The Cross Timbers: Memories of a North Texas Boyhood

by Edward Everett Dale

Book Overview

The activities of a young boy on a small farm in the Texas Cross Timbers during the 1880s seem especially distant today. No one can remember the adventure of a sixteen-and-a-half-mile journey, which consumed the greater part of a day; or hurried predawn dressing in a frosty cold loft while the fragrance of a hearty breakfast wafted upward through the floor cracks; or a two-room schoolhouse, where the last half of Friday afternoon was given over...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292740697
• ISBN13: 9780292740693
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"