Table of Contents

• Foreword (Maxine Johnston)
• Preface and Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction: Plain Folks (Thad Sitton)
• Chapter 2. The Photographic Legacy of the Renaissance Man of East Texas (C. E. Hunt)
• Chapter 3. Photo Sequences, With Introductory Essays
  • Southerners in the Big Woods
  • Porch Portraits
  • Dogs
  • Camps
  • Deer Hunts
  • Farming: From Hand to Mouth
  • Syrup Mills
  • Rooter Hogs and Southern Stock Raising
  • Tie Makers
  • Stave Makers
  • Chimney Daubings
  • Peckerwood Sawmills
  • Major Logging Operations
  • Turpentining
  • Town Life
  • Church Picnic at Pine Ridge
  • Funerals and Golden Weddings
  • Fundamentalist Church Services
  • Dances and Other Amusements
  • Lance Rosier and Family
• Notes
• Bibliography

Promotional Information

An irreplaceable collection of photographs that documents ways of living off the land that once were common across the entire South.

About the Author

Larry Jene Fisher (1902-1956) has been called "the Renaissance man of East Texas." He worked as an aviator, musician, photographer, playwright, filmmaker, and passionate researcher. He lived in Saratoga, Texas, while making these photographs.

Thad Sitton is an award-winning historian who specializes in life in the Texas countryside before World War II.

C. E. Hunt is a writer and is active in conserving the natural and cultural heritage of Texas.

Reviews

"Larry Jene Fisher's pictures are beautiful and insightful records of a time that, as Sitton points out, is the end of a time... For which reason, these pictures and Sitton and Hunt's commentaries are priceless reminders of a piece of history, where some of us came from, and what we were and how we lived... This is a jewel of a book." F. E. Abernethy, Executive Secretary and Editor (1971-2004), Texas Folklore Society, and author of Tales from the Big Thicket