Author:
Fairchild, Louis.
Imprint:College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2002.
Physical Descriptionxxii, 323 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Note:Machine generated contents note: Chapter -- 1. Brave Cheers But Many Tears: Departure 3 -- 2. Over the Threshold: All Things New 13 -- 3. Fearful Solitude 27 -- 4. Such a Country as This: Loneliness 41 -- a. The Insecurity of Life: Sickness and Accidents 59 -- 6. Death's Visitation 73 -- 7. Neglected and Forgotten: Lonely Graves in -- Lonely Places 87 -- 8. The Sounds of Entombment I07 -- 9. Meeting Time 129 -- 10. Camp Meetings-Half-Vacation 143 -- 11. Camp Meetings-Half-Revival 169 -- 12. Fellowship of the Lonely 197.
Note:"Loneliness pervaded the lives of pioneers on the American plains, including the empty expanses of West Texas. Most settlers lived in isolation broken only by occasional community gatherings such as funerals and religious revivals. In The Lonesome Plains, Louis Fairchild mines the letters and journals of West Texas settlers, as well as contemporary fiction and poetry, to record the emotions attending solitude and the ways people sought relief."--BOOK JACKET.
Electronic Resource:Electronic version:
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy031/2001006555.html -- Materials specified: Table of contents
