Hardcover; 4to.,1766pp. Photo illustrated throughout in full-color.and black & white archival photographs. Foreword by John T. Montford. This is the special "Autographed Copy" and is signed by both authors and John Montford. Nice d/j with small, closed edgetear flap fold, else Fine in V.Good+ D/j in jacket protector.

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Title

West Texas: a Portrait of It's People and Their Raw and Wonderous Land

Publisher

Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock, Texas

Publication Date

1999

Language

English

ISBN 10

0896724263

ISBN 13

9780896724266

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

2nd Printing

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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Signed by Author(s)

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The Big Bend, the Big Country, the Big Empty. The High Plains, the Permian and the Panhandle. Cowboys, Cowtown and the curl of a killer tornado. A place where you can stretch your eyeballs. Where the Hale-Bopp comet, hardly visible above some smoggy, light-polluted cities, looked like it could drop into the Pecos River at any moment. ""West Texas"", home to the states biggest legends, is chronicled by two authors who have spent most of their careers crisscrossing it. Mike Cochran and John Lumpkin, Associated Press journalists, bring their experiences to the pages of this handsome volume, accompanied by fifty photographs of the West Texas landscape, its people and its history. Converse with West Texas characters like Stanley Marsh 3, conman Billy Sol Estes, and Big Springs merry messiah, Marj Carpenter. Meet Gordon Wood, Friday night footballs winningest coach, and Groner Pitts, Brownwoods liveliest undertaker. Remember ranching icon Watt Matthews, the founders of Santa Rita No. 1, and Lubbocks C. W. Stubblefield, magnet to blues and country music stars. Honor Hallie Stillwell, Frenchy McCormick, and even modern arts Georgia OKeeffe, who put their stamp on Texas' most fascinating region. A West Texan once said, they show no pictures of my province or even neighboring provinces. They leave a big hole in Texas. No more is that the case, thanks to Mike Cochran and John Lumpkin.

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John Lumpkin is bureau chief for The Associated Press in Texas.

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