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Photographs by David K. Langford From the book Hillingdon Ranch: Four Seasons, Six Generations,

by David K. Langford and Lorie Woodward Cantu (See page 6)

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The Bulb Hunter Chris Wiesinger and William C. Welch Dubbed “the Bulb Hunter” in a 2006 New York Times feature story, Chris Wiesinger took his passion for bulbs to vacant lots, abandoned houses, cemeteries, and construction sites throughout the South in search of botanical survivors whose descendants had never seen the inside of a big-box chain store. The vintage specimens Wiesinger sought came from hardy, historic stock, adapted to human neglect and hot climates, reappearing faithfully over decades without care or cultivation.

Traveling back roads, speaking to strangers, looking for the telltale color of a remnant iris or lily, Wiesinger started digging, then began trying to grow and share the bulbs he collected. From its humble beginnings on an East Texas sweet potato farm, his Southern Bulb Company has now grown into a full-fledged business known throughout the world, propagating and selling the rare, tough, heritage plants Wiesinger still seeks out and champions.

Nicknamed “Flower” by his fellow cadets at Texas A&M University, Wiesinger relates his adventures in bulb hunting, telling stories of the bulbs he has discovered and weaving in his own life story as a student, plantsman, and small business owner. He then teams with veteran horticulturist William C. Welch to provide advice on how to grow and appreciate the bulbs that have been rescued and reintroduced.

This “primer” gives gardeners information on what bulbs to grow where, when to plant them and when they bloom, and how to incorporate them with other plants in the landscape.

Finally, Welch describes how bulbs have enhanced his personal gardens and brought him and Wiesinger together in the common cause of heirloom gardening. Entertaining, informative, and loaded with beautiful photographs, The Bulb Hunter is sure to be a favorite of gardeners and plant lovers everywhere.

Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series CHRIS WIESINGER is the owner of the Southern Bulb Company, near Tyler, Texas (featured in the New York Times, Southern Living, and House and Garden), where he farms and sells bulbs. He speaks to gardening groups throughout the country. WILLIAM C. WELCH is professor and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service landscape horticulturist in College Station. He is a regular contributor to Southern Living and frequent speaker to gardening groups across the US.

“Wiesinger makes a living finding pretty things in ravaged places. . . . While the pursuit of heirloom botanicals may have an air of elitism about it, [he] goes after what one might think of as the Barbara Stanwycks of floriculture: resilient flowers without patrician connotation that thrive in areas largely lost to the economic revival of the New South. His is the world of old cotton towns, condemned properties, abandoned buildings, and houses where torn sofas crest on bowed porch fronts.”

—New York Times

978-1-60344-821-5 flexbound (with flaps) $29.95 7x91/2. 272 pp. 171 color, 1 b&w photo. Index.

Gardening.

October ebook 978-1-62349-002-7

RELATED INTEREST Heirloom Gardening in the South Yesterday’s Plants for Today’s Gardens William C. Welch and Greg Grant 978-1-60344-213-8 flexbound (with flaps) $29.95

Doug Welsh’s Texas Garden Almanac Douglas F. Welsh Illustrations by Aletha St. Romain 978-1-60344-478-1 flexbound (with flaps) $24.95

Cheryl Hazeltine’s Central Texas Gardener Cheryl Hazeltine Photography by Richard Hazeltine 978-1-60344-206-0 flexbound (with flaps) $24.95

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Tackling the myths that discourage us from growing and enjoying roses . . .

Yes, You Can Grow Roses Judy Barrett We hear roses are hard to grow. . . . We hear they require constant care and treatment. . . .

Depending on where we live, we hear they can’t stand the heat . . . the cold . . . the humidity . . . the arid air. The list of reasons not to grow roses is long, yet we persevere.—from the first chapter Most gardeners have tried, with more or less success, to grow roses. For a plant that has been in cultivation all over the world for millennia, roses have an oddly persistent reputation for being finicky and disease-prone, difficult to establish, and in need of constant tending.

And then you see a sprawling shrub, loaded with yellow blossoms, spilling carelessly over a church dumpster or a climbing mass of red roses clambering over a chain link fence. You wonder why growing a rose bush in your backyard should be so intimidating.

Now, veteran gardener and author Judy Barrett tackles the persistent rumors and illusions that inhibit many of us from trying our hand at cultivating roses. She answers the most common questions (how to water, prune, train, and choose the best locations, among others) and then points readers in the direction of the many good choices to be had among both antique and old roses (the Bourbons and China roses, for example) and some newer varieties (hybrid teas, miniatures, and others). She also gives advice about cold-hardy roses and offers tips for ensuring success with heat- and drought-tolerant Earth-Kind® roses.

Illustrated with gorgeous photographs throughout, Yes, You Can Grow Roses will convince you that these beautiful plants are not nearly as fussy, frail, and persnickety as you thought. By following Barrett’s advice, you’ll enjoy season after season of durable, aromatic beauty in your garden.

978-1-62349-027-0 flexbound (with flaps) $22.95 61/8x81/2. 104 pp. 79 color photos. Index.

Gardening.

November ebook 978-1-62349-104-8

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Number Forty-nine: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series JUDY BARRETT is the author of What Can I Do with My Herbs?, What Makes Heirloom Plants So Great?, and Recipes From and For the Garden. HomegrownTexas.com, her online gardening resource, is a favorite site for organic gardeners, and Barrett is a frequent speaker at gardening events and conferences across the South and Southwest. She lives in Taylor, Texas.

What Can I Do with My Herbs?

How to Grow, Use, and Enjoy These Versatile Plants Judy Barrett Illustrations by Victor Z. Martin 978-1-60344-092-9 flexbound (with flaps) $19.95

What Makes Heirloom Plants So Great?

Old-fashioned Treasures to Grow, Eat, and Admire Judy Barrett Illustrations by Victor Z. Martin 978-1-60344-219-0 flexbound (with flaps) $19.95

Recipes From and For the Garden How to Use and Enjoy Your Bountiful Harvest Judy Barrett Illustrations by Victor Z. Martin 978-1-60344-578-8 flexbound (with flaps) $19.95

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Empress of the Garden G. Michael Shoup “Growing roses as landscape plants in Southern gardens for thirty years has given me more insight into their value— and magic—than I could have imagined . . . . Unlike the stereotypical modern princesses bred for floral perfection, old garden roses have engaging personalities that belong to no other plants. They can enhance the garden in many ways, posing as party girls spinning on a dance floor or playing the voluptuous drama queens as they flirt from arbors.”

—G. Michael Shoup

Gardens never stop teaching their gardeners, and G. Michael Shoup—a key figure in the renaissance of old rose varieties— shares thirty years of practical and poetic wisdom in this book.

At his Antique Rose Emporium display garden in Independence, Texas—designated a Hall of Fame Garden by the Great Rosarians of the World—Shoup has become intimately acquainted with the growth habits and personalities of hundreds of old garden roses.

He gathers them here in a most useful manner—divided not strictly by formal classes but by the nuanced nature of their usefulness as landscape plants. Shoup knows that merely describing a plant as a “climber” doesn’t give gardeners nearly the information they need to enjoy the wonders of the old rose universe.

His first book, Roses in the Southern Garden, separated vigorous from mannerly climbers and large shrubs from small ones; but with this update he takes readers deeper into the realm of these empresses, exploring their character traits in ways that give new meaning to the idea of gardening as a therapeutic activity.

The sumptuous photographs in Empress of the Garden will inspire those who garden for romance. Novices and seasoned rosarians will also appreciate Shoup’s advice on the many aspects of growing roses. And anyone who has wielded pruning shears or who aspires to create a space where roses reign will find his stories appealing.

978-0-9678213-2-0 cloth $39.00 12x12. 208 pp. 516 color photos. Index.

Gardens. Roses. Landscaping.

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RELATED INTEREST Perennial Garden Color William C. Welch 978-1-60344-968-7 flexbound (with flaps) $30.00

Distributed for the Antique Rose Emporium G. MICHAEL SHOUP, who founded the Antique Rose Emporium in 1983, lives and gardens with his family in the countryside near Brenham, Texas. The Antique Rose Emporium has been designated a Hall of Fame Garden by the Great Rosarians of the World. Its display gardens draw 50,000 visitors a year.

“Mike Shoup understands old garden roses and their ability to enhance the garden, as few people do.”—Pat Shanley, coeditor, The Sustainable Rose Garden

The Texas Tomato Lover’s Handbook William D. Adams Photography by William D. Adams and Deborah J. Adams 978-1-60344-239-8 flexbound (with flaps) $25.00

In Our Back Yards Gardens of the Texas Coastal Bend John Watson, Carole Peterson, and Deanna Payne 978-0-9766235-0-2 hardcover $39.95

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One ranch, six generations: a story of sustainable land stewardship . . .

Hillingdon Ranch Four Seasons, Six Generations David K. Langford and Lorie Woodward Cantu Forewords by Andrew Sansom and Steve C. Lewis In 1885, San Antonio architect Alfred Giles began buying the land that would become Hillingdon Ranch, eventually accumulating 13,000 acres near the town of Comfort in Kendall County. As the property passed to succeeding generations, the holdings got smaller, and more family members shared a stake in the ranch. Today, dozens of Giles descendants own pieces of it, ranging in size from ten to several hundred acres.

Yet Hillingdon remains a working ranch, with day-to-day operations managed by Robin Giles, grandson of Alfred Giles; his wife, Carol; their son, Grant; and Grant’s wife, Misty. The cattle, sheep, and goat business they built has become a model of stewardship and sustainability. While managing family relationships can often be as complicated as managing livestock and forage, the ranch would not exist without the commitment of the large extended family, now in its sixth generation on the ranch.

Hillingdon Ranch: Four Seasons, Six Generations chronicles how one family has worked together over many years to keep their ranch intact. It is also a beautifully photographed portrait of a ranching family and their life in the Texas Hill Country, where work is guided by the seasons, increasingly influenced by technology, and inevitably affected by drought.

In learning about the family’s successes and challenges, readers will gain a greater appreciation of what the Giles family’s efforts mean to the rest of us: food, fiber, clean air, wildlife, healthy land, peace and quiet, and, perhaps most important of all, clean and plentiful water.

Conservation Leadership Series, Sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University

978-1-62349-012-6 cloth $35.00 11x101/2. 272 pp. 218 color, 5 b&w photos. Map. Fig. Bib. Index.

Texas Ranching. Nature Photography. Conservation.

Range Management.

October ebook 978-1-62349-024-9

RELATED INTEREST Generations on the Land A Conservation Legacy Joe Nick Patoski with support from Sand County Foundation 978-1-60344-241-1 cloth $25.00

DAVID K. LANGFORD is former executive vice president of the Texas Wildlife Association and owner of Western Photography Company. He lives on the Laurels Ranch, his piece of the Hillingdon family land near Comfort. LORIE WOODWARD CANTU, of San Angelo, is president of Woodward Communications, a research, writing, and public relations company specializing in agriculture and natural resource issues.

Water from Stone The Story of Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve Jeffrey Greene Illustrations by Margaret Bamberger 978-1-58544-593-6 cloth $24.95 978-1-60344-063-9 paper $16.95

Buying Rural Land in Texas Charles E. Gilliland 978-1-60344-795-9 flexbound (with flaps) $25.00

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“Most of us in conservation are much better at describing problems than we are at presenting solutions.”—from the preface

Green in Gridlock Common Goals, Common Ground, and Compromise Paul Walden Hansen Foreword by Andrew Sansom Facing one of the most dangerous conservation crises in history—acid rain—lawmakers, industry leaders, and activists embraced an attitude of civil engagement that sought common ground and acceptance of compromise solutions on all sides. As a result, they achieved a spectacular outcome. This approach was also at work when another planetthreatening event—ozone depletion—was reversed.

In Green in Gridlock, Paul Walden Hansen, the former head of the Izaak Walton League, takes stock of what has been accomplished and what has been squandered in the many environmental contests in which he was involved during his forty-year career as a conservationist. In seeking to identify the strategies that worked and to pinpoint why progress on so many important issues never materialized, Hansen realized that the most important predictor of success or failure was the willingness of opposing interests to find common ground and to compromise in order to attain mutually important goals.

Polling demonstrates that, overwhelmingly, Americans care about the environment but are less enthusiastic about environmentalists. Accordingly, Hansen issues a pointed critique for activism of the “rather fight than win” variety. But he is also critical of conservative interests that oppose environmental legislation as a matter of principle while forgetting that a long string of cost-effective environmental legislation—from the Clean Air Act to the Wilderness Act—was passed by overwhelming bipartisan margins and signed into law by Republican presidents in the 1970s. Hansen makes a convincing case that thinking and acting ideologically rather than strategically is ultimately bad for the environment.

More than a simplistic call for civility or yet another admonition that we all “work together,” this book offers practical lessons and a positive vision from a seasoned veteran on how to create support instead of opposition, how to recognize natural allies, and how to acknowledge common purpose in the name of progress.

Conservation Leadership Series, Sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University

978-1-62349-014-0 cloth $24.95 6x9. 160 pp. 2 tables. 2 maps. Bib. Index.

Conservation. Autobiography. Environmental History.

October ebook 978-1-62349-046-1

RELATED INTEREST On Politics and Parks George Bristol Foreword by Andrew Sansom 978-1-60344-762-1 cloth $30.00

PAUL WALDEN HANSEN, a longtime environmental protection, wildlife science, and conservation management professional, is the former director of The Nature Conservancy’s Greater Yellowstone Program and the former executive director of the Izaak Walton League. He lives in Jackson, Wyoming.

“ . . . represents an important contribution to the dialogue about the nature of the conservation movement in the United States and how the movement may best achieve its goals. . . . Hansen’s work is a practical examination of the movement with the intent of providing guidance for how the movement might achieve greater success.”—Ken Kramer, water resources chair and former director, Sierra Club Lone Star Chapter, and editor, The Living Waters of Texas

Money for the Cause A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising Rudolph A. Rosen Illustrations by Katie Dobson Cundiff Foreword by Andrew Sansom 978-1-60344-693-8 hardcover $35.00

Announcing two new volumes Conservation Leadership Series, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, Andrew Sansom, General Editor Offering instructive and inspiring books to guide the next generation of leaders in the conservation of the earth’s resources.

Green Talk in the White House The Rhetorical Presidency Encounters Ecology Edited by Tarla Rai Peterson 978-1-58544-335-2 cloth $50.00x 978-1-58544-415-1 paper $25.00s

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“In Hermann Park, Houstonians are blessed indeed with a tremendous resource: a place where we learn and share and enjoy the Bayou City at its best.”—Pres. George H. W. Bush, 1998

Houston’s Hermann Park A Century of Community Barrie Scardino Bradley Foreword by Stephen Fox Afterword by Doreen Stoller Richly illustrated with rare period photographs, Houston’s Hermann Park: A Century of Community provides a vivid history of Houston’s oldest and most important urban park. Author and historian Barrie Scardino Bradley sets Hermann Park in both a local and a national context as this grand park celebrates its centennial at the culmination of a remarkable twenty-year rejuvenation.

As Bradley shows, Houston’s development as a major American city may be traced in the outlines of the park’s history. During the early nineteenth century, Houston leaders were most interested in commercial development and connecting the city via water and rail to markets beyond its immediate area. They apparently felt no need to set aside public recreational space, nor was there any city-owned property that could be so developed.

By 1910, however, Houston leaders were well aware that almost every major American city had an urban park patterned after New York’s Central Park. By the time the City Beautiful Movement and its overarching Progressive Movement reached the consciousness of Houstonians, Central Park’s designer, Frederick Law Olmsted, had died, but his ideals had not. Local advocates of the City Beautiful Movement, like their counterparts elsewhere, hoped to utilize political and economic power to create a beautiful, spacious, and orderly city. Subsequent planning by the renowned landscape architect and planner George Kessler envisioned a park that would anchor a system of open spaces in Houston.

From that groundwork, in May 1914, George Hermann publicly announced his donation of 285 acres to the City of Houston for a municipal park.

Bradley develops the events leading up to the establishment of Hermann Park, then charts how and why the park developed, including a discussion of institutions within the park such as the Houston Zoo, the Japanese Garden, and the Houston Museum of Natural Science. The book’s illustrations include plans, maps, and photographs both historic and recent that document the accomplishments of the Hermann Park Conservancy since its founding in 1992.

Number Sixteen: Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities BARRIE SCARDINO BRADLEY has served as executive director of the Houston chapter of the American Institute of Architects, as editor of Cite: The Architecture and Design Review of Houston, and as architectural archivist of the Houston Metropolitan Research Center at the Houston Public Library. She now resides in Beaumont, Texas.

Royalties from sales will go to the Hermann Park Conservancy for stewardship of the park on behalf of the community.

978-1-62349-036-2 cloth $45.00 10x11. 320 pp. 163 color, 70 b&w photos. 20 line art.

7 appendixes. Bib. Index.

Gardens. Texas Urban History. Gift Books. Photography.

November ebook 978-1-62349-109-3

RELATED INTEREST Houston The Unknown City, 1836–1946 Marguerite Johnston 978-1-60344-523-8 paper $29.95

Houston’s Silent Garden Glenwood Cemetery, 1871–2009 Suzanne Turner and Joanne Seale Wilson Photography by Paul Hester 978-1-60344-163-6 cloth $60.00 William Marsh Rice and His Institute The Centennial Edition Edited by Randal L. Hall and Sylvia Stallings Morris Foreword by Katherine Fischer Drew 978-1-60344-663-1 cloth $25.00

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New in paperback

USS Monitor A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage John D. Broadwater A hundred and fifty years ago, naval warfare entered a new phase with the introduction of ironclad vessels. On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor, prototype of this new class of warships, fought the Confederate ironclad CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads, Virginia, after the Virginia had ravaged the Union fleet blockading the James River, sinking larger, seemingly more powerful wooden warships in a potent demonstration of the power of an armored, heavily-gunned, steampowered warship.

