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  1. The Devil's Backbone
    Autor*in: Wittliff, Bill
    Erschienen: [2021]
    Verlag:  University of Texas Press, Austin

    Frontmatter -- OH LISTEN HERE - HERMAN WAS FIT TO BE TIED -- I WADN’T NO MOREN MAYBE A MILE OR TWO - ME AND CALLEY RODE UP TO THE CHOATS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The last the boy Papa saw of his Momma, she was galloping away on her horse Precious in the... mehr

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    Frontmatter -- OH LISTEN HERE - HERMAN WAS FIT TO BE TIED -- I WADN’T NO MOREN MAYBE A MILE OR TWO - ME AND CALLEY RODE UP TO THE CHOATS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The last the boy Papa saw of his Momma, she was galloping away on her horse Precious in the saddle her father took from a dead Mexican officer after the Battle of San Jacinto, fleeing from his Daddy, Old Karl, a vicious, tight-fisted horse trader. Momma’s flight sets Papa on a relentless quest to find her that thrusts him and his scrappy little dog Fritz into adventures all across the wild and woolly Hill Country of Central Texas, down to Mexico, and even into the realm of the ghostly “Shimmery People.” In The Devil’s Backbone, master storyteller Bill Wittliff takes readers on an exciting journey through a rough 1880s frontier as full of colorful characters and unexpected turns of events as the great American quest novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Wittliff grew up listening to stories and memories like these in his own family, and in this imaginative novel, they come to vivid life, creating an engrossing story of a Texas Huck Finn that brims with folk wisdom and sly humor. A rogue’s gallery of characters thwart and aid Papa’s path—Old Karl, hell-bent on bringing the boy back to servitude on his farm, and Herman, Papa’s brother who’s got Old Karl’s horse-trading instincts and greed; Calley Pearsall, an enigmatic cowboy with “other Fish to Fry” who might be an outlaw or a trustworthy “o’Amigo”; o’Jeffey, a black seer who talks to the spirits but won’t tell Papa what she has divined about his Momma; Mister Pegleg, a three-legged coyote with whom Papa forms a poignant, nearly tragic friendship; the “Mexkins” Pepe and Peto and their father Old Crecencio, whose longing for his lost family is as strong as Papa’s; and blind Bird, a magical “blue baby” who can’t see with his eyes but who helps other people see what they hold in their hearts. Papa’s adventures draw him ever nearer to a mysterious cave that haunts his dreams—an actual cave that he discovers at last in the canyons of the Devil’s Backbone—but will he find Momma before Old Karl finds him?

     

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  2. The Devil's Backbone
    Autor*in: Wittliff, Bill
    Erschienen: [2021]; © 2014
    Verlag:  University of Texas Press, Austin

    The last the boy Papa saw of his Momma, she was galloping away on her horse Precious in the saddle her father took from a dead Mexican officer after the Battle of San Jacinto, fleeing from his Daddy, Old Karl, a vicious, tight-fisted horse trader.... mehr

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    The last the boy Papa saw of his Momma, she was galloping away on her horse Precious in the saddle her father took from a dead Mexican officer after the Battle of San Jacinto, fleeing from his Daddy, Old Karl, a vicious, tight-fisted horse trader. Momma's flight sets Papa on a relentless quest to find her that thrusts him and his scrappy little dog Fritz into adventures all across the wild and woolly Hill Country of Central Texas, down to Mexico, and even into the realm of the ghostly "Shimmery People." In The Devil's Backbone, master storyteller Bill Wittliff takes readers on an exciting journey through a rough 1880s frontier as full of colorful characters and unexpected turns of events as the great American quest novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Wittliff grew up listening to stories and memories like these in his own family, and in this imaginative novel, they come to vivid life, creating an engrossing story of a Texas Huck Finn that brims with folk wisdom and sly humor. A rogue's gallery of characters thwart and aid Papa's path-Old Karl, hell-bent on bringing the boy back to servitude on his farm, and Herman, Papa's brother who's got Old Karl's horse-trading instincts and greed; Calley Pearsall, an enigmatic cowboy with "other Fish to Fry" who might be an outlaw or a trustworthy "o'Amigo"; o'Jeffey, a black seer who talks to the spirits but won't tell Papa what she has divined about his Momma; Mister Pegleg, a three-legged coyote with whom Papa forms a poignant, nearly tragic friendship; the "Mexkins" Pepe and Peto and their father Old Crecencio, whose longing for his lost family is as strong as Papa's; and blind Bird, a magical "blue baby" who can't see with his eyes but who helps other people see what they hold in their hearts. Papa's adventures draw him ever nearer to a mysterious cave that haunts his dreams-an actual cave that he discovers at last in the canyons of the Devil's Backbone-but will he find Momma before Old Karl finds him?

