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13 produkter
Harder Than Hardscrabble
Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country
Av Thad Sitton
Häftad, 2004
338 kr
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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, …
Freedom Colonies
Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
Av Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad
Häftad, 2005
283 kr
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Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award, 2006Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 2007In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory-they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became …
Every Sun That Rises
Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake
Av Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad
Häftad, 1985
232 kr
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“What I done and what I been accused of covers everything, you put ’em both together.” Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake exaggerates, but perhaps not very much. During his long life at Caddo Lake, Moore was at various times a boat operator, commercial fisherman, boat builder, farmer, fishing and hunting …
Oral History
A Guide for Teachers (and Others)
Av Thad Sitton, George L. Mehaffy m. fl.
Häftad, 1983
225 kr
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More than a mode of gathering information about the past, oral history has become an international movement. Historians, folklorists, and other educational and religious groups now recognize the importance of preserving the recollections of people about the past. The recorded memories of famous and …
From Can See to Can't
Texas Cotton Farmers on the Southern Prairies
Häftad, 1997
371 kr
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Cotton farming was the only way of life that many Texans knew from the days of Austin's Colony up until World War II. For those who worked the land, it was a dawn-till-dark, "can see to can't," process that required not only a wide range of specialized skills but also a willingness to gamble on …
Nameless Towns
Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942
Av Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad
Häftad, 1998
283 kr
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Winner, T. H. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical CommissionSawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company "cut out" its last trees. But during their heyday, …
Texas Sheriff
Lord of the County Line
Av Thad Sitton
Häftad, 2006
254 kr
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The Texas Sheriff takes a fresh, colorful, and insightful look at Texas law enforcement during the decades before 1960. In the first half of the twentieth century, rural Texas was a strange, often violent, and complicated place. Nineteenth-century lifestyles persisted, blood relationships made a …
Backwoodsmen
Stockmen and Hunters Along a Big Thicket River Valley
Av Thad Sitton
Häftad, 2008
299 kr
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Backwoodsmen:Stockmen and Hunters along a BIg Thicket Valley presents a detailed social history of the back-country stockmen, hunters, and woodsmen of the Neches River in southeastern Texas. Labeled ""crackers,"" ""pineys,"" ""sandhillers,"" and ""nesters"" by townspeople across the upland South, …
Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers
American Hilltop Fox Chasing
Av Thad Sitton
Häftad, 2010
283 kr
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Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds' voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. To the highly trained ears of these backwoods hunters, the hounds told the story of the pursuit like operatic voices …
Resurrection of Springs
Krause Ranch and the Frio River Hill Country
Av Thad Sitton, Adrian F. van Dellen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
526 kr
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The Krause Ranch is not a normal Hill Country landscape—it has bottomless holes, dinosaur tracks, high limestone river cliffs where golden eagles nest, and occasional visits by TPWD-authenticated pumas and black bears. Historian Thad Sitton offers a detailed description of the 1,670-acre property, …
Big Thicket People
Larry Jene Fisher's Photographs of the Last Southern Frontier
Av Larry Jene Fisher, Thad Sitton m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
353 kr
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Living off the land-hunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash income-was a way of life that persisted well into the twentieth century in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Before this way of life ended with World War II, professional …
Ringing Children in
Texas Country Schools.
Av Thad Sitton, Milam C. Rowold
Inbunden, 1987
279 kr
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Caddo
Visions of a Southern Cypress Lake
Av Thad Sitton
Inbunden, 2015
353 kr
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In a stunning tribute to one of Texas' most enigmatic waterways, a veteran East Texas historian and a professional photographer have together created an homage to a lake like no other - half Texas, half Louisiana, a swampy labyrinth of bald cypress and water plants filled with mystery, legend, and …
