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“In his heyday, Amon Carter had plenty of name recognition in Texas and across the nation. He was a friend of people like the cowboy columnist Rogers and not at all shy about picking up a telephone and cussing out the governor of Texas. Or wisecracking to the President of the United States. . . . Carter lives on as the personification of the mythical Texan, that larger than life character in a cowboy hat.” —Texana Book ReviewsFor much of the mid-twentieth-century, Amon G. Carter Sr. was the man who invented the cowboy—at least the larger-than-life Texas version that captured the imagination of the public, presidents, movie stars, and moguls. Carter donned his cowboy persona to build Fort Worth, from the Star-Telegram up, and much of the rest of West Texas. Jerry Flemmons brings to life the mythic huckster and newspaper giant who ushered the likes of Gary Cooper, Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, and Ike through the back door of his Fort Worth mansion and feted them at his Shady Oak Farm with rodeos and parties. The Amarillo Globe noted in 1936 that “West Texas is bound on the north by Colorado and Oklahoma, on the west by New Mexico, on the south by Mexico, and on the east by Amon Carter.” A lifelong journalist, Jerry Flemmons retired from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in the late 1990s but continued to contribute occasional columns on his favorite subject: Texas. He authored many books, including O Dammit! A Lexicon and a Lecture from William Cowper Brann, the Iconoclast (Texas Tech 1998).

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9780896724068 | Subsequent edition (Texas Tech Univ Pr, September 1, 1998), cover price $31.95 | About this edition: “In his heyday, Amon Carter had plenty of name recognition in Texas and across the nation.

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9780896725645 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, October 21, 2005, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: Why am I an Iconoclast? . . . Sir, I am a seeker of Truth. . . . [W]hen you get an idea, put it on the anvil and bid the world hit it with the heaviest sledge. The more you hammer Truth the brighter it becomes."When an enraged reader gunned him down in Waco, April Fool's Day 1898, William Cowper Brann had published The Iconoclast, the nation's most controversial magazine, for some forty months...read more
By William Cowper Brann (editor) and Jerry Flemmons (editor)

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9780896724051 | Texas Tech Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Why am I an Iconoclast?

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Product Description: “We have often heard of nowhere and supposed it somewhere in Texas.”—Galveston Times“I went to Texas and ran wild on her prairies.”—William Sydney Porter (O. Henry)“God made Texas when he was a small boy and wanted a sandbox...read more

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9780875651798 | Texas Christian Univ Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: “We have often heard of nowhere and supposed it somewhere in Texas.

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Product Description: 11"x8"x .75" paperback edition

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9780875651385 | Texas Christian Univ Pr, March 1, 1995, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: 11"x8"x .

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9780912646909 | Texas Christian Univ Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $15.95

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9780912646954, titled "Plowboys, Cowboys, and Slanted Pigs: A Collection" | Texas Christian Univ Pr, October 1, 1984, cover price $19.95

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Product Description: 1978: by Jerry Flemmons - 520 pages.

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9780836301557 | Jenkins Pub Co, June 1, 1978, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: 1978: by Jerry Flemmons - 520 pages.

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