Amon: The Texan Who Played Cowboy for America

ISBN-10: 0896725642
ISBN-13: 9780896725645
Category: Journalists
Pages: 336
Language: English
Published: 2005-10
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Author: Jerry Flemmons

Description

For much of the mid-twentieth-century, Amon G. Carter Sr. was the man who invented the cowboy at least the larger-than-life Texas version that captured the imagination of the public, presidents, movie stars, and moguls. Carter donned his cowboy persona to build Fort Worth, from the Star-Telegram up, and much of the rest of West Texas. Jerry Flemmons brings to life the mythic huckster and newspaper giant who ushered the likes of Gary Cooper, Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, and Ike through the back door of his Fort Worth mansion and feted them at his Shady Oak Farm with rodeos and parties.

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