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Every Sun That Rises
“What I done and what I been accused of covers everything, you put ’em both together.” Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake exaggerates, but perhaps not very much. During his long life at …
From Can See to Can’t
Cotton farming was the only way of life that many Texans knew from the days of Austin's Colony up until World War II. For those who worked the land, it was a dawn-till-dark, "can …
Freedom Colonies
A history of independent African American settlements in Texas during the Jim Crow era, featuring historical and contemporary photographs.In the decades following the Civil War, …
Nameless Towns
Winner, T. H. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical CommissionSawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest …
Harder than Hardscrabble
Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2005Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award, Best Book of Nonfiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 2005Until the U.S. Army claimed …
Big Thicket People
Living off the land—hunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash income—was a way of life that persisted well into the …
Freedom Colonies
Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award, 2006 Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 2007In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African …
Nameless Towns
A comprehensive history of the sawmill towns of East Texas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many …
Oral History
More than a mode of gathering information about the past, oral history has become an international movement. Historians, folklorists, and other educational and religious groups …
Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers
Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds' voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. …