Blowing In The Wind

BOB GATES

Publication: Texas Highways, The Official State Travel Magazine, 1981, Austin

First edition. 8vo. Color pictorial wrappers, 53 pp. for entire magazine (including covers), illustrated in color and black & white. Story appears in Volume 28, Number 3, March 1981 issue of Texas Highways magazine.

The story "Blowing In The Wind," begins on page 4 - 11, is triple column and contains numerous color photographs by Jack Lewis of Texas windmills. Presents a wonderful story on Texas windmills including J. B. Buchanan's windmill collection that traces the development of the windmill in Texas, maintenance of windmills, to the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon where a 10-foot Standard windmill is on display.

Few inventions have contributed more than the windmill to settling the Lone Star State. The front cover of this magazine features a windmill at sundown on the Texas high plains that can be a spectacular sight, or at least it can relieve the monotony of a seemingly endless sea of grass. This photograph may qualify as being the oldest ever produced as a Texas Highways cover. Jack Lewis took this shot with his trusty 4 x 5 Graphic View camera some 18 years ago (1963).

Fine and bright unread copy.