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July 1999

Table of Contents

Features

How to get your kicks on Route 66 and other less celebrated roads: three leisurely drives through a part of the state where the sights are cool and the nights are cooler.

No one captures the majesty and mystique of wide-open spaces like photographer Peter Brown.

When Fast Eddie Garcia was shot to death, San Antonio mourned the loss of not only a man but also a behind-the-scenes power broker at the center of the city’s good ol’ amigo network.

From Harvard to Hesitation Hill, the nation’s most motivated motivational speaker is much in demand. And he’ll still see you at the top.

Naughty Nixon and wonderful Wolens, soapy Shapiro and revered Ratliff, and of course, a certain governor who’s ready for his close-up: Our say-so on the session’s standouts—good, bad, and in-between.

Columns

Books

Forget the critically panned Instinct, which was “suggested by” his novel Ishmael. Houston’s Daniel Quinn wants you to know what he really thinks about the modern world.

Behind the Lines

How great is Walter Prescott Webb? I had no idea.

Education

Even in death, the former principal of El Paso’s Cathedral High is larger than life.

Health

The truth—what we can discern, anyway—about Tom Landry’s leukemia.

Music

Long John Hunter and his guitar-slinging friends sharpened their axes in and around Port Arthur, so their recent return was truly a homecoming.

Reporter

Reporter

How the fight over a toxic waste dump has changed the lives of three West Texas activists.

The Ex Files

McMemories from Star Jones.

Texas Classics

Don Graham rereads The Gay Place.

Low Talk

The book (make that books) on George W. Bush.

Miscellany

The Inside Story

Texas Primer

What part did Shelley Duvall beat out Gilda Radner for?

Roar of the Crowd

Roping in Ty Murray; Fess Parker—yes, him—on Quanah Parker.

Recipes

Think fig: The chef at Austin’s Vespaio does, and his crispy duck is delicious.

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