There are several ways to read, enjoy and lean from Texas-Off the Beaten Trail, as hundreds of thousands of Texans have done in newspaper and three separate volumes of this now-complete and extraordinarily extensive work that required seven years and a hundred thousand miles' travel in preparation.
You can explore leisurely for intriguing pickup reading, a story or so at a time, for each is a brief but complete adventure into the little known of our state's history and lore. This, the Amarillo Glode News saw, calling this author "the best Texas storyteller with the most interesting material."
Conversely, you can read and reflect on the whole, as a student seeking understanding of this vast land and it's people. Conversely, you can read and reflect on the whole, as a student seeking understanding of this vast land and it's people. Corpus Christi Caller Times saw OBT as "a continuing delight, throwing light on our yesterdays and illuminating our todays." The Houston Post considered it "an insight into the history, the legend, and the rarities of Texas that we find nowhere else."
Some Texas will literally travel with OBT, mapped, indexed and topically grouped as it now is, for the work does cover Texas from border to border and prehistory to yesterday. The Fort Worth Star Telegram called it "the best, most authentic writing being done in Texas today-a reading must for Texians."
Finally, you can read Off the Beaten Trail for a fortnight, stand up and cheer tour de force into Texas heritage. In his forward, the author reflects "that a people with no reverence for the heritage left them will indeed leave nothing of themselves to be remembered fondly."
Syers is convinced that we live way too fast a pace and are too forgetful of this heritage, and Off the Beaten Trail is his many-faceted way of saying just that. Of the deep perception and dramatic intensity with which he says it, you be the judge.
- Publisher : Texian Pr (January 1, 1971)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 493 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0872440230
- ISBN-13 : 978-0872440234
- Item Weight : 1 pounds
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 1.25 x 8.75 inches