As a native Texan, I've always been fascinated by stories about Texas and Texans. Over the years, I have researched and written several books about Texas history and famous Texans, and I continue to enjoy learning new things about this vast and wonderful state. Join me as I explore what it means to be called Texan. And be sure to check out my currently available Texana books.
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As I have been talking about my new book, FARWELL'S FOLLY, The Rise and Fall of the XIT Ranch in Texas, it occured to me that since so few people are aware of this huge, 3 million acre ranch that the first chapter in the book would give you a hint as to its beginning. One of the first statements in that first chapter entitle The Start of Something Big is:
...For Texans, the struggle is the reward, and the XIT Ranch is a seminal example of making what was considered, by the ignorant and the fearful, 'no man's land,' into a productive ocean of opportunity, and ultimatelty into a paradise for the hale and hearty range lover.
If this whets your appetite for adventure, get the book on Amazon.
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At last, Farwell's Folly, The Rise and Fall of the XIT Ranch in Texas is now out in paperback. Texan or not, if you are fond of Texas history, and want to know more about the start of the cattle industry, the cowboy as a permanent Texas icon, and the 3000 miles ranch in West Texas, may I offer you my book now in paperback. The book is available at Amazon.
My birthday is October 28. If you purchase the book between now and my birthday I will donate $1.00 per book to the Texas Historical Society. This way, we all win. You will have the book, I will have the pleasure of your interest and the THS will have a nice donation. Thank you.
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We have new neighbors. They are from Chicago and they say, ‘I talk Texas.’ There is a reason. I am one. When I went to LA not long ago and stopped in the gift shop at the hotel and asked for an item, the clerk said, “You must be from Texas.” I guess I am known, much like the British, by my accent.
I am also known as a Texas writer. There are as many of us as there are Texas tales. Our history has provided us with many colorful stories about cowboys and Indians, oil wells and roughnecks, rich tycoon and intriguing East Texas sharecroppers.
Although staged in the last half of the nineteenth century, my book on the XIT ranch, the largest ranch in the world, brings back the creation of this three million acre ranch out of the tumble weed for a new generation of readers. Every first week in August, in Dalhart, Texas, there is a huge celebration in memory of this infamous, but almost forgotten ranch. Farwell's Folly: The Rise and Fall of the XIT Ranch in Texas was written for a new generation of Texas lovers who thrill at the sound of cattle mooing in the fields and brave cattlemen who put them there.
After you read it, you might talk Texas, too.
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Dede Casad is the author of more than a dozen books in several genres.
