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From can see to can't : Texas cotton farmers on the southern prairies / by Thad Sitton and Dan K. Utley.
- Title
- From can see to can't : Texas cotton farmers on the southern prairies / by Thad Sitton and Dan K. Utley.
- Author
- Sitton, Thad, 1941-
- Publication
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F392.F2 S58 1997 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Utley, Dan K.
- Description
- viii, 316 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This book offers a view of Texas farming in the late 1920s. From breaking ground, to planting, cultivating and harvesting, to how the family lives, their houses, food and clothing.
- Subject
- Farm life > Texas > Fayette County
- Farm life > Texas > Washington County
- Cotton farmers > Texas > Fayette County
- Cotton farmers > Texas > Washington County
- Ethnology > Texas > Fayette County
- Ethnology > Texas > Washington County
- Oral history
- Fayette County (Tex.) > Social life and customs
- Washington County (Tex.) > Social life and customs
- Genre/Form
- Oral history.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction -- Texas cotton -- Lay of the land -- Midwinter -- In the fields -- Picking, ginning, and hog killing -- Epilogue: a world ends.
- ISBN
- 0292777205 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0292777213 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^96037625^
- OCLC
- 35986173
- SCSB-11808610
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library