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Built in Texas Paperback - 2000

by Francis Edward Abernethy (Editor)


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A book of folk building in Texas, that ranges across the state in word and photograph. It explores the pine buildings of settlers in East Texas, those of oak in the Western Cross Timbers, and the rock homes of European migrants into Central Texas. 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. These were the folk, building out of the environment, wasting nothing, building forms to suit their needs. Germans, Poles, Norse, and Alsatians coming straight from the Old World with their countries' ways of building in mind had to adapt to the new materials and learn from the older Anglo settlers the methods of putting the materials together. Built in Texas is divided into Methods and Materials; Style and Form; Barns and Outbuildings; Gates and Fences; Holding Water; Restoration and Preservation.

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Man is naturally and genetically a builder, continually struggling to plumb and square life into an order that he can cope with.

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  • Title Built in Texas
  • Author Francis Edward Abernethy (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 2nd ed.
  • Pages 291
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Texas Press, Denton
  • Date August 2000
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781574410921 / 157441092X
  • Weight 2.16 lbs (0.98 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 10.5 x 0.83 in (21.54 x 26.67 x 2.11 cm)
  • Themes
    • Geographic Orientation: Texas
  • Library of Congress subjects Vernacular architecture - Texas
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00029877
  • Dewey Decimal Code 720.976

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  • Reference and Research Bk News, 11/01/2000, Page 51

About the author

FRANCIS EDWARD ABERNETHY was Regents Professor Emeritus of English at Stephen F. Austin State University, the executive secretary and editor of the Texas Folklore Society, the curator of exhibits for the East Texas Historical Association, and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. In addition to editing twenty-one Texas Folklore Society publications, he wrote Singin' Texas, Legends of Texas' Heroic Age, and all three volumes of the Texas Folklore Society history, published by the University of North Texas Press.
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