William Henry Belk: Merchant of the South

by Legette Blythe

This is the story of a southern farm boy, reared in the dark days of Reconstruction, who became a pioneer of modern merchandising in the South and built a small country store into a huge mercantile group of over 350 establishments that now do a business of more than a hundred million dollars a year. William Henry Belk was a child of less than three when his father was killed, a victim of Sherman's raiders in the last months of the Civil War; at the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807865109
• ISBN13: 9780807865101
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"