Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life

“Known today for the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and its renowned collection of paintings and sculptures by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, Amon Carter had a long, storied career as one of Texas’s first ‘news barons,’ an aviation pioneer, a successful oil man, an education advocate, a major philanthropist, and a passionate promoter of his beloved Fort Worth—a man of humble beginnings who never forgot his hard-scrabble origins. In this well-researched biography, Brian Cervantez places Carter in the context of the ‘new’ South and West.”—Ron Tyler, author of Western Art, Western History: Collected Essays

“Amon Carter: A Lone Star Life is essential reading for those interested in the history of Fort Worth and West Texas. But it also provides a valuable view into New Deal politics, the rise of the urban progressive businessman in the Southwest, and the intersection of southern and western cultures emerging in the first half of the twentieth century in the Lone Star state.”— Southwestern Historical Quarterly