Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture - Hardcover

Jordan, Terry G.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0292780230 ISBN 13: 9780292780231

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 1978

Synopsis

Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log buildings among several different Texas cultural groups and traces their construction techniques from their European and eastern American origins.

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Review:

What is undoubtedly one of the most important books in recent years on Old West architecture . . . will cause many a reader to dream of owning his or her own log cabin far from the bustle of civilization.

So well written that it will appeal not only to folklorists and architectural historians but also to anyone who has ever stopped the car on a Sunday afternoon and walked across a pasture to look at an old house.

About the Author:

The late Terry G. Jordan held the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas in the geography department at the University of Texas at Austin.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0292780230
• ISBN 13: 9780292780231
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 270