{"product_id":"big-thicket-people-larry-jene-fisher-9780292717824","title":"Big Thicket People: Larry Jene Fisher's Photographs of the Last Southern Frontier","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiving off the land--hunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash income--was a way of life that persisted well into the twentieth century in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Before this way of life ended with World War II, professional photographer Larry Jene Fisher spent a decade between the 1930s and 1940s photographing Big Thicket people living and working in the old ways. His photographs, the only known collection on this subject, constitute an irreplaceable record of lifeways that first took root in the southeastern woodlands of the colonial United States and eventually spread all across the Southern frontier.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Thicket People\u003c\/i\u003e presents Fisher's photographs in suites that document a wide slice of Big Thicket life-people, dogs, camps, deer hunts, farming, syrup mills, rooter hogs and stock raising, railroad tie making, barrel stave making, chimney building, peckerwood sawmills, logging, turpentining, town life, church services and picnics, funerals and golden weddings, and dances and other amusements. Accompanying each suite of images is a cultural essay by Thad Sitton, who also introduces the book with a historical overview of life in the Big Thicket. C. E. Hunt provides an informative biography of Larry Jene Fisher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Larry Jene Fisher, Thad Sitton, C. E. Hunt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0292717822\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780292717824\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.19h x 7.30w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReference and Research Bk News\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2008 pg. 68","brand":"Larry Jene Fisher","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43988105036031,"sku":"9780292717824","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a16715eb-287f-4460-b518-6ca7148c6cac.jpg?v=1683292648","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/big-thicket-people-larry-jene-fisher-9780292717824","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}