Seventy Years Ago, Cedar Choppers Ruled the Hill Country with Axes and Muscle
May 10, 2023 | By W.K. Stratton
I had my one encounter with honest-to-goodness cedar choppers just about the time those “almost mythical, gypsy-like people,” as Texas literary legend Edwin “Bud” Shrake referred to them in an essay, were disappearing from the Hill Country.