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9781574410921

Built in Texas

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  • ISBN13:

    9781574410921

  • ISBN10:

    157441092X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2000-08-01
  • Publisher: Texas A & M Univ Pr
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Table of Contents

Preface v
Table of Contents
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Texas Folk Building: An Introduction
1(44)
``Built in Texas''
3(18)
F. E. Abernethy
``The Cultural Geography of Folk Building Forms in Texas''
21(24)
G. Loyd Collier
Methods and Materials
45(48)
``Building in Texas, 1844-1845''
47(6)
Prince Karl von Solms-Braunfels
``Texas Dugouts''
53(8)
Ann Carpenter
``Adobe: Earth, Straw, and Water''
61(18)
John O. West
Roberto Gonzalez
``Log Corner Notching in Texas''
79(6)
Terry G. Jordan
``Texas Tie Houses''
85(8)
Pat Ellis Taylor
Style and Form
93(54)
``Comanche Tepees''
95(2)
Ferdinand Roemer
``Pueblo Indian Housing in Texas: Ysleta del Sur''
97(4)
Thomas A. Green, Jr
``Alabama-Coushatta Buildings''
101(6)
Howard N. Martin
``The Old Koch House''
107(14)
Connie Hall
``Alsatian Architecture in Medina County''
121(10)
Terri Ross
``Silesian Polish Folk Architecture in Texas''
131(6)
T. Lindsay Baker
``A Russian-German Folk House in North Texas''
137(4)
Terry G. Jordan
``Shotgun Houses and Shacks''
141(6)
Sylvia Grider
Barns and Outbuildings
147(28)
``Barns and Outbuildings''
149(26)
Thomas J. Stanly
Gates and Fences
175(34)
``Rails, Rocks, and Pickets: Traditional Farmstead Fencing in Texas''
177(14)
Lonn Taylor
``Gates''
191(6)
C. W. Wimberley
``The Devil's Hatband in the Lone Star State: The Introduction of Barbed Wire in Texas''
197(12)
Robert J. Duncan
Holding Water
209(38)
``Vanes in the wind: Art and Custom in Texas Windmills''
211(14)
James M. Day
``Tank, Tub, and Cistern''
225(12)
Ernest B. Speck
``When the Creeks Run Dry: Water Milling in the German Hill Country''
237(10)
Glen Lich
Lera Tyler
Restoration and Preservation
247(2)
``The Restoration of the Rice Family Log Home''
249(10)
Steve Whiston
``Outdoor Museums in Texas''
259
Willard B. Robinson

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