Title The cedar choppers : life on the edge of nothing / Ken Roberts ; foreword by M. Hunter Hayes.

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College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2018]

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Edition	First edition.
Description	1 online resource (xiii, 259 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; number twenty-four
	Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 24.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction: The Balcones Fault -- Who are these people? -- The migration -- The clans in the hills -- The early twentieth century -- Cedar and survival -- Fencing the West -- The life of a cedar chopper -- So close, yet so far away -- The demise of the cedar choppers -- Epilogue: Three questions -- Appendix 1: Voices.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Loggers -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Social life and customs.
	Loggers.
	Texas -- Texas Hill Country.
	Manners and customs.
	Loggers -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Economic conditions.
	Economic conditions.
	Charcoal burners -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Social life and customs.
	Charcoal burners.
	Charcoal burners -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- Economic conditions.
	Cedar -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country.
	Cedar.
	Self-reliant living -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country.
	Self-reliant living.
	Texas Hill Country (Tex.) -- History.
	Texas Hill Country (Tex.) -- Biography.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Biographies.
	History.
	Biographies.
Other Form:	Print version: Roberts, Kenneth D., 1945- Cedar choppers. First edition. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2018] 9781623496074 (DLC) 2017036270
ISBN	9781623496081 (electronic book)
	162349608X (electronic book)
	1623496071
	9781623496074
	9781623496074

Title The cedar choppers : life on the edge of nothing / Ken Roberts ; foreword by M. Hunter Hayes.

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