The Cross Timbers : : Memories of a North Texas Boyhood / / Edward Everett Dale.
The activities of a young boy on a small farm in the Texas Cross Timbers during the 1880s seem especially distant today. No one can remember the adventure of a sixteen-and-a-half-mile journey, which consumed the greater part of a day; or hurried predawn dressing in a frosty cold loft while the fragr...
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Dale, Edward Everett, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Cross Timbers : Memories of a North Texas Boyhood / Edward Everett Dale. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2013] ©1966 1 online resource (198 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Personal Narratives of the West Frontmatter -- Preface -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- 1. Be It Ever So Humble -- 2. Neighbors and Visitors -- 3. Vittles: Plain and Fancy -- 4. Reading: Common and Preferred -- 5. "Six Days Shalt Thou Labor" -- 6. Play and Playmates -- 7. Young Nimrods -- 8. Disciples of St. Peter and Izaak Walton -- 9. School and Schoolmates -- 10. Cross Timbers Society -- 11. The Lure of the West -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The activities of a young boy on a small farm in the Texas Cross Timbers during the 1880s seem especially distant today. No one can remember the adventure of a sixteen-and-a-half-mile journey, which consumed the greater part of a day; or hurried predawn dressing in a frosty cold loft while the fragrance of a hearty breakfast wafted upward through the floor cracks; or a two-room schoolhouse, where the last half of Friday afternoon was given over to “speaking pieces” or to spelling and ciphering matches. Through the recollections of Edward Everett Dale we are able to view a pattern of life in rural America now gone forever. For The Cross Timbers is a story which, with but a few minor variations, could have been told about a vast number of small boys on farms cleared from the virgin forests in the timbered regions of many states. After presenting a brief introduction to the members of the Dale family and the plant, animal, and bird life of the Lower Cross Timbers countryside, the author describes his boyhood of a past century. He tells of his home, its furnishings, and the food served there, as well as the neighbors and relatives who come to visit. We learn of the superstitions, the humorous homespun expressions, the mores of early rural Texans. We hunt and fish with young Master Dale in the thick woods and along the clear creeks. Pioneer life demanded much hard work, but not to the exclusion of a diverting social life—both of which included the youngsters, as the author so graphically relates. Dale tells us also of the religious and secular education of the era, showing the significance of the home in supplementing these two influences. Anyone reading this volume must be impressed by the great differences in the lifeways of rural children today and of those of the end of the nineteenth century. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Apr 2024) BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General. bisacsh Biggers, John, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000 9783110745351 https://doi.org/10.7560/736115 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292749214 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780292749214/original |
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