Three Men in Texas

This book is a tribute to an incomparable triumvirate. One was a naturalist one a historian and one a chronicler but each of them was each of these. The manly love between them a handsome thing in times and places blighted by great ugliness and banality shone from them into their friends and contemporaries and they shared themselves freely with those younger than they who went to them wishing to learn from them. Most of this collection of writing by friends of Roy Bedichek Walter Prescott Webb and J. Frank Dobie originally appeared in special editions of the Texas Observer devoted to each of the three men. Some pieces were however written expressly for this volume.