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The six Munger siblings are the heirs of hard-drinking, hardscrabble farmer. Sitting as directors of the several corporations in which their wealth resides, five of the siblings Spain, Texas, Laska, China, and Bethel struggle to balance their past with their present, their place in society, and their obligations to community.

Drawing upon his experiences during the frontiers heyday, the author focuses on the area around old Fort Griffin during the 1870s, a time and place that was fast fading from memory. He successfully presents the vanishing shadows of the frontier past and set them down for posterity.

The author was for several years a close friend of O Henry (William Sydney Porter). This title describes the horrors of prison life and also tells how he, O Henry, and their friends managed to cope.

As the Harlem movement focused on experiences of black Americans who sought relief from racism and endeavored to build communities, this title offers voice to the many-sided black experience in remote El Paso.

Reared in isolation by her father on the Western prairie, Mary Dove has been taught to fear only one thing. One sparkling October day it happens. The inevitable stranger rides in off the plains, and Mary Dove does what she had always promised her father she would she shoots. Yet compassion overcomes Mary's fear.

Features Quincie, the motherless thirteen-year-old daughter of an itinerant muleskinner. Set in the Texas oil patch, this book tells her story, which not only presents the viewpoint of a young girl who comes of age in the shadow of the derricks but also in the currency of her creators sensitivity to the natural world and environmental issues.

A novel about a couple of bungling but good-hearted con men who (barely) make their way across Texas over a two-year period in the 1930s.

The Texas Panhandleits eastern edge descending sharply from the plains into the canyons of Palo Duro, Tule, Quitaque, Casa Blanca, and Yellow House is as rich in history as it is in natural beauty. This work contributes to the historiography of the American West, focusing on the Texas Panhandle.