review of Bull Threshers and Bindlestiffs: Harvesting and Threshing on the North American Plains and Plains Folk II: The Romance of the Landscape

Authors

Leon Satterfield, Nebraska Wesleyan University

Date of this Version

1992

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 12:1 (Winter 1992). Copyright © 1992 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

For thirty years or so, I've wondered how to spell the word that referred to those little metal nipples I used to pump grease into when I was helping my dad grow wheat. It's not in any dictionary I've ever seen, but it is in Thomas Isem's account of the culture surrounding the reaping and threshing of small grains before the advent of the combine.