Beneath the Window: Early Ranch Life in the Big Bend Country - Brossura

Clothier, Patricia Wilson

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0974504823 ISBN 13: 9780974504827

Casa editrice: Iron Mountain Pr, 2017

Riassunto

A memoir of a young girl's early years of her life on a vast ranch in the Big Bend area of Texas. Her family raised sheep and goats and stuggled against the terrain, weather, panthers, eagles, and other predators during the difficult times of the Depression. Includes charming descriptions of home schooling, best friends, and the social life of people scattered over a huge area. Interesting look at ranching in the area, sheep shearing, predator control and mining in the Big Bend before the Park. Author's family lost their ranch to Big Bend National Park when it was formed in 1944.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Patricia Wilson Clothier spent the first fourteen years of her life (through 1944)on the Wilson Ranch in Big Bend, Texas. In these years she experienced the Big Bend as her own backyard. After formation of Big Bend National Park, she and her family lived in Alpine, Texas, and then moved to Del Rio, Texas, where she graduated from high school.Patricia, an artist and teacher, now lives in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. She and her husband, Grant, built and operated a camp for disadvantaged children in the Missouri Ozarks.

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This is Patricia Clothier's story of growing up in the 1930s and 1940s on a vast ranch in the mountains and desert hugging the Mexican border in the Big Bend country of Texas, before it became a park. Her family weathered rattlesnakes and drought, accidents, loneliness, and financial hardships of the Great Depression with fortitude, ingenuity, and grace. Like their scattered neighbors - miles away over rugged roads - it was the love of the land that gripped and held them there. Clothier paints a picture of the vast and glorious territory with words as vivid as any artist with a pallet of paints. A joy to read - an adventure of Western life you'll not forget.Jean Bradfisch, writer and editor.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Iron Mountain Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0974504823
• ISBN 13: 9780974504827
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 167
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile