Josie: A Memoir

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Have you ever met a woman- -Who was Annie Oakley, Scarlet O'Hara, and Eleanor Roosevelt all rolled into one? -Who, on a Sunday morning, faced down desperadoes on a saloon porch in Jackson Hole, Wyoming? -Who could out-barter, out-haggle, and out-dicker a conman? -Who was an entrepreneurial, self-taught interior designer and gemologist and transformed that husband's watch repair shop into a dazzling emporium of jewels, fine China and crystal ... and flowers ... and hats ... and pianos ... and antiques? -Who staged a one-woman campaign to bring racial justice and equal opportunity to Mississippi in the '50's and 60's? -Who was a Renaissance woman-artist, musician, singer, dancer? Let me introduce to you my mother, Josie Morris Ferguson