Joyful Trek: A Texan's Times and TravelsTexas Tech University Press, 1996 - 215 страница Following this colorful Texan through the extraordinary details of his life is more fun than an afternoon at the movies. Like the hero in a Gary Cooper movie, Robert H. Williams marches through the history of the twentieth century on the front lines of American culture. And editor/historian Craig Miner makes certain the reader never wants for a deeper understanding of all that our protagonist experiences. Pairing the original memoir with a lively running commentary rich in historical context and unexpected detail, Joyful Trek guides the reader across the wild prairies of central Texas at the turn of the century into World War I with the infant Army Air Force and around the world in the Merchant Marine. Williams goes on to become a Harvard student, a journalist, an intelligence officer in World War II, an inventor, a Hollywood writer, a family man, a bit of a philosopher--and foremost a consummate storyteller. This is a journey to savor. |
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Morning at Baird Mountain | 1 |
The Cultivator Philosopher | 19 |
The Walk of the Dead | 43 |
What It Was Was Football | 79 |
I Cover a Klan War | 85 |
The Memphis City and the World | 99 |
Im a Reporter Again | 121 |
Challenge and Response | 137 |
Almost and Actually a Ghost | 155 |
Inventor | 171 |
Fulfillment | 185 |
Photographs | 194 |
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A. C. Greene Abilene American Army Baird Mountain balloons Baptist Beaumont beautiful became began Betsy bombing bought cadets Callahan County called captain Close Dallas Dallas Morning Dead-Man Creek diverticula dollars early engine eyes famous farm father feet fellow felt field fire flying football Frank Luke French German ghostwriter ground hand Hartney head heard horse jackrabbit James Simpkins Klan knew land later learned lived look loved Luke machine guns Mama Memphis City mesquite miles months morning mother mumps never newspaper night officer pasture pilot plane play prairie prairie dogs Pursuit Group ranch remember reporter seemed September September 16 ship shot Simmons College Sour Lake squadrons story surgeon Texas Hill Country told took trying turned wagon weeks West Texas wet nurse Williams Williams's writing wrote young