As a farm woman thinks : life and land on the Texas high plains, 1890-1960 /
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| Author / Creator: | Spikes, Nellie Witt, 1888. |
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| Imprint: | Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, c2010. |
| Description: | xxi, 265 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Plains histories Plains histories. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8269013 |
| Summary: | In twenty-five years of syndicated columns in small-town Texas newspapers between 1930 and 1960, Nellie Witt Spikes described her life on the High Plains, harking back to earlier times and reminiscing about pioneer settlement, farm and small-town culture, women?s work, and the natural history of the flatlands and canyons. Spikes?s life spanned the arrival of Euro-American settlers, the transition from ranching to farming, the drought and dust storms of the 1930s, and the irrigation revolution of the 1940s. Engaging and eloquent, her ?As a Farm Woman Thinks? columns today conjure up a vivid portrait of a bygone era. Spikes?s best pieces, organized topically and then chronologically here by Geoff Cunfer, are illuminated by black-and-white historical photographs featuring people, landscapes, small towns, farms, and ranches that populated the caprock-and-canyon country of her West Texas. Cunfer?s introduction and editorial commentary provide context. For historians, As a Farm Woman Thinks enlarges our understanding of a wide land and its culture. For the rest of us, Spikes?s ?poetry of place? still captures the spirit of the Plains and, decades later, inspires imagination and memory. |
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| Physical Description: | xxi, 265 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780896727106 0896727106 |
