TEXAS

A field guide to Texas: Marfa art and Hill Country springs, songwriters and pitmasters, Texas traditions and Rio Grande stories. Inside Wildsam Texas, you'll find Lone Star tales from prize-winning writers, past and present; detailed road trip itineraries and profiles of Texas towns; interviews with painters, directors, activists and songwriters; delightful miscellany from the archives, selective recommendations about authentic Texas experiences and offbeat intel that offers stunning insight into Texas. Presented by Texas State Parks At Wildsam, we cover places all over this country. But we have a special relationship with Texas. We spend a lot of bright days wandering the Hill Country, and gaze into the mystery and magic of many dark West Texas nights. If anyone asks (and even if they don’t), we’ll tell them the Pineywoods are one of the great undersung regions in America. And the beaches and birdlife of the Gulf never fail to deepen our sense of wonder. That’s why we’re excited to team up with Texas State Parks to bring you our rambling road-trippers’ guide to the whole Lone Star State. For more than a century, this network of natural and cultural treasures has drawn Texans to the great outdoors and a deeper relationship with a state like no other. We can only hope this book does the same, in its own humble way. "Texas is big. El Paso, 857 miles is a real thing. Texas is loaded with stories of bootstrap characters, epic swings from nothing to everything [and back again]. Texas is swagger and thick skin, quick wit and knockout smiles. Bob Wills and Beyoncé, Ann Richards and LBJ."          160 pages  Back-pocket size, 4 x 6.5 inches Featuring more than two dozen local experts Founder & Editor in Chief Taylor Bruce Editor Margaret Williams Illustrations Kelly Colchin Contributing Writers Hannah Hayes, Clayton Maxwell, June Naylor, Andrew Roush, Jesse Will, Octavio Solis, Kimberly King Parsons Featuring Deborah Roberts, Joe Nick Patoski, Tootsie Tomanetz, Stephen Harringan, J. Frank Dobie, John Graves