Gary Cartwright
All Books By Gary Cartwright
Dirty Dealing
- By: Gary Cartwright
- Length: 15 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Highbridge Company
- Publish date: March 24, 2020
- Language: English
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3.9(111 ratings)
Minutes into this rollicking good story, the central figure, Lee Chagra, comes alive: “[Lee] washed his morning cocaine down with strong coffee and remembered the time he had met Sinatra, how genuine he appeared.” Everything you’ll need to know and remember about Chagra-the son of Syrian immigrants to Mexico and an attorney who spun the world of dope-running, border-crossing, high-living outlaws along the El Paso-Juarez border around his finger like the gaudy rings he favored-can be neatly summarized in that one sentence. Chagra dies not long after, yet he haunts the rest of this cautionary tale like a high-rolling specter.
... Read moreShowdown at Waggoner Ranch
- By: Gary Cartwright
- Narrator: Bruce DuBose
- Length: 51 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
In partnership with Texas Monthly, Gary Cartwright’s “Showdown at Waggoner Ranch” is now available as an audio download, where the length and timeliness of a podcast meets the high-quality production of a full-length audio program.
“Showdown at Waggoner Ranch” is the saga of Texas’s second largest ranch and its shambles of an inheritance left by W.T. Waggoner to his descendants. It is a history of a sliver of Texas’s elite, how they made their money and how they, often scandalously, spent their time. Simultaneously, it is a nod to the cowboy lifestyle that stands at risk should the feud of the Waggoner inheritance actually put the fate of the ranch at risk.
With a rollicking cast of characters — Native American chiefs, Teddy Rooosevelt, an eight-time divorcee, the best and richest of East Coast society — Gary Cartwright offers a rich exploration into the creation of an empire and its imminent downfall.
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