Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley

This book presents a detailed social history of the back-country stockmen, hunters, and woodsmen of the Neches River in southeastern Texas. As in parts of Appalachia, many elements of centuries-old herding and hunting lifeways survived in the Neches Valley into the 1960s. In what early settlers called the "Big Thicket" or "Big Woods," everything outside fenced fields was, by long established custom, "open range," a wooded commons in which hogs, cattle, and backwoodsmen were free to roam. Sitton details their daily activities, relying mainly on oral history interviews he conducted with dozens of Neches VAlley woodsmen.

Author: Thad Sitton
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 09/15/1995
Pages: 328
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d
ISBN13: 9780806139647
ISBN10: 0806139641
BISAC Categories:
- Nature | General
- History | United States | State & Local | Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)