About the Author

The late journalist Jerry Flemmons retired as travel editor of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in the late 1990s but continued to contribute occasional columns on his favorite subject Texas. The author of Jerry Flemmons' Texas Siftings, More Texas Siftings, Amon!, Plowboys, Cowboys and Slanted Pigs, the one-man play O Dammit!, a coffee table book on Texas, and Fodor's Guide to the Caribbean, he was writer-in-residence for Tarleton State University and made his home in Granbury, Texas.