MARY ELIZABETH GOLDMAN

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""If you want to know about Texas,
this is the book."
David Nevin, New York Times Best Selling Author of Dream West

Texas: a place that triggers the imagination of Americans and the world as much today as it did when the Spanish explorers arrived nearly four centuries ago, a place known as much for its pride as it is for its stubbornness.

Forever Texas features the writings of remarkable Texans everywhere – Texans by birth, by circumstance – including George W. Bush, H. Ross Perot, and the states most famous writers. In addition, the book features historical writings collected from notable Texans of the past: the likes of Sam Houston, David Crockett, Stephen F. Austin, and Lyndon Baines Johnson.

Through the most informative collection of personal essays to date, Forever Texas explains the undeniable Texas mystique while at the same time it perpetuates the proud legacy of the state and her people. From the conquistadores to the Presidents to it’s greates writers, the images, the strengths and desires, that make up the Lone Star State’s colorful and exciting history.

-from Forever Texas
edited by Mike Blakely and Mary Elizabeth Goldman

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Published Works

To Love And Die In Dallas
Unfolds through the pages of an ill-gotten diary that recalls the teenage years of four best friends. But time changed everything. It is now the twenty-first century, and those carefree teenagers are the power players in Dallas. The death of one, brings the three survivors together again. When they vow to find out what really happened their investigation descends deep into Dallas’s underbelly and into crevices where they each harbor dark, deadly secrets. More

Forever Texas
co-edited with Mike Blakely Features the writings and musings of remarkable Texans everywhere – Texans by birth, by circumstance – including George W. Bush, H. Ross Perot, Dale Evans Rogers, Walter Cronkite, and many others who shared their comments on the Texas mystique and what Texas means to them. In addition, the book features historical writings collected from notable Texans of the past: the likes of Sam Houston, David Crockett, Stephen F. Austin, and Lyndon Baines Johnson. More

A Trail Rider's Guide to Texas
A combination of history and reference -a subtle blending of fact, fiction, legend, and lore. Covering everything from trail etiquette to camp cooking and emergency first aid to selecting the right horse for the trail, this book is intended to inform and enlighten the horse person to the "ins and outs" of riding and camping in the wilderness. More

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