Contents: Introduction : a mythical place -- Uncle John -- Clarence of green mansions -- J.D. and the gang in the grove -- Brother Nail's magic -- The new ranchers -- The genius -- Barrymore of the courtroom -- Don Pedroito -- The outcasts of Western Heights Cemetery -- On the banks with Larry Bowman -- The sanctified lady -- The ghost of Amon Carter -- Ravel's elegy and the sad violinist -- The cowboy -- An oilman -- The stone that cries like child -- The last spring of our innocence -- The Christian and the Pagan -- H.L. Hunt's long good-bye -- The Santa Berta -- The folk singer who sang opera -- Old Juan -- The Aurora spaceman -- Farewell to LBJ : a Hill Country valediction

Note

Library's copy 2 (SW Writers): Gift of Bill and Sally Wittliff, 1989 (Access. No. 1989-057). Annotated and signed by author, Spring, 1988. With dust jacket.
Library's copy 3 (SW Writers): Gift of Rollo Newsom, 2011 (Access. No. 2011-004). With dust jacket.
Library's copy 4 (SW Writers): Forms part of: A. C. Greene Library. Gift of Meredith Greene Megaw, 2012 (Access. No. 2012-026). Inscribed on front free endpaper: A.C. Greene from Billy Mack [Porterfield]. With dust jacket

Contents: Introduction : a mythical place -- Uncle John -- Clarence of green mansions -- J.D. and the gang in the grove -- Brother Nail's magic -- The new ranchers -- The genius -- Barrymore of the courtroom -- Don Pedroito -- The outcasts of Western Heights Cemetery -- On the banks with Larry Bowman -- The sanctified lady -- The ghost of Amon Carter -- Ravel's elegy and the sad violinist -- The cowboy -- An oilman -- The stone that cries like child -- The last spring of our innocence -- The Christian and the Pagan -- H.L. Hunt's long good-bye -- The Santa Berta -- The folk singer who sang opera -- Old Juan -- The Aurora spaceman -- Farewell to LBJ : a Hill Country valediction

Note

Library's copy 2 (SW Writers): Gift of Bill and Sally Wittliff, 1989 (Access. No. 1989-057). Annotated and signed by author, Spring, 1988. With dust jacket.
Library's copy 3 (SW Writers): Gift of Rollo Newsom, 2011 (Access. No. 2011-004). With dust jacket.
Library's copy 4 (SW Writers): Forms part of: A. C. Greene Library. Gift of Meredith Greene Megaw, 2012 (Access. No. 2012-026). Inscribed on front free endpaper: A.C. Greene from Billy Mack [Porterfield]. With dust jacket

Visit the Wittliff Collections!

The Wittliff CollectionsBorrow it

601 University Drive, 7th Floor, San Marcos, TX, 78666, US

29.888873 -97.943078

Structured data from the Bibframe namespace is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License by Texas State University Library. Additional terms may apply to data associated with third party namespaces.