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The story opens in 1952. John Grady Cole (the protagonist of All the Pretty Horses) and Billy Parham (the protagonist of The Crossing) work together on a cattle ranch south of Alamogordo, New Mexico, not far from the border cities of El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. The ranch's owners are kind, but face an ...
Texas is a 1985 novel by American writer James A. Michener (1907–1997), based on the history of Texas.Characters include real and fictional characters spanning hundreds of years, such as explorers, Spanish colonists, American immigrants, German Texan settlers, ranchers, oil men, aristocrats, Chicanos, and others, all based on extensive historical research.
"The Plains of Passage" spent weeks on the New York Times best sellers list from 1990–1991. [2] The novel currently holds a 3.7/5 on Goodreads [3] and a 4.5/5 on the Barnes and Noble website. [4] Many readers found this book to have tedious details and meticulous information, but was enjoyable overall. [3] [4]
The first English book which was solely about Texas was Texas (1833) by Mary Austin Holley, cousin of Stephen F. Austin. It was expanded in 1836 and retitled History of Texas. [1] A later author in this period, John Crittenden Duval, was dubbed the "Father of Texas Literature" by J. Frank Dobie.
Across the Plains (1892) is the middle section of Robert Louis Stevenson's three-part travel memoir which began with The Amateur Emigrant and ended with The Silverado Squatters. The book contains 12 chapters, each a story or essay unto itself. The title chapter is the longest, and is divided into 7 subsections.
There were more than 4,300 book bans across 23 states and 52 public school districts from July 2023 to December 2023, according to a report from PEN America, a nonprofit organization that fights ...
West Texas: Southwest. Panhandle and South Plains: Great Plains. North Texas: South. East Texas: ... Old Navy's Break a Sweat Sale has activewear from $2 — shop our top picks here. AOL.
Snow began in the mid-Atlantic after nightfall as the Plains began to dig out. ... Power outages topped 350,000 customers from Texas to Virginia, but gradually fell through the day.