In the world’s first clash between iron-armored warships, Monitor and Virginia exchanged gunfire at close range for nearly four hours. Neither inflicted serious damage on the other. While a technical stalemate, the events at Hampton Roads changed naval warfare forever. In the United States and abroad, iron and steam would soon replace wood and sail for warship construction. Less than nine months later, the now-famous Monitor was under tow, heading south to Beaufort, North Carolina, when she sank in heavy seas, with substantial loss of life.

Monitor was a total and irretrievable loss; even the location of her final resting place became a mystery. Not until 1973 was the inverted hull located, and in 1974 excavation of the wreck began, under the auspices of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in partnership with the US Navy. The decision to place the Monitor in a protected zone—a national marine sanctuary—marked another historic first for the vessel. The story of this decision, the raising of the turret, and the subsequent management of the historic resource adds another layer of history to the Monitor’s fascinating story.

Sidebars in the book flesh out details and add anecdotal color to the story of Monitor and of the efforts to preserve and interpret the site. Lavish illustrations (photographs, site drawings, and artifact sketches) complement the informative and highly readable account by the archaeologist who planned and directed the major expeditions that resulted in recovery of many of the Monitor’s most significant objects, as well as the remains of two Union soldiers who were only recently interred in Arlington National Cemetery, more than 150 years after their deaths.

978-1-60344-473-6 cloth $39.95 978-1-60344-474-3 paper $24.95 81/2x11. 338 pp. 189 color, 161 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

Nautical Archaeology. Civil War. Navy.

October ebook 978-1-60344-749-2

RELATED INTEREST From a Watery Grave The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck, La Belle James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner 978-1-58544-347-5 cloth $39.95 978-1-58544-431-1 paper $24.95

Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series JOHN D. BROADWATER recently retired from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, where he had served as chief archaeologist. He has contributed chapters in several books and for more than a dozen years was manager of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary, where he directed seven major expeditions to the remains of the Civil War ironclad warship. He holds a PhD in marine studies from the University of St. Andrews. He lives in Williamsburg, Virginia.

“This handsome tabletop volume is loaded with well-executed images and maps.

Numerous sidebars amplify the reader’s understanding of this historical ship. A large bibliography is helpful for those who want more information. Scholars will find Broadwater’s book to be among the standard works on the life and times of the world’s first built-for-the-purpose ironclad ship. For enthusiasts of marine archeology, naval history, and the Civil War, the book is a must-have . . . it will be of significant interest for general readers interested in historical action stories.”

—Naval History

The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud or, How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West Annaliese Corbin Foreword by William E. Lass 978-1-58544-484-7 cloth $45.00x 978-1-58544-516-5 paper $19.95

Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine Iron, Guns, and Pearls James P. Delgado 978-1-60344-472-9 cloth $34.95

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New in paperback

The Maltby Brothers’ Civil War

Winner, Clotilde P. Garcia Tejano Book Award and Texas Institute of Letters Most Significant Scholarly Book Award

Norman C. Delaney

Cortina Defending the Mexican Name in Texas Jerry Thompson

On December 11, 1863, a US brigadier general and a Confederate artillery captain met on board the packet steamer Diligent on the Mississippi River below Vicksburg. The Confederate officer had not come on board on official business; he was a paroled prisoner of war. The brigadier general was his older brother, who had learned of the younger man’s capture three weeks earlier at Confederate Fort Semmes, on the Texas coast, and had arranged to have him brought from New Orleans to Vicksburg to be given medical care at the Federal garrison.

The American Civil War has rightly been called a war of brothers; Henry, Jasper, and William Maltby were three such brothers. The scene recounted above was between Jasper and William, who had not seen each other in several years since Jasper had left their birth home in Ohio, but who met frequently over the months following their reunion, their familial bond overriding their political allegiances.

The three brothers’ lives cover the critical years of Civil War and Reconstruction, a time when Jasper devotedly served the Union cause, while Henry and William became outspoken secessionists, operating Confederate newspapers in Corpus Christi, Matamoros, and Brownsville, eventually as a thorn in the side of Reconstruction officials. Despite their own Southern sympathies, the two Confederates cherished their Yankee brother, whose bravery at Fort Donelson and Vicksburg took a heavy toll on his health and eventually cost him his life. Both Rebels named a son in honor of their hero brother.

Combining detailed research in William Maltby’s personal papers with contemporary accounts, military and court records, and the editorials of the two who became newspapermen, veteran scholar and educator Norman Delaney has created a vibrant story of how war can affect a family and a community.

NORMAN C. DELANEY of Corpus Christi, an authority on Civil War naval history, was the US Naval Institute’s Author of the Year for 2011. He taught history at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi for forty years before his retirement in 2006.

978-1-62349-025-6 cloth $32.95 6x9. 256 pp. 27 b&w photos. 2 maps. Appendix. Bib. Index.

Civil War. Civil War/Reconstruction. Military History, Texas.

October ebook 978-1-62349-088-1

“Thompson’s book provides not only a powerfully written history of a Mexican American who symbolizes ‘resistance to oppression and intolerance,’ but also a clear, cogent explanation of the relationship between the United States and Mexico as they face each other across the Texas border.”—Journal of American History “Jerry Thompson has produced the definitive work on one of the most controversial and influential Mexicano/Tejano figures of Texas and Southwestern history . . . . With stunning clarity and balance, Thompson has provided a much-needed narrative interpretation that brings to life one of the more colorful figures of Texas, Border, and Chicano histories.”—Hispanic Outlook “Jerry Thompson has performed a difficult feat: comprehensively examining a life that had almost as many turns as a circle.”—Journal of Southern History “This is the most well-researched and thorough account of Juan Nepomuceno Cortina’s life that we have. . . . This book certainly shows that Cortina ‘established his niche in the grand sweep of time,’ but it will be left to other scholars to follow the many trails hinted at by Thompson.”—Western Historical Quarterly “Jerry Thompson’s sympathetic but balanced biography is a ‘must read’ for all students of Texas history and Anglo-Hispanic relations.”—East Texas Historical Journal Number Six: Fronteras Series, sponsored by Texas A&M International University JERRY THOMPSON is a Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M International University in Laredo and a past president of the Texas State Historical Association. He is also the author of Tejanos in Gray: Civil War Letters of Captains Joseph Rafael de la Garza and Manuel Yturri, winner of the 2011 Tejano Book Award.

978-1-62349-062-1 paper $29.95s 6x9. 344 pp. 21 b&w photos. 23 line art. 3 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.

Biography. Borderlands Studies. Mexican American Studies. Texas History.

October ebook 978-1-60344-451-4

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Surviving torment as a POW, only to be accused of treason . . .

I Cannot Forget Imprisoned in Korea, Accused at Home Johnny Moore and Judith Fenner Gentry Eighteen-year-old Johnny Moore was an energetic, self-confident private first class when he entered combat with a heavy-weapons platoon in Korea. Four and a half months later, after surviving heavy attacks on the Pusan Perimeter and in one of the forward units of the western column advancing on the Yalu River, he was captured by the Chinese infantry.

Moore and other American POWs suffered from starvation rations, bitter cold, and mental torment. Although the intense Chinese efforts to change the prisoners’ ideologies were largely unsuccessful, they were very effective in engendering distrust among the prisoners and abandonment of duty by the officers. Encouraged by an American sergeant, Moore worked with his captors to obtain better sanitation, a fairer distribution of food, and, on two occasions, medicine for the sick. Twice he tried to escape from imprisonment. Just four days after his twenty-first birthday, in 1953, the Chinese released him.

Moore cooperated fully with US military interrogators, giving as much information as he could on the prison camp and the methods his captors had used. But two years later, army officers arrested him at his home and charged him with treason. Although the charge was dropped and a Field Board of Inquiry returned him to regular duty, the army’s treatment of him left Moore further traumatized. He eventually went AWOL and turned to drinking, gambling, and other self-destructive behaviors.

Military historian Judith Fenner Gentry has worked with Moore’s memoirs of his experiences during and after the war to corroborate, clarify, elaborate, and situate his story within the larger events in Korea and in the Cold War. She has consulted records from courts-martial, newspaper interviews with returning POWs, and Freedom of Information Act documents on the Army Criminal Investigation Division and the Army CounterIntelligence Corps.

Number 142: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series JOHNNY MOORE fought with the US Army’s 25th Infantry Division in Korea before he was taken prisoner. He died in November 2012. JUDITH FENNER GENTRY, a professor of history at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, is the coeditor of a book on Louisiana history and has written articles on military history.

“ . . . one hell of a story. I have interviewed and written about more than fifty former Korean War POWs, and while Moore’s narrative has some things in common with all of these men, it is unique in his willingness to admit to cooperating with the Chinese because he thought doing so would help his fellow prisoners. Moore’s account is also a telling example of how the US Army exploited the cases of returning POWs accused of collaboration to prove to Sen. Joseph McCarthy and his supporters that it was not guilty of coddling Communists.”—Lewis H. Carlson, author, Remembered Prisoners of a Forgotten War

978-1-62349-007-2 cloth $32.00 6x9. 336 pp. 14 b&w photos. 9 maps. Bib. Index.

Korean War. Cold War. McCarthy Era. Memoir.

October ebook 978-1-62349-009-6

RELATED INTEREST Cold Days in Hell American POWs in Korea William Clark Latham Jr. 978-1-60344-073-8 cloth $32.00s

With a Black Platoon in Combat A Year in Korea Lyle Rishell 978-1-60344-740-9 paper $21.95

Leadership in the Crucible The Korean War Battles of Twin Tunnels and Chipyong-ni Kenneth E. Hamburger 978-1-58544-232-4 cloth $32.95

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New in paperback

Texas Aggie Medals of Honor

2012 selection, Naval Operations Professional Reading Program

Seven Heroes of World War II James R. Woodall Foreword by James Hollingsworth

“Execute against Japan” The US Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Joel Ira Holwitt

Every Medal of Honor represents a story of gallantry, courage, and sacrifice. Conceived in the early 1860s, the Medal of Honor, awarded “in the name of the Congress of the United States,” has been presented to more than 3,000 members of the United States armed forces. Seven of the 464 Medals of Honor awarded during World War II went to Texas Aggies.

Author James R. Woodall, a 1950 graduate of Texas A&M University and a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, carried out a dedicated search of archives, family collections, and scores of other resources to gather, for the first time, the complete stories of these seven courageous men.

Texas Aggie Medals of Honor will undoubtedly be of great interest to former students of Texas A&M University, members of the Corps of Cadets, and others associated with the university and its distinguished tradition of military training and service. But the book will also hold great appeal, in the words of one advance reader, “to those interested in the nation’s highest award for valor and the individual stories of ordinary men who did extraordinary things when confronted by lifethreatening situations in combat.” “ . . . a fast moving narrative of short, thoughtful portraits of the lives of seven World War II Texas Aggie Medal of Honor recipients. . . has meaning for readers both inside and outside the Texas Aggie Nation, and they will certainly grasp Woodall’s admiration for these seven men and appreciate his tenacious research into their histories.”— Southwestern Historical Quarterly Number 132: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series JAMES R. WOODALL ‘50 holds, among other awards, the Silver Star and three Bronze Stars. Following his tenure as Corps Commandant at Texas A&M University, Colonel Woodall retired from the US Army and presently makes his home in College Station.

978-1-60344-204-6 cloth $29.95 978-1-62349-045-4 paper $19.95 6x9. 192 pp. 32 b&w photos. 8 maps. 7 Apps. Bib. Index.

Military History. Aggie Books. Gift Books.

October ebook 978-1-60344-253-4

“ . . . until now how the Navy managed to instantaneously move from the overt legal restrictions of the naval arms treaties that bound submarines to the cruiser rules of the eighteenth century to a declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare against Japan immediately after the attack on Pearl Harbor has never been explained. Lieutenant Holwitt has dissected this process and has created a compelling story of who did what, when, and to whom.”—The Submarine Review “Execute against Japan should be required reading for naval officers (especially in submarine wardrooms), as well as for anyone interested in history, policy, or international law.”—Adm. James P. Wisecup, President, US Naval War College (for Naval War College Review) “Although the policy of unrestricted air and submarine warfare proved critical to the Pacific war’s course, this splendid work is the first comprehensive account of its origins—illustrating that historians have by no means exhausted questions about this conflict.”—World War II Magazine “US Navy submarine officer Joel Ira Holwitt has performed an impressive feat with this book. . . . Holwitt is to be commended for not shying away from moral judgments . . . This is a superb book that fully explains how the United States came to adopt a strategy regarded by many as illegal and tantamount to ‘terror’.”—Military Review Number 121: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series JOEL IRA HOLWITT earned his PhD in history from Ohio State University in 2005. His work has also been published in the US Naval Institute Proceedings magazine, Naval History magazine, the Journal of Military History, Military History of the West, the Submarine Review, and US Naval Academy textbooks.

A graduate of the US Naval Academy, he is an active duty submarine officer in the US Navy.

978-1-60344-083-7 cloth $37.50 978-1-62349-061-4 paper $19.95 6x9. 262 pp. 14 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

Military History. Navy. World War II. American History.

October ebook 978-1-60344-255-8

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New insights in how America constructs the meaning of warfare . . .

The Martial Imagination Cultural Aspects of American Warfare Edited by Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. Martial experiences and the mythologies that surround them have profoundly affected the ways in which Americans think of themselves. Wars identify the heroes who help define national character, provide the stories for the grand narratives of belonging and sacrifice, and serve as markers for essential moments of transformation.

However, only in the last several years have scholars begun using the term “cultural history of American warfare” to identify the study of how public discourse formulates these defining myths and narratives. This volume brings together scholarship from diverse fields in a common mission to demonstrate the usefulness and significance of studying the cultural history of American warfare.

The Martial Imagination: Cultural Aspects of American Warfare canvasses the American war experience from the Revolution to the War on Terror, examining how it infuses legitimacy and conformity with an urgency that contorts ideas of citizenship, nationhood, gender, and other pliable categories. The multidisciplinary scholarship in this volume represents the varied perspectives of cultural history, American studies, literary criticism, war and society, media studies, and public culture analysis, illustrating the rich dialogues that epitomize the cultural history of American warfare.

Bringing together both recognized and emerging scholars, this book is the first anthology to feature essays on this topic, comprising research from twelve authors who represent a wide range of experiences and disciplines. Their work uncovers new and surprising understandings of the American war experience that reveal the ways in which culture makers have grappled with the trauma of war, salvaged meaning from the meaningless, or advanced some ulterior agenda.

978-1-62349-020-1 hardcover $55.00x 978-1-62349-021-8 paper $29.95s 6x9. 288 pp. 23 b&w photos. 8 line art. Bib. Index.

Military History. American History.

October ebook 978-1-62349-090-4

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Number 144: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series JIMMY L. BRYAN JR., the volume editor, is an associate professor of history at Lamar University in Beaumont. Holding a PhD from Southern Methodist University, he is the author of More Zeal than Discretion: The Westward Adventures of Walter P. Lane.

“This anthology fills an important gap in the scholarly literature about wars and American culture. This is an emerging subdiscipline of the fields of military as well as cultural history, and the essays represent some cutting edge work in the subject.”— Robert Wooster, Regents Professor of History, Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi

Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace Robert A. Divine 978-0-89096-953-3 cloth $29.95x 978-1-58544-105-1 paper $14.95s

Wiki at War Conflict in a Socially Networked World James Jay Carafano 978-1-60344-586-3 cloth $39.95s 978-1-60344-656-3 paper $24.95

More Zeal Than Discretion The Westward Adventures of Walter P. Lane Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. 978-1-60344-070-7 cloth $35.00

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A Washington insider’s unique look at the beginnings of a political era . . .

When Things Went Right The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration Chase Untermeyer When Things Went Right is a colorful and insightful portrait of Washington at the beginning of the Reagan-Bush era (November 1980–March 1983) as lived and recorded by an insider in his personal journal.

Chase Untermeyer was a Texas state legislator and former journalist when called to national service by his friend and mentor George H. W. Bush after the 1980 election. In his journal entries and subsequent annotations he describes how the Reagan Administration began to grapple with the major national and international challenges it inherited.

He also reveals specifically how then–Vice President Bush, Reagan’s former rival, became a valued participant in this effort, in the process solidifying the vice presidency as a significant position in modern American government.

As executive assistant to the Vice President, Untermeyer saw how Bush, Reagan, and their top associates began asserting conservative principles on domestic, political, and foreign affairs. He captured in his journal not just the events of each day but also the atmosphere, the key personalities, and the witty, trenchant, and revealing things they said.

The book’s long-lasting value will be in providing historians of the period with telling anecdotes and quotations that were caught and preserved with a reporter’s eye and ear.

In addition to perceptive portraits of Reagan and Bush, When Things Went Right also features numerous cameo appearances by such diverse characters as Margaret Thatcher, Pope John Paul II, Emperor Hirohito of Japan, Clare Boothe Luce, and jazz great Lionel Hampton.

For those who look back on the presidencies of Reagan and Bush with nostalgia and respect, and also for those interested in the inner workings of the administration during its earliest days, this is the story of the time “when things went right.”

A diarist since the age of nine and later a professional journalist, CHASE UNTERMEYER began his service in Washington in January 1981 as executive assistant to Vice President Bush. Subsequently he was an assistant secretary of the Navy, a senior White House aide to Pres. George H. W. Bush, and director of the Voice of America. He would later serve Pres. George W. Bush as US ambassador to Qatar. Now an international business consultant, he lives in Houston.

