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Big Thicket Legacy

Campbell Loughmiller editor Lynn Loughmiller editor Francic E Abernethy editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of North Texas Press,U.S.

Published:7th Oct '02

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In Big Thicket Legacy, Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the stories of people living in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Many of the storytellers were close to one hundred years old when interviewed, with some being the great-grandchildren of the first settlers. Here are tales about robbing a bee tree, hunting wild boar, plowing all day and dancing all night, wading five miles to church through a cypress brake, and making soap using hickory ashes.

Readers inclined to fantasy might like to think of two giant Texas folklorists of the past, J. Frank Dobie and Mody Boatright, nodding and winking their approval of Big Thicket Legacy._Smithsonian ""The Big Thicket... comes vibrantly alive in this collection of interviews.... This excellent example of oral history is highly recommended.""_Library Journal

ISBN: 9781574411560

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 558g

256 pages