Texas Eccentrics

The debut book by high school principal John Kuhn, Texas Eccentrics tells the true-life stories of over one hundred outstanding Texans (some native, some adopted) who distinguished themselves in fields ranging from art and business to sports and politics. From Amy Miller Simmons, dubbed "The Queen of Ice Cream" for her wonderfully zany ice cream franchise, to oilman, attorney, and would-be policeman James Marion West, Jr., to musician and "Duct Tape Messiah" Blaze Foley and many more, each personality has a specific "claim to weirdness" listed complete with "Tex-centricity Scale", as well as a couple pages describing the most unusual highlights of their lives and a simple black-and-white sketch of their face. A most enjoyable trivia collection of Texans who marched to the beat of a different drummer, which is just as much fun to savor a few entries at a time or all in one sitting.