978-1-62349-013-3 cloth $35.00 6x9. 328 pp. 15 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

Memoir. Presidential Studies. American History.

October ebook 978-1-62349-102-4

RELATED INTEREST Going to Windward A Mosbacher Family Memoir Robert A. Mosbacher Sr. and James G. McGrath 978-1-60344-221-3 cloth $30.00

The Leadership of George Bush An Insider’s View of the Forty-first President Roman Popadiuk 978-1-60344-964-9 paper $19.95

George Herbert Walker Bush A Photographic Profile Compiled by David Valdez 978-0-89096-779-9 cloth $39.95

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Beginning the serious scholarly analysis of the administration of George W. Bush, the forty-third President of the United States . . .

Taking the Measure The Presidency of George W. Bush Edited by Donald R. Kelley and Todd G. Shields Some of today’s most prominent experts on the American presidency offer their perspectives, commentary, and analyses in this volume of studies, commissioned by the Fulbright Institute of International Relations and the Blair Center of Southern Politics and Culture, both at the University of Arkansas.

With a shared focus on Bush’s decision-making style, the impact of increasing partisanship, economic issues—especially after the 2008 financial meltdown—and, of course, the cumulative impact of 9/11 and the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the contributors link their observations and conclusions to broader political and policy-related questions.

They also take the opportunity to compare the Bush presidency with that of his successor, Barack Obama, through the latter administration’s experience of disappointment in the 2010 congressional elections.

The debate over the Bush legacy will not soon end, and this volume does not presume to offer the definitive, final commentary. It does, however, bridge the gap between dispassionate academic commentary written essentially for scholars and the sort of informed and unbiased analysis written for a larger public audience, contributing to the public understanding of our recent national experience. Taking the Measure: The Presidency of George W. Bush contributes significantly to the beginnings of careful, systematic consideration of the George W. Bush presidency.

Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership DONALD R. KELLEY is former director of the Fulbright Institute of International Relations and Professor of Political Science at the University of Arkansas. TODD G. SHIELDS is director of the Blair Center of Southern Politics and Society, dean of the Graduate School, and former associate dean of the Clinton School of Public Service at the University of Arkansas.

“The literature on the Bush presidency is large, but most of it is polemical or journalistic in nature. This book makes a solid contribution to the emerging scholarly literature on the presidency of George W. Bush.”—Ryan J. Barilleaux, Paul Rejai Professor of Political Science, Miami University in Ohio

978-1-62349-018-8 unjacketed cloth $40.00x 978-1-62349-019-5 paper $19.95s 6x9. 192 pp. 4 tables. 2 figures. Index.

Presidential Studies. Political Science. American History.

October ebook 978-1-62349-099-7

RELATED INTEREST The Clinton Presidency and the Constitutional System Edited by Rosanna Perotti 978-1-60344-660-0 cloth $49.95s

“ . . . a defining contemporary assessment by political scientists of the Bush presidency . . . an excellent choice as a supplemental text in a presidency course.”—Lori Cox Han, Professor of Political Science, Chapman University The Character Factor How We Judge America’s Presidents James P. Pfiffner 978-1-58544-315-4 cloth $40.00s 978-1-58544-316-1 paper $16.95

Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq British and American Perspectives Edited by James P. Pfiffner and Mark Phythian 978-1-60344-067-7 hardcover $42.95x 978-1-60344-093-6 paper $27.50

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E l ev e Hour n ht

When presidents change public policy on their way out of office . . .

Eleventh Hour The Politics of Policy Initiatives in Presidential Transitions David M. Shafie

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Woman President Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture

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What cannot be imagined cannot be brought into being. Exploring the backlash against the American woman president . . .

Woman President Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson

Kristina horn sheeler & K a r r i n va s b y a n d e r s o n

David M. Shafie

Pres. Jimmy Carter issued last-minute rules immediately before leaving the White House, creating frustration for the incoming Reagan Administration. As George W. Bush prepared to cede the Oval Office to Barack Obama almost three decades later, he ordered more than thirty last-minute policy changes, quickly finalizing the rules before the Obama Administration could overturn them.

What elements of American political and rhetorical culture block the imagining—and thus, the electing—of a woman as president? Examining both major-party and third-party campaigns by women, including the 2008 campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, the authors of Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture identify the factors that limit electoral possibilities for women.

Presidents are able to bypass Congress and quietly initiate significant policy changes by using the executive branch’s authority to alter existing statutes. In Eleventh Hour: The Politics of Policy Initiatives in Presidential Transitions, David M. Shafie analyzes how and why five successive presidents have done so at the end of their administrations, offering important new insights for the growing study of the administrative presidency.

Pundits have been predicting women’s political ascendency for years.

And yet, although the 2008 presidential campaign featured Hillary Clinton as an early frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination and Sarah Palin as the first female Republican vice-presidential nominee, no woman has yet held either of the top two offices.

The reasons for this are complex and varied, but the authors assert that the question certainly encompasses more than the shortcomings of women candidates or the demands of the particular political moment. Instead, the authors identify a pernicious backlash against women presidential candidates—one that is expressed in both political and popular culture.

After assessing transcripts of speeches and staff communications, such as memos from the White House Domestic Policy offices, memos from selected regulatory agencies and the Office of Management and Budget, as well as records in the Clinton, Reagan, George (H. W.) Bush, and Carter Presidential Libraries, Shafie also conducted in-depth interviews with administration personnel charged with formulating and implementing the executive rule changes. Based on his research, Shafie explains end-of-term rulemaking as an instrument of presidential prerogative power by mapping its evolution through five recent presidential transitions and exploring its effectiveness, consequences, and implications.

Giving consideration to recent efforts to limit interregnum rulemaking and to overturn specific late-term rules, as well as evaluating the prospects for future presidents to favor this instrument to advance their unfinished domestic policy priorities, Eleventh Hour offers groundbreaking research into the uses of executive power.

Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership DAVID M. SHAFIE, an assistant professor of political science at Chapman University in Orange, California, is coauthor of Rethinking California: Politics and Policy in the Golden State. He also writes extensively on environmental politics and policy. He holds a doctorate from the University of Southern California.

978-1-60344-954-0 cloth $40.00s 6x9. 224 pp. Table. 9 figures. Appendix. Bib. Index.

Political Science. Presidential Studies.

October ebook 978-1-62349-004-1

In Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture, Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson provide a discussion of US presidentiality as a unique rhetorical role. Within that framework, they review women’s historical and contemporary presidential bids, placing special emphasis on the 2008 campaign. They also consider how presidentiality is framed in candidate oratory, campaign journalism, film and television, digital media, and political parody.

Number Twenty-two: Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication KRISTINA HORN SHEELER, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Communication Studies at Indiana University–Purdue University, Indianapolis, coauthored Governing Codes: Gender, Metaphor, and Political Identity. KARRIN VASBY ANDERSON is an associate professor of communication studies at Colorado State University in Fort Collins and coauthor of Governing Codes: Gender, Metaphor, and Political Identity.

978-1-60344-983-0 cloth $45.00s 6x9. 256 pp. Bib. Index.

Presidential Studies. Presidential Rhetoric.

October ebook 978-1-62349-010-2

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Now available in new, Texas A&M University Press editions . . .

From Winston with Love and Kisses The Young Churchill

Churchill Wanted Dead or Alive Celia Sandys

Celia Sandys

A delightful and illuminating journey through the early years of Winston Churchill, From Winston with Love and Kisses: The Young Churchill weaves together strands of Churchill’s early writing, mature recollections and reflections on childhood, and the comments of the author, Churchill’s granddaughter.

Together with a rich store of images and ephemera from the family archives, this book provides an enthralling composite view of the lonely and sickly little boy who survived on sheer tenacity to become one of the greatest leaders of the twentieth century.

Lavishly illustrated throughout and reproducing in facsimile many of the young Winston’s letters and early artistic efforts, this captivating book brings us an intimate portrait of Churchill’s youth.

An internationally acclaimed author, journalist, and lecturer, CELIA SANDYS narrated the popular 2008 PBS documentary on her grandfather Winston Churchill and his extensive military, political, and private travels across the world, including the many on which she accompanied him. She has also organized and conducted a series of exclusive tours based on Churchill’s varied and momentous experiences.

978-1-62349-068-3 paper $24.95 71/2x10. 224 pp. 132 b&w photos. 135 line art. Bib. Index.

Biography.

October ebook 978-1-62349-078-2

“ . . . notable for its depiction of young Churchill, warts and all, as a very human character . . . .”—New York Times “A bestseller in the UK, this portrait of Winston Churchill, written by his granddaughter, unapologetically presents the future prime minister as an action hero in the Boer War. It’s rousing reading. Sandys’s affection for her grandfather is obvious, but she shows enough of his grandiosity to maintain a reader’s trust. . . . Sandys is fully aware of the extent to which her grandfather had a finger to the political winds during his exploits: he sought the limelight as aggressively as he chased adventure. Because of Sandys’s brisk narrative, as well as their knowledge of the man Churchill later became, readers will not hold young Winston’s ambition against him.”—Publishers Weekly “During his nine-month stint in South Africa, Churchill, though officially classified as a noncombatant reporter, managed to send stirring dispatches to the Morning Post, engage in several bloody skirmishes with the enemy, be captured and incarcerated as a prisoner of war, and make a suitably sensationalized, yet nonetheless daring, escape from prison. Written in a lively narrative style, this affectionate biographical portrait of a very young, very spirited, and very enterprising Winston Churchill succeeds in foreshadowing the magnitude of the renown he eventually achieved. A rip-roaring good read chockfull of action, suspense, and history.”—Booklist CELIA SANDYS is a granddaughter of Sir Winston Churchill. Her mother was Churchill’s eldest daughter, Diana, and her father was Lord Duncan-Sandys, the former Cabinet Minister and member of his father-in-law’s wartime government. She is married, has four children, and lives in Wiltshire, United Kingdom.

Sandys has lectured in America, Canada, Japan, and Britain.

978-1-62349-067-6 paper $24.95 6x9. 272 pp. 46 b&w photos. 6 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.

Biography. British Empire. Boer War. European History.

October ebook 978-1-62349-074-4

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Wildlife of the Concho Valley

Marine Plants of the Texas Coast Roy L. Lehman

Terry C. Maxwell

The Concho Valley, named from the abundant mussel shells found in its principal river by seventeenth-century Spanish explorers, occupies a transitional position between the Chihuahuan Desert to the west and the Balcones Canyonlands to the east. As veteran field biologist and educator Terry C. Maxwell notes, the region has experienced wide-ranging changes in the makeup of its vertebrate populations, especially in the decades since farming and ranching began here in earnest, in the mid- to late 1800s.

In Wildlife of the Concho Valley, Maxwell provides the first comprehensive summary of the animal life in this undercovered region of the state, which also happens to be his home territory. Uniquely qualified after a lifetime of study and field work, Maxwell places the region in its biogeographic context and then charts the history of vertebrate investigation there from the seventeenth century to the present.

Following this ecological and historical perspective are accounts of all the fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals reliably known by zoologists and naturalists to have occurred in the Concho Valley over the past 150 years. The species accounts include Latin and English names; distribution and abundance status; remarks, where the author elaborates on habitat preference, behavior, and other aspects of natural history; specimens reported; and subspecies and synonyms.

This important work of traditional natural history is liberally illustrated with Maxwell’s own drawings, photographs, and maps. An invaluable reference, Wildlife of the Concho Valley is a major contribution from one of the state’s most respected biologists and teachers.

Number Forty-eight: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series TERRY C. MAXWELL, an award-winning teacher whose stature as an ornithologist is recognized statewide, is professor and curator of birds in the department of biology at Angelo State University in San Angelo.

978-1-60344-965-6 hardcover $30.00s 6x9. 288 pp. 7 color, 5 b&w photos. 3 maps. 35 line art. Table. Bib. Index.

Natural History. Nature Guides. Wildlife.

November ebook 978-1-62349-006-5

Written for biology students, teachers, nature lovers, amateur naturalists, conservation workers, and parks and wildlife personnel, this up-to-date, easy-to-use guide describes the marine plants of the Gulf of Mexico coast. The author’s photographs accompany the updated identification keys, which are also visually oriented and simple to use.

Veteran botanist and educator Roy L. Lehman describes the plants in four major sections, covering the common shoreline plants, seagrasses, mangroves, and marine algae (red, brown, and green seaweeds).

Each section begins with an introduction that gives an overview of the plant group and includes information on the important traits and terminology used for identification. A simple key to the family or order directs the reader to the appropriate section, where the text is arranged alphabetically by family and then by genus and species. Each genus is illustrated by high quality photographs that include a closeup of each plant and images of its reproductive structures.

Marine Plants of the Texas Coast collects these unique species for the first time in a single volume. As coastal issues, such as hurricane preparedness, beach erosion, wetland mitigation, freshwater inflows, and more, remain in the forefront of public concern, this botanical reference should find a permanent place on the bookshelves of scientists, policy makers, and citizens alike.

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, Sponsored by the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University– Corpus Christi ROY L. LEHMAN is professor of biology at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, where he is also director of the Laguna Madre Field Station and a Harte Research Associate at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies.

He is the coauthor of the award-winning book Plants of the Texas Coastal Bend, published by Texas A&M University Press in 2005.

978-1-62349-016-4 flexbound (with flaps) $32.00 6x9. 156 pp. 264 color photos. Map. Bib. Index.

Plants/Botany. Field Guides. Marine Science.

December ebook 978-1-62349-089-8

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“Texas is still the promised land . . . Our market is supplied with great numbers of wild geese at 50 cents, wild ducks at 50 cents a brace . . . . All these things are the substantials on which we live.”—Galveston Daily News, December 4, 1867

Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws R. K. Sawyer Foreword by Rick Pratt

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Texas Market Hunting

Texas market Hunting STORIES OF WATERFOWL, GAME LAWS, AND OUTLAWS

From its earliest days of human habitation, the Texas coast was home to seemingly endless clouds of ducks, geese, swans, and shorebirds.

By the 1880s Texas huntsmen, or market hunters, as they came to be called, began providing meat and plumage for the restaurant tables and millinery salons of a rapidly growing nation. A network of suppliers, packers, distribution centers, and shipping hubs efficiently handled their immense harvest.

Market men employed efficient methods to harvest nature’s bounty. They commonly hunted at night, often using bait to concentrate large numbers of waterfowl. The effectiveness of the hunt was improved when side-by-side double barrel shotguns and large-gauge swivel guns gave way to repeating firearms, with some capable of discharging as many as eleven shells in a single volley.

Their methods were so efficient that, by the late 1800s, Texas sportsmen and others blamed the alarming decline of coastal waterfowl populations on the market hunter’s occupation. In 1903, after a long fight and many failures, the first migratory bird game law passed the Texas legislature. Though the fight would continue, it was the beginning of the end of the year-round slaughter. Most market hunters quit, and those who didn’t became outlaws.

In this book, R. K. Sawyer chronicles the days of market hunting along the Texas coast and the showdown between the early game wardens and those who persisted in commercial waterfowl hunting. Containing an abundance of rare historical photographs and oral history, Texas Market Hunting: Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws provides a comprehensive and colorful account of this bygone period.

 R. K. Sawyer Foreword by Rick Pratt

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At the peak of Texas market hunting in the late 1890s, Rockport merchants shipped an average of 600 ducks a day in a five-month shooting season, and in the last year of legal market hunting, an estimated 60,000 ducks and geese were shipped from Corpus Christi alone.

978-1-62349-011-9 cloth $30.00 81/2x11. 160 pp. Table. 49 b&w photos. 3 maps. 23 figs.

Bib. Index.

Wildlife. Coastal Texas. Texas History. Business History.

October ebook 978-1-62349-015-7

RELATED INTEREST A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting The Decoys, Guides, Clubs, and Places, 1870s to 1970s R. K. Sawyer Foreword by Matt Kaminski 978-1-60344-763-8 cloth $35.00

Number Twenty-four: Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi R. K. SAWYER is a petroleum geologist based in Houston and a manager at the Thunderbird Hunting Club in Matagorda County, Texas. He is also the author of A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting: The Decoys, Guides, Clubs, and Places, 1870s to 1970s.

Fishing Yesterday’s Gulf Coast Barney Farley Foreword by George S. Hawn Introduction by Larry McEachron 978-1-60344-046-2 paper $15.95

Texas Waterfowl William P. Johnson and Mark W. Lockwood 978-1-60344-807-9 flexbound (with flaps) $25.00 978-1-60344-820-8 $25.00

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The Age of Water The Urban Environment in the North of France, A.D. 300–1800 André E. Guillerme

An innovative new guide for beginning archaeologists . . .

Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones A Manual April M. Beisaw

Water is essential to human life, as mythology, religion, and history alike have recognized. Its availability has been a key determinant in patterns of settlement and agriculture, but its crucial role in shaping the layout and economic development of cities has not always been recognized. This structuralist history, first published in French in 1983, traces sixteen centuries of hydrographic technological change and urban development in eighteen cities of northern France.

André E. Guillerme’s focus on the uses of water clearly illustrates the interaction of military, economic, technological, political, intellectual, and symbolic factors in urbanization. He skillfully utilizes data from urban demography and draws extensively on scholarship in a wide range of fields to sketch the history of urban planning and technology and their effect on the environment. From his incisive analysis, a complex picture emerges of demographic and socioeconomic evolution.

“Guillerme’s work provides us with a fascinating insight into western history through a survey of the town-water relationship in all its multifarious implications over a wide period.”—Journal of European Economic History “The author, an engineer rather than an historian, provides a provocative thesis concerning changes in man-made waterways in eighteen cities of the Paris basin.”—American Historical Review Number Nine: Environmental History Series ANDRé E. GUILLERME, urban engineer and historian, is professor of History of Technology at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris.

