People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas - Hardcover
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People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas
How wheat growing, milling, and baking shaped the people and culture of North Texas.
In the national imaginary, America's amber fields of grain lie in the country's center, but for more than a century, they also grew across one pocket of the South: North Texas. From the 1840s to the 1970s, the state's agriculture, dominated in lore by cotton in the east and livestock in the open range, was...
Rebecca Sharpless is a professor of history at Texas Christian University. She is the author of Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, Cooking in Other Women's Kitchens: Domestic Workers in the South; and Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South.
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