The Rambling Boy was a newspaper column with Lonn Taylor's stories about the people and places of Texas.
Texas people: Travels with my father
Uncle Kit the drifter
A love story
Figgi
Rachel on the radio
The lady librarians
Amelia Williams, cotton farmer and scholar
Thoroughly modern Mojella
Frugality was a virtue
Apache Adams
Ted Gray
Carry Huffman and Joe Sitter, border lawmen
Two viejos at a kitchen table
Alan Tennant and the rattlesnakes
Colonel Crimmins, the rattlesnake venom man
Two governors for the price of one
Pappy and the light crust doughboys
The two Garcias
The lark of the border
Albert Alvarez, secret historian
Mary Bonkemeyer and the grits trees
Gene Miller, ranch wife
Russell Lee, photographer
Bill Leftwich, artist
The propeller man of Marfa
Small-town journalists
Lee Bennett and Marfa's history
Jack Jackson rewrites Texas history
Myrrl McBride, prisoner of war
Some Texas confederates
The Jacksons of Blue and other Texas chairmakers
A bunch of cowboys trying to build an airplane
Amon Carter and Fort Worth
Texas places: Dark corner and high hill
County courthouses
Snooping around
Juneteenth belongs to Texas
Christmas in Anson
There was nothing for us to do but run
San Antonio's cement sculpture
The flying boat on Medina Lake
Dance halls and honky tonks
Fidel in Wharton
Adventures in Albany
The west Texas town of El Paso
Bryan Woolley's wonderful room
Austin 1962, Fort Davis 2011
A killing in the Big Bend
Marfa's Fort D. A. Russell
The Ronquillo Grant
The food shark
The highland Hereford rough riders
The road to the mine
The secret history of the Big Bend
Tony Cano's Marfa
The Sandia Springs wetlands
After the fire.
OBNB doesn't sell books, but you may be able to find a copy at one of these websites:
Texas people, Texas places : more musings of the Rambling Boy by Lonn Taylor. ISBN 9780875655819. Published by TCU Press in 2014. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
