| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
353 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note(S) |
"A Borzoi Book." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Southwest toward home -- Parables of first contact -- The Texas road -- Beyond here lies nothing -- Ten guns, ten horses, ten wives -- Overland -- Motion of limbs. |
| Summary |
"An intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family... Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting measure--tracing the wanderings of his ancestors into forgotten histories along vanished roads. Here is an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical, punishing, and polarizing. Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands--with its brutal history of colonization, conquest, and genocide; where stories of death and drugs and desperation play out daily. And here is a contemplation of what it means that the ranching industry that has sustained families like Hodge's for almost two centuries is quickly fading away, taking with it a part of our larger, deep-rooted cultural inheritance. A wholly original fusion of memoir and history--as piercing as it is elegiac--Texas Blood is a triumph: the real story of Texas, from a true native son."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Hodge, Roger D. -- Travel -- Texas.
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Hodge, Roger D. -- Travel -- Mexican-American Border Region.
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Hodge, Roger D. -- Family.
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| Subject(S) |
Biography.
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Texas -- Description and travel.
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Texas -- History, Local.
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Mexican-American Border Region -- Description and travel.
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Mexican-American Border Region -- History, Local.
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Travel writing.
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| ISBN |
9780307961402 (hardcover) |
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