Description
Book SynopsisA collection of stories about Texas by Texans that appeared in leading magazines in the first half of the twentieth century.
Trade ReviewSheer entertainment .... Each story is meaningful, well written and, above all, good reading. * Corpus Christi Caller-Times *
Table of Contents
- Texas in the Short Story
- John W. Thomason, Jr.: A Preacher Goes to Texas
- O. Henry: Art and the Bronco
- Eugene Cunningham: Bar-Nothing’s Happy Birthday
- George Pattullo: Corazón
- Barry Benefield: Incident at Boiling Springs
- Margaret Cousins: Uncle Edgar and the Reluctant Saint
- Chester T. Crowell: The Stoic
- George Sessions Perry: The Fourflusher
- Katherine Anne Porter: The Grave
- Winifred Sanford: Windfall
- John Watson: Benny and the Tar-Baby
- Mary King O’Donnell: Chicken on the Wind
- Dillon Anderson: Forty Years of Firewood
- J. Frank Dobie: Midas on a Goatskin
- Fred Gipson: My Kind of a Man
- William Goyen: Her Breath upon the Windowpane
- Charles Carver: Hanging Hollow
- Sylvan Karchmer: A Fistful of Alamo Heroes
- Harry Kidd, Jr.: Low Road Go Down
- Thomas Thompson: A Shore for the Sinking
- John W. Wilson: Grass Grow Again
