{"product_id":"bones-of-texas-morgan-page-9781477334461","title":"Bones of Texas: Photos and Stories from Bygone Places","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of photos and stories from out-of-the-way sites in Texas.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMorgan 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. \u003ci\u003eBones of Texas\u003c\/i\u003e features nearly 100 color photographs and 28 compelling histories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Morgan Page,Dustin Rice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477334467\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477334461\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Morgan Page","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":49001239052543,"sku":"9781477334461","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bones-of-texas-morgan-page-9781477334461","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}