Beneath the Window : Early Ranch Life in the Big Bend Country

A memoir of a young girl's early years of her life on a vast ranch in the Big Bend area of Texas. Her family raised sheep and goats and stuggled against the terrain, weather, panthers, eagles, and other predators during the difficult times of the Depression. Includes charming descriptions of home schooling, best friends, and the social life of people scattered over a huge area. Interesting look at ranching in the area, sheep shearing, predator control and mining in the Big Bend before the Park. Author's family lost their ranch to Big Bend National Park when it was formed in 1944.

Patricia Wilson Clothier spent the first fourteen years of her life (through 1944)on the Wilson Ranch in Big Bend, Texas. In these years she experienced the Big Bend as her own backyard. After formation of Big Bend National Park, she and her family lived in Alpine, Texas, and then moved to Del Rio, Texas, where she graduated from high school.Patricia, an artist and teacher, now lives in Shawnee Mission, Kansas. She and her husband, Grant, built and operated a camp for disadvantaged children in the Missouri Ozarks.