The Old Home Place. Farming On The West Texas Frontier

DAVID L. CAFFEY

Publication: Eakin Press, 1981, Burnet, Texas

First edition. 8vo. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Faux leather, titles stamped in gilt on the spine, map of Texas and part of New Mexico on the front and rear endpapers, x, 213 pp., frontispiece, introduction, illustrated, maps, notes on sources.

Gary L. Nale: "…David L. Caffey has written a fine portrayal of life in rural West Texas. This book is a worthy addition to the literature dealing with the social and agricultural history of the Southwest." Shortly after the turn of the century, the author's grandparents left Mississippi for the newly opened lands in Jones County, West Texas. This book recounts their life from about 1902 through World War II. It describes their daily experience tending livestock, killing hogs, clearing brush, plowing, planting, chopping, and picking cotton. In writing this, the author based it primarily on family recollection. Book is illustrated with 34 old photographic views and 3 maps custom prepared to accompany the narrative. An historic Texas map is reproduced on the front and back endpapers. An authentic account of West Texas life in the period.

Fine bright copy in lightly used dust jacket with light wear to the spine ends, corners and extremities with a small chip to the top of the rear cover.