Harder than HardscrabbleWinner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2005 Runner up, Carr P. Collins Award, Best Book of Nonfiction, Texas Institute of Letters, 2005 Until the U. S. Army claimed 300 plus square miles of hardscrabble land to build Fort Hood in 1942, small communities like Antelope, Pidcoke, Stampede, and Okay scratched out a living by growing cotton and ranching goats on the less fertile edges of the Texas Hill Country. While a few farmers took jobs