Texas: An Informal Biography

Description: Dust jacket design by Grace James. Includes a frontis and two additional plates, a map, and seven other black and white illustrations .Listed in Six-Guns Number 2385; Rampaging Herd Number 2509. The publisher's blurb reads: ''Mr. White writes with gusto, with such a store of Texas knowledge and legend as probably no other writer possesses, and with a keen sense of the ridiculous. He knows his Texans from the ground up, and his tale is made vivid not by the men who were elected to office or who acted as spokesmen and leaders, but by the men who did the job of making Texas what it came to be.'' BINDNG/CONDITION: gray cloth with red and black text and decoration; a Very Good book, with a Very Good dust jacket; publisher's price on the jacket flap is intact. index. Map endpapers. 8vo (8.25 inches tall). 268 pages.