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In a narrow grave : essays on Texas /

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"A collection of essays in which Larry McMurtry reflects on what it is like to live in Texas." The myth of the cowboy grows purer every year because there are so few cowboys left to contradict it. Larry McMurtry had been living in cities for fourteen years when he pulled together these ess...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McMurtry, Larry (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Austin : Encino Press, 1968.
Edition:[Special edition].
Subjects:
Texas > Civilization.
Table of Contents:
  • Here's HUD in your eye
  • Cowboys, movies, myths, & Cadillacs : An excursus on ritual forms in the Western movie
  • Southwestern literature?
  • Eros in Archer County
  • A look at the last frontier
  • The old soldier's joy
  • Love, death, & the Astrodome
  • A handful of roses
  • Take my saddle from the wall : A valediction.