Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song: A Texas Chronicle

by William A. Owens

Book Overview

Texas, the 1930s-the years of the Great Depression. It was the Texas of great men: Dobie, Bedichek, Webb, the young Am rico Paredes. And it was the Texas of May McCord and "Cocky" Thompson, the Reverend I. B. Loud, the Cajun Marcelle Comeaux, the black man they called "Grey Ghost," and all the other extraordinary "ordinary" people whom William A. Owens met in his travels.

"Up and down and sideways" across Texas, Owens traveled. His goal:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292780567
• ISBN13: 9780292780569
• Release Date: March 1983
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 338 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 9.0"