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Texas, West--Description and travel, Texas, West--Social life and customs--20th century, Greene, A. C.,--1923- , Texas, West--Biography.
publication date
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1998
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F391.2.G66 1998eb
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976.4/06
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Texas, West--Description and travel, Texas, West--Social life and customs--20th century, Greene, A. C.,--1923- , Texas, West--Biography.
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A Personal Country
A. C. Greene
Illustrated By Ancel Nunn
Foreword by Larry L. King
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1969, 1979, 1998 by A. C. Greene
Revised Edition Manufactured in the United States of America All rights reserved
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First Paperback Edition, 1998
Requests for permission to reproduce material from this work should be sent to:
Permissions University of North Texas Press P. O. Box 311336 Denton TX 76203 940-565-2142
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library materials, Z39.48.1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Greene, A. C. 1923 A personal country. Includes index.
1. TexasDescription and travel1951 2. TexasSocial life and customs. 3. Greene, A. C., 1923 4. TexasBiography. I. Title. F391.2G66 1979 976.4'06 79-7410 ISBN 1-57441-053-9
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For THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN MY LIFE
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Contents
Foreword
ix
Some Words
xv
A Debt
xvii
1 A Place Called West Texas
3
2 The Boundaries of Its Life
9
3 Some Arteries of Time
20
4 The Beginning of a Journey
38
5 How the Oil Came
53
6 A Town Fame Dislikes
66
7 The Ominous Journey
75
8 The Source and Since
104
9 Village of My Heart
112
10 God in West Texas
127
11 Beyond the Old One-Hundredth
141
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12 What Time Owns
164
13 The Butterfield & I
193
14 Sandstone Sentinels
254
15 So All the Generations
275
16 Bring Me to...
313
17 Afterword
329
18 Index
335
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Foreword
The "personal country" A. C. Greene writes about in this book also happens to be my own. We have shared not only a placeWest Texasand those paths and customs and myths indigenous to it, but also a common era. I was born thirty-two miles due east of his beloved Abilene, in the modest little village of Putnam, about the time he entered first grade. Herbert Hoover was president then and on the verge of sponsoring that Great Depression which the Greene and King families would keenly feel and never quite get over fearing. Our similarities do not end, but merely begin, with that time and place.
Each of us from childhood so loved books that we made early vows to write our own. Each served his writing apprenticeship for West Texas newspapershe for the Abilene Reporter News, I for the Midland Reporter-Telegram and the Odessa American. It was great fun, even if our paltry salaries caused us to write with cheap cuts of meat weighing heavy in our bellies and with holes in our shoes. But I know of no way to better learn a place, and its people, than to attend its county fairs, courtroom disputes, football wars, civic gatherings, or other tribal rituals. We roamed the West Texas outback like gypsies, bucking its head winds and breathing its grit, seeing with adult eyes those places and events we had witnessed as
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children. Eventually we saw, heard, and observed enough to begin to fulfill the writer's lone dutythat of attempting to separate the myths from the realities.
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