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Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley

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Availability:In StockContributor:Thad SittonPublish date:1995-09-15Pages:328
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806139647ISBN-10:806139641UPC:9780806139647Book Category:Nature, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SCPTZ969N8
This book presents a detailed social history of the back-country stockmen, hunters, and woodsmen of the Neches River in southeastern Texas. As in parts of Appalachia, many elements of centuries-old herding and hunting lifeways survived in the Neches Valley into the 1960s. In what early settlers called the "Big Thicket" or "Big Woods," everything outside fenced fields was, by long established custom, "open range," a wooded commons in which hogs, cattle, and backwoodsmen were free to roam. Sitton details their daily activities, relying mainly on oral history interviews he conducted with dozens of Neches VAlley woodsmen.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Oklahoma PressISBN-13:9780806139647ISBN-10:806139641UPC:9780806139647Book Category:Nature, HistoryBook Subcategory:United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.73 inchesWeight:1.0604Product ID:SCPTZ969N8
Sitton, Thad: -

Thad Sitton hold a Ph.D. from the University of Texas and is author of numerous articles and several award-winning books, including From Can See to Can't: Texas Cotton Farmers on the Southern Prairies and The Texas Sheriff: Lord of the County Line. The Texas Oral History Association honored him in 2001 with a lifetime Achievement Award.

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

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Thad Sitton

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