Just Above Sunset
January 22, 2006 - Alligators In El Paso And Other Texas Subjects
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Just Above Sunset
January 22, 2006 - Alligators In El Paso And Other Texas Subjects
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January 23, 2006 When you arrive in downtown
El Paso, you will probably notice a statue on the square that features alligators. At that point, you know that "We're no longer in Kansas, Toto" and that a trip
to the local bookstore might be in order. Why is there a statue of alligators
in El Paso and not one in New York City where they were the most famous denizens of the sewers since Ed Norton worked there? At the El Paso Barnes &
Noble we found some intriguing items that tout the various aspects of Texas that we had not stopped to consider. We found these titles interesting: Baseball in
the Lone Star State by Tom Kayser and David King ($19.95
paperback, Trinity University Press) Gone to Texas by Randolph B. Campbell ($35 Oxford) Up To My Armpits:
Adventures Of A West Texas Veterinarian by Dr. Charlie
Edwards ($19.95 paperback, Iron Mountain Press) Texas Bad Girls:
Hussies, Harlots, and Horse Thieves by J. Lee Butts ($17.95
paperback, Republic of Texas Press) The Humor and
Drama of Early Texas by George U. Hubbard ($18.95 paperback,
Republic of Texas Press) Texas Sinners
and Revolutionaries by Jack C. Ramsay, Jr. ($18.95 paperback, Republic of Texas Press) Texas a World
in Itself by George Sessions Perry (no price listed, Pelican Publish Co.) The Texas Indians by David La Vere (no price, Texas A&M University Press) Fifty Years
of the Texas Observer edited by Charles Miller ($19.95 paperback Trinity University Press $19.95) Texas Almanac from the Dallas Morning News Texas Post
Office Murals by Philip Parisi (Texas A&M University
Press) Wings of Change by Thomas E. Alexander ($29.95 McWhiney Foundation Press) This is a history of the AAF in Texas during WWII. Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunge into Texas (Note: while
fact checking this book, we discovered the Texas State Parks and Wildlife Guide Book for tourists. The book is also touted as a Scuba Diver's guide to Texas! They proudly claim (thanks to man made reservoirs) that Texas has more lakes
than Minnesota.) Pistol Packin'
Preachers by Elmer Kelton
($16.95 paperback, Taylor Trade
Publishing) Texas Haunted
Forts by Elaine Coleman ($16.95 paperback, Republic of
Texas) Texas Snakes:
A Field Guide by James R. Dixon, John E. Werler, illustrated
by Regina Levoy ($19.95 paperback, University of Texas Press) Handbook of
Texas Music by Roy R. Barkley ($45, Texas State Historical
Association) Weird Texas by Wesley Treat, Heather Shades, and Rob Riggs ($19.95 Sterling) In The Traveling
Curmudgeon, Jon Winokur quotes John Steinbeck (on page 59): "Like most passionate nations Texas has its own
private history based on, but not limited by, facts."
Email the author at worldslaziestjournalist@yahoo.com |
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