Product Description

Elvis Presley and his two faithful sidekicks tore up Texas highways, crisscrossing the state, always late for their next high school hop, car dealership opening, or Lion’s Club fund raiser. As they dodged tumbleweeds at 110 mph, scores of abused cars and unwary rattlesnakes sacrificed their lives so that one day Elvis could tell a Dallas newspaper reporter, “I owe a lot to Texas. They’re the ones who put me over the top.”

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #590233 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 232 pages

About the Author
As a QA Manager, author Lori Torrance enjoys breaking software for a living in Dallas. She also wrote Tea for Texas: A Guide to Tearooms in the State.

Stanley Oberst teaches high school Social Studies in Plano and is an amateur archaeologist, environmentalist, and animal and music lover.

Customer Reviews

Worth a look
This a very nice book. There are some great pictures in here. I own a lot of Elvis books and there are some pictures in here I haven't seen before. The text is a bit gossipy but okay. It's not an in depth study of the King but good coffee table fodder. According to this, he really did sow his wild oats in Texas - I wonder how many little Elvi are going about?

It's interesting to see Elvis the boy at the beginning, looking full of life and looking to the future and then look at pictures of him toward the end. Was all the success worth it? Perhaps not.

Elvis in Texas
This is a really neat book for anyone who is crazy about Elvis and wants to know his roots. Also, for anyone living in East Texas where these events took place.

Great photos! Frustrating read & sometimes inaccurate text.
Scotty Moore, Elvis' original guitar player and manager, recently said he thought he had seen every photo from that era until he saw this book. That's why I bought it. The photos, mostly performance snapshots, are great. Unfortunately the text is not. At best the writing gets in the way, and at worst it is just plain wrong (which Scotty warned me about). Still, this rare glimpse of one of the greatest American bands merits its recommendation.