His research deals with history of industrial landscape, construction history, and technical gesture (19th & 20th century), specializing in the study of urban change in industrialized nations.

Offering a field-tested analytic method for identifying faunal remains, along with helpful references, images, and examples of the most commonly encountered North American species, Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual provides an important new reference for students, avocational archaeologists, and even naturalists and wildlife enthusiasts. Using the basic principles outlined here, the bones of any vertebrate animal, including humans, can be identified and their relevance to common research questions can be better understood.

Because the interpretation of archaeological sites depends heavily on the analysis of surrounding materials—soils, artifacts, and floral and faunal remains—it is important that non-human remains be correctly distinguished from human bones, that distinctions between domesticated and wild or feral animals be made correctly, and that evidence of the reasons for faunal remains in the site be recognized. But the ability to identify and analyze animal bones is a skill that is not easy to learn from a traditional textbook. In Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones, veteran archaeologist and educator April M. Beisaw guides readers through the stages of identification and analysis with sample images and data, also illustrating how specialists make analytical decisions that allow for the identification of the smallest fragments of bone.

Extensive additional illustrative material, from the author’s own collected assemblages and from those in the Archaeological Analytical Research Facility at Binghamton University in New York, are also available in the book’s online supplement. There, readers can view and interact with images to further understanding of the principles explained in the text.

Number Eighteen: Texas A&M University Anthropology Series

978-1-62349-065-2 paper $29.95s 6x9. 312 pp. 52 figures. 11 tables. Notes Bib. Index.

Environmental History. Water Use. Urban History. European History.

October ebook 978-1-62349-069-0

APRIL M. BEISAW is an assistant professor of anthropology at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, and an adjunct research associate in anthropology at Binghamton University. She has served as an independent faunal analyst since 1998 and has analyzed assemblages from prehistoric and historic sites across North America.

978-1-62349-026-3 flexbound (with flaps) $35.00x 7x10. 214 pp. 43 color photos. 36 line art. Chart. Fig. 8 tables. Bib. Index.

Archaeology. Anthropology.

November ebook 978-1-62349-082-9

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New in paperback

New in paperback

Lubbock Lake

Rock Art of the Lower Pecos

Late Quaternary Studies on the Southern High Plains

Carolyn E. Boyd

Edited by Eileen Johnson

“. . . the editor and authors have fully justified the assertion that the Lubbock Lake site `has produced one of the most nearly complete late Quaternary records in the New World. . . .’ The integrated interdisciplinary approach to the investigations carried out at Lubbock Lake by the LLP group places this site among the small handful of Paleoindian site reports that have established a standard for the study of Paleoindian sites and associated materials.”—American Anthropologist “Ongoing interdisciplinary work of the Lubbock Lake Project coordinated by Johnson since 1973 is perhaps the most intensive archaeological effort at any site in the southern Plains region. The cumulative results of this long-term project are extremely important particularly for their paleoecological implications. . . . the fact that useful information is available [in this book] to critique is a tribute to the project’s continuing success.”—American Antiquity

EILEEN JOHNSON is executive director of the Museum of Texas Tech University, Horn Professor in Museum Science, and director of the Lubbock Lake Landmark.

978-1-62349-066-9 paper $35.00s 81/2x11. 192 pp. 30 b&w photos., 42 line drawings., 25 tables. Bib. Index.

Archaeology. Native American Studies.

October ebook 978-1-62349-087-4

Four thousand years ago bands of hunter-gatherers lived in and traveled through the challenging terrain of what is now southwest Texas and northern Mexico. Today travelers to that land can view large art panels they left behind on the rock walls of Rattlesnake Canyon, White Shaman Cave, Panther Cave, Mystic Shelter, and Cedar Springs. Messages from a distant past, they are now interpreted for modern readers by artist-archaeologist Carolyn E. Boyd.

Now, combining the tools of the ethnologist with the aesthetic sensibilities of an artist, Boyd demonstrates that prehistoric art is not beyond explanation. Images from the past contain a vast corpus of data—accessible through proven, scientific methods—that can enrich our understanding of human life in prehistory and, at the same time, expand our appreciation for the work of art in the present and the future. “ . . . dazzling study of some of the Southwest’s most dramatic and little seen rock art. . . a well written and superbly illustrated study of some of North America’s most important rock art . . . should be read by anyone interested in the prehistory of the Americas.”

—American Archaeology “ . . . a valuable study on the prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the lower Pecos River region and the painted images they left behind.”

—Southeastern Archaeology Number Eight: Texas A&M University Anthropology Series Carolyn E. Boyd is the executive drector and co-founder of Shumla Archeological Research and Education Center. She serves as adjunct professor at Texas State University and as a research fellow at the Center for Arts and Symbolism of the Ancient Americas in San Marcos. She lives in the Lower Pecos canyonlands of Texas.

978-1-60344-985-4 paper $35.00 81/2x11. 152 pp. 60 b&w photos. 5 color plates. 2 tables. Bib. Index.

Anthropology. Archaeology.

October ebook 978-1-62349-096-6

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Big Bend’s Ancient and Modern Past Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf Foreword by Lonn Taylor

Winner, 2005 Philosophical Society of Texas Award of Merit, and 2004 T. R. Fehrenbach Award, presented by the Texas Historical Commission

The Texas Indians David La Vere

The Big Bend region of Texas—variously referred to as “El Despoblado” (the uninhabited land), “a land of contrasts,” “Texas’ last frontier,” or simply as part of the Trans-Pecos—enjoys a long, colorful, and eventful history, a history that began before written records were maintained.

Author David La Vere offers a complete chronological and cultural history of Texas Indians from twelve thousand years ago to the present day. He presents a unique view of their cultural history before and after European arrival, examining their interactions—both peaceful and violent—with Europeans, Mexicans, Texans, and Americans.

With Big Bend’s Ancient and Modern Past, editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf provide a helpful compilation of articles originally published in the Journal of Big Bend Studies, reviewing the unique past of the Big Bend area from the earliest habitation to 1900.

An important and comprehensive examination of the state’s indigenous peoples, The Texas Indians will appeal to all of those with an interest in Native Americans and the history of Texas.

Scholars of the region investigate not only the peoples who have successively inhabited it but also the nature of the environment and the responses to that environment. As the studies in this book demonstrate, the character of the region has, to a great extent, dictated its history.

The study of Big Bend history is also the study of borderlands history. Studying and researching across borders or boundaries, whether national, state, or regional, requires a focus on the factors that often both unite and divide the inhabitants. The dual nature of citizenship, of land holding, of legal procedures and remedies, of education, and of history permeate the lives and livelihoods of past and present residents of the Big Bend.

BRUCE A. GLASRUD is the retired dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Sul Ross State University (Alpine, Texas). His numerous previously published books include Texas Labor History (with James C. Maroney) and Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement (with Merline Pitre), both published in 2013 by Texas A&M University Press. He lives in San Antonio.

ROBERT J. MALLOUF, formerly Texas State Archeologist and director of the Center for Big Bend Studies at Sul Ross State University, has published extensively on the prehistory and history of Texas, Kansas, and north-central Mexico.

978-1-62349-022-5 paper $35.00s 6x9. 320 pp. 7 b&w photos. 7 maps. 6 line art. Fig. 7 tables. Bib. Index.

Borderlands History. Archaeology.

October ebook 978-1-62349-105-5

“La Vere has taken a wider range of themes and communities. This approach establishes The Texas Indians as the new standard on the subject for academics and non-academics alike.”—Indian Country Today “. . . presents a solid examination of change across time and place, from historical era to historical era, as Indian peoples reacted to centuries of conflict and crisis. This book should be required for anyone interested in the history of Texas and the Southwest.”—Choice “David La Vere has researched and written a book that will become a classic. He updates the story of Indian Texans with an eye toward using the most current primary research in the field, including his own. . . it will be a valuable supplement for any college course on Indians in the Americas and for any course on Texas history. . . . ” —East Texas Historical Journal Number Ninety-five: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University DAVID LA VERE teaches history at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

He received his PhD from Texas A&M University and has been honored for his writings on Native Americans.

978-1-62349-060-7 paper $19.95 6x9. 310 pp. 30 b&w photos., 4 maps. Bib. Index.

Texas History. Western History. Native American Studies.

October ebook 978-1-60344-561-0

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The Other Great Migration The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900–1941 Bernadette Pruitt Foreword by M. Hunter Hayes The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country’s demographics but also Black culture. In her thorough study of migration to Houston, Bernadette Pruitt portrays the move from rural to urban homes in Jim Crow Houston as a form of Black activism and resistance to racism.

Between 1900 and 1950 nearly fifty thousand Blacks left their rural communities and small towns in Texas and Louisiana for Houston. Jim Crow proscription, disfranchisement, acts of violence and brutality, and rural poverty pushed them from their homes; the lure of social advancement and prosperity based on urban-industrial development drew them. Houston’s close proximity to basic minerals, innovations in transportation, increased trade, augmented economic revenue, and industrial development prompted White families, commercial businesses, and industries near the Houston Ship Channel to recruit Blacks and other immigrants to the city as domestic laborers and wage earners.

Using census data, manuscript collections, government records, and oral history interviews, Pruitt details who the migrants were, why they embarked on their journeys to Houston, the migration networks on which they relied, the jobs they held, the neighborhoods into which they settled, the culture and institutions they transplanted into the city, and the communities and people they transformed in Houston.

Number Twenty-one: Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University– Commerce BERNADETTE PRUITT is an associate professor of history at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. With a PhD from the University of Houston, she is a former recipient of the Mary M. Hughes and Fred White Jr. Research Fellowships in Texas History from the Texas State Historical Association.

978-1-60344-948-9 cloth $40.00s 6x9. 480 pp. 50 b&w photos. 3 maps. 12 tables.

Bib. Index.

African American Studies. Texas Urban History.

November ebook 978-1-62349-003-4

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Labor, Civil Rights, and the Hughes Tool Company Michael R. Botson Jr. 978-1-58544-438-0 cloth $43.00s

Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre 978-1-60344-946-5 cloth $47.50x 978-1-60344-947-2 paper $27.50s

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New in paperback

Oilfield Trash

Dat

Life and Labor in the Oil Patch

Tackling Life and the NFL

Bobby D. Weaver

Dat Nguyen and Rusty Burson Foreword by Darren Woodson

When the first gusher blew in at Spindletop, near Beaumont, Texas, in 1901, petroleum began to supplant cotton and cattle as the economic engine of the state and region. Very soon, much of the workforce migrated from the cotton field to the oilfield, following the lure of the wealth being created by black gold.

“In the wake of the baseball steroid scandal, there is a definite need for an uplifting, inspirational sports story. Dat Nguyen has that story to tell . . . Setting the book apart from its competition is Nguyen’s account of his family’s early years in Rockport, Texas. . . A good football book with the added bonus of a little social history.”—Booklist

Bobby D. Weaver grew up and worked in the oil patch. Now, drawing on oral histories supplemented and confirmed by other research, he tells the colorful stories of the workers who actually brought oil wealth to Texas. Drillers, shooters, toolies, pipeliners, teamsters, roustabouts, tank builders, roughnecks . . . each of them played a role in the frenzied, hard-driving lifestyle of the boomtowns that sprouted overnight in association with each major oil discovery.

“It is a compelling story of survival, both on and off the football field . . . . For fans of stories in which the human spirit and a deep religious faith triumph over obstacles and adversity, the book is an inspiration . . . . takes you behind the locker room door into the workings of the franchise over the past six years. . . . a must-read.”—San Antonio Express-News

Weaver tracks the differences between company workers and contract workers. He details the work itself and the ethos that surrounds it. He highlights the similarities and differences from one field to another and traces changing aspects of the work over time. Above all, Oilfield Trash captures the unique voices of the laboring people who worked long, hard hours, often risking life and limb to keep the drilling rigs “turning to the right.”

“Weaver draws on an abundant supply of interviews and his own insights as a former roughneck to paint a vivid picture of life among the state’s independent upstream drilling contractors . . . an important contribution to an understudied aspect of southern labor history.”

—Journal of Southern History Number Twenty-two: Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History From 1979 to 2002, BOBBY D. WEAVER was a museum professional, serving variously as curator, archivist, and assistant director. Prior to that he worked for more than twenty years in the oilfield and petrochemical industries. Weaver resides in Edmond, Oklahoma.

978-1-62349-064-5 paper $19.95 6x9. 320 pp. 42 b&w photos. Map. Bib. Index.

Labor History. Texas History. Business History.

October ebook 978-1-60344-250-3

“ . . . a compelling story . . . The sports story is well told, lively, and interesting. . . I believe the strength of the book is Dat’s willingness to share his innermost feelings about his experiences as a player and the courtship of his wife, which comes off with humor and even some suspense.”—Houston Chronicle “ . . . worth it for its love story alone.”—Southern Living DAT NGUYEN, the leading tackler in the history of Texas A&M University and a former assistant coach with the Dallas Cowboys and Texas Aggies, is now co-host of The Blitz, a San Antonio-based sports talk show on KZDC-AM 1250, an ESPN affiliate. Born in a refugee camp in Arkansas, he grew up in Rockport, Texas, and played his entire high school, college, and seven-year pro career in the Lone Star State. He was the first Vietnamese American to play in the NFL. RUSTY BURSON is a sportswriter for 12th Man Magazine and a former newspaper reporter and feature writer. He and his wife, Vanessa, are coauthors of Reveille: First Lady of Texas A&M.

978-1-62349-063-8 paper $22.95 6x9. 232 pp. 49 b&w photos. Index.

Sports. Aggie Books. Autobiography. Ethnic Studies.

October ebook 978-1-60344-608-2

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Now in a new, Texas A&M University Press edition . . .

Deep Ellum The Other Side of Dallas Alan Govenar and Jay F. Brakefield Deep Ellum, on the eastern edge of downtown Dallas, retains its character as an alternative to the city’s staid image with loft apartments, art galleries, nightclubs, and tattoo shops. It first sprang up as a ramshackle business district with saloons and variety theaters and evolved, during the early decades of the twentieth century, into a place where the black and white worlds of Dallas converged.

This book strips away layers of myth to illuminate the cultural milieu that spawned such seminal blues and jazz musicians as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Buster Smith, and T-Bone Walker and that was also an incubator for the growth of western swing.

Expanding upon the original 1998 publication, this Texas A&M University Press edition offers new research on Deep Ellum’s vital cross-fertilization of white and black musical styles, many additional rare historical photographs, and an updated account of the area in the early years of the twenty-first century. “ . . . a thorough work accompanied by extensive oral history, great photographs, and a selected discography.”—Texas Monthly John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University ALAN GOVENAR is an author, folklorist, photographer, and filmmaker, living in Dallas. His recent titles include Everyday Music; Jasper, Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordan; Lightnin’ Hopkins: His Life and Blues; and Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound.

JAY F. BRAKEFIELD is a career journalist, freelance writer, and editor. He lives in Bryan, Texas.

978-1-60344-958-8 paper $21.95 6x9. 320 pp. 175 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

African American Studies. Texas History. Music.

October ebook 978-1-60344-959-5

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by Paddy Bowman 978-1-60344-528-3 hardcover $16.95

The History of Texas Music Gary Hartman 978-1-60344-002-8 paper $19.95

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Texas Almanac 2014–2015 Edited by Elizabeth Cruce Alvarez and Robert Plocheck

FEATURES OF THE TEXAS ALMANAC 2014–2015 ✪✪ Cover article on the historic ranches of Texas by Texana writer Mike Cox. ✪✪ Article on the Western art and artists of Texas by Houston businessman and art collector J. P. Bryan, who has amassed the world’s largest Texana collection. ✪✪ Coverage of the 2012 elections, redistricting, and the 2012 Texas Olympic medalists. ✪✪ Feature on Texas’s renowned angora goat and mohair industry. ✪✪ A look back at Assault, the King Ranch’s champion thoroughbred racehorse and the only Texas racehorse to win the Triple Crown.

MAJOR SECTIONS UPDATED FOR EACH EDITION ✪✪ The Environment, including geology, plant life, wildlife, rivers, and lakes. ✪✪ Weather highlights of the previous two years, plus a list of destructive weather dating from 1766. ✪✪ Two-year Astronomical Calendar that shows moon phases, times of sunrise and sunset, moonrise and moonset, eclipses, and meteor showers. ✪✪ Recreation, with details on state and national parks and forests, landmarks, and fairs and festivals. ✪✪ Sports, including lists of high school football and basketball champions, professional sports teams, Texas Olympians, and Texas Sports Hall of Fame inductees. ✪✪ Counties section, with detailed county maps and profiles for Texas’s 254 counties. ✪✪ Population figures from the 2010 US Census and State Data Center estimates as of 2012. ✪✪ Comprehensive list of Texas Cities and Towns. ✪✪ Politics, Elections, and information on Federal, State, and Local Governments. ✪✪ Culture and the Arts, including a list of civic and religious Holidays. ✪✪ Religion census of 2010 by denomination and adherents; breakdown on metro areas and counties. ✪✪ Health and Science, with charts of vital statistics. ✪✪ Education, including a complete list of colleges and universities, and UIL results. ✪✪ Business and Transportation, with an expanded section on Oil and Gas. ✪✪ Agriculture, including data on production of crops, fruits, vegetables, livestock, and dairy. ✪✪ Obituaries of notable Texans. ✪✪ Pronunciation Guide to Texas town and county names.

978-1-62511-004-6 cloth $39.95 978-1-62511-005-3 flexbound $24.95 6x9. 752 pp. 315 color photos. 300 color maps.

Texana. Geography. Popular Culture.

