Built in Texas.

Built in Texas.

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Author / Creator:Abernethy, Francis Edward, editor
Uniform title:Built in Texas (Online)
Edition:2nd ed.
Imprint:Denton : University of North Texas Press June 2000 College Station : Texas A & M University Press [distributor]
Description:1 online resource (291 pages) illustrations.
Language:English
Series:Publications of the Texas Folklore Society No. XLII
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. XLII.
Subject:
Vernacular architecture -- Texas.
Vernacular architecture.
Texas.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12871192
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Other authors / contributors:Open Access Publishing in European Networks.
ISBN:157441092X
9781574410921
9781574410921
157441092X
Summary:Annotation "A book of folk building in Texas, Built in Texas ranges across the state in word and photograph to explore the building of: settlers who tarried on the timbered lands of East Texas and built with the readily available pine logs in the traditions of their fathers; those in the Western Cross Timbers used oak; European migrants into Central Texas stacked rocks into houses in the fashions learned in the Old Country; West Texans of the Pecos, who had neither rocks nor logs to build with, mixed mud and grass, made adobe brick, and built in traditions borrowed from the Mexican-Indian population already settled there."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Target Audience:Trade University of North Texas Press.
Standard no.:9781574410921
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Table of Contents
  • Texas Folk Building: An Introduction
  • "Built in Texas"
  • "The Cultural Geography of Folk Building Forms in Texas"
  • Methods and Materials
  • "Building in Texas, 1844-1845"
  • "Texas Dugouts"
  • "Adobe: Earth, Straw, and Water"
  • "Log Corner Notching in Texas"
  • "Texas Tie Houses"
  • Style and Form
  • "Comanche Tepees"
  • "Pueblo Indian Housing in Texas: Ysleta del Sur"
  • "Alabama-Coushatta Buildings"
  • "The Old Koch House"
  • "Alsatian Architecture in Medina County"
  • "Silesian Polish Folk Architecture in Texas"
  • "A Russian-German Folk House in North Texas"
  • "Shotgun Houses and Shacks"
  • Barns and Outbuildings
  • "Barns and Outbuildings"
  • Gates and Fences
  • "Rails, Rocks, and Pickets: Traditional Farmstead Fencing in Texas"
  • "Gates"
  • "The Devil's Hatband in the Lone Star State: The Introduction of Barbed Wire in Texas"
  • Holding Water
  • "Vanes in the Wind: Art and Custom in Texas Windmills"
  • "Tank, Tub, and Cistern"
  • "When the Creeks Run Dry: Water Milling in the German Hill Country"
  • Restoration and Preservation
  • "The Restoration of the Rice Family Log Home"
  • "Outdoor Museums in Texas"

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