The Texas Book

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When of his demise in 1964, J. Straight to the point Dobie had accomplished extraordinary notoriety as a provincial representative for the Southwest, particularly for Texas. He was our Frost, our Faulkner, our Sandburg—the nearby savvy who represented the area. Carl Sandburg was the one nearest in demeanor and accomplishment to Dobie. They were companions, and, remaining in Dobie’s Aus-tin home once, Sandburg said to his host, after seeing their comparative locks of disheveled white hair: “Straightforward, we resemble two or three authors.”1 Certainly, Dobie did, with his stun of white hair and bright, open face; a grin of clearly amazing appeal; and generally speaking, such a cowboyish claim that never left him. In contrast to the others, notwithstanding, Dobie didn’t fabricate his reputation out of inventive writing; he composed neither sonnets nor books.