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Walking the Llano : a Texas memoir of place / Shelley Armitage.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7847
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Armitage, Shelley, 1947- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Armitage, Shelley, 1947-.
- Armitage, Shelley.
- Vega (Tex.)--Biography.
- Vega (Tex.).
- Vega (Tex.)--History.
- Oldham County (Tex.)--History.
- Oldham County (Tex.).
- Llano Estacado--History.
- Llano Estacado.
- Llano Estacado--Description and travel.
- Place attachment--Llano Estacado.
- Place attachment.
- Vega (Tex.)--Environmental conditions.
- Oldham County (Tex.)--Environmental conditions.
- Llano Estacado--Environmental conditions.
- Ecology.
- Travel.
- Texas--Oldham County.
- Texas--Vega.
- United States--Llano Estacado.
- Local Subjects:
- Oldham County (Tex.)--Environmental conditions.
- Genre:
- collective biographies.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel 7847)
- Physical Description:
- ix, 203 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Combines autobiography with regional and environmental history. Armitage weaves the stories of inhabitants past and present with her own experiences in her hometown of Vega and the surrounding Oldham County of West Texas"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Writing Llano
- Draws
- Springs
- Refuge
- Circling
- Rocks and remnants
- Prairie interrupted
- Dwelling
- Middle Alamosa, middle stories
- Epilogue: The suspended pool.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 7847: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. With dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 9780806151625
- 0806151625
- 9780806159638
- 0806159634
- OCLC:
- 913514500
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