| Texas Panhandle Tales Contributor(s): Cox, Mike (Author) |
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ISBN: 1609496116 ISBN-13: 9781609496111 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) |
| Dewey: 976.48 |
| LCCN: 2012013495 |
| Series: American Chronicles |
| Physical Information: 0.35" H x 6.09" W x 8.99" (0.53 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Texas - Cultural Region - Mid-South |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Texas Panhandle is like a whole 'nother country. The area stretching from just south of Lubbock all the way north to Oklahoma is filled with ranch land, oil fields, windy plains, and some of the Lone Star State's most unique history. Meet the duck that started a gun battle in Oldham County and find out how Kate Polly's pancake flipping saved her life. Or witness Gene Autry's days as a performer in Childress and a different sort of gold rush" in Palo Duro Canyon as historian Mike Cox shares his favorite pieces of the Panhandle's past." |
Contributor Bio(s): Cox, Mike: - Mike Cox's family tree has deep Texas roots. He began his full-time newspaper career as a reporter for the San Angelo Standard-Times in 1967 and later worked for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and Austin American-Statesman. After a twenty-year career in journalism, he joined the Texas Department of Public Safety and served as its spokesman for fifteen years. He retired from the state in 2007, but in 2010 he retired from retirement and now works in the communications division of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. An elected member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he is the author of twenty nonfiction books. In 2010, he received the West Texas Book and Music Festival's A.C. Greene Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Fredericksburg in the Texas hill country. |