People of the Wheat
Culture and Cultivation in North Texas
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Rebecca Sharpless's People of the Wheat examines 150 years of wheat history in the North Texas wheat belt, tracing how cultivation, milling, and baking shaped local economies and daily life.
The book follows farmers, millers, and bakers—both home and industrial—showing how mechanization, transportation, and changing markets transformed the region.
Sharpless situates wheat within broader cultural developments, including music, visual arts, and philanthropy, arguing that wheat left an enduring mark on the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
Drawing on diaries, letters, newspapers, community histories, and local archives, she reconstructs the labor and material processes from seed to sack.
The work recovers a forgotten agricultural past and connects it to twentieth-century urban growth and cultural institutions.
The book follows farmers, millers, and bakers—both home and industrial—showing how mechanization, transportation, and changing markets transformed the region.
Sharpless situates wheat within broader cultural developments, including music, visual arts, and philanthropy, arguing that wheat left an enduring mark on the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
Drawing on diaries, letters, newspapers, community histories, and local archives, she reconstructs the labor and material processes from seed to sack.
The work recovers a forgotten agricultural past and connects it to twentieth-century urban growth and cultural institutions.
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Rebecca Sharpless, "People of the Wheat: Culture and Cultivation in North Texas" (U Texas Press, 2026)
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