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Big Bend Country : Land of the Unexpected by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale (2012, Trade Paperback)

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Number of Pages: 336. Weight: 0.98 lbs. Publication Date: 2012-08-13. Publisher: TEXAS A & M UNIV PR.

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PublisherTexas A&M University Press

ISBN-101603447423

ISBN-139781603447423

eBay Product ID (ePID)117193076

Product Key Features

Book TitleBig Bend Country : Land of the Unexpected

Number of Pages336 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2012

TopicUnited States / State & Local / General, United States / South / West South Central (Ar, La, Ok, Tx), United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), General

GenreTravel, Biography & Autobiography, History

AuthorKenneth Baxter Ragsdale

Book SeriesCentennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.7 in

Item Weight11.7 Oz

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition21

Series Volume Number74

Dewey Decimal976.4/932

SynopsisHaving first visited the Big Bend in 1928, Kenneth B. Ragsdale has been digging around in and writing about the region for decades. In Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected , he takes a nostalgic retrospective journey through the times and places of this increasingly popular corner of West Texas to say goodbye to those who made the history, created the myths, and lived the legends.?Building his stories around themes of compassion, conflict, and compromise, he profiles both famous and relatively unknown figures. He tells stories of curanderas (healers), charity workers, a woman who practiced medicine without a license, and another who started a private lending library in her store to encourage rural, poor children to read. In contrast to these stories, he chronicles blood feuds, shootouts, and the violence bred in wild, relatively lawless spaces.?Ragsdale's stories cover a half-century, roughtly 1900 to 1955, from wagon trains to the filming of an epic movie, a time in which the face of the Big Bend changed: the quicksilver mines closed, a national park was established, isolation and cattle gave way to vacation ranchettes and tourists.?" Big Bend Country is a well-done and useful work and should be welcomed by all lovers of that wonderful country." -- Dallas Morning News ?"If you've never been to Big Bend, Ken Ragsdale's new book will make you want to go there."-- Austin American-Statesman, Having first visited the Big Bend in 1928, Kenneth B. Ragsdale has been digging around in and writing about the region for decades. In Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected , he takes a nostalgic retrospective journey through the times and places of this increasingly popular corner of West Texas to say goodbye to those who made the history, created the myths, and lived the legends.'Building his stories around themes of compassion, conflict, and compromise, he profiles both famous and relatively unknown figures. He tells stories of curanderas (healers), charity workers, a woman who practiced medicine without a license, and another who started a private lending library in her store to encourage rural, poor children to read. In contrast to these stories, he chronicles blood feuds, shootouts, and the violence bred in wild, relatively lawless spaces.'Ragsdale's stories cover a half-century, roughtly 1900 to 1955, from wagon trains to the filming of an epic movie, a time in which the face of the Big Bend changed: the quicksilver mines closed, a national park was established, isolation and cattle gave way to vacation ranchettes and tourists.'" Big Bend Country is a well-done and useful work and should be welcomed by all lovers of that wonderful country."-- Dallas Morning News ?"If you've never been to Big Bend, Ken Ragsdale's new book will make you want to go there."-- Austin American-Statesman, Having first visited the Big Bend in 1928, Kenneth B. Ragsdale has been digging around in and writing about the region for decades. In Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected , he takes a nostalgic retrospective journey through the times and places of this increasingly popular corner of West Texas to say goodbye to those who made the history, created the myths, and lived the legends.'Building his stories around themes of compassion, conflict, and compromise, he profiles both famous and relatively unknown figures. He tells stories of curanderas (healers), charity workers, a woman who practiced medicine without a license, and another who started a private lending library in her store to encourage rural, poor children to read. In contrast to these stories, he chronicles blood feuds, shootouts, and the violence bred in wild, relatively lawless spaces.'Ragsdale's stories cover a half-century, roughtly 1900 to 1955, from wagon trains to the filming of an epic movie, a time in which the face of the Big Bend changed: the quicksilver mines closed, a national park was established, isolation and cattle gave way to vacation ranchettes and tourists. ?" Big Bend Country is a well-done and useful work and should be welcomed by all lovers of that wonderful country." -- Dallas Morning News ?"If you've never been to Big Bend, Ken Ragsdale's new book will make you want to go there."-- Austin American-Statesman, Time and increasing popularity have eroded the Big Bend that Kenneth Ragsdale first visited in 1928. In this nostalgic farewell to a unique corner of North America, he tells the stories of those who lived the legends of blood feuds, mining, and ranching and who gently brought healing and learning to the region before its splendid isolation and a national park attracted tourists and developers.