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March 24, 2008 - Austin, TX
A Few Good Horses by Pierce Burns
(Gap Creek Press, 2008,
$24.95 hardback with archival prints,
Biography, 978-0-615-16489-2)
"a warm-hearted account of a rural Texas family’s
passage through the Depression era and
a way of life now only a fading memory."
-Elmer Kelton, 7-time Spur Award winning author
“both a well-done memoir and...a good read”
-Mike Cox, Lone Star Book Blog
Author & Elected Member, Texas Institute of Letters
"more than a few good chapters [with] the reader's
sense of being there...the volume is patently good.”
-Will Howard, Will’s Texana Monthly
About The Book
West Texas is scattered with abandoned ranch houses and ghost towns. The people who live there and their life stories are fading--blowing away with the wind as buildings collapse and Western heroes die. A Few Good Horses is a gritty account of ranch life from the mid-nineteenth century through The Great Depression as seen through the eyes of the Burns family. Dreams change into a desperate struggle for survival. Some family members are defeated by hard times while others rise to become heroes and saints.
About The Author
Pierce Burns is a writer, photographer, and retired chemical engineer. The holder of eight US & 12 foreign patents, Pierce is Co-Founder & President of Texas Documentary Photographers, and a member of the Writers’ League of Texas. The author divides his time between Austin and the ranch his family began in 1873. Concluding ten years of research, A Few Good Horses is his first book.
For more information:
www.pierceburns.com
