Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest, with a Few Observations

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Dallas. 1952

Southern Methodist University Press

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Not long after the Civil War, in Harris County, Texas, my father heard a bayou-billy yell out:

If it were now possible to find some section of country so far up above the forks of the creek that the owls mate there with the chickens, and if this section could send to Congress one of its provincials untainted by the outside world, he would, if at all intelligent, soon after arriving on Capitol Hill become aware of interdependencies between his remote province and the rest of the world.

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