Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I. Texas People -- 1. Travels With My Father -- 2. Uncle Kit the Drifter -- 3. A Love Story -- 4. Figgi -- 5. Rachel on the Radio -- 6. The Lady Librarians -- 7. Amelia Williams, Cotton Farmer and Scholar -- 8. Thoroughly Modern Mojella -- 9. Frugality Was a Virtue -- 10. Apache Adams -- 11. Ted Gray -- 12. Carry Huffman and Joe Sitter, Border Lawmen -- 13. Two Viejos at a Kitchen Table -- 14. Alan Tennant and the Rattlesnakes -- 15. Colonel Crimmins, the Rattlesnake Venom Man -- 16. Two Governors for the Price of One -- 17. Pappy and the Light Crust Doughboys -- 18. The Two Garcias -- 19. The Lark of the Border -- 20. Albert Alvarez, Secret Historian -- 21. Mary Bonkemeyer and the Grits Trees -- 22. Gene Miller, Ranch Wife -- 23. Russell Lee, Photographer -- 24. Bill Leftwich, Artist -- 25. The Propeller Man of Marfa -- 26. Small-Town Journalists -- 27. Lee Bennett and Marfa's History -- 28. Jack Jackson Rewrites Texas History -- 29. Myrrl McBride, Prisoner of War -- 30. Some Texas Confederates -- 31. The Jacksons of Blue and Other Texas Chairmakers -- 32. A Bunch of Cowboys Trying to Build an Airplane -- 33. Amon Carter and Fort Worth -- II. Texas Places -- 34. Dark Corner and High Hill -- 35. County Courthouses -- 36. Snooping Around Historic Houses -- 37. Juneteenth Belongs to Texas -- 38. Christmas in Anson -- 39. There Was Nothing for Us to Do But Run -- 40. San Antonio's Cement Sculpture -- 41. The Flying Boat on Medina Lake -- 42. Dance Halls and Honky Tonks -- 43. Fidel in Wharton -- 44. Adventures in Albany -- 45. The West Texas Town of El Paso -- 46. Bryan Woolley's Wonderful Room -- 47. Austin 1962, Fort Davis 2011 -- 48. A Killing in the Big Bend -- 49. Marfa's Fort D. A. Russell -- 50. The Ronquillo Grant -- 51. The Food Shark -- 52. The Highland Hereford Rough Riders.

53. The Road to the Mine -- 54. The Secret History of the Big Bend -- 55. Tony Cano's Marfa -- 56. The Sandia Springs Wetlands -- 57. After the Fire -- About the Author.