Close calls : Jan Reid's Texas
- Title
- Close calls : Jan Reid's Texas / Jan Reid.
- Published by
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2000.
- Author
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Details
- Description
- x, 247 pages; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In Close Calls Reid provides details of his various assignments and the people and places he has encountered while working for Texas Monthly and other publications - going on beats with Texas police officers, attending church with George Foreman in New York, and meeting Kickapoo Indians in the Sierra Madres."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subject
- Contents
- Introduction: The Accidental Journalist -- Pt. I. The Texas Character: Legacy of Courage, History of Violence. A Grand Canyon. The Forgotten People. The Beat. Out of Action. Big. Showdown at Maverick Ranch. Last of a Breed -- Pt. II. Texas in the Raw: The Battles and Joys of Nature. The Meanest River. The Cow's in the Corn. Bring 'Em Back Alive. Running Rabid. Sympathy for the Devils -- Pt. III. Torn from Another Country: Texas and Mexico. Texas Is Lost. Busting Out of Mexico. The Contender. Left for Dead.
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