Authentic Texas : : People of the Big Bend / / Bill Wright, Marcia Hatfield Daudistel.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield,; Wright, Bill,
• MitwirkendeR: Abel, Ruth,; Alvarez, Alberto,; Alvarez, Eduardo,; Anderson, Delfina Franco,; Barnes, Ken,; Boren, Mike,; Bryan, J. P.,; Cain, Bonnie,; Cain, Dick,; Calderon, Chuy,; Calderon, Johnny,; Case, Jim,; Covington, George,; Curry, Clyde,; Daudistel, Marcia Hatfield,; Dobyns, Denise,; Duncan, Joe,; Duncan, Lanna,; Elder, Boyd,; Glendinning, Jim,; Halpern, Robert,; Hill, Elizabeth,; Hill, Robert,; Hobby, Thomas,; Johnson, Tim,; La Follette, Melvin Walker,; Madrid, Enrique,; McCarty, Talgar,; Meads, Greg,; Meads, Myra,; Miller, Clay,; Miller, Jody,; Muhlig, Adam,; Nieto, Edmundo,; Nieto, Mario,; Noriega, Cristina,; Noriega, Victor,; Payne, Manuel,; Pittman, Jean Hardy,; Rapp, Tom,; Roberts, Ike,; Roberts, Sue,; Rogers, Elizabeth,; Ross, Buzz,; Sakihara, Toshi,; Taylor, Dedie,; Taylor, Lonn,; Thayer, Kate,; Tweedy, Lucinda,; Wilson, India,; Wilson, William,; Wright, Bill,; Zbinden, Verena,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Winner, Southwest Book Award, Border Regional Library Association, 2015 The Texas of vast open spaces inhabited by independent, self-reliant men and women may be more of a dream than a reality for the state’s largely urban population, but it still exists in the Big Bend. One of the most sparsely settled areas of the United States, the Big Bend attracts people who are willing to forego many modern conveniences for a lifestyle that proclaims “don’t fence me in.” Marcia Hatfield Daudistel and Bill Wright believe that the character traits exemplified by folks in the Big Bend—including self-sufficiency, friendliness, and neighborliness—go back to the founding of the state. In this book, they introduce us to several dozen Big Bend residents—old and young, long-settled and recently arrived, racially diverse—who show us what it means to be an authentic Texan. Interviewing people in Marathon, Big Bend National Park, Terlingua, Redford, Presidio, Alpine, Marfa, Valentine, Balmorhea, Limpia Crossing, and Fort Davis, Daudistel and Wright discover the reasons why residents of the Big Bend make this remote area of Texas their permanent home. In talking to ranchers and writers, entrepreneurs and artists, people living off the grid and urban refugees, they find a common willingness to overcome difficulties through individual skill and initiative. As one interviewee remarks, you have to have a lot of “try” in you to make a life in the Big Bend. Bill Wright’s photographs of the people and landscapes are a perfect complement to the stories of these authentic Texans. Together, these voices and images offer the most complete, contemporary portrait of the Texas Big Bend.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- MARATHON -- The Utopians -- The Book Man of Marathon -- The Cowboy and the Au Pair -- BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK -- The Long Trail to the Park -- TERLINGUA AND STUDY BUTTE -- Living in Simplicity -- Dreams Come True -- Directing the Mental Health Clinic on the Porch -- Life in the Cretaceous -- The Healing Place -- REDFORD -- The Fervent Philosopher -- The Missionary Poet -- PRESIDIO -- A Proud Legacy -- The Family Store -- ALPINE -- The Scotsman -- The Defender -- The Dean and the Dream -- A Native Heritage -- The Work Ethic -- An Adventure in Letters -- The Visionary -- Back to the Future -- THE JAVELINA CHRONICLES -- Introduction -- MARFA -- Home to Stay -- Benefit for Fort Davis -- The Big Apple in the Rearview Mirror -- Publishing Marfa -- The Chinati Intern Who Stayed -- The Swiss Alps to the Texas Alps -- VALENTINE -- Rock-and-Roll Artist -- The Land Stewards -- Mayor for Life -- BALMORHEA -- The Grassroots Historian -- The Memory Keeper -- Turkish Dreams -- LIMPIA CROSSING -- The Great Escape -- The Survivor -- The Reluctant Goodbye -- FORT DAVIS -- Fleeing the Fire of April 9, 2011 -- The Entrepreneurs -- The Rambling Boy -- The Snake Man -- One Step from Heaven -- Acknowledgments -- About the Authors -- Photo Captions