Blades in the Sky: Windmilling through the Eyes of B. H. "Tex" Burdick

No water ever tasted better than when it came up clear and cool from deep in the ground, its flow pulsing to the steady rhythm of the wind-driven pump. . . . Windmill men such as Tex Burdick and others described in Baker’s narrative deserve much credit for making life possible in semi-desert rural areas of Texas, New Mexico, and other parts of the West. —Elmer Kelton, from the forewordDuring the Great Depression the windmillers of the Burdick & Burdick Company of El Paso, one of the largest...