Whatever the Wind Delivers: Celebrating West Texas and the Near Southwest Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	An Archivist's Perspective
	The Price They Paid for Range	2
	Settling on Open Plains	4
	In Fields of Buffalo	6
	Cabin	8
	Nights on the Porch Swing	10
	Under Vast Tornado Skies	12
	Grandfather and the Prairie Fire	14
	Dazzling between Fast Lanes	16
	After the Monsoon	18
	When the Children Have Gone	20
	Whatever the Wind Delivers	22
	Estacado	26
	The Hammer	28
	When It Seemed Easy	30
	Spending the Night near Matador	32
	Nights around the Hi-D-Ho	34
	Sword in the Cottonwood	36
	Rattler	38
	Hardscrabble Nights	40
	Sunday Morning Roundup	42
	Uncle Ernest and the Endless Range	44
	The Dust of Tommy's Toyota	46
	Turning Thin Shimmer into Wells	48
	Home on the Range	50
	The First Hard Thunder of Another Dawn	52
	The Waltz We Were Born For	56
	Fathers and Sons	58
	Before Flying Off to War	60
	For Friends Missing in Action	62
	Sipping Iced Tea in Silence	64
	The Last Bale before Christmas	66
	Learning to Live with Sandstorms	68
	Where Seldom Is Heard	70
	The Summer Our Grandsons Turned Twelve	72
	High Plains Drifter	74
	The Last Saloon in Lubbock	76
	With Horsehairs Dipped in Oils	78
	Granddaddy's Knuckles	80
	Rain Dance	82
	Saying the Blessing	84
	It's Still the Same Old Story	86
	Historical Markers	90
	Steeples and Deep Wells	92
	Fifth Grade	94
	Seconds of Free Fall and Chaos	96
	Hosanna in the Family	98
	Starting a Pasture	100
	Turning Fifty	102
	Plowing with a Six-Mule Team	104
	Heart Attack	106
	Caught in a Squall near Matador	108
	Turn Around, Turn Around	112
	One Thing Leads to Another	114
	The Middle Years	116
	The Last Good Saddles	120
	Dogs in the World They Own	122
	Neighbors Miles Away	124
	Goats Imported from Austin	126
	South Plains Fences	128
	Loading the Summer Cattle	130
	At the Stone Cafe	132
	Goat Herding on Hardscrabble	134
	In a Dry Season	136
	Aunt Myrtle's Albums	138
	A Hatch of Flies	140
	A Wide Continuous Sandbar	142
	Grandfather's Matched Palominos	144
	After the Madness of Saigon	146
	Living in Old Adobe	148
	Hosannas Dangling on String	152
	Nearing the End of the Century	154
	In Hot Hardscrabble Skies	156
	For Dawes, on Takeoff	158
	The White-Haired Trial Judge Deliberates	160
	Hardwood Rocking Chairs	162
	First Solo	164
	What's Up?	166
	First View of the Enemy	168
	Never in My Life	170
	Consider the Lilies	174
	The Food Pickers of Saigon	176
	Leaving Sixty	178
	Faith Is a Radical Master	180
	Photo Credits	182