Michael Zagst

Eternity, Texas Michael Zagst

In the months between visiting a Stone Age settlement and attending a small town rodeo, a writer of historical markers tries to make sense of Texas history as he is drawn into a scandal involving stolen and forged documents."Maybe I'm just tired of people screwing with Texas. The movies never get it right. They've got us listening to country music on the way to eating barbecue inside a Baptist church, lawyers wearing cowboy hats in the courtroom, and the most God awful accents, you-all this and you-all that." It all comes down to Eternity, Texas. Supposedly, the town earned its name from a small religious sect in the 1820s who considered this part of the world to be heaven on earth. Another version suggests it was the exact opposite, that even a brief stay there would feel like eternity. As with any fact or any myth, the town is a combination of both. Published by Buffalo House Books