November ebook 978-1-62511-006-0

Elizabeth Cruce Alvarez has been the editor of the Texas Almanac since 2002. She received a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1978 and has a background in both newspaper and textbook publishing. Alvarez has worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Missouri, Iowa, and Texas. In 1980, she moved to the Permian Basin, where she was an editor at The Odessa American and traveled extensively throughout Texas. Since 1985, she has lived in Tarrant County, where she was an editor at the Fort Worth StarTelegram and, later, for Harcourt College Publishers.

Robert Plocheck, associate editor, has been with the Texas Almanac since 1994. He is a native of Houston and was raised in Damon on the Gulf Coast. He received a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972 and has worked at the Austin AmericanStatesman and the Marshall News-Messenger. He served for 15 years as an editor for religious newspapers in Houston and Tyler. For many years, he was a regular contributor to the Religion section of The Dallas Morning News, writing reviews of books and magazines.

Cover artwork: “Scene on the Brazos” by Frank Reaugh From the collections of the Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division, Dallas Public Library

“For those who like the serendipity of browsing through a handsomely presented book, one that fits in the glove compartment or backpack, the published edition [of the Texas Almanac] offers its pleasures.”—Mark Busby, coeditor, Texas Books in Review

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The Hoggs of Texas Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906 Edited and with commentary by Virginia Bernhard In The Hoggs of Texas: Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906, Virginia Bernhard delves into the unpublished letters of one of Texas’s most extraordinary families and tells their story in their own words, which are published here for the first time.

Rich in details, the more than four hundred letters in this volume begin in 1887, following the family through the hurly-burly of Texas politics and the ups-and-downs of their own lives.

The letters illuminate the little-known private life of one of Texas’s most famous families.

Like all families, the Hoggs were far from perfect. Governor James Stephen Hogg (sometimes “Stupendous” for his 6’3”, 300-plus pound frame), who lived and breathed politics, did his best to balance his career with the needs of his wife and children. His frequent travels were hard on his wife and children. Wife Sallie’s years of illness casted a pall over the household. Son Will and his father were not close. Sons Mike and Tom did poorly in school. Daughter Ima may have had a secret romance. Hogg’s sister, “Aunt Fannie,” was a domestic tyrant.

The letters in this volume, often poignant and amusing, are interspersed liberally with portions of Ima Hogg’s personal memoir and informative commentary from historian Virginia Bernhard. They show the Hoggs as their world changed, as Texas and the nation left horse-and-buggy days and entered the twentieth century.

VIRGINIA BERNHARD is Professor Emerita of History at the University of St. Thomas in Houston. Her publications include Slaves and Slaveholders in Bermuda, 1616–1782, A Tale of Two Colonies: What Really Happened in Virginia and Bermuda?, and Ima Hogg: The Governor’s Daughter.

“In many ways the Hogg family’s history reflects the larger history of families in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century America. The Hoggs lived in a time when butter was churned by hand and babies were born at home. . . . Most Texans lived in rural areas and made their living by farming, and many of those who had moved to towns could still remember how to milk a cow and birth a foal. But momentous changes in everyday lives were on the way.”—From the introduction

978-1-62511-001-5 paper $35.00 6x9. 350 pp. 5 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

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José Antonio Navarro In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas David R. McDonald Foreword by Arnoldo De León 978-0-87611-243-4 cloth $34.95 978-0-87611-244-1 paper $24.95

Texas, Her Texas The Life and Times of Frances Goff Nancy Young and Lewis L. Gould Foreword by Ann Richards 978-0-87611-159-8 cloth $29.95s

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New in paperback Winner, first place for history, Press Women of Texas Communications Contest (2012)

Arsenal of Defense Fort Worth’s Military Legacy J’Nell L. Pate Foreword by Kay Granger Named after Mexican War general William Jenkins Worth, Fort Worth began as a military post in 1849. More than a century and a half later, the defense industry remains Fort Worth’s major strength with Lockheed Martin’s F-35s and Bell Helicopter’s Ospreys flying the skies over the city.

Arsenal of Defense: Fort Worth’s Military Legacy covers the entire military history of Fort Worth from the 1840s with tiny Bird’s Fort to the massive defense plants of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Although the city is popularly known as “Cowtown” for its iconic cattle drives and stockyards, soldiers, pilots, and military installations have been just as important—and more enduring—in Fort Worth’s legacy.

Although Bird’s Fort provided defense for early North Texas settlers in the mid nineteenth century, it was the major world conflicts of the twentieth century that developed Fort Worth’s military presence into what it is today. America’s buildup for World War I brought three pilot training fields and the army post Camp. During World War II, headquarters for the entire nation’s Army Air Forces Flying Training Command came to Fort Worth.

The military history of Fort Worth has been largely an aviation story—one that went beyond pilot training to the construction of military aircraft. Beginning with Globe Aircraft in 1940, Consolidated in 1942, and Bell Helicopter in 1950, the city has produced many thousands of military aircraft for the defense of the nation. Lockheed Martin, the descendant of Consolidated, represents an assembly plant that has been in continuous existence for over seven decades.

978-0-87611-249-6 hardcover $39.95 978-1-62511-000-8 paper $29.95 6x9. 350 pp. 40 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

Texas History. Texas Military History. Aviation. Business History.

July ebook 978-0-87611-258-8

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Richard Selcer 978-0-87611-197-0 paper $9.95

With Lockheed Martin the nation’s largest defense contractor, Bell the largest helicopter producer, and the Fort Worth Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Federal Medical Center Carswell the reservist’s training pattern for the nation, Fort Worth’s military defense legacy remains strong.

J’NELL L. PATE is retired from Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, where she taught history and government. She is the author of nine other books, including Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards, 1887–1987 and North of the River: A Brief History of North Fort Worth. Pate has written a column on western history for her hometown newspaper, The Azle News, each week since 1968.

Dallas A History of “Big D” Michael V. Hazel 978-0-87611-163-5 paper $9.95

“This is a good book that adds to the knowledge about the impact of war on cities” —David McComb, Southwestern Historical Quarterly “[A] thoughful, serious-minded yet thoroughly accessible history. . . . Highly recommended.”—Midwest Book Review

Road, River, and Ol’ Boy Politics A Texas County’s Path from Farm to Supersuburb Linda Scarbrough 978-0-87611-202-1 cloth $39.95 978-0-87611-235-9 paper $22.95

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The Harness Maker’s Dream Nathan Kallison and the Rise of South Texas Nick Kotz Both historical study and ancestral narrative, The Harness Maker’s Dream follows the story of Ukrainian immigrant Nathan Kallison’s journey to the United States in search of a brighter future. At the turn of the twentieth century, over two million Jews emigrated from Czarist Russia and Eastern Europe to escape anti-Semitic law. Seventeen-year-old Kallison and his brothers were among those brave enough to escape persecution and pursue a life of freedom by leaving their homeland in 1890. Faced with the challenges of learning English and earning wages as a harness maker in Chicago, Kallison struggles to adapt to his new environment.

Kallison moves to San Antonio, Texas, where he finds success by founding one of the largest farm and ranch supply businesses in South Texas and eventually running one of the region’s most innovative ranches. Despite enormous changes in environment and lifestyle, Kallison and his beloved wife Anna manage to maintain their cultural heritage by raising their children in the Jewish faith, teaching them that family values and a strong sense of character are more important than any worldly achievement.

The son of Nathan’s daughter Tibe, author Nick Kotz provides a moving account of his ancestors’ search for the American dream. Kotz’s work has received recognition by the Texas Jewish Historical Society for eloquently depicting the reality of life for Jewish immigrants in Texas during this time and delineating their significant contributions to society.

Kotz’s insight into the life of this inspiring individual will prompt readers to consider their own connections to America’s immigrant past and recognize the beauty of our nation’s diverse history.

San Antonio-born NICK KOTZ is a renowned author, journalist, and historian whose work has received top honors in his field, including the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting, the Sigma Delta Chi Award for Washington Correspondence, the Raymond Clapper Memorial Award, the National Magazine Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award. With subjects ranging from labor unions to the civil rights movement, Kotz’s books focus on a broad range of issues in American history, while simultaneously challenging the nation’s present. Kotz earned a degree from Dartmouth College, pursued graduate studies at the London School of Economics, and continued his commitment to education by serving as a distinguished adjunct professor at the American University School of Communications and completing a semester as the Senior Journalist in Residence at Duke University. He now lives with his wife, author Mary Lynn Kotz, on their cattle farm in Broad Run, Virginia.

978-0-87565-567-3 cloth $39.95 6x9. 320 pp.

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Texas, My Texas Musings of the Rambling Boy Lonn Taylor 978-0-87565-434-8 paper $22.95

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Many Rivers to Cross Thomas Zigal Hurricane Katrina struck the Louisiana Gulf Coast in late August of 2005. In the aftermath of the category-three hurricane, the churning waters of Lake Pontchartrain tore through the levee system of New Orleans, causing unprecedented flooding and stranding those who had failed to evacuate in time. Images of desperate men and women clinging to rooftops and praying for rescue filled every news station. It is in this setting that Thomas Zigal’s new novel unfolds.

With water rapidly rising to alarming heights and contaminated by filth, the only way in or out of New Orleans is by boat. Hodges Grant, a veteran of Vietnam, must ply the fetid waters in a homemade craft in order to reach his stranded daughter and two grandchildren. Accompanied by his grandchildren’s good-for-nothing father Duval, Hodge enters into the treacherous wreckage left by the storm. The city appears to be deserted except for a few police out to commandeer civilian boats—by force, if necessary.

Deirdra, or Dee as she is known, was hardly daunted by the idea of a hurricane. There had been too many false alarms in the past from government officials. Still, for the sake of her two children, Dee had attempted to evacuate, only to turn back as gangs of armed highjackers pulled hapless drivers from their cars in gridlocked traffic. Now she and her children are stranded in their attic as the water laps at the hatch. They can only hope for Hodge’s swift arrival.

Hodge’s son PJ and eight thousand other inmates remain incarcerated in the Orleans Parish Jail as the waters begin to rise. Abandoned by the guards, the inmates must break through the bars of their cells or drown. They discover armed guards calmly waiting in boats outside; they pull a few inmates to safety and threaten to shoot those who rush for the fence.

As the waters advance through the city of New Orleans, so does Zigal’s story. Told through the eyes of each member of the Grant family, Zigal weaves a tale bound by terror, loss, perseverance, and survival.

THOMAS ZIGAL is the author of the critically acclaimed Kurt Muller mystery series, which includes Into Thin Air, Hardrock Stiff, and Pariah. His latest novel is The White League, which is the first volume of his New Orleans trilogy; Many Rivers to Cross is the second. A former vice president of the Texas Institute of Letters, he holds an MFA degree from the Stanford Writing Program and is a member of the Authors Guild, the Mystery Writers of America, and the Writers League of Texas. Zigal has lived in many places including San Francisco; Aspen; Lafayette, Louisiana; New Orleans; and Switzerland, each of which has significantly impacted his works. Zigal currently lives in Austin.

978-0-87565-569-7 paper $26.50 6x9. 320 pp.

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Riff, Ram, Bah, Zoo! Football Comes to TCU Ezra Hood Riff, Ram, Bah, Zoo, Lickety Lickety, Zoo Zoo, Who Wah, Wah Who, Give ’em hell, TCU!

Ezra Hood’s Riff, Ram, Bah, Zoo! Football Comes to TCU (named after TCU’s “Riff, Ram” cheer, one of the oldest known cheers in the nation) traces the origins of Texas Christian University, a tiny liberal arts college in Waco, Texas, to its induction into the Southwest Conference in 1922 as an up-and-coming collegiate football power.

Drawing from numerous newspaper sources—most notably from the TCU Daily Skiff— Hood’s book provides an in-depth, game-by-game history of a football program that struggled to find its place among established Texas football programs in the early twentieth century.

Hood begins with the university’s conception in 1873, when it was known as AddRan Male and Female College, and describes the rise of football’s popularity in Texas. From there, the book chronicles each of TCU’s football seasons from its first year in 1896 to its final year in TIAA play, before it joined the Southwest Conference and went on to become, in Hood’s words, “the prince of the Southwest in the 1930s.”

Hood captures particular details of each season—noting significant coaching changes and highly-touted recruits—all the while providing anecdotes from local newspapers as a way to capture the community response to TCU football in both Waco and Fort Worth. And while the book focuses largely on the ups and downs of the program, Hood also captures the impact of the times on both TCU and the many towns of Central and North Texas— the impact of the first World War, for instance, on the state of football nationwide and the loss of notable TCU players to the war effort.

Thanks to Hood’s detailed historical account, this book will be a valuable reference for both fans and historians of TCU and the game of football.

A Fort Worth native, EZRA HOOD graduated from Texas Christian University in 2005 with a degree in music composition. He received his JD from George Mason University School of Law in 2009 and currently works as an attorney adviser in Fort Worth. As a student, he wrote for the TCU Daily Skiff and remains an enthusiastic fan of TCU athletics.

978-0-87565-566-6 paper $20.00 6x9. 128 pp.

Sports.

September

RELATED INTEREST A Century of Partnership Fort Worth and TCU Edited by Mary Volcansek 978-0-87565-417-1 cloth $37.95

Texas Football Legends Greats of the Game Carlton Stowers 978-0-87565-376-1 lithocase $8.95

When Panthers Roared The Fort Worth Cats and Minor League Baseball Jeff Guinn and Bobby Bragan 978-0-87565-205-4 cloth $29.95

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Tails on the Hill Stories about a Family and Its Dogs Carol Thornton Illustrated by Vicky Williams Harrison

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Texas Chili?

Oh My! Patricia Vermillion Illustrated by Kuleigh Smith

According to the old adage, a dog is man’s best friend. However, in small town West Texas, a dog is also young girl’s best friend. Told through the eyes of an adolescent female narrator, Carol Thornton’s Tails on the Hill depicts the happenings of the Hill Gang, an eclectic collection of dogs that wander in and out of her life. A refuge for all abandoned dogs, the narrator’s home shelters all types of personalities. Told in brief tales, each dog’s character seems more human and lovable than the next. Yet equally engaging and lovable are the glimpses the narrator offers of her family, especially her father. This is a book about love and loyalty.

Texas Chili? Oh My! is a retelling of the beloved fairy tale The Three Little Pigs—Texas style! Meet Bluebonnet, Mockingbird, and SweetOlive, three little armadillos, as they leave Mamadillo’s home and build their own dens out of native Texan materials. But watch out for Trickster Coyote, always looking for armadillos to make into Texas chili!

There’s Pobre, the peace-loving pound dog, and Posse, the stubborn husky. Then there’s May-ree, the abandoned hunting dog, and Wookie, the German shepherd who always has a new litter of puppies. And who could forget Tootie and Katy, the schnauzers who cause such trouble in the pet parlor? With each tale, the reader is transported into the heartfelt experiences of a unique extended family that includes both people and dogs.

Kids and adults alike will be entertained and educated on Texas symbols in this beautiful book. Texas Chili? Oh My! also includes a glossary and learning objectives to aid elementary teachers in making Texas history a fun, engaging experience for students.

A narrative for any dog lover, Thornton’s Tails on the Hill explores the complex, devoted relationship between dog and owner and will warm the hearts of all readers with its sometimes light and sometimes poignant tales.

CAROL THORNTON was born in Fort Worth and graduated from TCU. Carol has taught high school English and speech, written plays, squired her students around the state to UIL events, and sprinkled in numerous trips in the US and Europe. After eleven years she decided to switch careers, and she began to sculpt. She opened the Carol Thornton Gallery in Santa Fe, and she had the opportunity to sculpt the founders of TCU: Addison and Randolph Clark. Through the years of challenges, heartaches, adventures, victories, and changes, her dog companions have always been there for her. She lives in Weatherford, Texas. Illustrator VICKY WILLIAMS HARRISON graduated from TCU in 1973 with a degree in commercial art. Over the years, in addition to having her work displayed in galleries and art shows, she has put her talent to use in a variety of areas including mural painting and commission work in oil, pastel, and pencil.

She has volunteered at schools for art camps and art programs as well as for prom decorations, and has created personal Christmas cards for over thirty-five years, most of which have dog themes. Vicky lives in College Station and The Woodlands, Texas, with her husband.

978-0-87565-573-4 paper $18.95 6x9. 64 pp.

Young Readers.

November

Aided by adorable and colorful illustrations that depict Texas characters, settings, plants, and natural resources, Patricia Vermillion also gets the Texas vernacular just right!

PATRICIA VERMILLION serves as the librarian at the Lamplighter School in Dallas, Texas. She created Texas Chili? Oh My! as a supplementary tool in her curriculum on Texas for first grade students. She is a contributor to Mississippi Magazine, School Library Monthly, and Library Sparks Magazine, and is a member of the American Library Association, Association of Independent School Librarians, and Dallas Association of Independent Librarians. She is a TCU alumnus. Illustrator KULEIGH SMITH attended the Art Institute of Dallas and served as director of Galeria Sin Fronteras. He resides in Austin with his wife and daughter.

978-0-87565-568-0 paper $18.50 10x71/2. 32 pp.

Young Readers. Fiction.

August

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Law in the New West The Story of Snell & Wilmer Jack L. August Jr. Foreword by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor Few scholars have contributed as much to the study of the ever dynamic American West as has Jack August Jr., which is why his study of the role played in the growth of Arizona and other Southwestern states by the Snell & Wilmer law practice is such a compelling read.

Founded in 1938 by the Arizona immigrants Frank Snell and Mark Wilmer, Snell & Wilmer, along with its clients and civic-minded Arizonans, played an important part in converting a rural backwater into a state that has had a major impact on the political and economic life of the United States.

The firm’s founders early on combined the practice of law with the practice of good citizenship, and became important—and some say, dominant—players in the development of Arizona and the Phoenix metropolitan area and, indeed, of the American Southwest.

