Nellie Witt Spikes

Nellie Witt Spikes's memories and observations of almost seventy years of life on the plains are remarkable for their specificity, liveliness, affection, and pride. Her columns are a treasure trove of West Texas language and habits, a veritable natural history of the area's vegetation and climate, mostra'n més and an exhaustive rendering of farm life on the plains in good and bad times, wartime, old and modern days. mostra'n menys