Name: People of the Wheat. Culture and Cultivation in North Texas (en Inglés)
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Author: Rebecca Sharpless
ISBN: 9781477333327

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People of the Wheat. Culture and Cultivation in North Texas (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

Editorial

University of Texas Press

Autor

Rebecca Sharpless

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

272

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

22.9x15.2 cm

ISBN13

9781477333327

People of the Wheat. Culture and Cultivation in North Texas (en Inglés)

Rebecca Sharpless (Autor) · University of Texas Press · Tapa Dura

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How wheat growing, milling, and baking shaped the people and culture of North Texas. In the national imaginary, America’s amber fields of grain lie in the country’s center, but for more than a century, they also grew across one pocket of the South: North Texas. From the 1840s to the 1970s, the state's agriculture, dominated in lore by cotton in the east and livestock in the open range, was heavily invested in the cultivation, processing, sale, and consumption of wheat. Recalling a forgotten history, Rebecca Sharpless shows how the rhythms of the wheat harvest—and the evolution of the milling, distribution, and baking industries—governed daily life in what is now known as the Dallas–Forth Worth Metroplex. In the 1840s, Anglo settlers discovered that grain flourished in North Texas and quickly built an economy that included wheat in fields, mills, and kitchens. After the Civil War, hand labor gave way to mechanization, greatly increasing production. Commercial bakeries churned out novel confections, and big cities were built on the bounty of the countryside. In the second half of the twentieth century, as production moved northward, industrial milling and baking declined, but home baking boomed, flour advertising supported regional music, and wheat fortunes financed the region’s cultural life. Sharpless covers 150 years of wheat’s very human history and shows how the labor that cultivated it, the sustenance it provided, and the prosperity it generated left an indelible mark on the people and institutions of Texas.