As a Farm Woman Thinks Life and Land on the Texas High Plains, 1890-1960 |
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Author:
| Spikes, Nellie Witt |
Editor:
| Cunfer, Geoff |
Foreword by:
| Scofield, Sandra |
Series title: | Plains Histories Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-89672-710-6 |
Publication Date: | Oct 2010 |
Publisher: | Texas Tech University Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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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. Engaging and eloquent, her ?As a Farm Woman Thinks? columns today conjure up a vivid portrait of a bygone era. Spikes?s best pieces, selected and arranged by Geoff...
More DescriptionIn 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. Engaging and eloquent, her ?As a Farm Woman Thinks? columns today conjure up a vivid portrait of a bygone era. Spikes?s best pieces, selected and arranged 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 ofher West Texas. 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.