Christensen shares the strangeness of an alien landscape when he first arrived in Texas in 1974. Schooled in the in the urban East, he approached his new career in the Southwest with enthusiasm and purpose: to discover the land and the kind of people it produced. A stated signed first edition bound in blue cloth covered boards that are rubbed and faded along spine and foot. Inscribed by author on first free endpaper. Blue DJ, soiled on rear.