     

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  3. The Devil's Backbone
    Erschienen: [2014]; ©2014
    Verlag:  University of Texas Press, Austin ; Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin

    The last the boy Papa saw of his Momma, she was galloping away on her horse Precious in the saddle her father took from a dead Mexican officer after the Battle of San Jacinto, fleeing from his Daddy, Old Karl, a vicious, tight-fisted horse trader.... mehr

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    The last the boy Papa saw of his Momma, she was galloping away on her horse Precious in the saddle her father took from a dead Mexican officer after the Battle of San Jacinto, fleeing from his Daddy, Old Karl, a vicious, tight-fisted horse trader. Momma’s flight sets Papa on a relentless quest to find her that thrusts him and his scrappy little dog Fritz into adventures all across the wild and woolly Hill Country of Central Texas, down to Mexico, and even into the realm of the ghostly “Shimmery People.” In The Devil’s Backbone, master storyteller Bill Wittliff takes readers on an exciting journey through a rough 1880s frontier as full of colorful characters and unexpected turns of events as the great American quest novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Wittliff grew up listening to stories and memories like these in his own family, and in this imaginative novel, they come to vivid life, creating an engrossing story of a Texas Huck Finn that brims with folk wisdom and sly humor. A rogue’s gallery of characters thwart and aid Papa’s path—Old Karl, hell-bent on bringing the boy back to servitude on his farm, and Herman, Papa’s brother who’s got Old Karl’s horse-trading instincts and greed; Calley Pearsall, an enigmatic cowboy with “other Fish to Fry” who might be an outlaw or a trustworthy “o’Amigo”; o’Jeffey, a black seer who talks to the spirits but won’t tell Papa what she has divined about his Momma; Mister Pegleg, a three-legged coyote with whom Papa forms a poignant, nearly tragic friendship; the “Mexkins” Pepe and Peto and their father Old Crecencio, whose longing for his lost family is as strong as Papa’s; and blind Bird, a magical “blue baby” who can’t see with his eyes but who helps other people see what they hold in their hearts. Papa’s adventures draw him ever nearer to a mysterious cave that haunts his dreams—an actual cave that he discovers at last in the canyons of the Devil’s Backbone—but will he find Momma before Old Karl finds him?...

     

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  4. Slow Moving Dreams
    Autor*in: Hardy, Tom
    Erschienen: 2011
    Verlag:  TCU Press, Fort Worth

    Tom Hardy's new novel, Slow Moving Dreams, tells the story of Tom Carter, a city man who is forced by the death of a cousin to return to his rural roots in West Texas. Hardy takes his readers along two journeys in this novel: the first is the... mehr

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    Tom Hardy's new novel, Slow Moving Dreams, tells the story of Tom Carter, a city man who is forced by the death of a cousin to return to his rural roots in West Texas. Hardy takes his readers along two journeys in this novel: the first is the physical journey that Tom takes as he drives to the funeral in Alpine, and the second is an exploration of Tom's life as a child growing up in the country that the adult Tom is now passing through. But not all of those memories are happy ones, as Tom and his cousins soon find out. The funeral starts to unravel a dark secret that could change everythin

     

