Lonesome Plains
Death and Revival on an American Frontier
«The Lonesome Plains is never flashy, but it's a powerful book that quietly and slowly penetrates deeply into the reader's soul and brings vividly to life a bit of American history that isn't so long gone."" - Washington Times
""This volume constitutes a landmark study, the reading of which is essential for any historical understanding of panhandle Texas."" - Choice
""In allowing these early pioneers to tell their own story, Fairchild places them at the center of the settlement drama and portrays them as people engaged in a desperate, lonely struggle who ultimately endured."" - Southwestern Historical Quarterly»
“The Lonesome Plains is never flashy, but it’s a powerful book that quietly and slowly penetrates deeply into the reader’s soul and brings vividly to life a bit of American history that isn’t so long gone.” —Washington Times
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“The Lonesome Plains is never flashy, but it’s a powerful book that quietly and slowly penetrates deeply into the reader’s soul and brings vividly to life a bit of American history that isn’t so long gone.” —Washington Times
“This volume constitutes a landmark study, the reading of which is essential for any historical understanding of panhandle Texas.”—Choice
“In allowing these early pioneers to tell their own story, Fairchild places them at the center of the settlement drama, and portrays them as people engaged in a desperate, lonely struggle who ultimately endured.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Texas A & M University Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781623497873
- Utgivelsesår
- 2024
- Format
- 24 x 16 cm
Om forfatteren
Louis Fairchild retired as a professor of psychology at West Texas A&M University. A graduate of Baylor University and Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, he holds a PhD from the University of Houston. He is the author of
They Called It the War Effort: Oral Histories from World War II.
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«The Lonesome Plains is never flashy, but it's a powerful book that quietly and slowly penetrates deeply into the reader's soul and brings vividly to life a bit of American history that isn't so long gone."" - Washington Times
""This volume constitutes a landmark study, the reading of which is essential for any historical understanding of panhandle Texas."" - Choice
""In allowing these early pioneers to tell their own story, Fairchild places them at the center of the settlement drama and portrays them as people engaged in a desperate, lonely struggle who ultimately endured."" - Southwestern Historical Quarterly»
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