Images/Texas Photographers

Images of Texas--Lone Star Junction's collection of Texas landscapes, wildlife, etc.

Texas Explorer--Travel Texas with nature and outdoor photographer George Hosek

Bill Wright--Several photo exhibits in both color and B&W; at top rated site

Todd Jagger Photographer--Online gallery of photographer from Ft. Davis, Texas

Jeff Heintatz Wildlife Photography--Great shots of animal life in the Big Bend area

Allen Matheson--Photo Exhibit includes scenes from Brazos Bend State Park

Maddog 'n' Miracles--Includes photos of Texas foliage, wildflowers, signs, and more

Buck Taylor Art

Artullo's Gallery

Some Recommended Reading

Fans of James Michener will appreciate his historical novel Texas. Although a bit too wordy and involved for some of us, Michener is an excellent storyteller as well as historian, and brings the state and its people to life.

The novels of Cormac McCarthy also bring Texas to life, especially its raw, violent ways. Highly recommended are All the Pretty Horses, a sort of coming-of-age story known for its magnificent prose, and his tense Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West.

You might also pick up a copy of Annie Proulx's latest, That Old Ace in the Hole, which is set in the Panhandle.

For powerful, critically acclaimed short stories, try Women Hollering Creek by Texas author Sandra Cisneros.

The Gates of the Alamo by Stephen Harrigan is a gripping, fictionalized version of Texas's most famous battle.

Baja Oklahoma, by Dan Jenkins, offers a funny, poignant, and somewhat raunchy look at what we might call classic modern Texans. The book was made into an equally good movie by the same name, starring Leslie Ann Warren and Peter Coyote, with a bit part played by a young actress you may have heard of -- Julia Roberts. William Sidney Porter, better known as O. Henry, published a satirical newspaper in Austin and also worked in San Antonio in the late 19th century. A number of his short stories are set in the state, and can be found in O. Henry's Texas Stories.

Among nonfiction titles, serious history buffs may want to dip into Robert A. Caro's excellent multivolume biography of Lyndon B. Johnson, the consummate Texas politician whose career led him to the White House.

For a quick and easy look at what Texas is all about, try All Hat & No Cattle, a collection of somewhat irreverent observations on Texas fashions, cuisine, music, animals, and the like by humorist Anne Dingus.

Those who savor biting political humor -- and don't mind seeing every Texas Republican mercilessly skewered -- will thoroughly enjoy any book of essays by newspaper columnist Molly Ivins, who is credited with bestowing the nickname "Dubya" on George W. Bush.

TEXAS Writers

Janice & Tom Shefelman

Mike Looney

Janice Woods Windle

Wild West Show-- Miscellany of Texana compiled by Tom Knowles