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Popular writer and performer Gene Fowler profiles a gallery of eccentric Texans.

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I recently picked up a book that is so good that I was tempted to lift several chapters from it for my columns. Instead I decided to write a column about it. It is Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters, by Gene Fowler, published by the University of Texas Press in 2008. -- Lonn Taylor * Big Bend Now *

Table of Contents
  • Introduction: Sintesi Texana
  • Part One: A Gallery of Performance Folk-Artists
    • 1. Commodore Hatfield: Prophet of the Trinity
    • 2. Cyclone Davis Jr.: "Bewhiskered Dervish"
    • 3. Port Arthur's Popeye, Bet-a-Million, and the Brownie Man
    • 4. Governor Willie
    • 5. Bobcat Carter
    • 6. William F. Drannan: A Hero, or "Nothing but a Damn Liar"?
    • 7. Madam Candelaria: "Most Outstanding Female Character of San Antonio History"
    • 8. Three Rode for Texas
    • 9. Wild Bill's Final Performance
    • 10. Sain-toh-oodie Goombi and Two Braids Tommy
    • 11. Hondo Crouch: "Imagineer"
    • 12. Trek Stars: Hickey, Hoopie, Plennie L. Wingo, and Others
    • 13. Arizona Bill
    • 14. Bicycle Annie
    • 15. Moses Evans: "Wild Man of the Woods"
    • 16. Robert Hall: Sharp-dressed Frontiersman
    • 17. Anthony Banning Norton: "Full-blown Eccentric"
    • 18. O. L. Nelms: The Most Thankful Millionaire
    • 19. Jim "Silver Dollar" West
    • 20. Bozo Texino
    • 21. Ray's Ornamental Gardens
    • 22. O. T. Nodrog, the Outer Dimensional Forces, and the Time Ark Service Modules
  • Part Two: Other Texas Characters
    • 23. A Pair of Snake Kings and One Snake Queen
    • 24. Giants
    • 25. Big Sam
    • 26. Stout Jackson
    • 27. Milt Hinkle: Aerial Bulldogger
    • 28. Booger Red: "Ugliest Man Dead or Alive"
    • 29. Buck Gunter: Raisin' Hair and Ridin' Broncs
    • 30. Samuel E. "Doc" Asbury: Texas Nativist
    • 31. Quinta Mazatlan: Adobe Outpost in the Rio Grande Valley
    • 32. Four Great Ladies
    • 33. Five Aces of Magic
    • 34. Mystics
  • Appendixes
  • Appendix A: The Zeb Crawburg Memorial
  • Appendix B: Astro Turf Ranchette
  • Appendix C: Western Art
  • Appendix D: Break on Through
  • Appendix E: Zaney Blaney and the Beat

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/03/2008
      ISBN13: 9780292718197, 978-0292718197
      ISBN10: 0292718195

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Popular writer and performer Gene Fowler profiles a gallery of eccentric Texans.

      Trade Review
      I recently picked up a book that is so good that I was tempted to lift several chapters from it for my columns. Instead I decided to write a column about it. It is Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters, by Gene Fowler, published by the University of Texas Press in 2008. -- Lonn Taylor * Big Bend Now *

      Table of Contents
      • Introduction: Sintesi Texana
      • Part One: A Gallery of Performance Folk-Artists
        • 1. Commodore Hatfield: Prophet of the Trinity
        • 2. Cyclone Davis Jr.: "Bewhiskered Dervish"
        • 3. Port Arthur's Popeye, Bet-a-Million, and the Brownie Man
        • 4. Governor Willie
        • 5. Bobcat Carter
        • 6. William F. Drannan: A Hero, or "Nothing but a Damn Liar"?
        • 7. Madam Candelaria: "Most Outstanding Female Character of San Antonio History"
        • 8. Three Rode for Texas
        • 9. Wild Bill's Final Performance
        • 10. Sain-toh-oodie Goombi and Two Braids Tommy
        • 11. Hondo Crouch: "Imagineer"
        • 12. Trek Stars: Hickey, Hoopie, Plennie L. Wingo, and Others
        • 13. Arizona Bill
        • 14. Bicycle Annie
        • 15. Moses Evans: "Wild Man of the Woods"
        • 16. Robert Hall: Sharp-dressed Frontiersman
        • 17. Anthony Banning Norton: "Full-blown Eccentric"
        • 18. O. L. Nelms: The Most Thankful Millionaire
        • 19. Jim "Silver Dollar" West
        • 20. Bozo Texino
        • 21. Ray's Ornamental Gardens
        • 22. O. T. Nodrog, the Outer Dimensional Forces, and the Time Ark Service Modules
      • Part Two: Other Texas Characters
        • 23. A Pair of Snake Kings and One Snake Queen
        • 24. Giants
        • 25. Big Sam
        • 26. Stout Jackson
        • 27. Milt Hinkle: Aerial Bulldogger
        • 28. Booger Red: "Ugliest Man Dead or Alive"
        • 29. Buck Gunter: Raisin' Hair and Ridin' Broncs
        • 30. Samuel E. "Doc" Asbury: Texas Nativist
        • 31. Quinta Mazatlan: Adobe Outpost in the Rio Grande Valley
        • 32. Four Great Ladies
        • 33. Five Aces of Magic
        • 34. Mystics
      • Appendixes
      • Appendix A: The Zeb Crawburg Memorial
      • Appendix B: Astro Turf Ranchette
      • Appendix C: Western Art
      • Appendix D: Break on Through
      • Appendix E: Zaney Blaney and the Beat

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