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Author : Charles Leland Sonnichsen
Publisher : TCU Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0875650465
Humor is serous business for human beings, including Texans. It is a great resource in time of trouble, an effective instrument for getting at the truth.
Author : Chuck Parsons,Thomas C. Bicknell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574418729
America’s Wild West created an untold number of notorious characters, and in southwestern Texas, John King Fisher (1855-1884) was foremost among them. To friends and foes alike, he insisted he be called “King.” Standing over six feet tall, a dark and handsome man, King often dressed as a frontier dandy. A Texas Ranger remembered King as wearing an “ornamented Mexican sombrero, a black Mexican jacket embroidered with gold, a crimson sash and boots, with two silver-plated, ivory-handled revolvers swinging from his belt.” Early in life King fell victim to bad influences. After a stint in Huntsville Prison as a teenager, he found a home in the tough sun-beaten Nueces Strip, a lawless land between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. There he gathered a gang of rustlers around him at his ranch on Pendencia Creek. For a decade King and his gang raided both sides of the Rio Grande, shooting down any who opposed them. Newspapers claimed King avoided the penalties prescribed by law by killing potential witnesses—in spite of many charges he was never convicted of cattle or horse stealing, or murder. King’s reign ended when he was arrested by Texas Ranger Captain Leander McNelly. In no uncertain terms he advised Fisher to change his ways. Having emerged victorious in gunfights with outlaws from across the Rio Grande, King Fisher chose a life style which would prove to be just as dangerous—deputy sheriff of Uvalde County. Now he would enforce the law, with his badge as well as his six-shooter. But his hard-won respectability would not last. On a spring night in 1884, King made the mistake of accompanying the truly notorious gambler and gunfighter Ben Thompson on a tour of San Antonio, where several years prior, over a gambling dispute, Thompson shot down Jack Harris at the latter’s saloon and theater, the Vaudeville. Recklessly, King Fisher accompanied Thompson back to the theater to call upon Harris’s former partners. Warned of their coming, assassins were waiting. Within minutes of entering the theater, when the smoke cleared, Fisher was stretched out beside Thompson, dead from thirteen gunshot wounds.
Author : Max Evans
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0896724042
From among his numerous publications, award-winning author Max Evans has selected his personal favorites. The more than thirty pieces include short novels, essays, short stories, introductions to other works, and magazine articles spanning several genres and most of his writing career. Through them all runs a common thread: the understanding of and love Evans has for the West and its peoples, and his ability to convey that understanding with humor and compassion. Included works: Short novels Xavier's Folly One Eyed Sky The Wild One Old Bum My Pardner Essays "Sam Peckinpah: A Very Personal Remembrance" "King John" "Long John Dunn" "Dinner with Frank Waters" "Riding the Outside Circle in Hollywood" "Many Deaths, Many Lives" "Song of the West" Short Stories "The Ultimate Giver" "Blizzard" "Don't Kill My Dog" "The Far Cry" "The Wooden Cove" "The Third Grade Reunion" "Sky of Gold" "A Man Who Never Missed" "Big Shad's Bridge" "The Call" Introductions and Forewords "Patricino Barela" "Some Sweet Day" "The Hi Lo Country" "Final Harvest and other Convictions and Opinions" "Rounders 3" Magazine Articles "The Cowboy and the Professor" "A Horse to Brag About" "Showdown at Hollywood Park" "The Wild Bunch" "The World's Strangest Creature" "Super Bull"
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015020248525
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Southwest, New
ISBN : UCD:31175016673579
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2262 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : American literature
ISBN : UOM:39015058373799
A world list of books in the English language.
Author : David E. E. Sloane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Humor
ISBN : UOM:39015047130334
Sampling the wide range of humor in the American cultural experience, AMERICAN HUMOR examines television, cartoons, sports and political reporting, film, and literature. AMERICAN HUMOR traces American life in social and historic context and anticipates further developments in the field.
Author : Lansing Bartlett Bloom,Paul A. F. Walter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UVA:X002274324
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Arizona
ISBN : UVA:X002017952
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1516 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Canada
ISBN : UVA:X002413071
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 826 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : American literature
ISBN : WISC:89040784092
Author : Stephen H. Goode
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1052 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : American periodicals
ISBN : UVA:X002193475
Author : Charles Leland Sonnichsen
Publisher : Texas Western Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCR:31210016046946
In this last collection of C.L. Sonnichsen's personal essays, including his biting essay on academic scholarship, his reminiscense of the contumacious Vardis Fisher, and the passages from his unpublished autobiography, One for the Road: Recollections of a Wayfaring Scholar, you hear the voice both of a distinguished scholar and brilliant writer on the life and literature of the American West and of an altogether fascinating, thinking man -- Back cover.
Author : Lorrin L. Morrison,Carroll Spear Morrison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : UVA:X002129105
Author : Richard W. Etulain,Nancy Jill Howard
Publisher : America West Publisher
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018241724
The revised and updated edition of this standard reference work in the field of Western American Literature now contains over 6,000 bibliographic references. The topical listings have been expanded to encompass feminist and environmental studies. Rather than attempting to be exhaustive, the editors have chosen the major interpretive works, making the volume useful to both specialists working outside their area and nonspecialists seeking an overview. Broad in its scope, the guide also focuses on a number of special topics: local color and regionalism, popular western literature, western film, Indian literature and Indians in western literature, the environment, women and families, the Beats, and Canadian western literature. Logically and helpfully organized, the volume will be invaluable to scholars, researchers, students, and general readers.
