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Jerry Flemmons more Texas siftings: another bold and uncommon celebration of the Lone Star State
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We are a wordy bunch, always have been, and for almost two centuries, outsiders, intrigued by all the commotion down here in the Southwest, have come to inspect, dissect, cuss and praise. . . . Texas is a heroic story, the stuff of dreams and myths. Born of an impossible revolution, settled by peoples from somewhere else, Texas engendered the epic American notion of freedom and independence, of self-sufficiency and derring-do. Texas, above all else, has been a spiritual adventure-and the whole grand chronicle is there on library shelves, in newspaper clippings, old letters, written memories. Theres little about Texas that hasnt already been said or written, and Texas Siftings is a kind of social catalog to much of it. So wrote Jerry Flemmons in the introduction to the first volume of Texas Siftings, which has been read and treasured by Texans, expatriate Texans, and would-be Texans from coast to coast. Now hes back with More Texas Siftings, an equally engaging and engrossing collection of stories both humorous and dramatic, letters, recipes, snippets of Texas language, outrageous praise and angry condemnation for the Lone Star State and its inhabitants.

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title	:	Jerry Flemmons' More Texas Siftings : Another Bold and Uncommon Celebration of the Lone Star State
author	:	Flemmons, Jerry.
publisher	:	Texas Christian University Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0875651798
print isbn13	:	9780875651798
ebook isbn13	:	9780585032023
language	:	English
subject	Texas--Miscellanea.
publication date	:	1997
lcc	:	F386.5.F57 1997eb
ddc	:	976.4
subject	:	Texas--Miscellanea.

Page v

Jerry Flemmons' MORE TEXAS SIFTINGS

ANOTHER BOLD AND UNCOMMON CELEBRATION OF THE LONE STAR STATE

TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS * FORT WORTH

Page vi

Acknowledgments

Original Fort Worth Star-Telegram illustrations and design by
Don Cook, Dean Eubank, Bronc Sears, Bob Davis, and Drew White.

Computer documentation transfer by Mike Gerst.

Book & cover design by Margie Adkins Graphic Design.

Entries are for the most part in their original form. In a few instances, slight editing
has been done for the reader's convenience.

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Flemmons, Jerry.
Jerry Flemmons' more Texas Siftings : another bold and uncommon
celebration of the Lone Star State by Jerry Flemmons
p. cm.
ISBN 0-87565-179-8
1. Texas--Miscellanea. I. Title
F386.5.F57 1997
976.4 -- dc21

97-26829

CIP

Page vii

Contents

Texans ignore 'better,' long ago forgot the useless word 'good.' Everything in Texas is 'best.'

Edward Smith, Account of a Journey Through North-Eastern Texas, 1849

What's become of the punchers we rode with long ago The hundreds and hundreds of cowboys We all of us used to know.

Traditional, attributed to N. Howard Thorp, circa 1910

A most delicious country; fertile, bountiful prairies covered with grass and flowers.

Senator Thomas Benton, circa 1829

When our own land forsakes us Texas takes us.

Traditional 19th century couplet

It had a thousand verses to itthe more whiskey, the more verses.

Traditionally said of the classic Longhorn herding song, "The Chisholm Trail"

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Alexander Sweets original Texas Siftings circa 1881 Courtesy the University - photo 11

Alexander Sweet's original Texas Siftings, circa 1881.
Courtesy the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries,
Special Collections

Page xi

Texans ignore 'better,' long ago forgot the useless word 'good.' Everything in Texas is 'best.'

Edward Smith, Account of a Journey Through North-Eastern Texas, 1849

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LIFE IN THE WILDERNESS

I remember, upon one occasion, after riding all day through a dense forest region in Northwestern Texas, in the winter of 1850-1, without the slightest indication of a road or even trail to guide me, and during a severe storm of snow and rain, and without having met with a single human being during the entire day, that I suddenly came out into a small clearing in the center of which was a very diminutive log cabin, from which arose a cheerful smoke, indicating the presence of occupants... I therefore gladly turned my jaded horse toward the hut, and, on my approach, a woman, some half a dozen children, and about as many dogs emerged there from... I begged to inquire if I could be accommodated with lodgings for the night, to which the woman very obligingly replied, "Wall, now, stranger, my ole man he ar out on a bar track, but I sorto-reckon maybe you mought git to stay," [and after dinner] I lighted my pipe, seating myself before a cheerful log fire, for the first time since my arrival took a survey of the establishment.

It consisted of one room about fourteen feet square, with the intervals between the logs not chinked, and wide enough in places to allow the dogs to pass in and out at their pleasure. There was an opening for the door, which was closed with a greasy old beef's hide, but there were no windows, and no floor excepting the native earth.

The household furniture consisted of two small benches of the most primitive construction imaginable, and two bedsteads, each made by driving four forked stakes into the ground, across which poles were placed, and then covered transversely by flour-barrel staves, the whole structure surmounted by a sack of prairie hay, upon which I observed the remains of an antiquated coverlid that had evidently seen much service.

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