Introduction, Dagoberto GilbTEXAS: A GENERAL INTRODUCTIONessay:
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 LITERATUREpoem:
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
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