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A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, "Southwestern Lore" is about as representative as such a miscellany could be. Bad men, razorbacked hogs, Mexican sheep-herders, treasure hunters, African Americans, cowboys both gringo and Mexican, plant life, songs, oil field, Indians--all find representation in the volume
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"This is the first collection in nine years by the author of the Wapshot novels, Bullet Park, and many of the most celebrated short stories ("The Swimmer," "The Enormous Radio") of our time. Once again, we are seduced into the suburban here and now of his characters - this moment, America. Innocent, old-fashioned, self-aware, often hilariously funny, Cheever's people are summoned by strange and improbable events to ponder the values they have been...
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"Gilbert Onderdonk traveled to Texas in 1851 as a twenty-two-year-old invalid in search of health. By the time of his death in 1920 at the robust age of ninety-one, he had been a pioneer botanist and horticulturist, a rancher, a Confederate soldier, a traveler throughout Mexico for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a prolific letter writer and essayist, a travel writer for newspapers, and a man of family, property, international recognition, and...
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An American Original is the first major biography of one of the best-loved storytellers of the American Southwest, J. Frank Dobie, who, like the people he wrote about, came "out of the old rock" : independent, unpretentious, a diligent maser of his chosen craft. Lon Tinkle, for a years a well-known, widely respected author, book critic, and teacher, explores not only the personal flavor, integrity, and imagination that made Dobie the great chronicler,...
16) The art of AIDS
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The world of the arts has been devastated by AIDS. Few performing or visual artists have escaped the epidemic's impingement upon either their own lives or those of close friends and mentors. But beyond this obvious impact, AIDS has had--and is having--an ultimately more far-reaching effect: it has changed the very form and content of contemporary art. As artists struggle to understand, interpret, and express the complex emotions and politics arising...
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Follows the life and career of Sam Houston as the new state of Texas senator of the U.S. Congress.
Clifford Hopewell's biography is an in-depth study of Houston, probing into areas other biographers have overlooked and taking advantage of new material that has come to light in recent years. Other than one book exclusively about Houston's life among the Cherokees, Hopewell has devoted more material to this portion of Houston's life than any other...
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This is a society that you join because you want to. The purpose of the society is to collect and make known to he public sons and ballads, superstitions, games, plays, and proverbs.
Volume I of this history chronicles the collecting and publishing from 1909 to 1943. The second volume to the Texas Folklore Society history covers from the McCarthy era to the end of the wild and woolly sixties. Includes the publishing history of the TFS books, anecdotes...
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"A major literary event. Here are the collected stories of one of America's greatest writers: the best of the matchlessly brilliant short fiction that has, with the Wapshot books, Bullet Park, and Falconer, secured John Cheever's preeminent place in contemporary literature. Here are 61 magnificent stories, bringing together everything from five earlier collections (most out of print) - The Enormous Radio; The Housebreaker of Shady Hill; Some People,...
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