Texas People, Texas Places: More Musings of the Rambling Boy

Contents

Contents Foreword, by Joe Nick Patoski : xi Introduction : 1 i. t e x as pe opl e 1. Travels with My Father : 7 2. Uncle Kit the Drifter : 11 3. A Love Story : 15 4. Figgi : 19 5. Rachel on the Radio : 23 6. The Lady Librarians : 26 7. Amelia Williams, Cotton Farmer and Scholar : 30 8. Thoroughly Modern Mojella : 34 9. Frugality Was a Virtue : 38 10. Apache Adams : 42 11. Ted Gray : 45 12. Carry Huffman and Joe Sitter, Border Lawmen : 48 13. Two Viejos at a Kitchen Table : 52 14. Alan Tennant and the Rattlesnakes : 56 15. Colonel Crimmins, the Rattlesnake Venom Man : 60 16. Two Governors for the Price of One : 64 17. Pappy and the Light Crust Doughboys : 67 18. The Two Garcias : 71 19. The Lark of the Border : 75 20. Albert Alvarez, Secret Historian : 80 21. Mary Bonkemeyer and the Grits Trees : 83 22. Gene Miller, Ranch Wife : 86 23. Russell Lee, Photographer : 89 24. Bill Leftwich, Artist : 93 25. The Propeller Man of Marfa : 97 26. Small-Town Journalists : 101 27. Lee Bennett and Marfa’s History : 105 28. Jack Jackson Rewrites Texas History : 108 29. Myrrl McBride, Prisoner of War : 112 30. Some Texas Confederates : 116 31. The Jacksons of Blue and Other Texas Chairmakers : 120 32. A Bunch of Cowboys Trying to Build an Airplane : 123 33. Amon Carter and Fort Worth : 127 i i .t e x as pl a ce s 34. Dark Corner and High Hill : 133 35. County Courthouses : 137 36. Snooping Around Historic Houses : 142 37. Juneteenth Belongs to Texas : 145 38. Christmas in Anson : 149 39. There Was Nothing for Us to Do but Run : 153 40. San Antonio’s Cement Sculpture : 157 41. The Flying Boat on Medina Lake : 161 42. Dance Halls and Honky Tonks : 165 43. Fidel in Wharton : 169 44. Adventures in Albany : 173 45. The West Texas Town of El Paso : 177 46. Bryan Woolley’s Wonderful Room : 181 47. Austin 1962, Fort Davis 2011 : 185 48. A Killing in the Big Bend : 189 49. Marfa’s Fort D. A. Russell : 193 50. The Ronquillo Grant : 197 51. The Food Shark : 200 52. The Highland Hereford Rough Riders : 204 53. The Road to the Mine : 208 54. The Secret History of the Big Bend : 212 55. Tony Cano’s Marfa : 216 56. The Sandia Springs Wetlands : 220 57. After the Fire : 224 About the Author : 228 ...