As a Farm Woman Thinks: Life and Land on the Texas High Plains, 1890-1960

by Nellie Witt Spikes

Book Overview

In twenty-five years of syndicated columns in small-town Texas newspapers between 1930 and 1960, Nellie Witt Spikes described her life on the High Plains, harking back to earlier times and reminiscing about pioneer settlement, farm and small-town culture, women's work, and the natural history of the flatlands and canyons. Spikes's life spanned the arrival of Euro-American settlers, the transition from ranching to farming, the drought and dust storms...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896727106
• ISBN13: 9780896727106
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.3" x 10.2"