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Author:
Taylor, Lonn, 1940- author.
Title:
Turning the pages of Texas / Lonn Taylor ; with a foreword by Steven L. Davis.
Publisher:
TCU Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
xx, 271 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Books--Texas--History.
Book collecting--Texas.
Book collectors--Texas.
Authors--Biography.
Texas--History.
Other Authors:
Davis, Steven L., writer of foreword.
Other Titles:
Works. Selections
Contents:
Giants and old-timers -- Myself and strangers -- Legends of Texas -- A vaquero of the brush country (1929) -- A vaquero of the brush country (1998) -- With his pistol in his hand -- The last picture show -- A personal country -- I'll die before I'll run -- Peleliu landing -- Years with the Texas Rangers -- O. W. Williams's stories from the big bend -- Chronicles of faith -- The trail drivers of Texas -- William Sidney Porter, Texas writer -- A bookman's pleasures -- My books and my friends -- Al Lowman, texas bookman -- Browsing in used bookstores -- Rosengren's book stores, San Antonio -- Browsing in libraries -- Some rare Texas books not in my library -- My life in cookbooks -- Back roads and dark corners -- My first thirty years -- Texas brags -- Back to Texas -- The other side of the tracks -- Sam Houston's Texas -- A gallery of Texas characters -- Exploring the edges of Texas -- Gray ghosts and red rangers -- Never the same again -- Armadillo world headquarters -- Waterloo -- Maverick -- Comfort and glory -- Ringside seat to a revolution -- Henry Cohen -- Tio cowboy -- The World War I diary of Jose de la Luz Sienz -- Texas cattle brands -- Madeline in Texas -- Lone Star lawmen -- The big rich -- Norfleet -- The amazing tale of Mr. Herbert and his fabulous Alpine Cowboys -- Baseball club -- Marfa -- H. Allen Smith, a New Yorker in Alpine -- Grover Lewis, the best writer nobody ever heard of -- Alan Tennant and rattlesnakes -- John W. Thomason Jr.: artist, writer, and marine -- William Hervey Allen on the Mexican border -- Remembering Bryan Woolley -- Cooks, photographers, poets, and others -- Our founding foods -- Hillingdon Ranch -- A long view southwest -- Watt Matthews of Lambshead -- The white shaman mural -- Home ground -- Authentic Texas -- Capturing nature -- Joel Nelson, cowboy poet and national heritage fellow -- The book we all learned Texas history from -- The rotarians' book festival.
ISBN:
0875657168
9780875657165
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1061867390
LCCN:
2018051249
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
FXPH314 -- Carnegie-Stout Public Library (Dubuque)

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