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Built in Texas edited by Francis Edward Abernethy ; line drawings by Reese Kennedy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abernethy, Francis E
- Series:
- Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 42
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vernacular architecture.
- Social sciences--Customs & Traditions.
- Social sciences.
- Vernacular architecture--Texas.
- Texas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) :) illustrations.
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- University of North Texas Press 2000
- Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2000.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Photographs and text describe historical buildings across Texas that were built with nature-made materials such as rocks, logs, and mud.
- Contents:
- Texas folk building: an introduction
- "Built in Texas" / F.E. Abernethy
- "The cultural geography of folk building forms in Texas" / G. Loyd Collier
- Methods and materials
- "Building in Texas, 1844-1845" / Prince Karl von Solms-Braunfels
- "Texas dugouts" / Ann Carpenter
- "Adobe: earth, straw, and water" / John O. West, Roberto Gonzalez
- "Log corner notching in Texas" / Terry G. Jordan
- "Texas tie houses" / Pat Ellis Taylor
- Style and form
- "Comanche tepees" / Ferdinand Roemer
- "Pueblo Indian housing in Texas: Ysleta del Sur" / Thomas A. Green, Jr.
- "Alabama-Coushatta buildings" / Howard N. Martin
- "The old Koch House" / Connie Hall
- "Alsatian architecture in Medina County" / Terri Ross
- "Silesian Polish folk architecture in Texas" / T. Lindsay Baker
- "A Russian-German folk house in north Texas" / Terry G. Jordan
- "Shotgun houses and shacks" / Sylvia Grider
- Barns and outbuildings
- "Barns and outbuildings" / Thomas J. Stanly
- Gates and fences
- "Rails, rocks, and pickets: traditional farmstead fencing in Texas" / Lonn Taylor
- "Gates" / C.W. Wimberley
- "The devil's hatband in the Lone Star State: The introduction of barbed wire in Texas" / Robert J. Duncan
- Holding water
- "Vanes in the wind: art and custom in Texas windmills" / James M. Day
- "Tank, tub, and cistern" / Ernest B. Speck
- "When the creeks run dry: water milling in the German hill country" / Glen Lich, Lera Tyler
- Restoration and preservation
- "The restoration of the Rice Family Log Home" / Steve Whiston
- "Outdoor museums in Texas" / Willard B. Robinson.
- Notes:
- Original hard copy first edition copyright held by The Texas Folklore Society, 1979.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-585-26817-7
- OCLC:
- 45729816
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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