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Big Bend Country. Land Of The Unexpected.
KENNETH B. RAGSDALE
Other works by KENNETH B. RAGSDALEPublication: Texas A & M University Press, 1998, College Station
First edition. 8vo. Cloth, xix [1], 281 pp., preface, prelude, illustrated, epilogue, notes, index. History, memoirs, and stories of the Big Bend Country of West Texas. Material on W. D. Smithers, treasure hunters, Hallie Stillwell, the shootout at Study Butte, Lucia Madrid, Mary Coe Daniels, and family feuds. The stories cover a half-century roughly between 1900 to 1955. The themes involve stories of courage, compassion, and compromise and there is even a chapter on J. Frank Dobie and his stories of buried treasure, treasure that turned out to be that of the imagination if not of gold. Fine in dust jacket.
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