Giant country : essays on Texas /

A collection of essays written by Don Graham about the experiences he had during the twenty years he spent traveling around Texas.

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Main Author: Graham, Don, 1940-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Fort Worth : TCU Press, c1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Greed, Creed, and Me: The Author Interviews Himself by Way on an Introduction
  • Places
  • Filadelphia Story
  • The Ground Sense Necessary
  • Texas in 1940: The WPA Guide
  • Doing England
  • American Narratives
  • Giant Country
  • Pages
  • Cotton and Classicism: George Sessionas Perry's Farm Novel
  • Katherine the Great
  • William Humphrey: last of the Southern Belle-Lettrists
  • Pen Pals: Dobie, Bedichek, and Webb
  • John Graves and The Regionalist Enterprise
  • "Urban, by God": Billy Lee Brammer's Texas
  • Take My Sequel from the Wall: The Lonesome Dove Cycle
  • Polemics
  • Palefaces and Redskins: A Literary Skirmish
  • Land without Myth; or, Texas and the Mystique of Nostalgia
  • Anything for Larry
  • Paris, as in Texas
  • Puerto Vallarta Squeezed
  • What the World Wants to Know
  • Pictures
  • Moo-vie Cows: The Trail to Hollywood
  • The Big Show: Autry's Artful Oater
  • Remembering the Alamo: The Story of the Texas Republic in Popluar Culture
  • Nowhere Else But Southfork: What Texas Looks Like in the Movies
  • "Time-Traveling Through Texas": A Half-Century of Lone Star Movies on Video.