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Bones of Texas: Photos and Stories from Bygone Places
Hardcover
General PhotographyRegional: Southwest
Publisher Price: $45.00
ISBN13: 9781477334461
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: Nov 10 2026
Pages: 200
Language: English
A collection of photos and stories from out-of-the-way sites in Texas.
Morgan Page and Dustin Rice love history, especially the history of ordinary people and places. What began as an early date--a road trip to Spanish Fort, a ghost town near Wichita Falls--grew into years of crisscrossing Texas in search of stories hidden in abandoned buildings, neglected cemeteries, and all-but-forgotten towns. Bones of Texas features nearly 100 color photographs and 28 compelling histories.
The book opens at Medicine Mounds, a sacred site of the Comanche people, and moves through tales both notorious and obscure, with subjects ranging from Machine Gun Kelly's Texas hideout, to the orphan train of Galveston, to a high school gym where students once played a basketball game astride donkeys, to the grave of James Double Jimmy James, a 100-year-old watermelon farmer-turned-local legend. Each story, and every photo, is an act of preservation, allowing readers to encounter Texas history as a landscape of lives once lived, even as the physical markers continue to decay. Ultimately, the bones that Page and Rice encountered--often mysterious, always evocative--transcend time and place, and now endure in the pages of this unique book.
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