title: Texas Panhandle Tales (American Chronicles)
author:  Mike Cox 
description: Mike Cox's family tree has deep Texas roots. He began his full-time newspaper career as a reporter for the San Angelo Standard-Times in 1967 and later worked for the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal and Austin American-Statesman. After a twenty-year career in journalism, he joined the Texas Department of Public Safety and served as its spokesman for fifteen years. He retired from the state in 2007, but in 2010 he retired from retirement and now works in the communications division of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. An elected member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he is the author of twenty nonfiction books. In 2010, he received the West Texas Book and Music Festival's A.C. Greene Award for lifetime achievement. He lives in Fredericksburg in the Texas hill country.
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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  
  
  
  Proulx, Annie.  
  
  
  That old ace in the hole : a novel / Annie Proulx  
  
  
  p. cm.  
  
  
  1\. Young men—Fiction. 2. Oklahoma Panhandle (Okla.)—Fiction. 3. Texas
  Panhandle (Tex.)—Fiction. 4. Denver (Colo.)—Fiction.  
  
  
  I. Title.  
  
  
  PS3566.R697 T48 2003  
  
  
  813'.54—dc21 2002030462
  
  ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-8892-4  
  
  
  ISBN-10: 1-4165-8892-2
  
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