The soul of a small Texas town

the long version

"Thirty-five miles east of Austin and fifty years behind it, McDade, Texas, is quintessential small-town America. McDade's colorful history, from its founding in 1871 as a Wild West boomtown and continuing to the much quieter present day, comes to life in The Soul of a Small Texas Town. David Wharton's contemporary photographs of the community and its residents and his accompanying narrative reveal growth and decline, shared family histories, traditions, crises, and celebrations."--BOOK JACKET.