Tales from the Big Thicket

by Francis Edward Abernethy

Book Overview

Abernethy presents the history and folklore of the Big Thicket and its people, including a collection of Alabama-Coushatta tales, a search for hidden Jayhawkers during the Civil War, a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292736363
• ISBN13: 9780292736368
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A great read! If you love the Big Thicket, this is for you!

I really enjoyed the book, it is historical, and very informative. I would reccomend it to all Big Thicket enthusists.

captures the often "forgotten" part of Texas

Abernethy, mainly through oral history, managed to capture a fleeting moment in Texas history just before it died out forever. He interviewed some of the last people still living as settlers in the Thicket as though the 20th century had never arrived. It's a real treasure of a book.