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In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas is a 1968 collection of essays by American writer Larry McMurtry. In 1981 McMurtry said the book marked a dividing line in his career after which he no longer wrote about living in the country (although he would go on to write books with country settings again).
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University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-73616-0. Charlene Rose Vandini (2000). It's Not about the Money: Small-town Newspapering in Texas. Eakin Press. ISBN 978-1-57168-434-9. News in Texas: Essays in Honor of the 125th Anniversary of the Texas Press Association. University of Texas Press. 2005.
Texas is an open-carry state, and it amazed me to see people walk around malls and enter restaurants with guns. Guns also seem to be a big part of the local culture.
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.
Mel and Norma Gabler were religious fundamentalists active in United States school textbook reform between 1961 and the 2000s based in Longview, Texas. [1]Norma Gabler started her foray into school book banning in 1961 when her son pointed out how the phrase "one nation under God" was missing from the Gettysburg Address, which inspired her to complain to the State Board of Education. [2]
[12] [13] The violence continued through the Porvenir Massacre on January 28, 1918, when Texas Rangers summarily executed 15 Mexicans in Presidio County, Texas. [12] This caused State Representative José Canales to head an investigation into systematic violence against Mexicans by the Texas Rangers, which largely ended the pattern of violence ...