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The Lonesome Plains. Death and Revival on an American Frontier.
Louis Fairchild
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Description for The Lonesome Plains. Death and Revival on an American Frontier.
Loneliness pervaded the lives of pioneers on the American plains. In this book, Louis Fairchild mines the letters and journals of West Texas settlers, as well as contemporary fiction and poetry, to record the emotions attending solitude and the ways people sought relief. Series: West Texas A&M University Series. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 b&w photographs, bibliography, index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 780.
Loneliness pervaded the lives of pioneers on the American plains, including those in the empty expanses of West Texas. In The Lonesome Plains, Louis Fairchild mines the letters and journals of West Texas settlers, as well as contemporary fiction and poetry, to record the emotions attending solitude and the ways people sought relief. Hungering for neighborliness, people came together in times of misfortune - sickness, accident, and death - and at annual religious services. Fairchild describes the practices that grew up around these two focal points of social life. He recounts the building of coffins and the preparation of bodies ... Read more
Loneliness pervaded the lives of pioneers on the American plains, including those in the empty expanses of West Texas. In The Lonesome Plains, Louis Fairchild mines the letters and journals of West Texas settlers, as well as contemporary fiction and poetry, to record the emotions attending solitude and the ways people sought relief. Hungering for neighborliness, people came together in times of misfortune - sickness, accident, and death - and at annual religious services. Fairchild describes the practices that grew up around these two focal points of social life. He recounts the building of coffins and the preparation of bodies ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Series
West Texas A&M University Series
Number of Pages
320
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781585441822
SKU
V9781585441822
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About Louis Fairchild
LOUIS FAIRCHILD is a professor of psychology at West Texas A&M University who lives in Canyon, Texas. He is the author of They Called It the War Effort: Oral Histories from World War II.
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