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Clay Allison (Paperback)
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Clay Allison (Paperback)
Series: Southwest Heritage
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Most writers are impressed by three things in the life of Clay
Allison: That he had a tooth pulling bout with a dentist; that he
rode the streets of Canadian, Texas, clothed only in a gun belt;
and that he went back to Tennessee to marry his childhood
sweetheart. Perhaps none of these incidents are hardly capable of
exciting the imagination of the intelligent reader, but they do
tend to set up a curiosity about this famous Western character.
Eleven years of research and thirty thousand miles of travel are
the props on which the author built this story. It is not
surprising that he should come up with a human being who is
surprisingly capable of feats more commendable than those other
Western legendary characters hit upon by most writers of Western
folklore. Exciting tales of gun slingers are not always true tales.
Here we find have both combined. "An easterner by birth but a
southwesterner at heart, Father Stanley Francis Louis Crocchiola
had as many vocations as names," says his biographer, Mary Jo
Walker. "As a young man, he entered the Catholic priesthood and for
nearly half a century served his church with great zeal in various
capacities, attempting to balance the callings of teacher, pastor,
historian and writer." With limited money or free time, he also
managed to write and publish one hundred and seventy-seven books
and booklets pertaining to his adopted region under his nom de
plume, F. Stanley. The initial in that name does not stand for
Father, as many have assumed, but for Francis, which Louis
Crocchiola took, with the name Stanley, at the time of his
ordination as Franciscan friar in 1938. All of F. Stanley's titles
have now reached the status of expensive collector's items. This
new edition in Sunstone's Southwest Heritage Series includes a new
foreword by Marc Simmons, an excerpt from F. Stanley's biography by
Mary Jo Walker, a tribute to F. Stanley by Jack D. Rittenhouse
(also from the biography), and an article on Clay Allison by Norman
Cleaveland.
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