Turning the Pages of Texas 1st Edition by Lonn Taylor ISBN 0875657206 9780875657202
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ISBN 10: 0875657206
ISBN 13: 9780875657202
Author: Lonn Taylor
Turning the Pages of Texas is a collection of sixty essays about Texas books, authors, book collectors, libraries, and bookstores. It is a book for booklovers and bookish readers.
Lonn Taylor writes from the point of view of a historian who has been reading books about Texas for seventy years, since he was seven years old, and who has known many of the authors he writes about. He presents his reflections about well-known figures such as John Graves, J. Frank Dobie, and Larry McMurtry. He also introduces readers to people like folklorist C. L. Sonnichsen, who wrote about Texas feuds; Julia Lee Sinks, who interviewed early settlers of Fayette County in the 1870s; Karen Olsson, who wrote a fine novel about the mystique of Austin; and David Dorado Romo, who describes himself as the “psychogeographer of El Paso” and is the grandnephew of a saint. Some of the authors Taylor writes about are truly obscure, like Gertrude Beasley, who published her autobiography in Paris in 1924 and died in a New York insane asylum, or Tony Cano, whose self-published autobiographical novel describes what it was like to be poor and Mexican in West Texas in the 1950s. Taylor also teases out the Texas connections of writers as diverse as William Sydney Porter, Hervey Allen, and H. Allen Smith, and he writes about tracking down Texas books in London and Washington, DC, as well as at Barber’s in Fort Worth, the Brick Row Book Shop in Austin, and Rosengren’s and Brock’s in San Antonio.
Table of contents:
I Giants And Old-Timers
1 Myself and Strangers 3
2 Legends of Texas 6
3 A Vaquero of the Brush Country (1929) 10
4 A Vaquero of the Brush Country (1998) 14
5 With His Pistol in His Hand 18
6 The Last Picture Show 22
7 A Personal Country 27
8 I’ll Die before I’ll Run 31
9 Peleliu Landing 35
10 Six Years with the Texas Rangers 40
11 O. W. Williams’s Stories from the Big Bend 43
12 Chronicles of Fayette 47
13 The Trail Drivers of Texas 51
14 William Sidney Porter, Texas Writer 55
II A Bookman’s Pleasures
15 My Books and My Friends 61
16 A1 Lowman, Texas Bookman 65
17 Browsing in Used Bookstores 70
18 Rosengren’s Books, San Antonio 74
19 Browsing in Libraries 79
20 Some Rare Texas Books Not in My Library 83
21 My Life in Cookbooks 87
III Back Roads And Dark Corners
22 My First Thirty Years 93
23 Texas Brags 98
24 Back to Texas 102
25 The Other Side of the Tracks 106
26 Sam Houston’s Texas 110
27 A Gallery of Texas Characters 114
28 A Place in El Paso 118
29 Exploring the Edges of Texas 122
30 Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers 126
31 Never the Same Again 130
32 Armadillo World Headquarters 135
33 Waterloo 139
34 Maverick 143
35 Comfort and Glory 147
36 Ringside Seat to a Revolution 151
37 Henry Cohen 154
38 Tío Cowboy 157
39 The World War I Diary of Jose de la Luz Sáenz 161
40 Texas Cattle Brands 165
41 Madeline in Texas 169
42 Lone Star Lawmen 173
43 The Big Rich 177
44 Norfleet 181
45 The Amazing Tale of Mr. Herbert and His Fabulous Alpine Cowboys Baseball Club 185
46 Marfa 189
47 H. Allen Smith, a New Yorker in Alpine 193
48 Grover Lewis, the Best Writer Nobody Ever Heard of 197
49 Alan Tennant and Rattlesnakes 201
50 John W. Thomason Jr.: Artist, Writer, and Marine 205
51 William Hervey Allen on the Mexican Border 209
52 Remembering Bryan Woolley 213
IV Cooks, Photographers, Poets, and Others
53 Our Founding Foods 221
54 Hillingdon Ranch 225
55 A Long View Southwest 229
56 Watt Matthews of Lambshead 233
57 The White Shaman Mural 237
58 Home Ground 242
59 Authentic Texas 246
60 Capturing Nature 251
61 Joel Nelson: Cowboy Poet and National Heritage Fellow 255
62 Ranch Verses 259
63 The Book We All Learned Texas History from 262
64 The Rotarians’ Book Festival 266
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