As a Farm Woman Thinks

In twenty-five years of syndicated columns in small-town Texas newspapers between 1930 and 1960, Nellie Witt Spikes described her life on the High Plains, harking back to earlier times and reminiscing about pioneer settlement, farm and small-town culture, women's work, and the natural history of the flatlands and canyons. Engaging and eloquent, her "As a Farm Woman Thinks" columns today conjure up a vivid portrait of a bygone era.

Nellie Witt Spikes's memories and observations of almost seventy years of life on the plains are remarkable for their specificity, liveliness, affection, and pride. Her columns are a treasure trove of West Texas language and habits, a veritable natural history of the area's vegetation and climate, and an exhaustive rendering of farm life on the plains in good and bad times, wartime, old and modern days.

Illustrations
Photographs	p. xi
Maps	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Plainsword	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 3
Settling the Llano Estacado	p. 17
Small Town Life	p. 69
Drought and Dust Storms	p. 95
Women's Work	p. 125
Portraits	p. 159
Natural History of the Llano Estacado	p. 190
The Modernization of Farm Life	p. 210
A Poetry of Place	p. 237
Conclusion	p. 250
Further Reading	p. 253
Index	p. 259
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