Harder Than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country

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Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2005
Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award, Best Book of Nonfiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 2005

Until the U.S. Army claimed 300-plus square miles of hardscrabble land to build Fort Hood in 1942, small communities like Antelope, Pidcoke, Stampede, and Okay scratched out a living by growing cotton and ranching goats on the less fertile edges of the Texas Hill Country. While a few...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292702388
• ISBN13: 9780292702387
• Release Date: March 2004
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"