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082 0 4 _a976.4060924
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aDumont, Ella Elgar Bird
_eautore
245 1 0 _aElla Elgar Bird Dumont :
_bAn Autobiography of a West Texas Pioneer /
_cElla Elgar Bird Dumont; ed. by Tommy J. Boley.
264 1 _aAustin :
_bUniversity of Texas Press,
_c[2014]
264 4 _c1988
300 _a1 online resource (272 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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347 _atext file
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490 0 _aBarker Texas History Center Series
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tCONTENTS --
_tForeword --
_tPreface --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tAn Autobiography of a West Texas Pioneer --
_tAfterword --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
_uhttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
_fonline access with authorization
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520 _aA crack shot, expert skinner and tanner, seamstress, sculptor, and later writer—a list that only hints at her intelligence and abilities—Ella Elgar Bird Dumont was one of those remarkable women who helped tame the Texas frontier. First married at sixteen to a Texas Ranger, she followed her husband to Comanche Indian country in King County, where they lived in a tepee while participating in the final slaughter of the buffalo. Living off the land until the frontier was opened for ranching, Ella and Tom Bird typified the Old West ideals of self-sufficiency and generosity, with a hesitancy to complain about the hard life in the late 1800s. Yet, in one important way, Ella Dumont was unsuited for life on the frontier. Endowed with an instinctive desire and ability to carve and sculpt, she was largely prevented from pursuing her talents by the responsibilities of marriage and frontier life and later, widowhood with two small children. Even though her second marriage, to Auguste Dumont, made life more comfortable, the realities of her existence still prevented the fulfillment of her artistic longings. Ella Bird Dumont’s memoir is rich with details of the frontier era in Texas, when Indian depredations were still a danger for isolated settlers, where animals ranged close enough to provide dinner and a new pair of gloves, and where sheer existence depended on skill, luck, and the kindness of strangers. The vividness and poignancy of her life, coupled with the wealth of historical material in the editor’s exhaustive notes, make this Texas pioneer’s autobiography a very special book.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Aug 2024)
650 7 _aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General.
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700 1 _aBoley, Tommy J.
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700 1 _aCutrer, Emily
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7560/780897
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780292772144
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