Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country

(Part of the Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series)

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Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2005
Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award, Best Book of Nonfiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 2005

Until the U.S. Army claimed 300-plus square miles of hardscrabble land to build Fort Hood in 1942, small communities like Antelope, Pidcoke, Stampede, and Okay scratched out a living by growing cotton and ranching goats on the less fertile edges of the Texas Hill Country. While a few...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0292702388

ISBN13:9780292702387

Release Date:March 2004

Publisher:University of Texas Press

Length:309 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country

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