Built in Texas edited by Francis Edward Abernethy ; line drawings by Reese Kennedy. - 2nd ed. - 1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 291 pages) : illustrations. - Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; no. 42 . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .

Original hard copy first edition copyright held by The Texas Folklore Society, 1979. Includes index.

Texas folk building: an introduction -- "Built in Texas" / "The cultural geography of folk building forms in Texas" / Methods and materials-- "Building in Texas, 1844-1845" / "Texas dugouts" / "Adobe: earth, straw, and water" / "Log corner notching in Texas" / "Texas tie houses" / Style and form -- "Comanche tepees" / "Pueblo Indian housing in Texas: Ysleta del Sur" / "Alabama-Coushatta buildings" / "The old Koch House" / "Alsatian architecture in Medina County" / "Silesian Polish folk architecture in Texas" / "A Russian-German folk house in north Texas" / "Shotgun houses and shacks" / Barns and outbuildings -- "Barns and outbuildings" / Gates and fences -- "Rails, rocks, and pickets: traditional farmstead fencing in Texas" / "Gates" / "The devil's hatband in the Lone Star State: The introduction of barbed wire in Texas" / Holding water -- "Vanes in the wind: art and custom in Texas windmills" / "Tank, tub, and cistern" / "When the creeks run dry: water milling in the German hill country" / Restoration and preservation -- "The restoration of the Rice Family Log Home" / "Outdoor museums in Texas" / F.E. Abernethy -- G. Loyd Collier -- Prince Karl von Solms-Braunfels -- Ann Carpenter -- John O. West, Roberto Gonzalez -- Terry G. Jordan -- Pat Ellis Taylor -- Ferdinand Roemer -- Thomas A. Green, Jr. -- Howard N. Martin -- Connie Hall -- Terri Ross -- T. Lindsay Baker -- Terry G. Jordan -- Sylvia Grider -- Thomas J. Stanly -- Lonn Taylor -- C.W. Wimberley -- Robert J. Duncan -- James M. Day -- Ernest B. Speck -- Glen Lich, Lera Tyler -- Steve Whiston -- Willard B. Robinson.

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

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Vernacular architecture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Customs & Traditions.
Vernacular architecture--Texas.


Texas.


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