{"id":797,"date":"2018-12-31T14:03:08","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=797"},"modified":"2018-12-31T14:03:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:03:08","slug":"texas-reads-archiveglenn-dromgoole-54","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=797","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads>> archiveGlenn Dromgoole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n

1.22.2017\u00a0\u00a0 Texas, Oklahoma battled over a bridge in 1931<\/h1>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Have you ever heard of the war between Texas and Oklahoma in 1931? <\/span>Not a football game, but a full-fledged armed conflict over a 75-cent toll bridge at the beginning of what would become the Great Depression. Dallas author Rusty Williams<\/span> tells the story in The Red River Bridge War: A Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $29.95 hardcover).<\/p>\n

The war, says Williams, \u201cwas a serious clash between two eccentric state governors, each with his eye on national office\u201d \u2014 Ross \u201cFat Boy\u201d Sterling of Texas and Oklahoma\u2019s pistol-packing populist \u201cAlfalfa Bill\u201d Murray. Murray made a serious run for the Democratic presidential nomination the next year, and for a while it looked like he might win, eventually losing to Franklin D. Roosevelt.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, more than 80 years later, the Red River Bridge War has passed almost entirely from living memory into the realm of folklore, yet the full story of the conflict has never been told,\u201d Williams writes. Well, now it has. And it\u2019s quite a story that made the front pages of newspapers around the country for two weeks that hot summer of 1931.<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Cowboy songs: <\/span>Texas Tech University Press has issued a second edition of Glenn Ohrlin\u2019s<\/span> The Hell-Bound Train: A Cowboy Songbook<\/span><\/a><\/span> ($24.95 paperback). The book was first published in 1974 by the University of Illinois Press.<\/p>\n

Most of the cowboy songs are from the era of 1875\u20131925. Ohrlin, who died in 2015, was a working cowboy, rodeo rider, singer, and storyteller. Ohrlin tells stories about the songs and includes the music to more than seventy of them, including \u201cMy Home\u2019s in Montana,\u201d \u201cThe Texas Rangers,\u201d \u201cTen Thousand Cattle,\u201d \u201cThe Cowboy\u2019s Prayer,\u201d and Larry Chittenden\u2019s \u201cThe Cowboy\u2019s Christmas Ball.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/span><\/span><\/span>Poems:<\/span> James R. Dennis,<\/span> one of the three friends who write delightful mysteries together under the name of Miles Arcenaux, is also a poet as well as a Dominican friar and a lawyer. He recently sent me a signed and numbered copy of a fine limited letterpress edition of his poetry, called Correspondence in D Minor,<\/span><\/a><\/span> published by Stephen F. Austin University Press.<\/p>\n

One of the poems, \u201cIsaac, To His Father,\u201d has the biblical Isaac reflecting on the time when he and his father, Abraham, climbed the mountain to offer a sacrifice to the Lord, with Isaac discovering to his dismay that he was the intended living sacrifice. He doesn\u2019t think back fondly on the day. \u201cFrom my viewpoint,\u201d he says, \u201cthis single-minded obedience was a bit less than kind.\u201d The book includes thirty-six poems in sixty-six pages.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> Read his past Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Literary Life here.<\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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