Harder than Hardscrabble
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-0-292-70238-7 (ISBN)
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Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2005
Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award, Best Book of Nonfiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 2005
Until 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.
Thad Sitton is an independent scholar and writer in Austin, Texas. Among his ten other books on Texas history are three winners of the Texas Historical Commission’s T.R. Fehrenbach “best book” award.
Preface
Chapter One. Introduction: Lost Worlds
Chapter Two. Homeplaces
Lay of the Land
Chores
Gardens, Home-Use Field Crops, Fodder Crops
Domestic Livestock
Fishing, Hunting, Trapping, and Gathering
Medical Self-Help and Town Doctors
Chapter Three. Money Crops
Cotton and Other Crops
Cash-Crop Livestock
Minor Money Crops
Part-Time Cash Labor for Others
Peddlers and Country Stores
Visits to Town
Chapter Four. Settlements
Country Schools
School Entertainments
Family Visits
The Sporting Life
House Parties and Dances
Neighbors Helping Neighbors
Churches and Religious Life
Chapter Five. Modernizations and the Takeover
Communication Breakthroughs
Roads and Automobiles
Government Programs and the Takeover
Epilogue: Sixty Years Afterward
Appendix: The Fort Hood Oral History Project
Selected Bibliography
Index
Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 454 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie | |
ISBN-10 | 0-292-70238-8 / 0292702388 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-292-70238-7 / 9780292702387 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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