That Job He's Got to Do: The Life and Times of William Lafayette Cook

Will Cook was as tough as nails. The son of a former Union soldier in a Confederate state he was born into the poverty and racial division of the Reconstructed South. Moving to Tennessees last frontier near Reelfoot Lake he and his wife survived floods tornadoes and the endless work of raising cotton and eleven children. There was always another job to do.This is a penetrating study of race culture work and honor in the rural South seen through the life of William Lafayette Cook. He killed a man over a daughters honor. He had a daughter who died in his arms. Love him or hate him he was one of whom Nature might stand up and say to all the world This was a Man!