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Texas people, Texas places: more musings of the Rambling Boy

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Full title: Texas People, Texas Places: More Musings Of The Rambling Boy Project Muse Upcc Books
ISBN: 9780875655819
ISBN 10: 0875655815
Authors: Taylor, Lonn , 1940- (author.)
Publisher: Tcu Press
Edition: 1
Binding: Paperback
Language: en
Published on: 2014

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Synopsis

Texas People: Travels With My Father -- Uncle Kit The Drifter -- A Love Story -- Figgi -- Rachel On The Radio -- The Lady Librarians -- Amelia Williams, Cotton Farmer And Scholar -- Thoroughly Modern Mojella -- Frugality Was A Virtue -- Apache Adams -- Ted Gray -- Carry Huffman And Joe Sitter, Border Lawmen -- Two Viejos At A Kitchen Table -- Alan Tennant And The Rattlesnakes -- Colonel Crimmins, The Rattlesnake Venom Man -- Two Governors For The Price Of One -- Pappy And The Light Crust Doughboys -- The Two Garcias -- The Lark Of The Border -- Albert Alvarez, Secret Historian -- Mary Bonkemeyer And The Grits Trees -- Gene Miller, Ranch Wife -- Russell Lee, Photographer -- Bill Leftwich, Artist -- The Propeller Man Of Marfa -- Small-town Journalists -- Lee Bennett And Marfa's History -- Jack Jackson Rewrites Texas History -- Myrrl Mcbride, Prisoner Of War -- Some Texas Confederates -- The Jacksons Of Blue And Other Texas Chairmakers -- A Bunch Of Cowboys Trying To Build An Airplane -- Amon Carter And Fort Worth -- Texas Places: Dark Corner And High Hill -- County Courthouses -- Snooping Around -- Juneteenth Belongs To Texas -- Christmas In Anson -- There Was Nothing For Us To Do But Run -- San Antonio's Cement Sculpture -- The Flying Boat On Medina Lake -- Dance Halls And Honky Tonks -- Fidel In Wharton -- Adventures In Albany -- The West Texas Town Of El Paso -- Bryan Woolley's Wonderful Room -- Austin 1962, Fort Davis 2011 -- A Killing In The Big Bend -- Marfa's Fort D. A. Russell -- The Ronquillo Grant -- The Food Shark -- The Highland Hereford Rough Riders -- The Road To The Mine -- The Secret History Of The Big Bend -- Tony Cano's Marfa -- The Sandia Springs Wetlands -- After The Fire. Lonn Taylor, Foreword By Joe Nick Patoski, Linoleum Cuts By Barbara Mathews Whitehead. The Rambling Boy Was A Newspaper Column With Lonn Taylor's Stories About The People And Places Of Texas.