texas, west

Kate Hamilton is a congressman's daughter, used to the world of Washington politics, but after some pictures of her cause a mild scandal, she finds herself exiled to her aunt's West Texas farm and animal shelter, in the district where her father is planning to run for office--and then she discovers that politics in a small town can be even nastier than Washington, especially when it involves the local high school football team.

Kate Hamilton is a congressman's daughter, used to the world of Washington politics, but after some pictures of her cause a mild scandal, she finds herself exiled to her aunt's West Texas farm and animal shelter, in the district where her father is planning to run for office - and then she discovers that politics in a small town can be even nastier than Washington, especially when it involves the local high school football team.

An enigmatic man arrives in a small West Texas town, claiming he wants to join a high stakes poker game that has been going on every weekend for fifty years, but as he joins the players, they soon learn his more sinister motives for coming to town.

In the summer of 1960, twelve-year-old Lou Ann resolves to live a different life in the future than the Texas wheat farm existence she knows, as she deals with her unstable mother, who is pregnant again after having suffered five miscarriages.

Gary Harkness, a running back at Logos College in West Texas, becomes obsessed with the topic of nuclear conflict, and finds his fascination and fear insinuating itself onto the playing field.

High school senior Angie Dupree stirs up animosity and danger in the small west Texas community where her family has recently moved when she sets out to investigate the hit-and-run accident that has left her brother in a coma.

Text and historical photographs trace the history of cowboys and longhorns in the United States, discussing how their image and place in American culture have changed throughout the years.