Frank Snell became renowned as one of the foremost civic activists of a growing Phoenix; he lobbied for the construction of major interstate highways and airports worthy of a regional center. Mark Wilmer was known as one of the great trial lawyers of the United States; in the landmark United States Supreme Court case Arizona v. California, Wilmer was critical in making available to Arizona the water necessary to its spectacular growth.

August does not limit his study of Snell & Wilmer to its impact on Arizona and the Southwest. With a unique insider’s perspective, August follows the practice’s continued growth even as the legal profession changed over the years, and traces how it adhered to its founding principles while evolving new management structures to cope with economic and technological change. The growth of the firm that has become one of the premier legal firms in the United States and the growth of the Southwest itself are inextricably intertwined.

JACK L. AUGUST JR. serves as executive director of the Barry Goldwater Center for the Southwest, a non-partisan, non-profit corporation dedicated to the collection, preservation, and dissemination of the history and culture of Arizona and the Greater Southwest. He has taught at several institutions, including the University of Houston, the University of Northern British Columbia, and Northern Arizona University. He was a Pulitzer Prize nominee for his volume Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest; coauthor with former Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini of Senator Dennis DeConcini: From the Center of the Aisle, which won the Border Regional Library Association’s Southwest Book Award for Literary Excellence and Cultural Enrichment; coauthor with first Hispanic governor of Arizona Raúl H. Castro of Adversity is My Angel: The Life and Career of Raúl H. Castro; coauthor with Elizabeth B. Murfee of Play by Play: Phoenix and Building the Herberger Theater; and author of Dividing Western Waters: Mark Wilmer and Arizona v. California and The Norton Trilogy.

978-0-87565-565-9 cloth $37.50 6x9. 256 pp.

Western History. Biography.

December

RELATED INTEREST Dividing Western Waters Mark Wilmer and Arizona v.

California Jack L. August Jr. 978-0-87565-354-9 cloth $32.95

Play by Play Phoenix and Building the Herberger Theater Elizabeth B. Murfee and Jack L. August Jr. 978-0-87565-410-2 cloth $35.00

Forging the Tortilla Curtain Cultural Drift and Change Along the United States-Mexico Border from the Spanish Conquest to the Present Thomas Torrans 978-0-87565-231-3 cloth $29.95

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Revised eBook edition

New in paperback

Wars Within War

The Wright Stuff

Mexican Guerrillas, Domestic Elites, and the United States of America, 1846–1848

Edited by Anthony Champagne, James W. Riddlesperger Jr., and Dan Williams

Irving W. Levinson

Traditional characterizations of the 1846–1848 war between the United States and Mexico emphasize the conventional battles waged between two sovereign nations. However, two little-known guerrilla wars taking place at the same time proved critical to the outcome of the conflict. Using information from twenty-four archives, including the normally closed files of Mexico’s National Defense Archives, Wars Within War breaks new ground by arguing that these other conflicts proved crucial to the course of events.

In the first struggle, a force organized by the Mexican army launched a prolonged campaign against the supply lines connecting the port of Veracruz to US forces advancing upon Mexico City. In spite of US efforts to destroy the partisans’ base of support, these armed Mexicans remained a significant threat as late as January 1848.

Concurrently, rebellions of class and race erupted among Mexicans, an offshoot of the older struggle between a predominantly criollo elite that claimed European parentage and the indigenous population excluded from participation in the nation’s political and economic life.

Many of Mexico’s powerful, propertied citizens were more afraid of their fellow Mexicans than of the invaders from the north. By challenging their rulers, guerrillas forced Mexico’s government to abandon further resistance to the United States, changing the course of the war and Mexican history.

IRVING W. LEVINSON is assistant professor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, where he teaches Latin American history. Previously, he taught that subject at the University of Texas in Austin. He received his PhD from the University of Houston in 2003.

978-0-87565-572-7 ebook $15.95 978-0-87565-302-0 cloth $29.95 6x9. 216 pp. 15 b&w photos. Maps. 5 tables.

Military History. Texas History. Mexican War. October

Inspired by his parents’ love for the written word, former Speaker of the House Jim Wright developed a passion for books and writing at a young age. During his thirty-four years as a US Congressman and two years as Speaker of the House, written communication continued to play an integral role in Wright’s life as he developed an increased understanding of the power of words.

Through a sampling of some of Wright’s finest work, The Wright Stuff follows the major elements in Wright’s political career, ideological development, and philosophical thought. A prolific and accomplished writer, Wright possesses the keen ability to properly contextualize historic events while providing enduring lessons in governance and life.

In addition to offering a unique perspective on Wright’s contemporaries and the leaders of today, this compilation of speeches, essays, and excerpts from his previous work addresses many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century. Additionally, this book chronicles a more personal narrative through Wright’s reflection on the most important influence of his young life—his parents—and shares some of the key lessons he learned during his service with the US Air Corps during World War II. Generously illustrated with photographs, The Wright Stuff allows readers to celebrate the many accomplishments of Speaker Wright, and, through his eyes, to gain a greater understanding of many of the signature events of the twentieth century.

ANTHONY CHAMPAGNE is a professor of political science at the University of Texas at Dallas where he has taught since 1979. JAMES W. RIDDLESPERGER JR. is a professor of political science at Texas Christian University, where he teaches American politics with interests in Congress, the presidency, and Texas politics. DAN WILLIAMS is a professor of English at Texas Christian University and director of the TCU Press.

978-0-87565-506-2 cloth $32.50 978-0-87565-571-0 paper $26.95 6x9. 320 pp.

Political Science.

August

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Life with a Superhero Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome Kathryn U. Hulings Over twenty years ago, in a small Israeli town, a desperate mother told a remarkable lie.

She told her friends and family that her newborn child had died. That lie became the catalyst for the unfolding truth of the adoption of that same baby—Michael —who is, in fact, very much alive and now twenty-two years old. He also has Down syndrome.

When Kathryn Hulings adopted Michael as an infant, she could not have known that he would save her life when she became gravely ill and was left forever physically compromised. Her story delights in how Michael’s life and hers, while both marked by difference and challenge, are forever intertwined in celebration and laughter. With candor and a sense of humor, Life With a Superhero wraps itself around the raucous joy of Michael’s existence with his four older siblings who play hard and love big; how Kathryn and her husband, Jim, utilize unconventional techniques in raising kids; the romance between Michael and his fiancée, Casey; the power of dance in Michael’s life as an equalizing and enthralling force; the staggering potential and creativity of those who are differently-abled; and the mind-blowing politics of how Kathryn navigated school systems and societal attitudes that at times fought to keep Michael excluded from the lives of kids deemed “normal.”

No other books about the parenting experience outline what to do when, say, a child runs across the roof of a tri-level house pretending he can fly, or shows up in a 7th grade social studies class dressed like Spiderman, or calls 911 when his girlfriend breaks his heart. But, as Michael’s mom, Kathryn has been trying to figure how to be a mother in just such circumstances—sometimes with success, sometimes with dismal failure—for over two decades.

978-1-57441-524-7 cloth $29.95 6x9. 288 pp. 25 b&w illus. Notes.

Literary Nonfiction. Memoir.

July ebook 978-1-57441-537-7

RELATED INTEREST Saving Ben A Father’s Story of Autism Dan E. Burns 978-1-57441-269-7 cloth $22.95

Number Six: Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series KATHRYN U. HULINGS is a mother and writer who has called Fort Collins, Colorado, her home for over thirty years. She earned an MA in English/Creative Nonfiction from Colorado State University, where she is now an adjunct faculty member teaching composition and literature courses. She also works as an advocate for children with special needs and serves as a community volunteer.

“Life with a Superhero’s greatest strengths are the aesthetic value of the writing—it’s very lyrical and beautiful—and the uncommon perspective on parenting an older child with Down syndrome.”—Kathryn Soper, author, The Year My Son and I Were Born

See Sam Run A Mother’s Story of Autism Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe 978-1-57441-244-4 cloth $22.95

“By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, Kathryn Hulings’ debut book is a moving portrayal of family and community dedication and love.”—John Calderazzo, author, Rising Fire: Volcanoes and Our Inner Lives Birthing a Better Way 12 Secrets for Natural Childbirth Kalena Cook and Margaret Christensen Foreword by Christiane Northrup 978-1-57441-297-0 cloth $24.95 978-1-57441-298-7 paper $14.95

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Pacific Blitzkrieg World War II in the Central Pacific Sharon Tosi Lacey Pacific Blitzkrieg closely examines the planning, preparation, and execution of ground operations for five major invasions in the Central Pacific (Guadalcanal, Tarawa, the Marshalls, Saipan, and Okinawa). The commanders on the ground had to integrate the US Army and Marine Corps into a single striking force, something that would have been difficult in peacetime, but in the midst of a great global war, it was a monumental task. Yet, ultimate success in the Pacific rested on this crucial, if somewhat strained, partnership and its accomplishments. Despite the thousands of works covering almost every aspect of World War II in the Pacific, until now no one has examined the detailed mechanics behind this transformation at the corps and division level.

Sharon Tosi Lacey makes extensive use of previously untapped primary research material to re-examine the development of joint ground operations, the rapid transformation of tactics and equipment, and the evolution of command relationships between army and marine leadership. This joint venture was the result of difficult and patient work by commanders and evolving staffs who acted upon the lessons of each engagement with remarkable speed. For every brilliant strategic and operational decision of the war, there were thousands of minute actions and adaptations that made such brilliance possible.

Lacey examines the Smith vs. Smith controversy during the Saipan invasion using newly discovered primary source material. Saipan was not the first time General “Howlin’ Mad” Smith had created friction. Lacey reveals how Smith’s blatant partisanship and inability to get along with others nearly brought the American march across the Pacific to a halt.

Pacific Blitzkrieg explores the combat in each invasion to show how the battles were planned, how raw recruits were turned into efficient combat forces, how battle doctrine was created on the fly, and how every service remade itself as new and more deadly weapons continuously changed the character of the war.

SHARON TOSI LACEY earned her PhD in military history from the University of Leeds, and is also a graduate of the United States Military Academy and Long Island University. She has served as a U.S. Army officer for more than twenty-two years and published more than thirty articles on military issues in magazines and journals. She currently lives in Northern Virginia.

“Pacific Blitzkrieg is not only a major contribution to our understanding of the Pacific War but is also a delight to read. Lacey demolishes the belief, widely held among students of the Pacific War, that a deep gulf lay between the Marine Corps and the Army.”—Williamson Murray, coauthor, A War to Be Won: Fighting the Second World War “This is a significantly fresh approach in that it goes beyond the Army-Marine controversies best exemplified by ‘Smith versus Smith.’”—Dennis E. Showalter, author, Hitler’s Panzers and Patton and Rommel

978-1-57441-525-4 cloth $27.95 6x9. 336 pp. 35 b&w illus. 5 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.

World War II. Military History.

October ebook 978-1-57441-541-4

RELATED INTEREST Cataclysm General Hap Arnold and the Defeat of Japan Herman S. Wolk 978-1-57441-281-9 cloth $24.95 978-1-57441-473-8 paper $19.95

With the Possum and the Eagle The Memoir of a Navigator’s War over Germany and Japan Ralph H. Nutter 978-1-57441-198-0 paper $29.95

Warriors and Scholars A Modern War Reader Edited by Peter B. Lane and Ronald E. Marcello Foreword by Alfred F. Hurley 978-1-57441-197-3 cloth $24.95

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Morning Comes to Elk Mountain Dispatches from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Gary Lantz Foreword by David Taylor Organized as a series of monthly journal entries, Morning Comes to Elk Mountain is Lantz’s response to ten years of exploring the rough and unexpected beauty of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. A combination of memoir, natural history, Native American history, and geology, this book is enriched by 20 color photos and a map to appeal to the seasoned visitor as well as the newcomer to the refuge.

The national wildlife refuge that’s the focus of the book was among the first established

by President Theodore Roosevelt. He helped save the Wichitas from miners and land speculators, and instead the harsh yet scenic area became the nation’s first bison refuge, established to keep this American icon from slipping into extinction.

Today the refuge hosts more than a million visitors a year, most of them coming to hike the trails, climb the rocks, photograph bison and prairie dogs, or simply commune with a beautiful, wild area that remains a spiritual landscape for the Kiowa and Comanche Indians who call it home.

Number One: Southwestern Nature Writing Series GARY LANTZ was born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, and attended universities in Oklahoma. A feature writer for the Daily Oklahoman, Outdoor Oklahoma Magazine, and Oklahoma Today, Lantz is a former Oklahoma Wildlife Federation Conservation Communicator of the Year. He lives in Taos, New Mexico, with his wife, where he works on books and wildlife photography.

“The work is incomparable in its depth and breadth of natural and human history of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge and, by extension, of southwestern Oklahoma.

Anyone with even a passing interest in the refuge or western Oklahoma would absorb abundant knowledge of the entire region nowhere else available in one volume.”—Gary Clark, author, Backroads of the Texas Hill Country: Your Guide to the Most Scenic Adventures and columnist, Houston Chronicle “I enjoyed the narrative and the intimacy of the story as well as the photography.”

—George Maxey, geology professor, University of North Texas

978-1-57441-527-8 cloth $39.95 978-1-57441-539-1 paper $18.95 6x9. 272 pp. 15 b&w photos. 20 color photos. Map. Index.

Nature Writing. Recreation. Literary Nonfiction.

October ebook 978-1-57441-536-0

RELATED INTEREST Pride of Place A Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing Edited by David Taylor 978-1-57441-207-9 cloth $29.95 978-1-57441-208-6 paper $16.95

The Big Thicket Guidebook Exploring the Backroads and History of Southeast Texas Lorraine G. Bonney Edited by Maxine Johnston and Pete A. Y. Gunter 978-1-57441-318-2 cloth $29.95

The Big Thicket An Ecological Reevaluation Pete A. Y. Gunter Photography by Roy Hamric Foreword by Bob Armstrong 978-0-929398-52-5 paper $18.95s

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Tracking the Texas Rangers The Twentieth Century Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Harold J. Weiss, Jr. Tracking the Texas Rangers: The Twentieth Century is an anthology of fifteen previously published articles and chapter excerpts covering key topics of the Texas Rangers during the twentieth century. The task of determining the role of the Rangers as the state evolved and what they actually accomplished for the benefit of the state is a difficult challenge.

The actions of the Rangers fit no easy description. There is a dark side to the story of the Rangers; during the Mexican Revolution, for example, some murdered with impunity.

Others sought to restore order in the border communities as well as in the remainder of Texas. It is not lack of interest that complicates the unveiling of the mythical force. With the possible exception of the Alamo, probably more has been written about the Texas Rangers than any other aspect of Texas history.

Tracking the Texas Rangers covers leaders such as Captains Bill McDonald, “Lone Wolf ” Gonzaullas, and Barry Caver, accomplished Rangers like Joaquin Jackson and Arthur Hill, and the use of Rangers in the Mexican Revolution. Chapters discuss their role in the oil fields, in riots, and in capturing outlaws.

Most important, the Rangers of the twentieth century experienced changes in investigative techniques, strategy, and intelligence gathering. Tracking looks at the use of Rangers in labor disputes, in race issues, and in the Tejano civil rights movement. The selections cover critical aspects of those experiences—organization, leadership, cultural implications, rural and urban life, and violence.

In their introduction, editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Harold J. Weiss, Jr., discuss various themes and controversies surrounding the twentieth-century Rangers and their treatment by historians over the years. They also have added annotations to the essays to explain where new research has shed additional light on an event to update or correct the original article text.

Number Twelve: Frances B. Vick Series BRUCE A. GLASRUD is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, East Bay and retired dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Sul Ross State University. He has published nineteen books including Buffalo Soldiers in the West and Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers. He lives in San Antonio. HAROLD J. WEISS, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of History at Jamestown Community College in Jamestown, New York, and the author of Yours to Command: The Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald.

“This is an obligatory acquisition for Texas Ranger fans, historians, lawmen, and lay people.”—Chuck Parsons, author, Captain John R. Hughes “This collection is a vitally important contribution. Every top scholar in the field of modern Texas Ranger studies is well represented here. The book is thorough in offering a thematic rather than a biographical approach, and the central theme of institutional change in times of transition clearly runs through the essays like a connecting thread.”—Michael L. Collins, author, Texas Devils

978-1-57441-526-1 cloth $29.95 6x9. 320 pp. 14 b&w photos. Map. Notes. Bib. Index.

Texas Rangers. Western History.

September ebook 978-1-57441-540-7

RELATED INTEREST Tracking the Texas Rangers The Nineteenth Century Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Harold J. Weiss Jr. 978-1-57441-465-3 cloth $29.95

Captain John R. Hughes, Lone Star Ranger Chuck Parsons Foreword by Robert K. DeArment 978-1-57441-304-5 cloth $29.95

Yours to Command The Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald Harold J. Weiss 978-1-57441-260-4 cloth $27.95

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Winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction

In These Times the Home Is a Tired Place Jessica Hollander When an unwed pregnant woman is pressured to get married by her boyfriend, parents, and the entire culture around her, she sees a feverish intensity emanating from the path to domesticity, a “paved path shaded by thick-trunked trees, lined with trim grass and manicured mansions, where miniature houses play mailboxes and animals play lawn ornaments and people play happiness.”

Jessica Hollander’s debut collection exposes a culture that glorifies and disparages traditional domesticity, where people’s confusion, apathy, and anxiety about the institutions of marriage and family often drive them to self-destruction.

