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THE CEDAR CHOPPERS : LIFE ON THE EDGE OF NOTHING By Ken Roberts - HB/DJ
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Type
- Hardcover
- Publication Name
- Texas A&M University Press
- ISBN-10
- 1623496071
- ISBN
- 9781623496074
- Book Title
- Cedar Choppers : Life on the Edge of Nothing
- Book Series
- Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce Ser.
- Publisher
- Texas A&M University Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1 in
- Genre
- House & Home, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
- Topic
- Sustainable Living, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Social History, Economic Conditions, General, Economics / General, Sociology / Rural
- Item Weight
- 21.7 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.2 in
- Number of Pages
- 280 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-10
1623496071
ISBN-13
9781623496074
eBay Product ID (ePID)
239677787
Product Key Features
Book Title
Cedar Choppers : Life on the Edge of Nothing
Number of Pages
280 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Topic
Sustainable Living, United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Social History, Economic Conditions, General, Economics / General, Sociology / Rural
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
House & Home, Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, Business & Economics, History
Book Series
Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
21.7 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2017-036270
Reviews
"Meant first for general audiences but badly needed by scholars, the work brings a neglected group into the southwestern history canon. . . . a readable, conversational narrative."-- Southwestern Historical Quarterly, "Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Ken Roberts' The Cedar Choppers leads us on a fascinating journey to the heart of this legendary Texas subculture." -- Steven L. Davis, PEN USA-winning author and past president, Texas Institute of Letters, "Ken Roberts offers the first book-length, scholarly account of the Hill Country cedar choppers, a linked assemblage of 'clans' of Appalachian whites who settled in in the mountain juniper country west of Austin during the 19th century. This "hillbilly" part of the Hill Country has been little written about. Roberts has created a fine historical portrait of a group of marginalized, hyper-independent, combative, white people, who lived 'On the Edge of Nothing' in more ways than one." --Thad Sitton, "Ken Roberts offers the first book-length, scholarly account of the Hill Country cedar choppers, a linked assemblage of 'clans' of Appalachian whites who settled in in the mountain juniper country west of Austin during the 19th century. This "hillbilly" part of the Hill Country has been little written about. Roberts has created a fine historical portrait of a group of marginalized, hyper-independent, combative, white people, who lived 'On the Edge of Nothing' in more ways than one." --Thad Sitton, coauthor of Caddo: Visions of a Southern Cypress Lake and author of Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
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Series Volume Number
24
Dewey Decimal
305.9/634975609763
Synopsis
At the low-water bridge below Tom Miller Dam, west of downtown Austin, during the summer of his tenth or eleventh year, Ken Roberts had his first encounter with cedar choppers. On his way to the bridge for a leisurely afternoon of fishing, he suddenly found himself facing a group of boys who clearly came from a different place and culture than the middle-class, suburban community he was accustomed to. Rather, ". . . they looked hard--tanned, skinny, dirty. These were not kids you would see in Austin." When Roberts's fishing companion curtly refused the strangers' offer to sell them a stringer of bluegills, the three boys went away, only to reappear moments later, one of them carrying a club. Roberts and his friend made a hasty retreat. This encounter provoked in the author the question, "Who are these people?" The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing is his thoughtful, entertaining, and informative answer. Based on oral history interviews with several generations of cedar choppers and those who knew them, this book weaves together the lively, gritty story of these largely Scots-Irish migrants with roots in Appalachia who settled on the west side of the Balcones Fault during the mid-nineteenth century, subsisting mainly on hunting, trapping, moonshining, and, by the early twentieth century, cutting, transporting, and selling cedar fence posts and charcoal. The emergence of Austin as a major metropolitan area, especially after the 1950s, soon brought the cedar choppers and their hillbilly lifestyle into direct confrontation with the gentrified urban population east of the Balcones Fault. This clash of cultures, which provided the setting for Roberts's encounter as a young boy, propels this first book-length treatment of the cedar choppers, their clans, their culture and mores, and their longing for a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.
LC Classification Number
HD8039.L92R63 2018
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