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...