| Description |
1 online resource (174 pages) |
| Contents |
And Flights of Harlots Sing Thee to Thy Rest -- Autumn, We Hardly Knew Ye -- A Friend Falls in the Forest -- Putting the Peas in Prosperity -- The Shadow of Death -- Of Dimple And Dixie And Dump -- Dawn Comes Sunny Side Up -- Out of the Frying Pan and into the Internet -- Fry, Fry Again -- A Boy's Life, before Litigation -- Have Rubber Gun, Will Travel -- On the Square It's Half Past Then -- The Way the Cracker Crumbles -- % @!# and Stones May % @!# My Bones -- A Dance of Myth and Mane -- More Do-Si-Do Than Pas de Deux -- Death and Extra Innings -- East Texas Brigadoon -- Welcome to Culture Gulch -- Before "Dominoes" Meant Pizza -- Shades of Yesteryear -- How Sweet the Sound -- A Cowboy's Kingly Crown -- Giddy Up -- Way Up! -- Makin' Bacon |
| Summary |
Jerry Flemmons' Texas is sometimes a place of sadness, even tragedy, sometimes a place of high jinx and great jokes, but most often, it's a place of vanishing traditions and long-ago days |
| Notes |
"These essays were previously printed in the Fort Worth star-telegram and Southern living"--Title page verso |
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English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Texas -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes
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Texas -- Biography -- Anecdotes
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Texas -- History -- Anecdotes
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| Subject |
Texas
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Anecdotes
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History
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585353042 |
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9780585353043 |
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