Texas People, Texas Places: More Musings Of The Rambling Boy Project Muse Upcc Books

Following up Texas, My Texas: Musings of the Rambling Boy with a second collection of essays, Lonn Taylor’s Texas People, Texas Places again explores the very best of Texas geography, Texas history, and Texas personalities. In a state so famous for its pride, Taylor manages to write an exceptionally honest, witty, and wise book about Texas past and Texas present. Texas People, Texas Places is a story of men and women and places that have made this state great. From a small-town radio host to tight-fisted West Texas ranchers, and even to Taylor’s own family members, Taylor’s subjects paint a profound and dynamic picture. Lonn Taylor shares anecdotes that will appeal to any Texan, in a voice that is as personal as it is unique. 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.