One Christmas in Old Tascosa

by Firman, Casandra

• ISBN13: 9780896725881
• ISBN10: 089672588X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: Texas Tech Univ Pr

Summary

"The year was 1931 - well into the Great Depression and on the brink of the worst days of the Dust Bowl. Tascosa, once a booming Wild West town, complete with outlaws, cowboys, and gamblers, was all but deserted. Its only resident was Frenchie McCormick, a famous dance-hall girl from Tascosa's glory days. In 1931 she was a frail and lonely woman in her eighties, living in a tumble-down adobe shack and waiting for Tascosa to rise again." "This story is about Tascosa, Frenchie, the Christmas pageant of 1931, and twelve children stranded in a one-room school house by an untimely blizzard."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
November 2004 -- A Prologue	3	(2)
Tascosa, 1931	5	(4)
Tascosa, 1880	9	(6)
The Morning of the Pageant	15	(8)
Our School Day Begins	23	(6)
Mrs. Talley Plans Our Day	29	(4)
The Pencil	33	(10)
The Snow	43	(4)
The Wind Comes	47	(4)
The Blizzard	51	(8)
Prints on the Window	59	(4)
The Stranger in the Storm	63	(6)
Frenchie	69	(6)
May 2, 2005 -- An Epilogue	75	(4)
Afterword	79	(4)
Frenchie McCormick	83	(4)
Acknowledgments	87	(4)
Photo Credits	91