Amon: The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America (Revised Edition)

by Jerry Flemmons

Book Overview

"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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896724069
• ISBN13: 9780896724068
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.3"