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Placing the Mother Neff State Park in its historical, cultural, and political milieu, Dan Utley and Jim Steely tell a compelling story of how people decided a particular track of rural farmland was worthy of preservation as a place of refuge and recreation for the public.
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Guided With a Steady Hand : The Cultural Landscape of a Rural Texas Park
author
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Utley, Dan K.; Steely, James Wright.
publisher
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Baylor University
isbn10 | asin
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print isbn13
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9780918954688
ebook isbn13
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9780585110127
language
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English
subject
Mother Neff State Park (Tex.)--History, Neff, Pat Morris,--1871-1952, Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)--Texas--Coryell County, Coryell County (Tex.)--History, Local.
publication date
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1998
lcc
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F392.C8U75 1998eb
ddc
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976.4/515
subject
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Mother Neff State Park (Tex.)--History, Neff, Pat Morris,--1871-1952, Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)--Texas--Coryell County, Coryell County (Tex.)--History, Local.
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Guided With a Steady Hand
The Cultural Landscape of a Rural Texas Park
Dan K. Utley and James W. Steely
Baylor University Press Waco, Texas
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Dedicated to Clay J. Davis, educator, advocate, preservationist, friend
Copyright 1998 by Baylor University Press Waco, Texas 76798
All Rights Reserved
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Utley, Dan K. Guided with a steady hand : the cultural landscape of a rural Texas park / Dan K. Utley and James W. Steely. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-918954-68-1 1. Mother Neff State Park (Tex.)--History. 2. Neff, Pat Morris, 1871-1952. 3. Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)--Texas- Coryell County. 4. Coryell County (Tex.)--History, Local. I. Steely, James Wright. F392.C8U75 1998 976.4'515--dc21 98-26499 CIP
Cover drawing from The Master Plan, Mother Neff State Park, Pat Neff Papers, Texas Collection, Baylor University.
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.
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Contents
Foreword
vii
Preface: Roaming the Cultural Landscape
xi
1 Embracing Change
1
2 A Mother's Will and a Son's Way
13
3 Building a Park
35
4 Camp Life
67
5 Politics and a Park
117
6 Back to Nature
139
Epilogue: Legacies of the CCC at Mother Neff State Park
153
Notes
165
Bibliographic Essay
179
Index
187
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Foreword
The first time I visited the Mother Neff State Park was on the evening of 25 May 1984, when I camped beneath the boughs of some of the same trees nurtured there by Governor Pat Neff. I had been in the field all day, visiting abandoned towns and photographing them for a ghost town book I was writing, and I had just been taking photographs in the nearby community of The Grove. After a long day of picture making, interviewing, and note taking, I was ready for some rest. Having purchased some groceries earlier that afternoon, I followed the map and sign posts to Mother Neff State Park, which I had heard somewhere was the "first Texas state park."
After paying a nominal fee at the park entry, I found myself a grass-covered spot to camp beneath huge trees not far from a covered pavilion and there put my bright orange-colored pup tent. Having before been surprised while tenting by rain storms, I thought ahead that I might need to seek shelter beneath the nearby roof should I loose my lightweight tent that night in a
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thunderstorm. As events turned out, the evening was cloudless and calm, so I prepared my simple dinner using a close-by barbeque grill, and then I set out on foot in the dimming light to "see the park."
Walking up to and then into the open-sided concession building, I could see that it was by no means new. In fact, the old stonework in the twilight seemed even older than its 1930s construction. The style, however, reminded me of structures I had seen built by National Park Service personnel during the days of the New Deal. I could not get over the size and beauty of the big, open fireplace, and I wondered how many overnight groups over the decades had roasted wieners and toasted marshmallows there. Overhead were massive roof beams, which a bronze plaque on the wall recorded as having been hewn and placed there by members of the Civilian Conservation Corps. By this time, however, darkness had fallen, and bone-tired from a day in the field, I retired to my tent for a night of rest. The next morning I was up before dawn and in the car headed for the next ghost town site on my hit list. My first visit to Mother Neff State Park had come to its close, but I remembered it, and since then have returned time and again.
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