Author: James Frank Dobie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
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J. Frank Dobie, Reminiscences
Author: James Frank Dobie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Typescript.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
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A Vaquero of the Brush Country, by J. Frank Dobie. Partly from the Reminiscences of John Young. Illustrated by Justin C. Gruelle
A Vaquero of the Brush Country
Author: James Frank Dobie
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ISBN:
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
A Vaquero of the Brush Country
Author: James Frank Dobie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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ISBN:
Category : Cowboys
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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J. Frank Dobie
Author: Steven L. Davis
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292721145
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
\The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas and the Southwest. In best-selling books such as Tales of Old-Time Texas, Coronado’s Children, and The Longhorns, Dobie captured the Southwest’s folk history, which was quickly disappearing as the United States became ever more urbanized and industrial. Renowned as “Mr. Texas,” Dobie paradoxically has almost disappeared from view—a casualty of changing tastes in literature and shifts in social and political attitudes since the 1960s. In this lively biography, Steven L. Davis takes a fresh look at a J. Frank Dobie whose “liberated mind” set him on an intellectual journey that culminated in Dobie becoming a political liberal who fought for labor, free speech, and civil rights well before these causes became acceptable to most Anglo Texans. Tracing the full arc of Dobie’s life (1888–1964), Davis shows how Dobie’s insistence on “free-range thinking” led him to such radical actions as calling for the complete integration of the University of Texas during the 1940s, as well as taking on governors, senators, and the FBI (which secretly investigated him) as Texas’s leading dissenter during the McCarthy era.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292721145
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
\The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas and the Southwest. In best-selling books such as Tales of Old-Time Texas, Coronado’s Children, and The Longhorns, Dobie captured the Southwest’s folk history, which was quickly disappearing as the United States became ever more urbanized and industrial. Renowned as “Mr. Texas,” Dobie paradoxically has almost disappeared from view—a casualty of changing tastes in literature and shifts in social and political attitudes since the 1960s. In this lively biography, Steven L. Davis takes a fresh look at a J. Frank Dobie whose “liberated mind” set him on an intellectual journey that culminated in Dobie becoming a political liberal who fought for labor, free speech, and civil rights well before these causes became acceptable to most Anglo Texans. Tracing the full arc of Dobie’s life (1888–1964), Davis shows how Dobie’s insistence on “free-range thinking” led him to such radical actions as calling for the complete integration of the University of Texas during the 1940s, as well as taking on governors, senators, and the FBI (which secretly investigated him) as Texas’s leading dissenter during the McCarthy era.
An American Original
Author: Lon Tinkle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Recounts the life of one of the best loved storytellers of the American Southwest.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Recounts the life of one of the best loved storytellers of the American Southwest.
Cow People
Author: James Frank Dobie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves. These are the Texans of the don't-fence-me-in era, their faces pinched by years of squinting into the desert glare, tanned by the sun and coarsened by the dust of the Chisholm Trail. Their stories are often raucous but just as often quiet as hot plains under a pale Texan sky. A native Texan, J. Frank Dobie had an inborn knowledge of the men and customs of the trail camps. Cattlemen were as various as the country was big. Ab Blocker was a tall, quiet man who belonged totally to the cattle and the silent plains. But big men often had big lungs. "Shanghai Pierce was the loudest man in the country. He would sit at one end of a day coach and in normal voice hold conversation with some man at the other end of the coach, who of course had to yell, while the train was clanking along. He knew everybody, yelled at everybody he saw." Texas bred tall men and taller stories. There was Findlay Simpson, who played havoc with fact but whiled away the drivers' long, lonely evenings with his tales. Old Findlay told of a country so wet that it bogged down the shadow of a buzzard, and of cattle that went into hibernation during rugged winters; he once spun yarns for three days straight, outlasting his listeners in a marathon of endurance. All real cow people--from the cattle drivers to the cattle owners--lived by a simple code based on the individual's integrity. Bothering anyone else's poke or business uninvited was strictly forbidden, and enforcement of this unwritten law was as easy as pulling a trigger. Honesty was taken for granted, and a cowman's name on a check made it negotiable currency. Yet Texas had its "bad guys"--the crooks, the thieves, even the tightwads. "A world big enough to hold a rattlesnake and a purty woman is big enough for all kinds of people," wrote Dobie. This is the world whose vast and various population the reader will find in Cow People.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Cow People records the fading memories of a bygone Texas, the reminiscences of the cow people themselves. These are the Texans of the don't-fence-me-in era, their faces pinched by years of squinting into the desert glare, tanned by the sun and coarsened by the dust of the Chisholm Trail. Their stories are often raucous but just as often quiet as hot plains under a pale Texan sky. A native Texan, J. Frank Dobie had an inborn knowledge of the men and customs of the trail camps. Cattlemen were as various as the country was big. Ab Blocker was a tall, quiet man who belonged totally to the cattle and the silent plains. But big men often had big lungs. "Shanghai Pierce was the loudest man in the country. He would sit at one end of a day coach and in normal voice hold conversation with some man at the other end of the coach, who of course had to yell, while the train was clanking along. He knew everybody, yelled at everybody he saw." Texas bred tall men and taller stories. There was Findlay Simpson, who played havoc with fact but whiled away the drivers' long, lonely evenings with his tales. Old Findlay told of a country so wet that it bogged down the shadow of a buzzard, and of cattle that went into hibernation during rugged winters; he once spun yarns for three days straight, outlasting his listeners in a marathon of endurance. All real cow people--from the cattle drivers to the cattle owners--lived by a simple code based on the individual's integrity. Bothering anyone else's poke or business uninvited was strictly forbidden, and enforcement of this unwritten law was as easy as pulling a trigger. Honesty was taken for granted, and a cowman's name on a check made it negotiable currency. Yet Texas had its "bad guys"--the crooks, the thieves, even the tightwads. "A world big enough to hold a rattlesnake and a purty woman is big enough for all kinds of people," wrote Dobie. This is the world whose vast and various population the reader will find in Cow People.
An American Original
Author: Lon Tinkle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316848879
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316848879
Category : Authors, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Magazine Publications by and about J. Frank Dobie
Cow People
Author: J. Frank Dobie
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292710603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Records the reminiscences of the old-time cow people of Texas and the bygone days of the open range.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292710603
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Records the reminiscences of the old-time cow people of Texas and the bygone days of the open range.