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The Wonderful Country
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The Wonderful Country is a 1952 Western novel written by Tom Lea. The book is set in Chihuahua and Sonora, Mexico, and Texas and New Mexico in the United States. It was filmed in 1959.
First edition
First edition
Thomas C. Lea III
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Thomas "Tom" Calloway Lea III was an American muralist, illustrator, artist, war correspondent, novelist, and historian. The bulk of his art and literary works were about Texas, north-central Mexico, and his World War II experience in the South Pacific and Asia. Two of his most popular novels, The Brave Bulls and The Wonderful Country, are widely considered to be classics of southwestern American literature.
Tom Lea in 1938
Tom Lea in 1938
Tom Lea (center) after completing Pass of the North (1938), his mural at the United States Court House in El Paso, Texas
Tom Lea (center) after completing Pass of the North (1938), his mural at the United States Court House in El Paso, Texas
The Two-Thousand Yard Stare (1944)
The Two-Thousand Yard Stare (1944)
Lea gravestone at Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas
Lea gravestone at Texas State Cemetery in Austin, Texas