Michiko Kakutani, Laura Bush, a Lonely Texas Girl Far From Home. New York
Times, Apr. 29, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/books/29book.html?scp=2&sq=laura%20bush&st=cse
Note:
(a) Midland, Texas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midland,_Texas
(city population in 2009: 106,561; "Midland was originally founded as the
midway point between Fort Worth and El Paso on the Texas and Pacific
Railroad in 1881")
El Paso is about 180 miles west of Midland, and Dallas, 240 miles east of
Midland.--both air