West Texas: A Portrait of Its People and Their Raw and Wondrous Land

by Mike Cochran and John Lumpkin

Book Overview

The Big Bend, the Big Country, the Big Empty. The High Plains, the Permian and the Panhandle. Cowboys, Cowtown and the curl of a killer tornado. A place where "you can stretch your eyeballs." Where the Hale-Bopp comet, "hardly visible above some smoggy, light-polluted cities, looked like it could drop into the Pecos River at any moment." West Texas, home to the state's biggest legends, is chronicled by two authors who have spent most of their careers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896724263
• ISBN13: 9780896724266
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.9" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Excellent Read, Marvelous Pictures

Mike Cochran and John Lumpkin have teamed up again. This time the Associated Press' Texas dynamic duo have put out a wonderous book dealing with West Texas culture, history, and geography. At first glance this book appears to be a coffee table book one would flip through just to oggle the award winning pictures of John T. Montford. It is that, and a whole lot more. Montford's mavelous pictures are equally balanced by the excellently crafted words of award winning reporter and master story teller Mike Cochran, and his partner John Lumpkin, Head of Associated Press' Texas operations. This is a must read no matter where you hale from. But be warned, even a dyed in the wool Easterner, will find it impossible to put down. Five stars for Photography, Writing, Content, Humor, and (well read it and find out!)