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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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2013] ©1966 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Personal Narratives of the West
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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