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"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.
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Camp meetings, Frontier and pioneer life, Funeral rites and ceremonies, History, Loneliness, Pioneers, Psychology, Religious life and customs, Social life and customs, Solitude, State & Local, Begrafenissen, United States Local History, Manners and customs, HISTORY, History & Archaeology, Opwekkingsbewegingen, Eenzaamheid, General, Sociale relaties, Regions & Countries - Americas, Frontier and pioneer life, texas, Texas, history, Texas, social life and customsPlaces
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Lonesome Plains: Death and Revival on an American Frontier
2021, Texas A&M University Press
in English
1623497876 9781623497873
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The lonesome plains: death and revival on an American frontier
2002, Texas A&M University Press
in English
- 1st ed.
1585441821 9781585441822
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Table of Contents
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1. Brave Cheers But Many Tears: Departure 3
2. Over the Threshold: All Things New 13
3. Fearful Solitude 27
4. Such a Country as This: Loneliness 41
a. The Insecurity of Life: Sickness and Accidents 59
6. Death's Visitation 73
7. Neglected and Forgotten: Lonely Graves in
Lonely Places 87
8. The Sounds of Entombment I07
9. Meeting Time 129
10. Camp Meetings-Half-Vacation 143
11. Camp Meetings-Half-Revival 169
12. Fellowship of the Lonely 197.
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-313) and index.
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