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THREE MEN IN TEXAS Bedichek, Webb, and Dobie Essays by Their Friends in the Texas Observer Edited by Ronnie Dugger $6.50 KARANKAWAY COUNTRY Roy Bedichek Foreword by W. W. Newcomb, Jr. $8.50 ADVENTURES WITH A TEXAS NATURALIST Roy Bedichek $6.50 THE GREAT FRONTIER Walter Prescott Webb Introduction by Arnold J. Toynbee $8.50 THE TEXAS RANGERS A Century of Frontier Defense Walter Prescott Webb Foreword by Lyndon B. Johnson $10.95 At your bookstore or order from *E.*..1.7.%.*A..%.*..*.*..*.lk.E.*.E*.*A .E.*.*..%.*. .t., tr , .,_ im ,et, . cp of 40 WNOW IN PAPERBACK 0 0 0 0 01 0 10 THREE FRIENDS: Bedichek, Dobie, Webb 09 0010 A Personal History 0 01 0 William A. Owens 0 tt sil 0 Of Of Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, and Walter Prescott Webb all taught at the University of et itt Texas, lived only a few blocks apart, and saw each other almost every day. The true cement 0 00 0 ot of their friendship, however, was the correspondence that makes up much of this book. 0 \(1 WThey wrote not to exchange information, but to communicate ideas, to nail down the ill Wgeneralities of conversation, and, above all, to challenge, encourage, and stimulate one 0 0 Oanother. 0 400 tti William A. Owens, who knew all three personally, has tied their letters together with 0 0 0 his own observations and with transcripts of tape interviews with the men. The result is a 0 Of 0 unique book, a combination of biography and personal history that portrays not only the 10 410 three friends, but the land they loved as well. $3.95 0 tti 0 sti 0 400 00 ALSO AVAILABLE 0 0 to 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10 10 10 10 10 0 10 10 in 0 0 116 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 fi$ Fig 01 MP 1 /WW WV i t i. t a VVVVVVVVVW WV %VW .t . Vt i VtWt 4 Rt u Vt a m t i Vt i %VW V WWWWWWWV IN. 60 0 SO 0 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS BOX 7819 AUSTIN 78712