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The cedar choppers : life on the edge of nothing /
At the low-water bridge below Tom Miller Dam, west of downtown Austin, during the summer of his tenth or eleventh year, Ken Roberts had his first encounter with cedar choppers. On his way to the bridge for a leisurely afternoon of fishing, he suddenly found himself facing a group of boys who clearly...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
[2018]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | Sam Rayburn series on rural life ;
no. 24. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The Balcones Fault
- Who are these people?
- The migration
- The clans in the hills
- The early twentieth century
- Cedar and survival
- Fencing the West
- The life of a cedar chopper
- So close, yet so far away
- The demise of the cedar choppers
- Epilogue: Three questions
- Appendix 1: Voices.