The Lonesome Plains: Death and Revival on an American Frontier

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Author: Louis Fairchild

ISBN-10: 1585441821

ISBN-13: 9781585441822

Category: United States History - 19th Century - Westward Migration & Development

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Loneliness pervaded the lives of pioneers on the American plains, including the empty expanses of West Texas. Most settlers lived in isolation broken only by occasional community gatherings such as funerals and religious revivals. In The Lonesome Plains, Louis Fairchild mines the letters and journals of West Texas settlers, as well as contemporary fiction and poetry, to record the emotions attending solitude and the ways people sought relief.