Table of Contents:
  • Small towns and growing horizons: Early memories and influences
  • Denton and Beeville, Texas
  • Orange, Texas
  • Weatherford, Texas
  • Austin
  • A freeing of the mind and spirit: College
  • Moving into my mountains
  • Early political years: Washington DC
  • Jake
  • In preparation for defeat
  • A political master's degree: The Democratic National Committee and Bob Strauss
  • With Strauss and on my own
  • Lloyd Bentsen
  • Lowell Lebermann: in praise of friendship
  • America's best ideas: The National Park Foundation
  • Parks in a changing Texas
  • Epilogue.