Background
Jordan, Terry Gilbert was born on August 9, 1938 in Dallas, Texas, United States. Son of Gilbert John and Vera Belle (Tiller) Jordan.
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North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion, and Differentiation (Histories of the American Frontier) by Terry G. Jordan (2000-09-03)
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Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy TEXAS GRAVEYARDS: A CULTURAL LEGACY By Jordan, Terry G. ( Author )Jan-01-1984 Paperback By Jordan, Terry G. ( Author ) Paperback 1984
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Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy TEXAS GRAVEYARDS: A CULTURAL LEGACY By Jordan, Terry G. ( Author )Jan-01-1984 Paperback
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The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethical and Ecological Interpretation (Creating the North American Landscape) by Professor Terry G. Jordan (1992-03-01)
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North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion, and Differentiation (Histories of the American Frontier)
(In this revisionist study, historical geographer Jordan r...)
In this revisionist study, historical geographer Jordan reinterprets cattle ranching in the Old World and New, challenging the notion that western cattle culture derived principally from Texas.
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Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series)
( Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard...)
Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.
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Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture by Jordan, Terry G. (1978) Hardcover
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Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture
( Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildin...)
Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildings of Texas now stand out for their rustic beauty. This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside. Terry Jordan explores the use of log buildings among several different Texas cultural groups and traces their construction techniques from their European and eastern American origins.
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German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century Texas (Texas Classics)
( Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nine...)
Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nineteenth century influenced and were influenced by the agricultural life in the areas of Texas where they settled. His findings both support the notion of ethnic distinctiveness and reveal the extent to which German Texans adopted the farming techniques of their Southern Anglo neighbors.
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Trails to Texas: Southern Roots of Western Cattle Ranching
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The origins of the system of open-range cattle ranching that dominated the Great Plains in the late nineteenth century have long been the subject of controversy among students of the American West. The most widely accepted theory holds that the system was essentially a borrowing from an already established Hispano-American cattle-herding culture, while other arguments focus on a variety of possible sources - ranging from Africa to Ireland - or on such factors as climate or market accessibility. On one point, however, there is common agreement: nineteenth-century Texas was the proving ground, the setting in which the crucial stages of development took place. Thus it is to Texas, or more specifically, to the people who settled there, that Professor Jordan directs our attention in this work, and it is from Texas that his provocative conclusion emerges - that the southerners, white and black alike, who came to Texas in the nineteenth century brought with them a long heritage of open-range cattle herding, a heritage that reached back to colonial South Carolina. Professor Jordan, using the special skills and perspective of the cultural geographer, develops his thesis by two means...a detailed analysis of economic and cultural spatial patterns in nineteenth-century Texas, and a carefully documented study, tracing two major routes of diffusion, of the cultural and migratory connections between eastern Texas and the colonial Carolina seaboard. His argument consistently takes into account the importance of climate, environment, and market accessibility, as well as the contributions of the many ethnic groups represented in the southern and Texan melting pot. As a study in cultural diffusion and as a spur to the recognition of colonial South Carolina's role as a cultural hearth of great significance, Professor Jordan's work enhances our understanding of how we came, as a nation, to be what we are.
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The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethical and Ecological Interpretation (Creating the North American Landscape)
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Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture TEXAS LOG BUILDINGS: A FOLK ARCHITECTURE BY Jordan, Terry G ( Author ) Jan-01-1982 TEXAS LOG BUILDINGS: A FOLK ARCHITECTURE TEXAS LOG BUILDINGS: A FOLK ARCHITECTURE BY JORDAN, TERRY G ( AUTHOR ) JAN-01-1982
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Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture TEXAS LOG BUILDINGS: A FOLK ARCHITECTURE BY Jordan, Terry G ( Author ) Jan-01-1982 TEXAS LOG BUILDINGS: A FOLK ARCHITECTURE TEXAS LOG BUILDINGS: A FOLK ARCHITECTURE BY JORDAN, TERRY G ( AUTHOR ) JAN-01-1982 By Jordan, Terry G ( Author )Jan-01-1982 Paperback
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Terry Gilbert Jordan
Edit ProfileEducation
Bachelor, Southern Methodist U., 1960; Master of Arts, University Texas, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, 1965.
Career
Assistant professor geography, Arizona State University, Tempe, 1965-1969; professor, department chairman, U. North Texas, Denton, 1969-1982; Walter Prescott Webb professor geography., University Texas, Austin, since 1982.
Achievements
Works
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Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture TEXAS LOG BUILDINGS: A FOLK ARCHITECTURE BY Jordan, Terry G ( Author ) Jan-01-1982 TEXAS LOG BUILDINGS: A FOLK ARCHITECTURE TEXAS LOG BUILDINGS: A FOLK ARCHITECTURE BY JORDAN, TERRY G ( AUTHOR ) JAN-01-1982
(Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture TEXAS LOG BUILDI...)
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Trails to Texas: Southern Roots of Western Cattle Ranching
(The origins of the system of open-range cattle ranching t...)
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North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion, and Differentiation (Histories of the American Frontier)
(In this revisionist study, historical geographer Jordan r...)
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German Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century Texas (Texas Classics)
( Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nine...)
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Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation Series)
( Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard...)
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Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture
( Once too numerous to attract attention, the log buildin...)
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Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy TEXAS GRAVEYARDS: A CULTURAL LEGACY By Jordan, Terry G. ( Author )Jan-01-1984 Paperback By Jordan, Terry G. ( Author ) Paperback 1984
(Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy TEXAS GRAVEYARDS: A C...)
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Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture by Jordan, Terry G. (1978) Hardcover
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- The European Culture Area: A Systematic Geography
- North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion, and Differentiation (Histories of the American Frontier) by Terry G. Jordan (2000-09-03)
- The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethical and Ecological Interpretation (Creating the North American Landscape) by Professor Terry G. Jordan (1992-03-01)
- The American Backwoods Frontier: An Ethical and Ecological Interpretation (Creating the North American Landscape)
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Texas Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture TEXAS LOG BUILDINGS: A FOLK ARCHITECTURE BY Jordan, Terry G ( Author ) Jan-01-1982 TEXAS LOG BUILDINGS: A FOLK ARCHITECTURE TEXAS LOG BUILDINGS: A FOLK ARCHITECTURE BY JORDAN, TERRY G ( AUTHOR ) JAN-01-1982
Membership
Fellow American Geography Society, Texas State History Association, Texas Institute of Letters, Association American Geographers (vice president 1986-1987, president 1987-1988, Honors award 1982).
Interests
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Avocations: travel, genealogy. Fax: 512-471-5049. E-mail: [email protected].
Connections
Married Bella Bychkova. Children: Tina, Sonya, Eric.
