By Gaylon Finklea Hecker and Marianne Odom
A fascinating collection of oral history interviews details Texas in the early twentieth century and how life in the Lone Star State helped the interviewees achieve success.
Series: Tower Books Imprint
Publisher: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History
Book Details: 400 pages, 6 x 9 inches, illustrations
ISBN: 978-0-9997318-4-0
Publication Status: In Print
The 47 oral history interviews begin with tales from the early 1900s when Texas was an agrarian state and continue through the growth of major cities and the country’s race to the moon. Interviewees recalled life in former slave colonies, gigantic ranches, tiny farms, sharecropper fields, one-horse towns, and big-city neighborhoods, with relatable stories as diverse as the state’s geography. Their absorbing reflections are stories of good, bad, hope, despair, poverty, wealth, depression, and inspiration, which would have been different if lived anywhere but Texas.
