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Singin' a Lonesome Song: Texas Prison Tales
Author(s): Gary Brown (Author)
- Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
- Publication Date: 25 Jan. 2001
- Language: English
- Print length: 275 pages
- ISBN-10: 1556228457
- ISBN-13: 9781556228452
Book Description
Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. T
Editorial Reviews
Review
Gary Brown’s book of prison tales is an extremely well written, captivating (no pun intended) collection of stories about the various inhabitants who have made up the history of the Texas prison system. The material is rich, varied and well researched. …is an engaging collection that is unlikely to dissappoint any of its readers.–Steve Zani “Review Of Texas Books”
From the Back Cover
Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. There was a famous gunslinger in the 1800s and a burlesque stripper in the 1950s. There were notorious gang members in the thirties, a Kiowa Indian chief, a blues musician, an escape artist, and a Mexican vaquero.These prison tales include chain-bus drivers, wild bull riders, and a prison baseball team that took on the Texas semi-pro champions in Houston’s old Buff Stadium. They include inmates and prisoners of war supplying materials to the Confederate army and convict laborers building a state railroad and quarrying granite for the beautiful state capitol in Austin.You can read the history of [Old Sparky] and the final moments leading up to the electrocution of two of Texas’s most infamous criminals.Author Gary Brown spent twenty-three years working as counselor and teacher in the Texas prison system. He is also the author of Volunteers in the Texas Revolution: The New Orleans Greys and Hesitant Martyr in the Texas Revolution: James Walker Fannin.