The world in Hollander’s nineteen stories appears at once familiar and vividly unsettling, with undercurrents of anger and violence attached to everyday objects and spaces: a pink room is “a woman exploded,” home smells “of laundered clothes and gas from the grill,” and the sun “is so bright the sky fills with over-exposure, wilting the corners to orange, to red, to black.” Here people adopt extreme and erratic behavior: hack at furniture, have affairs with high school students, fantasize about sex with “monsters,” laden flower bouquets with messages of hate; but these self-destructive acts and fantasies feel strangely like a form of growth or enlightenment, or at least the only form that’s available to them.

As characters become girlfriends, wives, husbands, and mothers, they struggle within their roles, either fighting to escape them or struggling to “play” them correctly, but always concerned with the loss of individuality, of being swallowed up by society’s expectations and becoming “a mother” or “a wife” instead of remaining themselves.

978-1-57441-523-0 paper $14.95 51/2x81/2. 152 pp.

Collection of Short Fiction.

November ebook 978-1-57441-538-4

Number Twelve: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction JESSICA HOLLANDER grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and received her BA from the University of Michigan. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama. Her stories have appeared in over fifty journals, including The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Quarterly West, and Web Conjunctions, and she will be anthologized in The Lineup: 25 Provocative Women Writers. She teaches at the University of Alabama.

RELATED INTEREST Venus in the Afternoon Tehila Lieberman 978-1-57441-466-0 paper $14.95

“These are human tales of vigorously individual characters living with intensity. The author’s ear for revealing dialogue and double-edged humor ground these stories in a reality worth enduring. The characters connect despite suspicion and betrayal, beyond blood, circumstance or embarrassment at their own ridiculous humanity. Each piece is powered by a deep, slow boiling jubilation in the moment-to-moment, line-by-line fact of taking breath.”—Katherine Dunn, author, Geek Love and judge Out of Time Geoff Schmidt 978-1-57441-319-9 paper $14.95

A Bright Soothing Noise Peter Brown 978-1-57441-291-8 paper $14.95

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Reannounced . . .

New in paperback

The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke, Volume 5

Command Culture

May 23, 1881–August 26, 1881 Edited and annotated by Charles M. Robinson III

John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-decamp to Brigadier General George Crook. This fifth volume opens at Fort Wingate as Bourke prepares to visit the Navajos. Next, at the Pine River Agency, he is witness to the Sun Dance, where despite his discomfort at what he saw, he noted that during the Sun Dance piles of food and clothing were contributed by the Indians themselves, to relieve the poor among their people. Bourke continued his travels among the Zunis, the Rio Grande pueblos, and finally, with the Hopis to attend the Hopi Snake dance. The volume concludes at Fort Apache, Arizona, which is stirring with excitement over the activities of the Apache medicine man, Nakai’-dokli’ni, which Bourke spelled Na Kay do Klinni. This would erupt into bloodshed less than a week later.

Volume Five is especially important because it deals almost exclusively with Bourke’s ethnological research. Bourke’s account of the Sun Dance is particularly significant because it was the last one held by the Oglalas. The volume is extensively annotated and contains a biographical appendix on Indians, civilians, and military personnel named.

“This is an enormous contribution to our understanding of the American West.”—Robert Wooster, author, The Military and United States Indian Policy 1865–1903 “Bourke’s writings are keenly insightful, filled with color, and replete with a Who’s Who of the American West and Old Army.”—Paul L. Hedren, author, Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War

CHARLES M. ROBINSON III, a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, was a history instructor at South Texas College and author of more than fifteen books, including Bad Hand: A Biography of General Ranald S. Mackenzie (T. R. Fehrenbach Award) and The Court Martial of Lieutenant Henry Flipper (Spur Award finalist).

978-1-57441-468-4 cloth $55.00s 6x9. 560 pp. 71 b&w illus. 4 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.

Western History. Native American Studies. Military History.

October ebook 978-1-57441-481-3

Officer Education in the US Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901–1940, and the Consequences for World War II Jörg Muth

In Command Culture, Jörg Muth examines how the United States Army and the German Armed Forces selected, educated, and promoted their officers in the crucial time before World War II. German officers came from a closed authoritarian society but received an extremely open minded military education, whereas American officers came from one of the most democratic societies but received an outdated military education that harnessed their minds and limited their initiative. Command Culture clearly explains the lack of audacity of many high ranking American officers during World War II. Those American officers who became outstanding leaders in World War II did so not so much because of their military education, but despite it.

“The general message, though controversial and certain to lead to arguments, is buttressed by substantial evidence. Muth’s topic has immediate present-day relevance.”—Gerhard Weinberg, author, A World at Arms “An important and long-lasting contribution to the debate over officer training in the United States.”—Robert Citino, author, The German Way of War “Muth’s challenge to the ‘new military history’ will generate controversy but cannot be dismissed.”—Dennis Showalter, author, Patton and Rommel “Muth’s analysis of the US Army is a hard one, but he backs it up with extensive research. This is one of the most important books about the German and American armies in many years.”—Major-General (Ret.) David T. Zabecki, Military History

JöRG MUTH received his PhD in history from the University of Utah. He is the author of Flucht aus dem militärischen Alltag: Ursachen und individuelle Ausprägung der Desertion in der Armee Friedrichs des Großen, a study of desertion in the Prussian army during the era of Frederick the Great. He lives in Germany.

978-1-57441-533-9 paper $18.95 6x9. 376 pp. 31 b&w photos. Notes. Bib. Index.

World War II. Military History. Army.

August ebook 978-1-57441-364-9

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Sub-Antarctic Magellanic Ornithology The First Decade of Bird Studies at Omora Ethnobotanical Park, Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve

Reflections on the Neches A Naturalist’s Odyssey along the Big Thicket’s Snow River Geraldine Ellis Watson

Edited by Ricardo Rozzi and Jaime E. Jiménez

The first synthesis of current knowledge of forest and wetland birds in the world’s southernmost forests, this book contains both original work by Rozzi and Jiménez and the results of a decade of research conducted by the scientists associated with the Omora Park. The first part is a guide to the forest bird populations and habitats in the Reserve, and a summary of the data recorded for the bird species captured with mist-nets and banded. The information is given in two pages for each species, with English, Spanish, and scientific names, as well as a full-color photo, distribution maps, a table with original morphological information, a figure indicating abundance rates, and a brief description of the species’ main features.

The second part is a selection of twenty-two published articles on ornithological research at Omora Park during its first decade of studies, from 2000 to 2010. Eleven of the twenty-two articles were originally published in Spanish and are here translated and available to a larger readership. The reprinting of these articles in one place provides interested scientists, students, and wildlife managers a unique and convenient resource.

“This book has two important sources of information: original morphological data and the compilation of all publications about the birds in the southern extreme of South America. I think the book will have great significance.”—Victor R. Cueto, professor of natural sciences, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina “A wonderfully rich and in-depth contribution to Sub-Antarctic Ornithology.”—Julie Hagelin, senior research scientist, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

RICARDO ROZZI is a professor in philosophy and religion studies at the University of North Texas and the coauthor of Miniature Forests of Cape Horn and Multi-Ethnic Bird Guide of the Sub-Antarctic Forests of South America.

JAIME E. JIMéNEZ is a professor of biology at UNT with a co-appointment in philosophy and religion studies. They are codirectors of the Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program.

978-1-57441-531-5 paper $75.00s 81/2x11. 400 pp. 85 color photos. 36 color maps. 132 tables. Notes.

Bib. Index.

Birding/Ornithology. Natural History.

November ebook 978-1-57441-543-8

Reflections on the Neches is the story of a sixty-three-year-old woman who builds a backwater boat and journeys down the Neches River in East Texas, telling both the story of her river float trip and the natural history and folklore of the region. The Neches, one of the last “wild” rivers in Texas, is now being subjected to dams. Watson’s story captures the wildness of the river and imparts a detailed history of its people and wildlife. Profusely illustrated with maps, drawings, and photographs, it will appeal to all interested in the Big Thicket region and those indulging a feeling of wanderlust—and float trips—down the river.

“Reflections is not a book to skim. It should be absorbed, ideally from a canoe drifting down current in the Snow River. This book is a captivating blend of art and history and biological facts from a writer whose heart and soul has been bound up in the Big Thicket for a long, adventuresome, and sometimes combative lifetime. . . . You will be riveted by her tales of the fabled Ivory-billed woodpecker.”—East Texas Historical Association Journal “This book makes the Neches River come alive and makes the reader want to find the nearest canoe in order to travel in her footsteps to rediscover the beauty that exists around each river bend. . . . In addition to the expected exquisitely detailed travelogue, Watson adds her superior observations as a naturalist.”—Texas Gulf Historical and Biographical Record Number Three: Temple Big Thicket Series A native of Tyler County, GERALDINE ELLIS WATSON was a plant ecologist and park ranger for the National Park Service for fifteen years and the author of Big Thicket Plant Ecology.

978-1-57441-535-3 paper $24.95 7x10. 376 pp. 16 b&w photos. 29 line drawings. 20 maps. Index.

Texas History. Natural History.

October ebook 978-1-57441-428-8

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The Sutton-Taylor Feud

The Roots of Latino Urban Agency

The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas

Edited by Sharon A. Navarro and Rodolfo Rosales

Chuck Parsons

The Sutton-Taylor Feud in Texas began shortly after the Civil War ended and continued into the 1890s. William E. Sutton was the only Sutton involved, but he had many friends to wage warfare against the large Taylor family and their deadly supporter, John Wesley Hardin.

Mobs formed in Comanche County in retaliation for John Wesley Hardin’s killing of a Brown County deputy sheriff. One mob “liberated” three prisoners from the DeWitt County jail, thoughtfully hanging them close to the cemetery for the convenience of their relatives.

An ambush party killed James Cox, slashing his throat from ear to ear—as if the buckshot in him was not sufficient. A doctor and his son were called from their home and brutally shot down. Texas Rangers attempted to quell the violence, but when they were called away, the killing began again.

“Pistoleer John Wesley Hardin provided the star power for the fandango, but the horrific violence and terror engendered by the Suttons and Taylors gave the feud a near mythic status that lives even today.”

—True West “This is nothing less than the definitive study of this classic Texas feud, which spanned three decades and took eighty lives.”

—Roundup Magazine “The Suttons and Taylors were both victims and aggressors in a vicious cycle of violence and revenge. . . . Parsons no doubt tells a brilliant account of this historic, yet deadly time in Texas history.”

—East Texas Historical Association Journal Number Seven: A.C. Greene Series A Texan by choice, CHUCK PARSONS was born and raised in Iowa and Minnesota. His books include Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger (winner of the Wild West Historical Association Best Book Award); John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger, Pioneer Rancher; Texas Ranger N. O. Reynolds; and Captain L. H. McNelly, Texas Ranger. He lives in Luling, Texas.

978-1-57441-534-6 paper $19.95 6x9. 400 pp. 46 b&w illus. Map. Notes. Bib. Index.

Texas History.

July ebook 978-1-57441-367-0

The 2010 US Census data showed that over the last decade the Latino population grew from 35.3 million to 50.5 million, accounting for more than half of the nation’s population growth. The editors of The Roots of Latino Urban Agency, Sharon Navarro and Rodolfo Rosales, have collected essays that examine this phenomenal growth. The greatest demographic expansion of communities of Mexican Americans, Puerto Ricans, and Cuban Americans seeking political inclusion and access has been observed in Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, and San Antonio.

Three premises guide this study. The first premise holds that in order to understand the Latino community in all its diversity, the analysis has to begin at the grassroots level. The second premise maintains that the political future of the Latino community in the United States in the twenty-first century will be largely determined by the various roles they have played in the major urban centers across the nation. The third premise argues that across the urban political landscape the Latino community has experienced different political formations, strategies, and ultimately political outcomes in their various urban settings.

These essays collectively suggest that political agency can encompass everything from voting, lobbying, networking, grassroots organizing, and mobilization, to dramatic protest. Latinos are in fact gaining access to the same political institutions that worked so hard to marginalize them.

“The Roots of Latino Urban Agency expands our understanding of Latino politics at the grassroots level, across multiple cities and time periods.”

—Lisa García Bedolla, author, Fluid Borders and Latino Politics Number Eight: Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series SHARON A. NAVARRO and RODOLFO ROSALES are associate professors of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Navarro is the author of Latina Legislator, co-author of Politicas, and coeditor of Latino Americans and Political Participation. Rodolfo is the author of the Illusion of Inclusion: The Untold Political Story of San Antonio.

978-1-57441-530-8 cloth $24.95s 6x9. 192 pp. Map. Notes. Bib. Index.

Mexican American Studies. Political Science.

November ebook 978-1-57441-542-1

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Cowboys, Cops, Killers, and Ghosts Legends and Lore in Texas Edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt

This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society has something for everyone. The first section features a good bit of occupational lore, including articles on cowboys—both legendary ones and the relatively unknown men who worked their trade day by day wherever they could. You’ll also find a unique, personal look at a famous outlaw and learn about a teacher’s passion for encouraging her students to discover their own family culture, as well as unusual weddings, somewhat questionable ways to fish, and one woman’s love affair with a bull.

The backbone of the PTFS series has always been miscellanies—diverse examinations of the many types of lore found throughout Texas and the Southwest. These books offer a glimpse of what goes on at our annual meetings, as the best of the papers presented are frequently selected for our publications.

Of course, the presentations are only a part of what the Society does at the meetings, but reading these publications offers insight into our members’ interests in everything from bikers and pioneers of Tejana music to serial killers and simple folk from small-town Texas. These works also suggest the importance of the “telling of the tale,” with an emphasis on oral tradition, as well as some of the customs we share.

All of these things together— the focus on tradition at our meetings, the fellowship among members, and the diversity of our research— are what sustain the Texas Folklore Society.

Dog Trots & Mud Cats The Texas Log House Linda Lavender Photos by Cirrus Bonneau Preface by Terry G. Jordan

Log cabins and houses are more than historical curiosities. Throughout the nineteenth century, they were symbols of American frontier ingenuity. Their images were used in political campaigns and on commercial products to represent trustworthiness and quality.

When new building techniques were developed, however, they became representatives of the primitive past that were best left behind. Now log dwellings are making a comeback for urbanites trying to get back to the land.

In 1979, the staff of the Historical Collection at what is now the University of North Texas assembled an exhibit on the Texas log house that was funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The exhibit travelled the country and was supported by this beautifully illustrated book, now being made available again by the University of North Texas Press. Chapters cover subjects such as the early building techniques as well as the symbolism attached. Photos record the conditions of those structures still standing in Texas and demonstrate their ingenious re-use. The book’s design won the 1980 Mitchell A. Wilder Award by the Texas Association of Museums.

“Log dwellings are many things to many people. . . . In one way or another, log cabins tell us much about America and Americans, both past and present.”—from the Preface by Terry G. Jordan

Number Sixty-nine: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society KENNETH L. UNTIEDT is the Secretary-Editor of the Texas Folklore Society. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Texas Tech University, and is now an associate professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.

978-1-57441-532-2 cloth $34.95s 6x9. 368 pp. 70 b&w photos. Notes. Index.

Texas Folklore. Texana.

December ebook 978-1-57441-544-5

LINDA LAVENDER worked for the Historical Collection at North Texas State University in the 1970s. She went on to found an alternative primary school in Denton and to raise two children. She lives in Denton, Texas. CIRRUS BONNEAU, of Fort Worth, is a photographer.

978-1-57441-528-5 cloth $14.95 978-1-57441-529-2 paper $9.95 83/4x7. 160 pp. 90 duotone photos. 30 b&w illus. 3 maps. Bib. Photography. Architecture. Texas History.

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Go Where the Fighting Was Fiercest The Guide to the Texas Civil War Monuments Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley When a Chickamauga Battlefield ranger was asked where to find the Texas monument, his quick reply was “Go to where the fighting was fiercest.” While that spontaneous response accurately underscored the legendary battlefield zeal of the Texas forces in virtually every major Civil War battle, it likely did little to answer the visitor’s question.

In this book, the authors will inform visitors to many Civil War battlefields about the heroic role played by the Texans at key sites and why the State of Texas has, over the years, seen fit to officially commemorate the valor of the hard-fighting men of Texas with impressive monuments.

With the sesquicentennial observance of America’s Civil War already underway, however, Texas has chosen to pay little attention to Texans’ contribution to the Confederate cause.

Regardless of the scant official recognition being afforded this seminal event, the facts remain that there was a Civil War and that Texans were very often at the hot center of its battles—“Where the fighting was the fiercest.”

Students of American history, as well as visitors and those planning to visit the eighteen battlefield monuments described in this book, will learn how Texas forces fared in the fighting. Time must never be allowed to erase the memories of those sacrifices and those battle-bloodied accomplishments on the field of honor. This book will ensure that present and future generations will always remember the monumental significance of the story of Texas in the Civil War. THOMAS E. ALEXANDER is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder with a BA in political science and holds a masters degree in military studies from the American Military University in West Virginia, with honors in Civil War studies. DAN K. UTLEY holds degrees in history from the University of Texas at Austin and Sam Houston State University. He serves as an adjunct lecturer at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

978-1-933337-57-9 paper $24.95 6x9. 208 pp. 5 maps. 45 b&w photos.

Military History. Civil War. July

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Texian Macabre Stephen L. Hardin Illustrations by Gary S. Zaboly Mandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his belly—but probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged “harsh epithets” with David James Jones, a hero of the Texas Revolution. When words failed, Jones closed the argument with his blade. Such affrays were common in Houston, the fledgling capital of the Republic of Texas. This one, however, was singular. Wood was a gentleman and Jones a member of a disruptive gang of vagrants that the upper crust denounced as the “rowdy loafers.” Jones went to jail; Wood went to his grave.

