Blades in the Sky by T. Lindsay Baker.
Battling blazing sun, gritty dust, dizzying heights, and unfriendly rattlesnakes the windmillers of Burdick & Burdick Company in El Paso crossed the Southwest during the Great Depression bringing windmills and water to the parched land. From 1923 to 1942, Burdick photographed his men at work. Those photos, paired with Baker's text, shape Burdick's memories into a fascinating story.
T. Lindsay Baker is the Curator of the Gov. Bill and Vara Daniel Historic Village of the Strecker Museum at Baylor University. His many years of windmill research have taken him to most of the U.S. and to Canada, Mexico, Great Britain, Germany, and Poland (for one year on a Fulbright Fellowship). He has been active in the study, conversation, and restoration of antique windmills, and serves as the publisher of the quarterly Windmiller's Gazette.
The cost of the book is $20.00 and is available from Texas Tech University Press.