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Backwoodsmen - by Thad Sitton (Paperback)

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  • Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a BIg Thicket Valley presents a detailed social history of the back-country stockmen, hunters, and woodsmen of the Neches River in southeastern Texas.
  • Author(s): Thad Sitton
  • 328 Pages
  • Nature, General

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Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a BIg Thicket Valley presents a detailed social history of the back-country stockmen, hunters, and woodsmen of the Neches River in southeastern Texas. Labeled "crackers," "pineys," "sandhillers," and "nesters" by townspeople across the upland South, southern backwoodsmen have often been dismissed by historians. One of the first works to challenge these stereotypes was Frank Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South (1949). In Backwoodsmen, Thad Sitton follows Owsley's stockmen and small farmers into the twentieth century.

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. And roam they did--not only stockmen, with their "rooter hogs" and "woods cattle," but also tir cutters, grey-moss gatherers, hunters, trappers, fishermen, and moonshiners. Sitton details their daily activities, relying mainly on oral history interviews he conducted with dozens of Neches Valley woodsmen. Along the edge of river bottoms, at the end of county roads, the author found hist story, still alive in the memories of the people of the Neches River.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .73 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.06 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 328
Genre: Nature
Sub-Genre: General
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Thad Sitton
Language: English
Street Date: May 15, 2008
TCIN: 88979628
UPC: 9780806139647
Item Number (DPCI): 247-57-3463
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Q: What historical stereotypes are challenged in the book?

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Q: How does the author gather information for the book?

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