{"product_id":"9781477334461","title":"Bones of Texas","description":"\u003cp\u003eA collection of photos and stories from out-of-the-way sites in Texas.  Morgan Page and Dustin Rice love history, especially the history of ordinary people and places. What began as an early date--a road trip to Spanish Fort, a ghost town near Wichita Falls--grew into years of crisscrossing Texas in search of stories hidden in abandoned buildings, neglected cemeteries, and all-but-forgotten towns. Bones of Texas features nearly 100 color photographs and 28 compelling histories.  The book opens at Medicine Mounds, a sacred site of the Comanche people, and moves through tales both notorious and obscure, with subjects ranging from Machine Gun Kelly's Texas hideout, to the \"orphan train\" of Galveston, to a high school gym where students once played a basketball game astride donkeys, to the grave of James \"Double Jimmy\" James, a 100-year-old watermelon farmer-turned-local legend. Each story, and every photo, is an act of preservation, allowing readers to encounter Texas history as a landscape of lives once lived, even as the physical markers continue to decay. Ultimately, the \"bones\" that Page and Rice encountered--often mysterious, always evocative--transcend time and place, and now endure in the pages of this unique book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47904745783348,"sku":"9781477334461","price":95.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/woodslane.com.au\/products\/9781477334461","provider":"Woodslane","version":"1.0","type":"link"}