Name: Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life From the Edge of the Texas Hill Country (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series) (en Inglés)
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Author: Sitton, Thad
ISBN: 9780292702387

portada Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life From the Edge of the Texas Hill Country (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Ilustrado por

Thad Sitton

Editorial

University of Texas Press

Autor

Sitton, Thad

Año

2004

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

297

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

22.6 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm

Peso

0.43 kg.

ISBN

0292702388

ISBN13

9780292702387

Categorías

Estados unidos de américa
Historia de américa
Historia local

Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life From the Edge of the Texas Hill Country (Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series) (en Inglés)

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Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2005Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award, Best Book of Nonfiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 2005Until the U.S. Army claimed 300-plus square miles of hardscrabble land to build Fort Hood in 1942, small communities like Antelope, Pidcoke, Stampede, and Okay scratched out a living by growing cotton and ranching goats on the less fertile edges of the Texas Hill Country. While a few farmers took jobs with construction crews at Fort Hood to remain in the area, almost the entire population--and with it, an entire segment of rural culture--disappeared into the rest of the state.In Harder than Hardscrabble, oral historian Thad Sitton collects the colorful and frequently touching stories of the pre-Fort Hood residents to give a firsthand view of Texas farming life before World War II. Accessible to the general reader and historian alike, the stories recount in vivid detail the hardships and satisfactions of daily life in the Texas countryside. They describe agricultural practices and livestock handling as well as life beyond work: traveling peddlers, visits to towns, country schools, medical practices, and fox hunting. The anecdotes capture a fast-disappearing rural society--a world very different from today's urban Texas.