Occupation: Writer Birth: September 26, 1888 Death: September 18, 1964
Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made ….
The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America..
No cowboy ever quit while his life was hardest and his duties were most exacting..
The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed t….
When I get ready to explain homemade fascism in America, I can take my example from the state capitol of Texas..
I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth..
When he stood trembling with fear before the captor, bruised from falls by the restrictive rope, made submissive by choking, clogs, cuts and starvati….
Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil..
Out of Frederic Remington's Sundown Leflare graved on the mantel. Sundown and another mountain man cooked and ate their supper. "Then," says Remingto….
Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness..
The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines..
The average Ph.D. Thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another..
A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely a Southerner...but no Texan, ….
The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past..
Luck is being ready for the chance..