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The Battle of Plum Creek
It was a spectacle never to be forgotten, the wild, fantastic band as they stood in battle array.
Aug 13
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Derrick Jeter
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Who is the Lonesome Dove in "Lonesome Dove"?
“I ain’t kin to nobody in this world.”
Aug 6
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Derrick Jeter
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July 2026
Cowboy Character: Honesty
A straightforward, honest person should be like someone who stinks: when you’re in the same room with him, you know it.
Jul 23
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Derrick Jeter
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Texas Tales: Sancho, the Tamale-Loving Longhorn
Old Sancho lived right there on the Esperanza, now and then getting a tamale, tickling his palate with chili peppers in season, and generally staying…
Jul 16
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Derrick Jeter
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Blood Lonesome
His great book, if he has a great book, is Blood Meridian, but I’m not sure it alone lifts him out of the category of being a minor regional writer.
Jul 9
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Derrick Jeter
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Texas Cowboys Celebrate the Fourth of July
[The Texas cowboy] often celebrates the glorious Fourth in a Kansas town and in the middle of winter.
Jul 2
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Derrick Jeter
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June 2026
Oscar Wilde in Texas
Men in Texas cannot survive more than an hour between beers.
Jun 26
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Derrick Jeter
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The Many Titles of "The Streets of Laredo"
As I walked the streets of Laredo / walked out in Laredo one day / I spied a young cowboy all wrapped in white linen / Wrapped in white linen as cold as…
Jun 18
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Derrick Jeter
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Texas Tales: Maria Austin Frets Over Her Husband's Health
Oh my son I greatly fear it was only a delusion, so apt are [we] to flatter ourselves with that which will contribute to our happiness his fever has…
Jun 11
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Derrick Jeter
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Cowboy Etiquette: Women
The early West was a man’s country.
Jun 4
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Derrick Jeter
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May 2026
The Contradictory Mr. McMurtry
I have this compulsion to fictionalize.
May 28
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Derrick Jeter
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"The Trail's End" of Bonnie and Clyde
“Used to be, you had to have talent to get published.
May 21
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Derrick Jeter
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