Giant Country: Essays on Texas

Contents

Contents Greed, Creed, and Me: The Author IntelViews Himself by Way of an Introduction xi Places Filadelphia Stoty 3 The Ground Sense Necessaty 13 Texas in 1940: The W'PA Guide 21 Doing England 31 American Narratives 51 Giant Countty 59 Pages Cotton and Classicism: George Sessions PeTty's Farm Novel 75 Katherine the Great 87 William Humphrey: Last of the Southern Belle-Lettrists 97 Pen Pals: Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb 103 John Graves and The Regionalist Enterprise 117 "Urban, by Goel": Billy Lee Brammer's Texas 129 Take My Sequel from the Wall: The Lonesome Dove Cycle 153 Polemics Palefaces and Redskins: A literaty Skirmish 175 Land without Myth; or, Texas and the Mystique of Nostalgia 183 Anything for laTty 193 Paris, as in Texas 199 Puerto Vallarta Squeezed 203 What the World Wants to Know 207 Pictures Moo-vie Cows: The Trail to Hollywood 213 The Big Show: Autry's Artful Oater 227 Remembering the Alamo: The Story of the Texas Republic in Popular Culture 235 Nowhere Else But Southfork: What Texas Looks like in the Movies 259 'Ttme-Traveling Through Texas": A Half-Century of Lone Star Movies on Video 265 Acknowledgments 287 ...