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"Big Thicket Legacy arrives just in time for a cozy fall read." -- Port Arthur News
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A very special and experienced wisdom,
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This review is from: Big Thicket Legacy (Temple Big Thicket Series) (Paperback)
Collaboratively compiled and co-edited by lifelong naturalists Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller, Big Thicket Legacy is a compendium of engaging and informative anecdotes about life and living in the Big Thicket country, which is a nearly impassable area of Texas territory that only a few pioneers dared to brave. In those days, only the heartiest of individuals and families could call a place within the heart of the Big Thicket home; their tales have become a part of Texas folklore, and in Big Thicket Legacy are preserved to available to the general reading public, thereby recounting a very special experienced wisdom for new generations of Texans.
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I grew up in East Texas and have lived around the Big Thicket all my life. As a child, I heard my grandfather and his brother tell tales of the bears and "panthers" they had hunted in the early 1900's. I picked this book up one afternoon and began to skim it, and I was hooked within minutes. I couldn't put it down. In the 60's and 70's the authors interviewed many older residents of the Big Thicket area, allowing the old-timers to simply relate their rememberances, from the 1860's on up into the oil boom and logging days of the early 20th century. The dialect is distinct, and the authors do a good job of conveying the pronunciation. The stories these people tell of the hardships and yet the wonder of living in a true wilderness is simply fascinating. If you have any interest in the Big Thicket area of Texas, or if you just enjoy tales of life in the "wild and wooly days", then you will certainly enjoy these stories. It's truly a wonder that these folks survived the hard life and wild animals! My wife and I were so enthralled with these stories,that we found time a few days later to drive over and visit some of the remaining thicket, near Saratoga, TX.
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"Aunt Ell" Walker, as she was affectionately known, lived ninety-nine years within seven miles of where she was born. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sour Lake, Brown Wiggins, Black Creek, Sam Houston, Carter Hart, Lance Rosier, Bill Willie, Civil War, Jude Hart, Leak Bevil, Arden Hooks, Little Richard, Bud Hooks, Richard Bevil, Hardy Farmer, Roscoe Crouch, Ellen Walker, Honey Island, Uncle John, Brunce Jordan, Floyd Warren, Little Rock, Old Hardin, Evie Brown, James Addison New!
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"Aunt Ell" Walker, as she was affectionately known, lived ninety-nine years within seven miles of where she was born. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Sour Lake, Brown Wiggins, Black Creek, Sam Houston, Carter Hart, Lance Rosier, Bill Willie, Civil War, Jude Hart, Leak Bevil, Arden Hooks, Little Richard, Bud Hooks, Richard Bevil, Hardy Farmer, Roscoe Crouch, Ellen Walker, Honey Island, Uncle John, Brunce Jordan, Floyd Warren, Little Rock, Old Hardin, Evie Brown, James Addison New!
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- The Civil War by Robert P. Jordan on page 59, page 63, and page 100
- The Trinity River by Luther Smith on page 91
- Saving the Big Thicket: From Exploration to Preservation, 1685-2003 (Temple Big Thicket Series) by James J. Cozine Jr. on page 277
- 2001: A Texas Folklore Odyssey (Publications of the Texas Folklore Society) by Francis Edward Abernethy on page 24
- Paddling the Wild Neches (River Books, sponsored by The River Systems Institute at Texas State University) by Richard M. Donovan in Back Matter
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