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The lonesome plains : death and revival on an American frontier /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fairchild, Louis
Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2002]
Edition:1st ed.
Series:West Texas A & M University series ; no. 7.
Subjects:
Frontier and pioneer life > Texas, West.
Texas, West > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Texas, West > Religious life and customs > 19th century.
Pioneers > Texas, West > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Pioneers > Texas, West > Psychology.
Loneliness > Texas, West > History > 19th century.
Solitude > Texas, West > History > 19th century.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > Texas, West > History > 19th century.
Camp meetings > Texas, West > History > 19th century.
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Table of Contents:
  • Brave cheers but many tears : departure
  • Over the threshold : all things new
  • Fearful solitude
  • Such a country as this : loneliness
  • The insecurity of life : sickness and accidents
  • Death's visitation
  • Neglected and forgotten : lonely graves in lonely places
  • The sounds of entombment
  • Meeting time
  • Camp meetings--half-vacation
  • Camp meetings--half-revival
  • Fellowship of the lonely.