Pride of Place

Fourteen writers, including Roy Bedichek, John Graves, Stephen Harrigan, Wyman Meinzer, and Naomi Shihab Nye explore the uniqueness of Texas nature and address all the major regions of the state.

Acknowledgments

viii

Introduction

1

(14)

``Still Water'' from Adventures with a Texas Naturalist

15

(16)

Roy Bedichek

``Kindred Spirits'' from From a Limestone Ledge

31

(10)

John Graves

``12 Variations on a Theme or Why I Live in West Texas''

41

(8)

Carol Cullar

``A Sense of One Place as the Focus of Another: The Making of a Conservationist''

49

(20)

Pete Gunter

``That One-Eyed Hereford Muley'' from The Wild and the Domestic

69

(22)

Barbara ``Barney'' Nelson

``Springs''

91

(10)

Joe Nick Patoski

``Memories of a Prairie Chicken Dance''

101

(10)

Gary Clark

``Wildflower. Stone.''

111

(12)

Marian Haddad

``Nature Writer''

123

(8)

Wyman Meinzer

``Tortas Locas'' from The Underground Heart

131

(14)

Ray Gonzales

``Home Address'' from Never in a Hurry

145

(6)

Naomi Shihab Nye

``Faith's Place'' from Crossroads: A Southern Culture Annual

151

(22)

Gerald Thurmond

``Paddling the Urban Sprawl of North Texas''

173

(16)

David Taylor

``What Texas Means to Me'' from A Natural State

189

(18)

Stephen Harrigan

Index

207

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