Not All Texans Ride Horses: The Sequel to Weed, Speed, and Other Stuff

Austin, Texas, is the county seat, the state capital, and the home of the University of Texas. Even with all of that, it still had a small-town feel when author Jacob Jones was growing up there. In Not All Texans Ride Horses, Jones offers a personal and engaging retrospective and memoir of what life was like growing up in the sixties and seventies in Austin.

He tells how growing up in the fifties and sixties gave the youth of the day an attitude of rebellion, and he discusses how Austins d...