A fascinating collection of oral history interviews details Texas in the early twentieth century and how life in the Lone Star State helped the interviewees achieve success.
An excellent book of oral history...This is an engaging book to read, with 47 Texans from various walks of life talking about their Texas childhoods.
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Growing Up in the Lone Star State] captures the grit, determination, hardships and joys of growing up in a land of opportunity.
Journalists Gaylon Finklea Hecker and Marianne Odom have been collecting oral histories since 1981 and previously collaborated on The Businesses That Built San Antonio. Finklea Hecker is the author of four books about Texas history. Odom is a journalism professor at San Antonio College.