Blogs in July 2020

The Gates of the Alamo 4th July 2020

It’s 1836, and the Mexican province of Texas is in revolt. As General Santa Anna’s forces move closer to the small fort that will soon be legend, three people’s fates will become intrinsically tied to the coming battle: Edmund...

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Goodbye to a River 4th July 2020

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also...

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11.22.63 4th July 2020

WHAT IF you could go back in time and change the course of history? WHAT IF the watershed moment you could change was the JFK assassination? 11.22.63, the date that Kennedy was shot – unless . . . King...

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Friday Night Lights: A Town, a Team, and a Dream 4th July 2020

In the state of Texas American football is a religion. And nowhere is more fanatical about its football than the small town of Odessa. There, every Friday night from September to November, a bunch of seventeen-year-old kids play their...

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Streets of Laredo 3rd July 2020

The final novel in Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove quartet, Streets of Laredo is an exhilarating and achingly poignant tale of heroism and friendship. Captain Woodrow Call, Gus McCrae’s old partner, once a youthful Texas Ranger, is now a bounty...

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