Francis Abernathy 291 pages softcover
A book of folk building in Texas, that ranges across the state in word
and photograph. It explores the pine buildings of settlers in East
Texas, those of oak in the Western Cross Timbers, and the rock homes of
European migrants into Central Texas. West Texans of the Pecos, who had
neither rocks nor logs to build with, mixed mud and grass, made adobe
brick, and built in traditions borrowed from the Mexican-Indian
population already settled there. These were the folk, building out of
the environment, wasting nothing, building forms to suit their needs.
Germans, Poles, Norse, and Alsatians coming straight from the Old World
with their countries' ways of building in mind had to adapt to the new
materials and learn from the older Anglo settlers the methods of putting
the materials together.
