Texas Star Trading Blog

      Elmer Kelton, who died in 2009, featured Hewey Calloway in three of his novels – the best known being The Good Old Boys, which became a movie starring Tommy Lee Jones as Calloway. A prequel -- Six Bits a Day -- and a sequel -- The Smiling Country – ...
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Abilene historian Jay Moore’s book, Abilene History in Plain Sight, is back in a new paperback edition, $23.99. First published in 2014 by ACU Press, the hardback edition has been out of print for a year or so. We have autographed copies of the new edition at Texas Star, and ...
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Veteran sports writer Jim Reeves writes about TCU’s epic comeback in the 2016 Alamo Bowl.  The 11th-ranked Horned Frogs, with backup quarterback Bram Kohlhausen forced into action at the last minute, trailed number 15 Oregon 31-0 at the half. But Kohlhausen, playing his final game as a senior, wasn’t quite ...
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Viva Texas Rivers! takes up where John Graves (Goodbye to a River) left off – as a lyrical tribute to the rivers in all sections of Texas. Collected and edited by Steven L. Davis and Sam L. Pfiester and supported by the The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, ...
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Book Notes by Glenn Dromgoole             Best-selling Texas novelist Steve Harrigan returns to fiction with his new novel, The Leopard Is Loose ($26 hardcover), based roughly on a true event of the 1950s when a leopard escaped from the zoo in Oklahoma City. Writing as a man of 70 looking ...
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By Glenn Dromgoole The African Texans by historian Alwyn Barr offers a concise cultural history of the challenges faced by black immigrants and the contributions they have made over the years. At 100 pages, complete with sidebars and photographs, it’s a very approachable yet well-documented account of Black history in ...
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