Amon: The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America - Hardcover

Flemmons, Jerry; Montford, John T.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896724069 ISBN 13: 9780896724068

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press, 1998

Synopsis

In his heyday, Amon Carter had plenty of name recognition in Texas and across the nation. He was a friend of people like the cowboy columnist Rogers and not at all shy about picking up a telephone and cussing out the governor of Texas. Or wisecracking to the President of the United States. . . . Carter lives on as the personification of the mythical Texan, that larger than life character in a cowboy hat. Texana Book Reviews For much of the mid-twentieth-century, Amon G. Carter Sr. was the man who invented the cowboy at least the larger-than-life Texas version that captured the imagination of the public, presidents, movie stars, and moguls. Carter donned his cowboy persona to build Fort Worth, from the Star-Telegram up, and much of the rest of West Texas. Jerry Flemmons brings to life the mythic huckster and newspaper giant who ushered the likes of Gary Cooper, Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, and Ike through the back door of his Fort Worth mansion and feted t

About this title

About the Author:

Jerry Flemmons is writer-in-residence for Tarleton State University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0896724069
• ISBN 13: 9780896724068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336