If you like to read good stories about interesting people, then you should check out “Authentic Texas: People of the Big Bend” by Marcia Hatfield Daudistel and Bill Wright (University of Texas Press, $24.95 paperback).
In “Authentic Texas,” the authors interviewed (and Wright photographed) more than 40 residents of the Big Bend area and tell their varied stories about how and why they live in that remote desert region, the least-populated part of Texas.