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Jane's window : my spirited life in West Texas and Austin / Jane Dunn Sibley as told to Jim Comer ; foreword by T.R. Fehrenbach ; introduction by James L. Haley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sibley, Jane Dunn, 1924-
- Series:
- Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ; no. 14.
- Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ; no. 14
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women music patrons--Texas--Austin--Biography.
- Women music patrons.
- Music patrons--Texas--Austin--Biography.
- Music patrons.
- Women philanthropists--Texas--Austin--Biography.
- Women philanthropists.
- Philanthropists--Texas--Austin--Biography.
- Philanthropists.
- Austin (Tex.)--Biography.
- Austin (Tex.).
- Fort Stockton (Tex.)--Biography.
- Fort Stockton (Tex.).
- Sibley, Jane Dunn, 1924-.
- Sibley, Jane Dunn.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (394 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- On the southern portion of what was known as the Sibley's Pezuna del Caballo (Horse's Hoof) Ranch in West Texas' Culberson County are two mountains that nearly meet, forming a gap that frames a salt flat where Indians and later, pioneers came to gather salt to preserve foodstuffs. According to the US Geological Survey, the gap that provides this breathtaking and historic view is named "Jane's Window." In Jane's Window: My Spirited Life in West Texas and Austin, Jane Dunn Sibley, the inimitable namesake of that mountain gap, gives readers a similar
- Contents:
- Prologue: Mahala Milligan
- Gifts from the past
- Growing up in Fort Stockton
- The university in wartime
- D.J. Sibley
- On my own
- An unconventional romance
- An 'old maid' no more
- Motherhood
- Preserving history and moving a church
- Our world explodes while I'm washing sheets
- Laguna Gloria
- The castle
- The symphony
- Symphony Square
- People I have been privileged to meet and to know
- Buzzard feathers and movie stars
- Rock art: not all masterpieces are in museums
- Lifetime friendships
- Around the world
- The Long Center
- Jake: 1950-1991
- Mahala: 1952-2003
- Hiram: 1957-
- D.J.: the great survivor
- The joys of unsolicited advice
- Appendix: Chronology: Jane Horton Dunn Sibley.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 1-60344-979-5
- OCLC:
- 841229554
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