Tales From the Big Thicket

By Francis Edward Abernethy

Book Overview

The Big Thicket of East Texas is one of the few areas left in the United States where people can still establish a close and friendly intimacy with untamed nature. The secretive beauty and mystery of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292736363
• ISBN13: 9780292736368
• Release Date: January 1966
• Publisher: Univ of Texas Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 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.