Three Men in Texas: Bedichek, Webb, and Dobie

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Three Men in Texas

Bedichek, Webb, and Dobie

Edited by: Ronnie Dugger

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1967

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This book is a tribute to "an incomparable triumvirate." "One was a naturalist, one a historian, and one a chronicler, but each of them was each of these. The manly love between them, a handsome thing in times and places blighted by great ugliness and banality, shone from them into their friends and contemporaries, and they shared themselves freely with those younger than they who went to them wishing to learn from them." Most of this collection of writing by friends of Roy Bedichek, Walter Prescott Webb, and J. Frank Dobie originally appeared in special editions of the Texas Observer devoted to each of the three men. Some pieces were, however, written expressly for this volume.

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Ronnie Dugger was a founding editor of The Texas Observer.

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It is too late to know the three men personally, but never too late to study their works. Such a study will help us all find out who we are and what to do about it.

— Western American Literature

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	XVII
INTRODUCTION Ralph W. Yarborough Publicly Available Download PDF	XIX
ROY BEDICHEK
Mv friend, Roy Bedichek J. Frank Dobie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
"Authentic tidings of invisible things" Ronnie Dugger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	13
There is at least one full man H. Mewhinney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	19
His kindly nature Betha McKee Dobie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
This group of three, seated about the evening fire B. C. Tharp Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
The desire to excel T. H. Shelby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
Our out-of-doors hotel Rodney J. Kidd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	27
SO1 East Twenty-third Street Duncan Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	31
On top of Callman Mountain William A. Owens Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
"Look ye also while life lasts" Edgar Kincaid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
"Worse ... Football." John Haller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
Freedom from pretense Charles Ramsdell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	42
"My generation is daubed witlt blood" Eugene George Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	45
No affectation, no defense Gilbert McAllister Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	54
"Whitman constantly exposed his soul" Oneita Hildebrand Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
Nature purges, "like great drama" John Henry Faul Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	58
Bedichek' s rock Wilston M. Hudson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	62
"The days of dizzy raptures ... gone" Roy Bedichek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	70
"Today is life-the rest is nothing" Edgar E. Witt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
"I ... hear Time's winged chariot" Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	78
We loved him because of his naturalness Edmund Heinsohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	81
Dear Bedi Walter Prescott Webb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB
His first teacher Melissa Gatewood Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
"Professor, that was purty" Savoie Lottinville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	89
"Does anyone have a reason to suggest?" Robert N. Richardson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
A most generous offer John Haller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
"For years we three sat together" J. Frank Dobie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	99
An unfashionable kind of historian John Fischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	110
The Great Plains Ronnie Dugger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	114
The Great Frontier H. Mewhinney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	119
Webb my teacher Wilson M. Hudson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	124
His politics Joe B. Frantz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	132
I was regarded as a bumpkin indeed Duncan Robinson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Webb as a sinner Hart Stilwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	136
Going to places in the pasture Rodney J. Kidd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	139
His last project Jack Cargill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	142
Meetings in Dallas Lon Tinkle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	144
Free of both hate and fear Glen L. Evans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	148
The power of land and the power of mind Tom Sutherland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	152
To the basic loyalties of life he was true Edmund Heinsohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	158
J. FRANK DOBIE
We came from the same range Rocky Reagan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
Poetry in an earthy growl Al Melinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	162
A quatrain forty years ago Eloise Roach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
Fellow countryman Angus Cameron Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
Love of life and freedom Wilson M. Hudson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
I helped Frank Dobie cut down a tree John Haller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	187
A mustang in the groves of academe Mody Boatright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	190
An enemy of reactionary demagogues Henry Nash Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
He has never been an exile H. Hewhinney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	204
A writer loyal to real experience Lon Tinkle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	206
Dobie revisited Charles Ramsdell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	219
Down a bytrail Ronnie Dugger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	224
Many of his books will endure Herbert Faulkner West Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
Listening with the third ear Hart Stilwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	232
Handling the "insult approach" Joseph C. Goulden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	235
A question of implications Edmund Heinsohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	237
The universality of Mr. Dobie Savoie Lottinville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
"I have that honor" Frank H. Wardlaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
I have known Frank Dobie for about thirty-five years Walter Prescott Webb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	252
I have hem associated with him a good deal since 1914 Roy Bedichek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
Acrostic Tom Sutherland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	258
But the children know Archer Fullingim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Impressions of a friendship J. E. Reynold Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	265
"I am busy becoming contemporary with myself' Harry Ramson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	277
When I heard of Frank Dobie's death Martin Shockley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	281
He brought a free man Edmund Heinsohn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	284

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March 24, 2014

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9780292766952

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307

https://doi.org/10.7560/736597

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