[PDF] Southwest Writers Series George Sessions Perry eBook

Author : Garna L. Christian
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2009-06-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1469100789

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George Sessions Perry: The Man and His Words is the first biography of the Texas novelist, short story writer, and war correspondent in a generation and the first to use his personal letters and files to allow his words to tell the story. The story is an intriguing one, of a talented but troubled man from Rockdale, Texas who won the National Book Award for Hold Autumn in Your Hand and became one of the most widely read writers in the nation before his untimely demise by drowning in 1956. The biography commemorates the one hundredth anniversary of Perrys birth.

Author : Maxine Hairston
Publisher : Jenkins Publishing Company (TX)
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 38,52 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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"In his intensly frank, critical biography, Hairston delves into the psychological aspects of the life and writings of novelist, magazine writer, and war correspondent George Sessions Perry. She explores the mystery of the man through his published and unpublished works in an attempt to unmask the Texan with a merry mask." Dust jacket.

Author : Glenn Shirley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0806187263

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Who was Belle Starr? What was she that so many myths surround her? Born in Carthage, Missouri, in 1848, the daughter of a well-to-do hotel owner, she died forty-one years later, gunned down near her cabin in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. After her death she was called “a bandit queen,” “a female Jesse James,” “the Petticoat Terror of the Plains.” Fantastic legends proliferated about her. In this book Glenn Shirley sifts through those myths and unearths the facts. In a highly readable and informative style Shirley presents a complex and intriguing portrait. Belle Starr loved horses, music, the outdoors-and outlaws. Familiar with some of the worst bad men of her day, she was, however, convicted of no crime worse than horse thievery. Shirley also describes the historical context in which Belles Starr lived. After knowing the violence of the Civil War as a child in the Ozarks, She moves to Dallas in the 1860s and married a former Confederate guerilla who specialized in armed robbery. After he was killed, she found a home among renegade Cherokees in the Indian Territory, on her second husband’s allotment. She traveled as far west as Los Angeles to escape the law and as far north as Detroit to go to jail. She married three times and had two children, whom she idolized and tormented. Ironically she was shot when she had decided to go straight, probably murdered by a neighbor who feared that she would turn him in to the police. This book will find a wide readership among western-history and outlaw buffs, folklorists, sociologists, and regional historians. Shirley’s summary of the literature about Belle Starr is as interesting as the true story of Belle herself, who has become the West’s best-known woman outlaw.