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The Cross Timbers - Memories of a North Texas Boyhood (Paperback)
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The Cross Timbers - Memories of a North Texas Boyhood (Paperback)
Series: Personal Narratives of the West
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The activities of a young boy on a small farm in the Texas Cross
Timbers during the 1880s seem especially distant today. No one can
remember the adventure of a sixteen-and-a-half-mile journey, which
consumed the greater part of a day; or hurried predawn dressing in
a frosty cold loft while the fragrance of a hearty breakfast wafted
upward through the floor cracks; or a two-room schoolhouse, where
the last half of Friday afternoon was given over to "speaking
pieces" or to spelling and ciphering matches. Through the
recollections of Edward Everett Dale we are able to view a pattern
of life in rural America now gone forever. For The Cross Timbers is
a story which, with but a few minor variations, could have been
told about a vast number of small boys on farms cleared from the
virgin forests in the timbered regions of many states. After
presenting a brief introduction to the members of the Dale family
and the plant, animal, and bird life of the Lower Cross Timbers
countryside, the author describes his boyhood of a past century. He
tells of his home, its furnishings, and the food served there, as
well as the neighbors and relatives who come to visit. We learn of
the superstitions, the humorous homespun expressions, the mores of
early rural Texans. We hunt and fish with young Master Dale in the
thick woods and along the clear creeks. Pioneer life demanded much
hard work, but not to the exclusion of a diverting social life-both
of which included the youngsters, as the author so graphically
relates. Dale tells us also of the religious and secular education
of the era, showing the significance of the home in supplementing
these two influences. Anyone reading this volume must be impressed
by the great differences in the lifeways of rural children today
and of those of the end of the nineteenth century.
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