Aunt Puss & Others: Old Days in the Piney Woods
ISBN: 9781574410488
Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University of North Texas Press
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters
Subjects: Folklore; Southwest;

In 1890, Aunt Puss Hooks, Spurger's outstanding citizen, was not known beyond the boundaries of Tyler County, Texas. She represented a way of life as it was lived in her day and a type of people who were among the unsung builders of our nation. Belonging to a generation that had its advent immediately following the Civil War, she was one of the children who had to go to the cottonfield instead of the schoolhouse .

Emma Wilson Emery writes with sensitivity and humor of a childhood spent in the Big Thicket piney woods with many interesting relatives. She later lived in Nacogdoches and worked there at her first job as typesetter for the Daily Plaindealer . She graduated from nursing school in 1911 at Shreveport and later became poet laureate of Louisiana.

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