| Description |
1 online resource (230 pages) |
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American Land & Life |
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American Land & Life
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| Contents |
Foreword; Acknowledgments; 1. The Angelina Country; 2. Clovis; 3. Corn; 4. Hole-in-the-Rock; 5. Trade Winds; 6. A Beast in Hand; 7. Off the End of a Gun; 8. Farewell, Angelina; 9. Beef Trail; 10. Frontier's End; 11. John Henry and the Iron Horse; 12. Fannie; 13. Mr. Ford's Car; 14. Hard Times and Little Animals; 15. Poppin' Johnny; 16. Wires; 17. Power Brokers; 18. The End of the River; 19. Corporate State; 20. Field to Field; 21. The Price of Subsidy; 22. Hope; Bibliography |
| Summary |
"There was so much space." These words epitomize ecologist Joe Truett's boyhood memories of the Angelina River valley in East Texas. Years and miles later, back home for the funeral of his grandfather, Truett began a long meditation on the world Corbett Graham had known and he himself had glimpsed, a now-vanished world where wild hogs and countless other animals rustled through the leaves, cows ate pinewoods grass instead of corn, oaks and hickories and longleaf pines were untouched by the corporate ax, and the river flowed freely. Truett's meditation resulted in this clear-sighted po |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Truett, Joe C. (Joe Clyde), 1941- -- Childhood and youth
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| SUBJECT |
Truett, Joe C. (Joe Clyde), 1941- fast (OCoLC)fst00118079 |
| Subject |
Ecologists -- United States -- Biography
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Natural history -- Texas -- Angelina River Valley
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Ecologists.
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Natural history.
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| SUBJECT |
Angelina River Valley (Tex.) -- Biography
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Texas -- Angelina River Valley.
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United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781587292408 |
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1587292408 |
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