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.