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Blazing brushstrokes: as an innocent Texas girl, I was seduced by a dangerous world of sheriffs, six-shooters, and saloons. Today, old and jaded, I'm still addicted to paperback westerns--and it's the killer cover art that ropes me in.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-JAN-04
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
BESIDES THE BIBLE and a dictionary, the bookshelves in my relatives' houses were sure to contain a few paperback westerns. And unlike the Scriptures and Webster's, they had colorful cover art--hard-eyed heroes, cowering cowgirls, leering desperadoes--that was sure to attract my attention. For a kid, the Old Testament had its lively moments, to be sure, and certain dictionary entries were extremely eye-opening, but...

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