The lonesome plains
Subtitle: death and revival on an American frontier
By: Louis Fairchild.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: West Texas A&M University series ;; no. 7
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 323
Subjects: Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas, West.; Pioneers -- Texas, West -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.; Pioneers -- Texas, West -- Psychology.; Loneliness -- Texas, West -- History -- 19th century.; Solitude -- Texas, West -- History -- 19th century.; Funeral rites and ceremonies -- Texas, West -- History -- 19th century.; Camp meetings -- Texas, West -- History -- 19th century.; Texas, West -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.; Texas, West -- Religious life and customs -- 19th century.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter; title: 1. Brave Cheers But Many Tears: Departure 3; title: 2. Over the Threshold: All Things New 13; title: 3. Fearful Solitude 27; title: 4. Such a Country as This: Loneliness 41; title: a. The Insecurity of Life: Sickness and Accidents 59; title: 6. Death's Visitation 73; title: 7. Neglected and Forgotten: Lonely Graves in; title: Lonely Places 87; title: 8. The Sounds of Entombment I07; title: 9. Meeting Time 129; title: 10. Camp Meetings-Half-Vacation 143; title: 11. Camp Meetings-Half-Revival 169; title: 12. Fellowship of the Lonely 197.