Product Description: During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Americans were fascinated with fraud. P. T. Barnum artfully exploited the American yen for deception, and even Mark Twain championed it, arguing that lying was virtuous insofar as it provided the glue for all interpersonal intercourse...read more

Product Description: Folks all over West Texas and eastern New Mexico will tell you: Cowdens have been ranching here for as long as anyone can remember.The Cowdens, in fact, have been at the forefront of the cattle business for 150 years. Arriving in Texas in the 1850s, Cowden men and women raised and trailed cattle, sought out water and better grazing land, tangled with Comanches—and helped extend the western line of Anglo settlement as they raised their families...read more

A Cowden descendant and former rancher offers a compelling portrait of this genuine American ranching family that spans six generations and two states, serving up a real slice of the Old West and tracing the evolution of the Texas and New Mexico cattle business.

Annual writer's conferences and festivals have become an American tradition. With selections from both teachers and students, this volume brings together another group of seasoned and fresh writers for readers to savor.

Product Description: Some senior writers were themselves discovered at writers' conferences, festivals, and workshops - Rick Bass, Pam Houston, Lisa Shea, Amy Tan, and other now-familiar writers. Some of the new voices in this anthology have been widely published in such prestigious magazines as the New Yorker, Poetry, Paris Review, Southern Review, and Story...read more

Book by Pettit, Michael

Product Description: Book by Pettit, Michael