Cedar Chopper Oral Histories

Oral histories conducted by Ken Roberts with several generations of cedar choppers and others telling the stories of largely Scots-Irish migrants with roots in Appalachia who settled on the west side of the Balcones Fault during the mid-19th century, subsisting on hunting, trapping, moonshining, and, by the early 20th century, cutting, transporting, and selling cedar fence posts and charcoal.



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Cedar Chopper Oral Histories in The Portal to Texas History. University of North Texas Libraries. https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/CCOH/ accessed May 9, 2024.


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