Just wanted to let Texas readers know that I’ll be doing a mini-tour there starting October 13 in Dallas at the Frisco Heritage Museum, then October 15 in Temple at the Railroad and Heritage Museum, and finishing on October 16 at the Texas Book Festival in Austin–where fellow Random House author Walter Borneman and I will be doing a panel at noon in the Lone Star Tent called “Welcome to the West.” We’ll be talking about Fred Harvey, the Santa Fe, and the other railroads that competed with them for domination between Chicago and the Pacific, basically created the West as we know it today.

Here’s the Texas schedule with links:
10/13: Dallas, Frisco Heritage Museum (co-sponsored by the Museum of the American Railroad), 7:00, tickets are $5 in advance, $7 at the door. To reserve seats, phone (214) 428-0101. (Also appearing, Don Alderman, author of Letters to Jud.)
10:15: Temple, Railroad and Heritage Museum, Fred Harvey Lunch, 11:30-1:00
10/16: Austin, Texas Book Festival, noon, Lone Star Tent I’ll be signing books in the Book Signing Tent, Congress between 10th & 11th, starting at 1:15.

FYI, I will be attending the Book Festival author party Saturday night, and will be at the festival all day Sunday, if anyone wants to connect with me that day. Then I’m off to Oklahoma for two great events at the Waynoka Harvey House on 10/18, and at NWOSU on 10/19.

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