{"id":87,"date":"2018-12-31T10:41:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T10:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2018-12-31T10:41:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T10:41:21","slug":"glenn-dromgooles-texas-reads-column-appears-weekly-at-lonestarliterary-com-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Glenn Dromgoole’s Texas Reads column appears weekly at LoneStarLiterary.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

3.29.15
Graphic novel focuses on cattle drives<\/h1>\n

The second book in the Texas Tales Illustrated series from TCU Press is The Cattle Drives<\/span> ($5.95 paperback). Written by retired teacher Mike Kearby<\/span> and illustrated by Mack White,<\/span> the graphic novel is reminiscent of the old classic comic books. It\u2019s serious history in a very readable format, aimed at seventh graders studying Texas history.<\/p>\n

The book packs a lot of information into its 28 pages, covering such topics as vaqueros, chuck wagons, trail drive jobs, rustlers, stampedes and blizzards. Maps trace the routes of three famous Texas cattle trails.<\/p>\n

The first book in the Texas Tales Illustrated Series came out nearly four years ago and told about the Texas Revolution.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Poet: <\/span>Denton poet, speaker, author, photographer, and storyteller Karla Morton<\/span> was Texas Poet Laureate in 2010. Her new collection of poems \u2013 her tenth — is Constant State of Leaping,<\/span> consisting of about eighty poems covering a wide range of topics and interests, including the game of \u201c42\u201d (Texas Review Press, $8.95 paperback).<\/p>\n

I liked one titled \u201cYou Don\u2019t Know Hot,\u201d which begins \u201cuntil you\u2019ve seen August in Texas.\u201d Another poem is basically a toast raised in tribute to Ben Franklin, while another explains \u201cWhy I Married My Husband.\u201d<\/p>\n

The funniest piece \u2013and shortest \u2013 is \u201cTequila Poetry Form (2-2-4-3)\u201d which contains just two syllables in the first line, two in the second, etc. Here it is:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 i think<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 maybe<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 i just might be<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hung-over<\/p>\n

Gunslingers: Bill O\u2019Neal<\/span> of Carthage is in the second year of his two-year term as the state historian of Texas. He travels around the state and talks about, well, Texas history. He is the author of more than 40 books, including his latest from Aracadia Publishing, a pictorial history of Texas Gunslingers<\/span> ($21.99 paperback). It\u2019s a good, easy read, filled with dozens of old photos of famous and not-so-famous gunslingers, supplemented with tightly-written text telling their stories.<\/p>\n

One chapter focuses on what O\u2019Neal calls \u201cThe Deadliest Trio\u201d \u2013 Ben Thompson, John Wesley Hardin, and James B. \u201cKillin\u2019 Jim\u201d Miller. \u201cAll three members of this deadly trio died violently,\u201d O\u2019Neal writes. Miller was lynched, Hardin was shot dead in El Paso, and Thompson was assassinated. Other chapters deal with Texas Rangers, blood feuds, and gunfighter towns.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> is co-author of 101 Essential Texas Books.<\/span><\/a><\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

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

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