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Author / Creator:	Truett, Joe C. (Joe Clyde), 1941-
Imprint:	Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 1996.
Description:	1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	The American land and life series American land and life series.
Subject:	Truett, Joe C. -- (Joe Clyde), -- 1941- -- Childhood and youth. Truett, Joe C. -- (Joe Clyde), -- 1941- Ecologists -- United States -- Biography. Natural history -- Texas -- Angelina River Valley. Ecologists Natural history Angelina River Valley (Tex.) -- Biography. Texas -- Angelina River Valley United States Electronic book. Biographies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11106028

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ISBN:	1587292408 9781587292408 0877455309 0877455317 9780877455301 9780877455318
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-212). Restrictions unspecified Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Summary:	""There was so much space." These words epitomize ecologist Joe Truett's boyhood memories of the Angelina River valley in East Texas. Years and miles later, back home for the funeral of his grandfather, Truett began a long meditation on the world Corbett Graham had known and he himself had glimpsed, a now-vanished world where wild hogs and countless other animals rustled through the leaves, cows ate pinewoods grass instead of corn, oaks and hickories and longleaf pines were untouched by the corporate ax, and the river flowed freely. Truett's meditation resulted in this clear-sighted portrait of a place over time, its layers revealed by his love and care and curiosity." "Truett celebrates his family's heritage and the unspoiled natural world of the Piney Woods without nostalgia. He recreates an older, simpler, more worthy age, but he knows that we have lost touch with it because we wanted to: he laments the loss but understands it. What makes his prose so moving and so redeeming is this precise combination of honesty and sorrow, overlaid by a quiet passion for both the natural and the human worlds."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Truett, Joe C. (Joe Clyde), 1941- Circling back. Iowa City, IA : University of Iowa Press, 1996 0877455309

Table of Contents:

Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. The Angelina Country; 2. Clovis; 3. Corn; 4. Hole-in-the-Rock; 5. Trade Winds; 6. A Beast in Hand; 7. Off the End of a Gun; 8. Farewell, Angelina; 9. Beef Trail; 10. Frontier's End; 11. John Henry and the Iron Horse; 12. Fannie; 13. Mr. Ford's Car; 14. Hard Times and Little Animals; 15. Poppin' Johnny; 16. Wires; 17. Power Brokers; 18. The End of the River; 19. Corporate State; 20. Field to Field; 21. The Price of Subsidy; 22. Hope; Bibliography

Circling back : chronicle of a Texas river valley /

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