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Summary:

"Book is a collection of Burle Pettit's columns from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal newspaper, plus an introduction by Pettit and a Preface by Kenneth L. Untiedt. Columns have been organized and slightly edited to fit a book. Columns ran from the 1960s to approximately 2010"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Moran and other special places
• Boyhood fun
• Influential people...and characters
• Food
• The old days
• Game changers
• Native to Texas
• Texas Tech and sports
• Schnopper
• The newspaper industry.

Author/Creator:

Pettit, Burle, 1934- , author

Contributors:

Untiedt, Kenneth L., 1966- , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

A boyhood dream realized: half a century of Texas culture, one newspaper column at a time [by Pettit, B.]

Related Series:

Texas Folklore Society extra book; no. 27

Subjects:

Pettit, Burle, 1934-

Pettit, Burle, 1934- — Childhood and youth — Anecdotes

Sportswriters — Texas — Biography

Newspaper editors — Texas Biography

Newspapers — Sections, columns, etc.

Moran (Tex.) — Social life and customs — 20th century — Anecdotes

Texas — Social life and customs — 20th century — Anecdotes

1900-1999

Newspaper editors

Newspapers

Manners and customs

Sportswriters

Texas

Genres:

Autobiographies

Biographies

Anecdotes

General Notes:

Includes index.

Physical Description:

ix, 364 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Call Numbers:

PN4874.P456 A3 2019

ISBNs:

9781574417708 (cloth)
1574417703
9781574417807 (ebook) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2019024285

OCLC Numbers:

1099949034