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The cedar choppers : life on the edge of nothing / Ken Roberts ; foreword by M. Hunter Hayes.
Lippincott Library HD8039.L92 R63 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Kenneth D., 1945- author.
- Series:
- Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 24.
- Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; number twenty-four
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Loggers--Texas--Texas Hill Country--Social life and customs.
- Loggers.
- Loggers--Texas--Texas Hill Country--Economic conditions.
- Charcoal burners--Texas--Texas Hill Country--Social life and customs.
- Charcoal burners.
- Charcoal burners--Texas--Texas Hill Country--Economic conditions.
- Cedar--Texas--Texas Hill Country.
- Cedar.
- Self-reliant living--Texas--Texas Hill Country.
- Self-reliant living.
- Economic conditions.
- Manners and customs.
- Texas Hill Country (Tex.)--History.
- Texas Hill Country (Tex.).
- Texas Hill Country (Tex.)--Biography.
- Texas--Texas Hill Country.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2018]
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Balcones Fault
- Who are these people?
- The migration
- The clans in the hills
- The early twentieth century
- Cedar and survival
- Fencing the West
- The life of a cedar chopper
- So close, yet so far away
- The demise of the cedar choppers
- Epilogue: Three questions
- Appendix 1: Voices.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Roberts, Kenneth D., 1945- Cedar choppers.
- ISBN:
- 9781623496074
- 1623496071
- OCLC:
- 1000385910
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