Texas people, Texas places : more musings of the Rambling Boy /
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Fort Worth :
TCU Press,
[2014]
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Table of Contents:
- 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.