Book Description
Published periodically by the Society; the serial discontinued publishing after November 1957 and began again October 1967.
Author : Centre County Historical Society (Bellefonte, Pennsylvania)
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Page : 424 pages
File Size : 39,17 MB
Release : 1996-05-01
Category : Centre County (Pa.)
ISBN : 9781887315098
Published periodically by the Society; the serial discontinued publishing after November 1957 and began again October 1967.
Author : J. Marvin Lee
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Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,38 MB
Release : 1975-01-01
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ISBN : 9781887315029
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 10,58 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Genealogy
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Author : Centre County Library, Bellefonte, Pa
Publisher :
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Centre County (Pa.)
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Author : Centre County Planning Commission
Publisher :
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Centre County (Pa.)
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Author : Thomas Jay Kemp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 46,24 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780842029254
Offers a guide to census indexes, including federal, state, county, and town records, available in print and online; arranged by year, geographically, and by topic.
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Page : 3054 pages
File Size : 33,46 MB
Release : 2001
Category : American literature
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Page : 760 pages
File Size : 22,16 MB
Release : 1978
Category : City planning
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Author : Jim L. Edwards
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Oklahoma City (Okla.)
ISBN : 9780910453004
Author : Ken Roberts
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 28,73 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1623496071
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.