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Summary:

Photographs and text describe historical buildings across Texas that were built with nature-made materials such as rocks, logs, and mud.

Table of Contents:

• Texas folk building: an introduction
• "Built in Texas" / F.E. Abernethy
• "The cultural geography of folk building forms in Texas" / G. Loyd Collier
• Methods and materials
• "Building in Texas, 1844-1845" / Prince Karl von Solms-Braunfels
• "Texas dugouts" / Ann Carpenter
• "Adobe: earth, straw, and water" / John O. West, Roberto Gonzalez
• "Log corner notching in Texas" / Terry G. Jordan
• "Texas tie houses" / Pat Ellis Taylor
• Style and form
• "Comanche tepees" / Ferdinand Roemer
• "Pueblo Indian housing in Texas: Ysleta del Sur" / Thomas A. Green, Jr.
• "Alabama-Coushatta buildings" / Howard N. Martin
• "The old Koch House" / Connie Hall
• "Alsatian architecture in Medina County" / Terri Ross
• "Silesian Polish folk architecture in Texas" / T. Lindsay Baker
• "A Russian-German folk house in north Texas" / Terry G. Jordan
• "Shotgun houses and shacks" / Sylvia Grider
• Barns and outbuildings
• "Barns and outbuildings" / Thomas J. Stanly

• Gates and fences
• "Rails, rocks, and pickets: traditional farmstead fencing in Texas" / Lonn Taylor
• "Gates" / C.W. Wimberley
• "The devil's hatband in the Lone Star State: The introduction of barbed wire in Texas" / Robert J. Duncan
• Holding water
• "Vanes in the wind: art and custom in Texas windmills" / James M. Day
• "Tank, tub, and cistern" / Ernest B. Speck
• "When the creeks run dry: water milling in the German hill country" / Glen Lich, Lera Tyler
• Restoration and preservation
• "The restoration of the Rice Family Log Home" / Steve Whiston
• "Outdoor museums in Texas" / Willard B. Robinson.

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Contributors:

Abernethy, Francis Edward

Texas Folklore Society

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Built in Texas (2nd ed.; Denton, Tex. : University of North Texas Press, 2000 — ISBN 157441092X; LCCN 00029877; OCLC Number 43641467)

Related Series:

Publications of the Texas Folklore Society; no. 42

Subjects:

Vernacular architecture — Texas

Vernacular architecture

Texas

General Notes:

Includes index.
Original hard copy first edition copyright held by The Texas Folklore Society, 1979.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 291 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GR1 .T4 no.42 2000eb

ISBNs:

0585268177
9780585268170
157441092X [Invalid]
9781574410921 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1021232304
45729816 [Invalid]