’’If you re old enough to remember Texas before it became pretty much like the rest of the country, you ll love this little collection of Christmas tales that reveal much of the character and
characters who textured its legends. If you re not, you ll still savor the taste of a time and place that s almost withered away, even in the small and distant places Mike Blackman calls
one-Bar-B-Que-joint towns. And who better to tell these stories of Christmases Past than those who lived under the Lone Star and chronicled the experience in Texas newspapers from O. Henry to
the small but distinguished herd left as the years trailed into a new century?’’ --Roy Bode, Marble Falls Highlander
