Harsh Country, Hard Times - Clayton Wheat Williams and the Transformation of the Trans-Pecos

Informationen zum Autor JANET WILLIAMS POLLARD collected and organized her father's archival materials, visited the sites in France where he was stationed in World War I, traveled throughout Texas and New Mexico to retrace her father's career, and listened to and recorded stories told by relatives and friends. She now lives in Midland. LOUIS GWIN taught in Virginia Tech's Department of Communication for fifteen years. The author of Speak No Evil: The Promotional Heritage of Nuclear Risk Communication (Praeger, 1990), he lives in Henderson, Nevada. Klappentext Clayton Wheat Williams, West Texas oilman, rancher, civic leader, veteran of the Great War left behind a treasure trove of letters, personal papers and writings, and interviews with his family, helping document in rich detail the history of an unforgiving land as well as what life was like during a pivotal period of American history.

Product details

• Authors: Louis Gwin, Janet Williams Pollard, Janet Williams/ Gwin Pollard
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2011
• EAN: 9781603442831
• ISBN: 978-1-60344-283-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Clayton Wheat Williams Texas L; Clayton Wheat Williams Texas L
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries