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Roberts, Kenneth D., 1945- author.
Subjects
Loggers -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Social life and customs.
Loggers -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Economic conditions.
Charcoal burners -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Social life and customs.
Charcoal burners -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Economic conditions.
Cedar -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country.
Self-reliant living -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country.
Texas Hill Country (Tex.) -- History.
Texas Hill Country (Tex.) -- Biography.
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The cedar choppers :...
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The cedar choppers : life on the edge of nothing / Ken Roberts ; foreword by M. Hunter Hayes.
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Roberts, Kenneth D., 1945- author.
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2018]
Subjects
Loggers -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Social life and customs.
Loggers -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Economic conditions.
Charcoal burners -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Social life and customs.
Charcoal burners -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Economic conditions.
Cedar -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country.
Self-reliant living -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country.
Texas Hill Country (Tex.) -- History.
Texas Hill Country (Tex.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781623496074 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) :
1623496071 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
Series:
Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 24.
Description:
xiii, 259 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
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.
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