TEXAS PROSE WRITINGS: A READER’S DIGEST.

TEXAS PROSE WRITINGS:  A READER’S DIGEST.
Sister M. Agatha

Dallas:  Banks Upshaw and Co., 1936.  xx,168pp.  Index by authors and titles.  Original maroon cloth with gilt lettering.  Illustrations.  Bibliography.  First edition.  General wear, about good in a torn and tattered dust jacket.  Jenkins, BTB B6:  “An intriguing and perceptive guide to Texas prose…”  Dobie, Life & Literature p. 25:  “…a meaty, critical survey.”  Divided into fiction and non-fiction segments and, in turn, divided by periods within the segments.  There are sections devoted to cowboy experiences, settlers reminisces, folklore, outlaws, etc.  A valuable and useful reference.