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In The Face of Texas Green Peyton, a devoted citizen, expatiates on the myths and mysteries, the industrial empires and cattle magnates, the eccentricities and beauty of the Lone Star State. From the windswept plains of the Panhandle to the palms and banana trees of the Rio Grande Valley, from the lonely prairie of West Texas to the teeming seaports of the Gulf Coast, the author casts an affectionate eye over the republic that annexed the United States in 1845.
With a chapter for every section and major city of the state, this book reveals in words and pictures the elegance of Dallas, the prosperity of Houston, the legends of San Antonio, the hospitality of Fort Worth, the astonishing rise of El Paso, Midland, Corpus Christi, Odessa, Amarillo, Lubbock, and many other cities.
The prodigious economy of Texas comes alive in passages on such marvels as the man-made islands in the Gulf, the subterranean reservoirs of the Panhandle, the mysterious real-estate boom beyond the Pecos, and the resurgent fruit crops in the Valley.
This generously illustrated volume will delight Texan and non-Texan alike with its panoramic presentation of the state whose ebullient history, miraculous wealth, and untrammeled citizens have given it world fame.
GREEN PEYTON is at home in Texas not by birth but by adoption. Ever since 1942, when he was Chief of the Time-Life News Bureau in San Antonio, Mr. Peyton has been a devout Texan, and the readers of his books about the Southwest will agree with his friends that he has earned the Texas birthright.
In 1946, Mr. Peyton received the Carr P. Collins Award of the Texas Institute of Letters for his descriptive and historical study of the Alamo City: San Antonio— City in the Sun. Other books by Green Peyton about Texas have been For God and Texas, a biography of the Rev. Dr. P. B. Hill, and America’s Heartland: The Southwest.
At present (1961) , Mr. Peyton lives with his wife in San Antonio, where he is a civilian staff writer for the Aerospace Medical Center.
VG+/G-. Hardcover. Deep blue cloth covering on boards with title embossed in gold on spine; blind-stamped on front. Binding is tight though slightly cocked, pages clean and unmarked. DJ price clipped with chipping, tearing, edge curl. Some of this is visible in the attached scan. Thomas Y. Crowell Company, New York. 1961. Probable first edition, though not stated as such. 278 pp with index. Profusely illustrated with B/W photos.
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