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Author Abernethy, Francis Edward, editor

Title Built in Texas
Edition 2nd ed
Published Denton : University of North Texas Press June 2000 College Station : Texas A & M University Press [distributor]

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Description 1 online resource (291 pages) illustrations
Series Publications of the Texas Folklore Society No. XLII
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. XLII.
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
Summary Annotation "A book of folk building in Texas, Built in Texas ranges across the state in word and photograph to explore the building of: settlers who tarried on the timbered lands of East Texas and built with the readily available pine logs in the traditions of their fathers; those in the Western Cross Timbers used oak; European migrants into Central Texas stacked rocks into houses in the fashions learned in the Old Country; West Texans of the Pecos, who had neither rocks nor logs to build with, mixed mud and grass, made adobe brick, and built in traditions borrowed from the Mexican-Indian population already settled there."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Audience Trade University of North Texas Press
Subject Vernacular architecture -- Texas
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Customs & Traditions.
Vernacular architecture
Texas
Form Electronic book
Author Open Access Publishing in European Networks
LC no. 00029877
ISBN 157441092X
9781574410921
Other Titles Built in Texas (Online)