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Selected posts on that immense fabulosity of the Union otherwise known as the Lone Star State from the Madam Mayo blog archive 2006-2022
For a while now I have been work on a memoir of my native Far West Texas. On occasion I post here at Madam Mayo about my travels, an interview, or a book of special interest. As they say, Texas is another country. Far West Texas is another Texas.
(For just the “Texas Books” posts click here.)
Q & A with Judy Alter About
The Most Land, The Best Cattle: The Waggoners of Texas
August 1, 2022
From the Archives: A Review of Sarah Cortez
and Sergio Troncoso’s Our Lost Border
June 6, 2022
The End of Night, West Texas Time Machine,
How We See the Sky, and More Books About the Sky & Stars
April 4, 2022
From the Archives:
A Review of Rubén Martínez’s
Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West
March 7, 2022
From the Archives:
My Review of Heribert von Feilitzsch’s
In Plain Sight: Felix A. Sommerfeld, Spymaster in Mexico, 1908-1914
February 7, 2022
“What Is a Film Outside the Audience’s Mind?”
Notes on George Stevens: Interviews
January 3, 2022
Edna Ferber’s Giant
& A Selection of Related Books,
Plus Two Related Videos On (Yes) the Nuremberg Trials
December 6, 2021
They Beat Their Horses with Rocks
(And Other Means of Energizing Transport in the Permian Basin of 1858)
November 1, 2021
Into the Guadalupe Mountains:
Some Favorites from the Texas Bibliothek
(Plus a Couple of Extra-Crunchy Videos)
October 4, 2021
From the Archives:
My Review of Edward H. Miller’s
Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy
September 6, 2021
From the Archives:
Claudio Saunt’s West of the Revolution
August 2, 2021
From the Archives:
A Review of Pekka Hämäläinen’s The Comanche Empire
July 6, 2021
Selected Cabeza de Vaca Books, Part II:
Notes on Narrative Histories and Biographies
June 7, 2021
Selected Cabeza de Vaca Books, Part I:
Notes on the Two Editions of Cabeza de Vaca’s La Relación
(Also Known as Account, Chronicle, Narrative, Castaways,
Report & etc.)
and Selected English Translations
May 3, 2021
Carolyn E. Boyd’s The White Shaman Mural
April 5, 2021
The Texas Bibliothek’s Digital Doppelgänger:
My Online Working Library of Rare Books
March 1, 2021
From the Texas Bibliothek: The Sanderson Flood of 1965;
Faded Rimrock Memories;
Terrell County, Texas: Its Past, Its People
February 1, 2021
A Trio of Texas Biographies in the Texas Bibliothek
January 4, 2021
The Marfa Mondays Podcast is Back! No. 21:
“Great Power in One: Miss Charles Emily Wilson”
April 20, 2020
In Memorium:
William C. Gruben and his “Animals in the Arts in Texas”
April 6, 2020
Patti Smith’s Just Kids and David M. Wrobel’s Global West, American Frontier
January 6, 2020
[Global West is the relevant title here]
Great Power in One: Miss Charles Emily Wilson
December 2, 2019
Q & A with Sergio Troncoso, Author of
A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son
October 28, 2019
John Bigelow, Jr. in the Journal of Big Bend Studies
October 21, 2019
Lonn Taylor (1940-2019) and Don Graham (1940-2019),
Giants Among Texas Literati
July 1, 2019
Texas Pecan Pie for Dieters, Plus from the Archives:
A Review of James McWilliams’ The Pecan
April 15, 2019
Notes on Tom Lea and His Epic Masterpiece
of a Western, The Wonderful Country
June 25, 2018
Waaaay Out to the Big Bend of Far West Texas,
and a Note on El Paso’s Elroy Bode
December 4, 2017
“Dear Mother, Am feeling hard as a rock and brown as an Indian”:
More Postcards from the US-Mexico Border Circa 1916
November 13, 2017
Further Notes on John Bigelow, Jr. (1854-1936):
On the Bloody Trail of Geronimo,
the Rare Westernlore Press Edition
November 6, 2017
Notes on John Bigelow, Jr. and
Garrison Tangles in the Friendless Tenth:
The Journal of Lt. John Bigelow, Jr., Fort Davis, Texas
October 30, 2017
Cartridges and Postcards from the US-Mexico Border of Yore
September 11, 2017
Q & A with Mary S. Black,
on Her New Book From the Frío to Del Río
May 22, 2017
A Review of Patrick Dearen’s
Bitter Waters: The Struggles of the Pecos River
April 17, 2017
A Visit to El Paso’s “The Equestrian”
January 23, 2017
Q & A with Shelley Armitage, Author of
Walking the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place
August 21, 2016
The Strangely Beautiful Sierra Madera Astrobleme
August 16, 2016
Peyote and the Perfect You
May 23, 2016
Top 13 Trailers for Movies with Extra-Astral Texiness
May 9, 2016
Notes on Artist Xavier González (1898-1993),
“Moonlight Over the Chisos,” and a Visit to
Mexico City’s Antigua Academia de San Carlos
May 2, 2016
Q & A: Carolina Castillo Crimm,
Author of De León: A Tejano Family History
March 28, 2016
Blood Over Salt in Borderlands Texas:
Q & A with Paul Cool About Salt Warriors
February 15, 2016
Lone Star Nation: How Texas Will Transform America by Richard Parker
February 23, 2015
On the Trail of the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos
November 3, 2015
The Pecan: A History of America’s Native Nut By James McWilliams
July 6, 2015
The Solitario Dome
March 13, 2015
12 Tips for Summer Day Hiking in the Desert
(How to Stay Cool and Avoid Actinic Keratosis,
Blood, and Killer Bees)
September 8, 2014
The Harrowingly Romantic Adventure
of US Trade with Mexico in the
Pre-Pre-Pre NAFTA Era:
Notes on Susan Shelby Magoffin and
Her Diary of 1846-1847, Down the Santa Fe Trail and Into Mexico
July 11, 2014
Thomas M. Settles’ John Bankhead Magruder: A Military Reappraisal
February 15, 2011
Many more posts to be listed here soon.
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