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A loose herd of Texans / by Bill Porterfield.
Author
Porterfield, Bill
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Format
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Language
English
Εdition
1st ed.
Published/Created
College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©1978.
Description
xiv, 198 pages ; 24 cm
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Forrestal Annex - A
F391.P84
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Texas
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Social life and customs
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Biography
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Porterfield, Bill
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Summary note
Mixing the profile with the personal essay, plain storytelling with reporting and the fanciful, Bill Porterfield, in this collection of short pieces, prances out a memorable cast of his characters from the Texas heartland. ?Loose herd? is about as tight a noose of definition as you can draw around their collective necks. Clarence of Green Mansions is a mystic with a two-thousand-year-old memory; J. D. Graham ekes out a living as owner of a general store in the dried-up crossroads of The Grove; Old Juan lives in a hole in the ground and defies anyone to bother him; Larry Bowman became famous by winning the jackpot on TV bowling; George White was a self-proclaimed genius until he picked his toe with a rusty knife and died of gangrene; John Waggoner, scion of great ranchers, has given up the New York stockbrokers life for stock raising; and Goyo Maldonado stopped going to church when he found the Stone That Cries Like a Child. Obscure eccentrics and ordinary folk outnumber the rich and famous.
Contents
Introduction : a mythical place
Uncle John
Clarence of green mansions
J.D. and the gang in the grove
Brother Nail's magic
The new ranchers
The genius
Barrymore of the courtroom
Don Pedroito
The outcasts of Western Heights Cemetery
On the banks with Larry Bowman
The sanctified lady
The ghost of Amon Carter
Ravel's elegy and the sad violinist
The cowboy
An oilman
The stone that cries like child
The last spring of our innocence
The Christian and the Pagan
H.L. Hunt's long good-bye
The Santa Berta
The folk singer who sang opera
Old Juan
The Aurora spaceman
Farewell to LBJ : a Hill Country valediction.
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ISBN
0890960445
9780890960448
LCCN
77099277
OCLC
3771646
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