Ken Roberts, author of The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing (TAMU Press)
12 p.m. Wednesday, October 03, 2018
Book Signing and Presentation
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum, Austin
Held on the first Wednesday of every month, the Bullock’s popular High Noon Talks feature interesting and often untold topics through a casual lunch-time lecture.
Join Ken Roberts as he discusses the elusive cedar choppers of Central Texas. His book, based on oral history interviews with several generations of cedar choppers and those who knew them, weaves together the lively, gritty story of these largely Scots-Irish migrants with roots in Appalachia who settled on the west side of the Balcones Fault during the mid-nineteenth century, subsisting mainly on hunting, trapping, moonshining, and, by the early twentieth century, cutting, transporting, and selling cedar fence posts and charcoal.