Volume 47, Number 9 · May 25, 2000
Cookie Pioneers
By Larry McMurtry
Something in the Soil
by Patricia Nelson Limerick
Norton, 384 pp., $27.95
Texas History Movies
text by John Rosenfield Jr., illustrations by Jack Patton
Dallas: PJM Publishers Ltd. 217 pp. (originally published in 1928, reprinted several times until 1970)
Patricia Nelson Limerick began her admirable career as a student of ghost towns, those dusty, blistered counterstatements to the triumphalist version of the winning of the American West. If we won the West so decisively, how come there are so many ghost towns, places where pioneer hopes seem to have been totally defeated? (In my own small county in Texas three communities have vanished utterly, not a chimney, not a brick, not a log to remind of us of the ambitions that once had been nourished there.)
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