Texas Literature

Introduction, Dagoberto Gilb

TEXAS: A GENERAL INTRODUCTION
essay: Don Graham, Lone Star Literature: What Makes Texas Texas?

essay: Molly Ivins, Is Texas America?
essay: Walter Prescott Webb, The Texans Touch the Plains

A COLLECTION OF TEXAS LITERATURE
poem: Gloria Anzaldúa, To Live in the Borderland
essay: Gloria Anzaldúa, The Homeland, Aztlán: El Otro México

story: Rick Bass, The Windy Day

speech: Chief Ten Bears, The Case of the Comanches, October 20, 1867

story: Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek

story: Stephen Crane, The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky
memoir: J. Frank Dobie, An Old Trail Driver Tells His Story

story: Dagoberto Gilb, Truck
story: Christine Granados, The Bride
essay: John Graves, Goodbye to a River

tale: O. Henry, Jimmy Hayes and Muriel

essay: Macarena Hernández, One Family, Two Homelands
poem: Rolando Hinojosa, Night Burial Detail
speech: Sam Houston, The Inaugural Address, December 21, 1859

essay: Molly Ivins, Texas Women: True Grit and All the Rest
speech: Barbara Jordan, DNC Keynote Address, July 13, 1992
memoir: Mary Karr, The Liar’s Club: Texas, 1961

story: Larry McMurtry, The Last Picture Show
poems: Harryette Mullen, Las Locas; Momma Sayings

4 myths: Native American Tribes of Texas: Caddo, Kiowa Apache, and Tejas/Hasinai
2 poems: Naomi Shihab Nye, Hello; Famous
ballad: Américo Paredes, With His Pistol In His Hand: The Texas Rangers

story: Katherine Anne Porter, The Grave
document: The State of Texas, The Declaration of Independence, April 6, 1813
document: The State of Texas, The Constitution, April 17, 1813

List of illustrations