| Edition |
2nd ed. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 291 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 42
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 42.
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| Note |
Original hard copy first edition copyright held by The Texas Folklore Society, 1979. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Texas folk building: an introduction -- "Built in Texas" / F.E. Abernethy -- "The cultural geography of folk building forms in Texas" / G. Loyd Collier -- Methods and materials-- "Building in Texas, 1844-1845" / Prince Karl von Solms-Braunfels -- "Texas dugouts" / Ann Carpenter -- "Adobe: earth, straw, and water" / John O. West, Roberto Gonzalez -- "Log corner notching in Texas" / Terry G. Jordan -- "Texas tie houses" / Pat Ellis Taylor -- Style and form -- "Comanche tepees" / Ferdinand Roemer -- "Pueblo Indian housing in Texas: Ysleta del Sur" / Thomas A. Green, Jr. -- "Alabama-Coushatta buildings" / Howard N. Martin -- "The old Koch House" / Connie Hall -- "Alsatian architecture in Medina County" / Terri Ross -- "Silesian Polish folk architecture in Texas" / T. Lindsay Baker -- "A Russian-German folk house in north Texas" / Terry G. Jordan -- "Shotgun houses and shacks" / Sylvia Grider -- Barns and outbuildings -- "Barns and outbuildings" / Thomas J. Stanly -- Gates and fences -- "Rails, rocks, and pickets: traditional farmstead fencing in Texas" / Lonn Taylor -- "Gates" / C.W. Wimberley -- "The devil's hatband in the Lone Star State: The introduction of barbed wire in Texas" / Robert J. Duncan -- Holding water -- "Vanes in the wind: art and custom in Texas windmills" / James M. Day -- "Tank, tub, and cistern" / Ernest B. Speck -- "When the creeks run dry: water milling in the German hill country" / Glen Lich, Lera Tyler -- Restoration and preservation -- "The restoration of the Rice Family Log Home" / Steve Whiston -- "Outdoor museums in Texas" / Willard B. Robinson. |
| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
Photographs and text describe historical buildings across Texas that were built with nature-made materials such as rocks, logs, and mud. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Vernacular architecture. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions. |
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Vernacular architecture -- Texas.
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Texas. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Abernethy, Francis Edward.
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Texas Folklore Society.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781574410921 |
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0585268177 |
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9780585268170 |
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