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In 1950, Ann was eighteen and Bob D twenty when he asked herto marry him and hit the road for West Texas. They packed their station wagon,left home and began a life of adventure together on Conoco’s West Texas surveycrew during the 1950s oil boom. Five kids, twenty-one towns and thirteen yearson the road—Bob D and Ann’s travels along the highways of West Texas are aportrait in a landscape of oilfields, railroads and ranches. Layering localhistory with family memoir, author Rebecca D. Henderson reveals a glimpse of mid-centuryWest Texas through her grandparents’ adventures as a young couple raisingchildren on the road.

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