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Blades in the Sky
Windmilling Through the Eyes of B. H. Tex Burdick
T Lindsay Baker, B H Burdick
Livre broché | Anglais
27,95 €
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Description
No water ever tasted better than when it came up clear and cool from deep in the ground, its flow pulsing to the steady rhythm of the wind-driven pump. . . . Windmill men such as Tex Burdick and others described in Baker's narrative deserve much credit for making life possible in semi-desert rural areas of Texas, New Mexico, and other parts of the West. --Elmer Kelton, from the foreword During the Great Depression the windmillers of the Burdick & Burdick Company of El Paso, one of the largest windmill distributorships in the United States, crisscrossed the desert Southwest to bring wind power and water to a parched land. Battling blazing sun, dust storms, dizzying heights, and the hazards of cacti and rattlesnakes, they worked seven days a week from sunup to sundown and counted themselves lucky to earn two dollars a day. From 1923 to 1942, company owner B. H. "Tex" Burdick, Sr., photographed his men at work, producing a chronicle of the windmillers' lives. Fifty of his remarkable images, paired here with text by historian T. Lindsay Baker, preserve the fascinating story of the industry that made western settlement possible.
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- Nombre de pages :
- 107
- Langue:
- Anglais
Caractéristiques
- EAN:
- 9780896722941
- Date de parution :
- 15-01-92
- Format:
- Livre broché
- Format numérique:
- Trade paperback (VS)
- Dimensions :
- 217 mm x 241 mm
- Poids :
- 412 g
