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authors Anne Keene and Ken Roberts with moderator Stephanie Barko at the Texas Book Fest
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Austin American Statesman
Michael Barnes writes about Austin's people and places.
In December 2018, he listed
The Cedar Choppers among the
"Top Texas books of 2018"
In May 2020 he added The Cedar Choppers as
Meet the Unruly Clan That Once Ruled the Hill Country
By Wes Ferguson
Living hard and free, cedar choppers clashed with respectable townsfolk in the mid-20th century.
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Texas Matters
is a half hour program hosted by David Martin Davies on Texas Public Radio.
In this episode, author Ken Roberts talks about a tight society of fiercely independent country folk – known as "The Cedar Choppers” on May 21, 2018
For more than 150 years, the hills and cedar breaks of west central Texas was populated by a tight society of fiercely independent country folk known as "The Cedar Choppers." They were Scottish, Irish and Welsh migrants from Appalachia who scratched out a way of life in the hard scrabble of the hill country, making a living by cutting and selling cedar logs.
Who are these people? And where did they go? Roberts set out to answer those questions and more in his new book The. Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing
In this episode, author Ken Roberts talks about a tight society of fiercely independent country folk – known as "The Cedar Choppers” on May 21, 2018
For more than 150 years, the hills and cedar breaks of west central Texas was populated by a tight society of fiercely independent country folk known as "The Cedar Choppers." They were Scottish, Irish and Welsh migrants from Appalachia who scratched out a way of life in the hard scrabble of the hill country, making a living by cutting and selling cedar logs.
Who are these people? And where did they go? Roberts set out to answer those questions and more in his new book The. Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing
Author digs into the life of the Cedar Choppers
By MIKE EDDLEMAN
Ken Roberts made a living researching marginalized, rural people across the world, studying their migration from the rural lifestyle to the cities.
But it was an unusual people right here in Central Texas that chose not to surrender their lifestyle so easily that captured his imagination. ... more
But it was an unusual people right here in Central Texas that chose not to surrender their lifestyle so easily that captured his imagination. ... more
By Spring Sault, September 2019
"Five years in the making, Roberts’ book is fascinating study of these little-known Texas hillbillies, whose way of life faded with the arrival of the steel fence post, the extended drought of the 1950s and the relentless encroachment of urbanites on their domain."
Meet the Author
John MacCormack
has been covering South Texas and the Mexican border for the past 27 years, first for the Dallas Times Herald and since 1992 for the Express-News.
June, 2020
Ken Roberts studied family histories and perspectives of the Hill Country community known as the cedar choppers
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