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Three Men in Texas : Bedichek, Webb, and Dobie / ed. by Ronnie Dugger.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This book is a tribute to "an incomparable triumvirate." "One was a naturalist, one a historian, and one a chronicler, but each of them was each of these. The manly love between them, a handsome thing in times and places blighted by great ugliness and banality, shone from them into their friends and contemporaries, and they shared themselves freely with those younger than they who went to them wishing to learn from them." Most of this collection of writing by friends of Roy Bedichek, Walter Prescott Webb, and J. Frank Dobie originally appeared in special editions of the Texas Observer devoted to each of the three men. Some pieces were, however, written expressly for this volume.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- INTRODUCTION
- ROY BEDICHEK
- Mv friend, Roy Bedichek
- "Authentic tidings of invisible things"
- There is at least one full man
- His kindly nature
- This group of three, seated about the evening fire
- The desire to excel
- Our out-of-doors hotel
- SO1 East Twenty-third Street
- On top of Callman Mountain
- "Look ye also while life lasts"
- "Worse ... Football."
- Freedom from pretense
- "My generation is daubed witlt blood"
- No affectation, no defense
- "Whitman constantly exposed his soul"
- Nature purges, "like great drama"
- Bedichek' s rock
- "The days of dizzy raptures ... gone"
- "Today is life-the rest is nothing"
- "I ... hear Time's winged chariot"
- We loved him because of his naturalness
- Dear Bedi
- WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB
- His first teacher
- "Professor, that was purty"
- "Does anyone have a reason to suggest?"
- A most generous offer
- "For years we three sat together"
- An unfashionable kind of historian
- The Great Plains
- The Great Frontier
- Webb my teacher
- His politics
- I was regarded as a bumpkin indeed
- Webb as a sinner
- Going to places in the pasture
- His last project
- Meetings in Dallas
- Free of both hate and fear
- The power of land and the power of mind
- To the basic loyalties of life he was true
- J. FRANK DOBIE
- We came from the same range
- Poetry in an earthy growl
- A quatrain forty years ago
- Fellow countryman
- Love of life and freedom
- I helped Frank Dobie cut down a tree
- A mustang in the groves of academe
- An enemy of reactionary demagogues
- He has never been an exile
- A writer loyal to real experience
- Dobie revisited
- Down a bytrail
- Many of his books will endure
- Listening with the third ear
- Handling the "insult approach"
- A question of implications
- The universality of Mr. Dobie
- "I have that honor"
- I have known Frank Dobie for about thirty-five years
- I have hem associated with him a good deal since 1914
- Acrostic
- But the children know
- Impressions of a friendship
- "I am busy becoming contemporary with myself'
- When I heard of Frank Dobie's death
- He brought a free man
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)
- ISBN:
- 9780292766952
- 0292766955
- OCLC:
- 1473414200
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