Texas Highways Magazine

The Case of the Monster Fire

ost authors would prefer to write about subjects they choose themselves. That wasn’t necessarily the case with . I published the book in 2021 after having a ringside seat to two of the largest wildfires in Texas history. When you get run over by a truck, you describe the truck and how it felt getting plowed over. I wanted to record my fire experiences on a day-to-day basis before they vanished in a fog of memory.

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