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    ISBN: 9780875654249
    Schlagworte: Texas -- Fiction
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    Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: 4:00 PM, Friday, November 17, 1961, Texas Panhandle; Chapter 2: 6:30 AM, Saturday, October 2, 2004, Alpine, West Texas; Chapter 3: 2:00 PM, Tuesday, October 5, 2004, Austin, Texas; Chapter 4: 10:00 AM, July 1958, Alpine, West Texas; Chapter 5: 2:45 PM, Tuesday, October 5, 2004, Austin, Texas; Chapter 6: 4:00 PM, Wednesday, October 6, 2004, Texas Panhandle; Chapter 7: 9:00 AM, Thursday, October 7, 2004, Austin, Texas; Chapter 8: 8:30 AM, Monday, July 23, 1956, Alpine, West Texas; Chapter 9: 10:00 AM, Thursday, October 7, 2004, Texas Panhandle

    Chapter 10: 11:00 AM, Thursday, October 7, 2004, Texas Hill CountryChapter 11: 1:00 PM, Saturday, July 28, 1956, West Texas; Chapter 12: 4:00 PM, Thursday, October 7, 2004, West Texas; Chapter 13: 5:30 PM, Thursday, October 7, 2004, Pecos, Texas; Chapter 14: 6:00 PM, Thursday, October 7, 2004, West Texas; Chapter 15: 10:00 PM, Thursday, October 7, 2004, Davis Mountains, West Texas; Chapter 16: 8:00 AM, Friday, October 8, 2004, West Texas; Chapter 17: 11:00 AM, Friday, October 8, 2004, Alpine, West Texas; Chapter 18: 5:00 PM, Friday, October 8, 2004, Alpine, West Texas

    Chapter 19: 6:30 AM, Saturday, October 9, 2004, Alpine, West TexasChapter 20: 2:00 PM, Saturday, October 9, 2004, Alpine, West Texas; Chapter 21: 5:00 PM, Saturday, October 9, 2004, Alpine, West Texas; Chapter 22: 8:00 PM, Saturday, October 9, 2004, Alpine, West Texas; Chapter 23:1:00 AM, Sunday, October 10, 2004, Alpine, West Texas; Chapter 24: 8:00 AM, Sunday, October 10, 2004, Alpine, West Texas; Chapter 25: 9:00 AM, Sunday, October 10, 2004, Alpine, West Texas; Chapter 26: 12:00 PM, Sunday, October 10, 2004, Alpine, West Texas

    Chapter 27: 12:00 PM, Sunday, October 10, 2004, Alpine, West TexasChapter 28: 4:00 PM, Sunday, October 10, 2004, Alpine, West Texas; Permissions; About the Author;

  5. Wanderer Springs
    A Novel
    Autor*in: Flynn, Robert
    Erschienen: 1987
    Verlag:  TCU Press, Fort Worth

    Wanderer Springs is a dying town in Northwest Texas, one of that string of dusty towns left to wither away when the highway from Fort Worth to Amarillo bypassed them. For travelers on that highway, the harsh and unforgiving countryside passes as no... mehr

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    Wanderer Springs is a dying town in Northwest Texas, one of that string of dusty towns left to wither away when the highway from Fort Worth to Amarillo bypassed them. For travelers on that highway, the harsh and unforgiving countryside passes as no more than a blur. For Will Callaghan, that country and the town of Wanderer Springs are carved into memory, indelible in their clarity.Called home from San Antonio by a funeral, Will begins a journey, both physical and imaginative, that crosses not only geographic and cultural boundaries but darts back and forth in time, mixing stories of the town's

     

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    Contents; County Names; San Antonio; The Road To Red River; Center Point; The Farm; The Corner; Hide City; Prod; Lost Lake Farms; Turtle Hole; Medicine Hill; San Antonio;

  6. Echoes of Glory
    Autor*in: Flynn, Robert
    Erschienen: 2009
    Verlag:  TCU Press, Fort Worth

    Robert Flynn's new novel, Echoes of Glory centers on a fictitious Texas county that embraces its legends, but not its actual history. Set in the Reagan era, the novel exposes shared myths as lies and the truth, lacking all comfort. In his inimitable... mehr

