Blades in the Sky: Windmilling Through the Eyes of B. H. Tex Burdick

by B.H. "Tex" Burdick Sr., T. Lindsay Baker, B. H. Burdick Sr.

Book Overview

No water ever tasted better than when it came up clear and cool from deep in the ground, its flow pulsing to the steady rhythm of the wind-driven pump. . . . Windmill men such as Tex Burdick and others described in Baker's narrative deserve much credit for making life possible in semi-desert rural areas of Texas, New Mexico, and other parts of the West. --Elmer Kelton, from the foreword During the Great Depression the windmillers of the Burdick &...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896722945
• ISBN13: 9780896722941
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 107 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.5" x 9.5"