Gary Lee Cartwright

Blood Will Tell: The Murder Trials of T. Cullen Davis

Turn Out the Lights: Chronicles of Texas During the 80s and 90s

Heartwiseguy

Texas Justice

Dirty Dealing

Galveston: A History of the Island

Dirty Dealing: Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border & the Assassination of a Federal Judge An American Parable

Galveston: A History of the Island (Chisholm Trail Series)

Galvestona small, flat island off the Texas Gulf coasthas seen some of the state's most amazing history and fascinating people. First settled by the Karankawa Indians, long suspected of cannibalism, it was where the stranded Cabeza de Vaca came ashore in the 16th century. Pirate Jean Lafitte used it...

Turn Out the Lights: Chronicles of Texas during the 80s and 90s (Southwestern Writers Coll\

Whether the subject is Jack Ruby, Willie Nelson, or his own leukemia-stricken son Mark, when it comes to looking at the world through another person's eyes, nobody does it better than Gary Cartwright. For over twenty-five years, readers of Texas Monthly have relied on Cartwright to tell the stories ...

The Best I Recall: A Memoir (Charles N. Prothro Texana Series)

Gary Cartwright is one of Texas's legendary writers. In a career spanning nearly six decades, he has been a newspaper reporter, Senior Editor of Texas Monthly, and author of several acclaimed books, including Blood Will Tell, Confessions of a Washed-up Sportswriter, and Dirty Dealing. Cartwright was...

Galveston Chronicles:: The Queen City of the Gulf (American Chronicles)

Named for Bernardo de Galvez and established in 1839, Galveston measures just over two hundred square miles. In early Texas history, however, it was actually the largest city in the Lone Star State, as well as a hugely important port that would become a strategic target during the Civil War. The Ole...

Dirty Dealing: Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border and the Assassination of a Federal Judge

"Cartwright tells the story of the Chagra brothers, Lee and Joe, as they get mixed up with the drug-running community along the border and in short order find themselves hopelessly entangled in a net cast by the DEA. Even readers unfamiliar with the well-publicized events of the book or of the dark,...

Heart Wiseguy: How to Live the Good Life After a Heart Attack

For 40 plus years, Cartwright led the hard-living life of a working journalist.Then came a heart attack, the pacemaker, and the quintuple bypass. Part memoir, part salient advice, this book gives a host of constructive tips from a guy who's been there.

Hotel Galvez: Queen of the Gulf

131 pages, full color photography throughout. "A century of hospitality on the Texas Gulf Coast," a history of the majestic hotel on the seawall in Galveston, Texas.

Blood Will Tell: The Murder Trials of T. Cullen Davis

Blood Will Tell: The Murder Trials of T. Cullen Davis