Hotter'n Pecos: And Other West Texas Lies - Softcover

Weaver, Bobby D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0896727033 ISBN 13: 9780896727038

Verlag: Texas Tech Press,U.S., 2010

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Book by Weaver Bobby D

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Saddle up! You're in for a good ride. - BARRY CORBIN, from the foreword The great Bobby Weaver must have spent a lot of time perched on top of telephone poles just watchin' the traffic of life's highway go by. I don't know how else he could have made up such good stuff! - BAXTER BLACK Having grown up in West Texas in ranching and oilfield country, I know nearly all the people Bobby Weaver writes about. They just have different names and different parents up in the Panhandle. They are, however, the most generous, thoughtful, and honest people on this planet. Thanks, Bobby, for the stories and for letting me relive memories of my youth. - RED STEAGALL

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These collected tales - some taller than others - offer revealing glimpses into how and why West Texans are different. Rugged enough to make the harshest of environments their own, this species thrives in hundred-degree-plus heat and near-zero humidity. Folks like the crop duster who nearly sets his plane down in the bed of a pickup, the 'boll weevil' whose naivete is tested in the oil patch, and Frank the 'Goofy Roofer', who enters a bullfight with nothing more than a denim jacket and a bottle of beer, are far from rare. All these yarns contain a grain of truth, and some of them actually happened just as related. Most of them have a humorous bent; some are reasonably serious; a few are totally outrageous. But all of them illustrate the character of this distinctive region of the Lone Star State. Whether they concern ranchers, farmers, or oilfield hands; weather, work, or play, all reflect the essential nature of West Texans. Weaver's lively anecdotes prove several truths about Texas west of the hundredth meridian: you may learn how not to haul hogs, ride in rodeos, conduct bullfights, or drill oil wells - and you may well meet petroleum promoters, coon hunters, chuck-wagon cooks, cotton farmers, and even college professors - but you won't encounter an uninteresting character where things get hotter than Pecos.

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• Verlag: Texas Tech Press,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0896727033
• ISBN 13: 9780896727038
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 160
• Zeichner: Reynolds Boots