Jane's window : 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
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| Autore: |
Sibley Jane Dunn <1924->
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| Titolo: |
Jane's window : 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
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| Pubblicazione: | College Station, : Texas A&M University Press, 2013 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (394 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 976.4/063092 |
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| Soggetto topico: | Women music patrons - Texas - Austin |
| Music patrons - Texas - Austin | |
| Women philanthropists - Texas - Austin | |
| Philanthropists - Texas - Austin | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Austin (Tex.) Biography |
| Fort Stockton (Tex.) Biography | |
| Altri autori: |
ComerJim <1944->
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| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Jane's window |
| ISBN: | 1-60344-979-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910813472303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Clayton Wheat Williams Texas life series ; ; no. 14.