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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786704003321

Autore

Sibley Jane Dunn <1924->

Titolo

Jane's window [[electronic resource] ] : my spirited life in West Texas and Austin / / Jane Dunn Sibley as told to Jim Comer ; foreword by T.R. Fehrenbach ; introduction by James L. Haley

Pubbl/distr/stampa

College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2013

ISBN

1-60344-979-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (394 p.)

Collana

Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ; ; no. 14

Altri autori (Persone)

ComerJim <1944->

Disciplina

976.4/063092

B

Soggetti

Women music patrons - Texas - Austin

Music patrons - Texas - Austin

Women philanthropists - Texas - Austin

Philanthropists - Texas - Austin

Austin (Tex.) Biography

Fort Stockton (Tex.) Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Prologue: Mahala Milligan -- Gifts from the past -- Growing up in Fort Stockton -- The university in wartime -- D.J. Sibley -- On my own -- An unconventional romance -- An 'old maid' no more -- Motherhood -- Preserving history and moving a church -- Our world explodes while I'm washing sheets -- Laguna Gloria -- The castle -- The symphony -- Symphony Square -- People I have been privileged to meet and to know -- Buzzard feathers and movie stars -- Rock art: not all masterpieces are in museums -- Lifetime friendships -- Around the world -- The Long Center -- Jake: 1950-1991 -- Mahala: 1952-2003 -- Hiram: 1957- -- D.J.: the great survivor -- The joys of unsolicited advice -- Appendix: Chronology: Jane Horton Dunn Sibley.

Sommario/riassunto

On the southern portion of what was known as the Sibley's Pezuna del Caballo (Horse's Hoof) Ranch in West Texas' Culberson County are two mountains that nearly meet, forming a gap that frames a salt flat where Indians and later, pioneers came to gather salt to preserve foodstuffs. According to the US Geological Survey, the gap that provides this



breathtaking and historic view is named "Jane's Window." In Jane's Window: My Spirited Life in West Texas and Austin, Jane Dunn Sibley, the inimitable namesake of that mountain gap, gives readers a similar