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    Robert Flynn's new novel, Echoes of Glory centers on a fictitious Texas county that embraces its legends, but not its actual history. Set in the Reagan era, the novel exposes shared myths as lies and the truth, lacking all comfort. In his inimitable style Flynn paints a portrait of the denizens of the county who tacitly embrace the legend as all too human and all too frail.Overshadowed by the accomplishments of adjacent Doss County, Mills County clings to its legends-the legendary Mills brothers. One brother had died at the Alamo, one at Goliad, three had fought at San Jacinto. The three survi

     

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    ISBN: 9780875653891
    Schlagworte: Heroes -- Fiction; College teachers -- Fiction; Political campaigns -- Fiction; Playwriting -- Fiction; Texas -- Fiction
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    Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; About the Author;

  7. Cedar Crossing
    Autor*in: Busby, Mark
    Erschienen: 2013
    Verlag:  TCU Press, College Station

    The Trans-Cedar lynching is an infamous tale buried deep in the subconscious of rural Texas history-although it made front-page headlines in the Dallas Morning News and even in national newspapers from May through November of 1899. This... mehr

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    The Trans-Cedar lynching is an infamous tale buried deep in the subconscious of rural Texas history-although it made front-page headlines in the Dallas Morning News and even in national newspapers from May through November of 1899. This horrifying event is at the center of a compelling novel by author Mark Busby. He has not only researched original documents but has used family oral histories to probe the mysteries that still shroud a lynching that is as horrifying and baffling now as it must have been over a hundred years ago. The ""War of Northern Aggression"" was still

     

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    ISBN: 9780875655451
    Schlagworte: Bildungsromans; Texas -- Fiction
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    Contents; 1: The Assignment; 2: The Backstory; 3: Finding Joe; 4: Aunt Mag; 5: Bill McDonald; 6: John McDonald; 7: the Clay-Liston Fight; 8: Cousin Elihu Garrett; 9: Mylene Garrett; 10: The Beatles, KLIF, and the Ledgers; 11: This Morning, Mark Twain; 12: Polk Weeks; 13: John Greenhaw; 14: Assistant Attorney General Ned Morris; 15: The Old Scotchman, Jack Ruby, Willy, and Boy; 16: John Howard Griffin; 17: Complicity; 18: Captain Bill's Letter; 19: Reba; 20: Change is Gonna Come; 21: Afterword: Words from the Grave; Author's Note; Acknowledgments; List of Sources Consulted

  8. The devil's backbone
    Erschienen: 2014
    Verlag:  University of Texas Press, Austin

    Intro -- The Devil's Backbone -- Acknowledgments. mehr

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    Intro -- The Devil's Backbone -- Acknowledgments.

     

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    Schlagworte: Families; Families -- Texas -- Fiction..; Texas -- Fiction; Electronic books
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    ""The Devil's Backbone""; ""Acknowledgments""

  9. The Illegal Man
    Autor*in: Dearen, Patrick
    Erschienen: 2015
    Verlag:  TCU Press, College Station

    <DIV>PATRICK DEAREN was born in 1951 and grew up in West Texas, where he received nine state and national journalism awards. The author of twelve novels and nine nonfiction books, he has been honored by Western Writers of America, San Antonio... mehr

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    PATRICK DEAREN was born in 1951 and grew up in West Texas, where he received nine state and national journalism awards. The author of twelve novels and nine nonfiction books, he has been honored by Western Writers of America, San Antonio Conservation Society, Will Rogers Medallion Awards, and West Texas Historical Association. He makes his home in Midland, Texas.

     

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    ISBN: 9780875656144
    Schlagworte: Mexicans -- Texas -- Fiction; Ranch life -- Fiction; Ranch life -- Texas -- Fiction; Texas -- Fiction; Mexicans ; Texas ; Fiction.;Ranch life ; Fiction.;Ranch life ; Texas ; Fiction.;Texas ; Fiction; Electronic books
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    Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1; 2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 8; 9; 10; 11; 12; 13; 14; 15; 16; 17; 18; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25; 26; 27; About the Author