Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley

by Thad Sitton

Book Overview

Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a BIg Thicket Valley presents a detailed social history of the back-country stockmen, hunters, and woodsmen of the Neches River in southeastern Texas. Labeled crackers, pineys, sandhillers, and nesters by townspeople across the upland South, southern backwoodsmen have often been dismissed by historians. One of the first works to challenge these stereotypes was Frank Owsley's Plain Folk of the Old South (1949)...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806139641
• ISBN13: 9780806139647
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"