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Once again, through a boy’s eyes, Ralph Jackson sees a winter sky darkened with geese and ducks, a kitchen stove glowing with cheerful warmth, Aunt May strolling in her flower garden, moonlight filtering through treetops to cast patches of white light on a sandy woodland road. Again he catches odors...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
VerfasserIn:
Jackson, Ralph Semmes,
MitwirkendeR:
Dobie, J. Frank,
Jessen, Bubi,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2014]
©1961
Year of Publication:2014
Language:English
Series:Personal Narratives of the West
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Physical Description:1 online resource (156 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • FOREWORD
  • CONTENTS
  • PHOTOGRAPHS
  • MAPS
  • Introduction
  • HOME ON THE DOUBLE BAYOU
  • From Ireland to Texas
  • Grandpa and Grandma Jackson, Pioneers
  • Law and Order on Double Bayou
  • Grandpa Jackson's Eleven Children
  • From Scotland to Texas
  • The 1915 Hurricane
  • Our Ranch Home
  • Christmas on the Ranch
  • Hog-Killing Time
  • Blue Northers
  • Winter Was for Hunting
  • Wolves in the Herd
  • Gators
  • Spring Roundup
  • Our Railroad
  • The Woods in Springtime
  • Summer Was for Fishing
  • Tumblebug Time
  • Goats—and So Forth
  • Across the Bayou
  • Sugar-Cane Mill
  • Our Old Barn
  • Schoolin'
  • The Store
  • The Burying-Ground

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