Built in Texas

About this book

A book of folk building in Texas Built in Texas ranges across the state in word and photograph to explore the building of: settlers who tarried on the timbered lands of East Texas and built with the readily available pine logs in the traditions of their fathers; those in the Western Cross Timbers used oak; European migrants into Central Texas stacked rocks into houses in the fashions learned in the Old Country; 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.