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Richard Francaviglia
University of Texas at Arlington
Box 19497, Main Library
Arlington, Texas 76019-0497
Telephone: 817.272.3997
Fax: 817.272.5797
francaviglia@library.uta.edu
Richard Francaviglia, director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington, is a historian and geographer interested in the way the American landscape has changed through time, and how this change is depicted in maps, literature, and popular culture.
Presentation
The Cross Timbers
The dense oak forests called the Cross Timbers are among Texas’s unique ecological regions, and they also have a rich cultural history that is traceable through the state’s Indian, Spanish/Mexican, African American, and Anglo heritage.