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The activities of a young boy on a small farm in the Texas Cross Timbers during the 1880s seem especially distant today. No one can remember the adventure of a sixteen-and-a-half-mile journey, which consumed the greater part of a day; or hurried predawn dressing in a frosty cold loft while the fragrance of a hearty breakfast wafted upward through the floor cracks; or a two-room schoolhouse, where the last half of Friday afternoon was given over to "speaking pieces" or to spelling and ciphering matches. Through the recollections of Edward Everett Dale we are able to view a pattern of life in rural America now gone forever. For The Cross Timbers is a story which, with but a few minor variations, could have been told about a vast number of small boys on farms cleared from the virgin forests in the timbered regions of many states.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: The Cross Timbers
• Subtitle: Memories of a North Texas Boyhood
• Author: Edward Everett Dale
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 198
• EAN: 9780292740693
• ISBN: 0292740697
• ID: 04571846
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 15. March 2012

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