Word: bascom
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whole Black River Valley. The local aristocracy will not accept him, but he scorns them; it is his ambition to found his own line. His sons are a disappointment: Henry, the elder, is bookish, an Abolitionist to boot. He and his father rub each other the wrong way. Bascom is almost too much like the old man for his peace of mind: many a farmer husband hates him, and with reason. When Henry brings home his wife Rose from Boston, the old man takes to her at once; so does Bascom. When the Civil War breaks and the brothers...