In the weeks that followed, the killing resounded throughout the squalid, verminous city that one resident described as the “most miserable place in the world.” Stephen L. Hardin’s suspenseful and witty narrative reads like a contemporary page-turner, yet all is carefully documented history. He entwines the murder into the story of the sordid city like the strands of a hangman’s rope.

It is an astonishing tale peopled by remarkable characters: the one-armed newspaper editor and political candidate who employs the crime to advance his sanctimonious agenda; the Kentucky lawyer who enjoys champagne breakfasts and collecting human skulls; the German immigrant who sees rats gnaw the finger off an infant lying in his cradle; the Alamo widow whose circumstances force her to practice the oldest profession; the sociopathic physician who slaughters an innocent man in a duel; the Methodist minister horrified by the drunken debaucheries of government officials; and the president himself—the Sword of San Jacinto— who during a besotted bacchanal strips to his underwear.

978-1-933337-56-2 paper $24.95 6x9. 344 pp. 8 b&w illus. 20 b&w photos. 4 Maps. Notes.

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Texas History. Revolution/Republic.

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Skillfully conceived and masterfully written, Texian Macabre: A Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston will transport readers to a lost time and place.

STEPHEN L. HARDIN has been a historical consultant on several motion pictures including the 2004 production of The Alamo. His book Texian Iliad won the T.R. Fehrenbach Book Award and the Summerfield G. Roberts Award. He is professor of history at McMurry University, Abilene, Texas.

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Sacrificed at the Alamo Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution Richard Bruce Winders 978-1-880510-80-3 cloth $24.95

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Hide Island Richard Burgin In Hide Island, his sixteenth book and eighth collection of stories, Richard Burgin explores themes of love and crime, memory and identity, abuse and redemption, and the contradictory battle between our fierce struggle to live lives worth remembering and our desire to disentangle ourselves from a past we wish to forget.

The stories involve an extraordinarily variegated group of characters—ranging from doctors and drug dealers, prostitutes and businessmen, to writers and domestic workers.

Hide Island gives voice to the profoundly tormented as well as those who seek and find enlightenment, justifying Joyce Carol Oates’ praise in Newsweek’s The Daily Beast that “What Edgar Allan Poe did for the psychotic soul, Richard Burgin does for the deeply neurotic who pass among us disguised as so seemingly ‘normal’ we may mistake them for ourselves.” And why the Boston Globe concluded that “Burgin’s tales capture the strangeness of a world that is simultaneously frightening and reassuring, and in the contemporary American short story nothing quite resembles his singular voice.”

RICHARD BURGIN’S stories have won five Pushcart Prizes and been reprinted in numerous anthologies. A resident of St. Louis, Missouri, he is the author of sixteen books, including two novels, Rivers Last Longer and Ghost Quartet, eight collections of short fiction, as well as the interview books Conversations with Jorge Louis Borges and Conversations with Isaac Bashevis Singer.

“ . . . eerily funny . . . dexterous, too haunting to be easily forgotten.”—New York Times Book Review “I can think of no one of his generation who reports the contemporary war between the sexes with more devastating wit and accuracy.”—Philadelphia Inquirer “A writer at once elegant and disturbing, Burgin is among our finest artists of love at its most desperate.”—Chicago Tribune

978-1-937875-22-0 paper $24.95 51/2x81/2. 248 pp.

Collection of Short Fiction.

October ebook 978-1-937875-23-7

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Fifteen Minutes Mark Connelly 978-1-881515-83-8 paper $16.95

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Drug wars, border violence, and a coming-of-age story converge . . .

The Jumper

Mariguano

Tim Parrish

Juan Ochoa

The Jumper is an old-fashioned, modern novel both dark and funny.

Its central character, Jimmy Strawhorn, grows up on a ranch in West Texas thinking he’s an orphan but is summoned to Baton Rouge, where he discovers his past is stranger than he can imagine.

Set on the Texas/Mexico border during the early years of Reagan’s “War on Drugs,” Mariguano tells the story of contrabandisto Don Julio Cortina’s ill-fated attempt to secure the Plaza at a national level by fixing the 1988 Mexican Presidential elections.

Jimmy tries to navigate his urge to jump from high places, his fear of falling in love, and a complex family history full of deceit and racial ambiguity. At the same time, two other eccentric main characters, named Sandra and J. T., deal with dangerous pasts and presents of their own as Jimmy’s arrival alters their lives.

The story is told through the eyes of Cortina’s son, El Johnny, who bears witness to his father’s cocaine-fueled transformation from devoted head of family to self-destructive head of a criminal organization that is rife with betrayal and deceit.

TIM PARRISH is the author of Fear and What Follows: A Memoir of Indoctrination, Masculinity, and Racism and of the story collection Red Stick Men. A native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he lives in New Haven, Connecticut, where he teaches fiction writing in the MFA and undergraduate programs at Southern Connecticut State University.

Anyone who wants to understand the tragedy of modern-day Mexico and America’s complicity in the Mexican drug wars will want to read Mariguano, a novel that recalls classic crime narratives such as Nicholas Pileggi’s Wiseguys or William S. Burroughs’s Junky but also reads like the work of the best Mexican and Latin American novelists such as Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez.

978-1-937875-28-2 paper $26.95 51/2x81/2. 296 pp.

Fiction.

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JUAN OCHOA is licensed to practice law in his beloved Mexico. Ochoa has been everything from pistolero to professor and is currently teaching English at South Texas College. He lives happily with his wife and daughter in Mission, Texas, on Inspiration Road. Ochoa is an avid boxing fan.

Praise for Red Stick Men...

978-1-937875-32-9 paper $22.95 51/2x81/2. 216 pp.

Fiction.

September ebook 978-1-937875-33-6

“Baton Rouge asserts a harsh influence over the men whose stories make up Tim Parrish’s impressive first collection. The nine stories here are uniformly absorbing and original. With subtle irony and spare prose Parrish evokes the hard-won strength of the people who live in Baton Rouge.”—New York Times Book Review “A refreshing—at times inspirational—debut collection about hardworking people trying to do the right thing.”—Kirkus Reviews “An accomplished first collection of stories.”—Publishers Weekly

“Mariguano is the first novel in English to capture what it feels like to live on a day-to-day basis in the world of Mexican drug trafficking organizations.”—Howard Campbell author, Drug War Zone “Ochoa’s first novel is an important debut in American letters.

The story is gripping, the characters compelling, and it gives us a fascinating glimpse into a world we only see in the headlines.

Drug wars, border violence, and a coming-of-age story converge in this beautifully written first novel.”—Daniel Chacón, author, And the Shadows Took Him and Hotel Juárez: Stories, Rooms, and Loops

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New from the winner of the 2010 George Garrett Fiction Prize . . .

. . . a world of blue collar ethics and liquor-fueled violence . . .

Harlow

North Dixie Highway Joseph D. Haske

David Armand

Harlow tells the story of eighteen-year-old Leslie Somers, who trudges his way through the dark Louisiana backwoods one winter in search of his father. As he walks through the woods, Leslie thinks of the other male role models in his life: the men who took him hunting and fishing, the men who mistreated him.

Since Leslie has been forsaken by his mother, he can only imagine a life with this man he has never met: his father, Harlow Cagwin. But when Leslie finally finds Harlow, the man is not what the boy had expected.

The two end up on a crash course toward destruction, crime, and twisted relationships that will leave one of them dead, the other a hardly recognizable version of his former self.

DAVID ARMAND, born and raised in Louisiana, has worked as a drywall hanger, a draftsman, and as a press operator in a flag-printing factory. He now teaches at Southeastern Louisiana University. In 2010 his first novel, The Pugilist’s Wife, won the George Garrett Fiction Prize and was published by Texas Review Press.

978-1-937875-43-5 paper $16.95 51/2x81/2. 176 pp.

Fiction.

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Weaving multiple storylines with vivid description of characters ape, Haske’s debut novel brings new life and a unique voice to the fiction of rural America. North Dixie Highway is a story of family bonds, devolution, and elusive revenge.

When Buck Metzger’s childhood is interrupted by the disappearance of his grandfather, several family members and close friends plot revenge on the suspected killer. From remote towns in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, to the Texas/Mexico border, to war-torn Bosnia, Metzger struggles for self-identity and resolution in a world of bluecollar ethics and liquor-fueled violence.

JOSEPH D. HASKE, Chair of English at South Texas College in McAllen, was awarded the 2011 Boulevard Emerging Writers award for short fiction. His work is featured in journals such as Boulevard, The Texas Review, AleCart, and Fiction International. He lives in Mission, Texas, with his wife, Bertha, and their children, Ferny and Joey.

978-1-937875-26-8 paper $22.95 51/2x81/2. 184 pp.

Fiction.

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Praise for The Pugilist’s Wife:

“Lyrical, passionate, unflinching, Joe Haske’s fiction grabs hold of you and shakes you to your core. He is one of the most exciting young American writers of his generation.”—Richard Burgin, editor, Boulevard and author, Shadow Traffic and The Identity Club

“ . . . a powerful Southern brew of violence and religion. The writing is intense, fast-paced, linguistically rich, well-crafted, and ultimately riveting.”—Tim Gautreaux

“Read these stories for lessons in how to survive, lessons in how to thrive, and lessons in how to write!”—Ron Cooper, author, Purple Jesus and Hume’s Fork

“ . . . a remarkable achievement, as well as the announcement of a standout new voice.”—Skip Horack “The storyline is compelling [ . . .] and the characters ring true.

Armand’s writing is concise but also lyric at times and well-suited to the tenor of his tale.”—The Advocate (Baton Rouge, Louisiana)

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Extensive presentation of the poets of Tennessee . . .

Southern Poetry Anthology VI: Tennessee Edited by Jesse Graves, Paul Ruffin, and William Wright The state of Tennessee is widely recognized as a home of great music, and its geographic regions are as distinct as Memphis blues, Nashville country, and Bristol old-time sounds.

Tennessee’s literary heritage offers equal variety and quality, as home to the Fugitive Agrarian Poets, as well as a signature voice from the Black Arts Movement. Few states present such a multicultural panorama as does the Volunteer State.

The poems in The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume VI: Tennessee engage the storied histories, diverse cultures, and vibrant rural and urban landscapes of the region. Among the more than 120 poets represented are Pulitzer and Bollingen Prize-winner Charles Wright, Brittingham Award-winner Lynn Powell, and Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize-winners Rick Hilles and Arthur Smith.

The book includes an introduction from renowned poet Jeff Daniel Marion, who in 1978 received the first literary fellowship from the Tennessee Arts Commission. Too, the book celebrates relatively young and gifted voices. This important anthology will stand for many years as the definitive poetic document for the state of Tennessee.

Conceived by Series Editor William Wright in 2003, The Southern Poetry Anthology is a multivolume project celebrating established and emerging poets of the American South.

Inspired by single-volume anthologies such as Leon Stokesbury’s The Made Thing, Gil Allen’s A Ninety-Six Sampler, and Guy Owen and Mary C. Williams’ Contemporary Southern Poetry: an Anthology, The Southern Poetry Anthology aspires to provide readers with a documentary-like survey of the best poetry being written in the American South at the present moment.

978-1-937875-45-9 paper $26.95 6x9. 288 pp.

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Published exclusively by Texas Review Press, the series provides the most comphrehensive representation of Southern poets currently available and is currently being used in university classrooms across the South.

JESSE GRAVES’ Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine won a Weatherford Award in Poetry and a Book of the Year award from the Appalachian Writers’ Association. Graves lives in Johnson City, Tennessee. PAUL RUFFIN, of Willis, Texas, is Texas State University System Regents’ Professor at Sam Houston State University, where he directs Texas Review Press. WILLIAM WRIGHT, of Marietta, Georgia, is author of five collections of poems, including Night Field Anecdote and Bledsoe.

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Winner, 2012 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize

Winner, 2012 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize

Both Members of the Club

A Little Luck Jeff Worley

Adam Berlin

Billy Carlyle is a professional fighter starting to lose. His eyes cut too easily and his friends—Gabriel, an aspiring actor, and Sam, an artist preparing for her first gallery show—try to persuade Billy to leave the ring.

From the streets of Manhattan to the gyms of Paris, from struggling with hard pasts to harnessing the primal pull, Both Members of the Club is a story of friendship and ambition and violence set against the world of boxing, a place where bodies get tested and truths are exposed.

“This astonishingly personal and touching account of a trio of friends who have emerged from a parentless, family-less childhood to form a lifetime bond is reminiscent of the best of short fiction from the previous century. The narrator and narrative voice of the story is compelling and fascinating, and the two principal characters who round out this small circle are driven by such a power of love and mutual responsibility that it’s moving in almost every way. It’s a stunning story that resonates long after the last page is turned.”—Clay Reynolds

ADAM BERLIN is the author of the novels Belmondo Style, which won the Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley award, and Headlock. His novel The Number of Missing is forthcoming from Spuyten Duyvil press. He teaches writing at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City.

978-1-937875-47-3 paper $12.95 51/2x81/2. 128 pp.

Fiction.

November ebook 978-1-937875-48-0

“In A Little Luck, Jeff Worley presents that rarest of commodities— a voice encyclopedic in its attentions, clever, self-aware, and deeply likeable. Worley’s humor throughout is dark and smart, his phrasings elegant. I would give A Little Luck to the reader who loves the work of Ted Kooser or Rodney Jones. I’d give this book to the reader who does not yet realize he loves poetry.”—Sandra Beasley, Final Judge THE DAY AFTER MY DEATH —after lines by Michael Van Walleghen The moon, stars and weather will happen as they always have, though surely with my breath gone the wind, in some slight measure, will falter. Absent my footsteps the earth will feel along its spine a momentary shiver of abandonment.

And my friends? Won’t they gather with me again, in whatever purple- swagged room, for wine and stories, some of them nearly impossibly true?

Meanwhile, the mailman, humming like a bee in a blossom, will slip my name into the metal box: an unsigned note from The Paris Review saying, simply, Sorry.

JEFF WORLEY’S first book, The Only Time There Is, won the Mid-List Press First-Book Poetry Prize, and his second book from Mid-List, Happy Hour at the Two Keys Tavern, was named 2006 Kentucky Book of the Year in Poetry. Now retired from the University of Kentucky, he lives in Lexington with his wife, Linda.

978-1-937875-41-1 paper $10.95 51/2x81/2. 80 pp.

Poetry.

September ebook 978-1-937875-42-8

52 | texas review press | www.texasbookconsortium.com Winner, 2012 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize

Winner, TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Georgia

Lost & Found

The Waiting Girl

David Lanier

Erin Ganaway

The eighteen poems in this collection recall a boy’s childhood and coming-of-age in a small town in the rural Southeast of the 1960s.

Much of the physical evidence of the world in which the boy lived has disappeared over the intervening years as a result of the death of parents and friends as well as profound changes in the natural and social environment of the region. These poems attempt not only to revisit what has been “lost,” but to “find” anew the emotional meaning and significance of the people, objects and things of nature that populated the world being remembered.

“The seemingly simple and direct diction of these exquisitely crafted poems belies the wisdom, insight, and epiphanies looming beneath their crystalline surfaces.”—Larry D. Thomas, Final Judge WHILE WE WAIT FOR THE DEMEROL TO WORK The slow prayer of a sculling boat is drifting forward on its own, against the Potomac’s urging, oars uplifted. From your window I watch it Itug open watch it tug open the tight zipper of river, can almost count the knots along the arms of rowers who hold back just a moment longer. How they must ache to start again the linked dip and pull, soft stroke across the water’s smooth brow.

DAVID LANIER, who currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico, lived for many years in Washington, D.C., where he was on the faculty of the Georgetown University School of Medicine. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Poet Lore, Southern Poetry Review, Marlboro Review, Louisville Review, and several other small magazines.

978-1-937875-04-6 paper $8.95 51/2x81/2. 40 pp.

Poetry.

September ebook 978-1-937875-17-6

The Waiting Girl explores the exterior and interior landscapes as they apply to identity, specifically celebrating the Appalachian South and Cape Cod. The poems in this collection carry readers from the cracked red earth of Georgia to the cobblestone streets of Nantucket.

Through these bold environments, Ganaway delves into the nuances of mania and melancholia, illuminating the bittersweet nature of bipolar disorder, and raising awareness of this still largely misunderstood state of being.

The Waiting Girl You best believe I am fit as a dandelion, facing the day in a crown of gold, my roots rough-hewn, knurled as a hand saw.

And yet I wait, thrusting the frost, suckling the minutes until you see me.

You placed your faith in a cloud of seedlings, not expecting this— this erect scattering like a thorned prayer, feckless, yours.

ERIN GANAWAY has had work in The New York Quarterly, The Texas Review, and elsewhere. She was a featured poet in Town Creek Poetry, and her poems were selected for inclusion in the Georgia volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology, as well as Best New Poets. Ganaway holds an MFA from Hollins University.

978-1-937875-18-3 paper $10.95 51/2x81/2. 80 pp.

Poetry.

September ebook 978-1-937875-19-0

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New poems from Houston research physician . . .

| texas review press | 53 “Brilliant and self-torn poems . . .”

The Error of Nostalgia

Bonfire of the Verities

Richard Boada

Michael Lieberman

Res ipsa loquitor—the thing speaks for itself—as the lawyers say. But does it? Not in Michael Lieberman’s new book of poems, Bonfire of the Verities. What speaks here is doubt and the commitment to cast aside the apparent truths we all accumulate. Those verities are what are tossed onto Lieberman’s bonfire:

The poems in The Error of Nostalgia explore the relationships between individuals and their natural and urban environments in the American South and South America. These disparate locations serve as sites where, among other things, humans confront the perils of natural catastrophes, expatriation, urbanization, and crises of identity.

“Richard Boada’s brilliant and self-torn poems mediate nature and the urbane. Their economies chafe, rousing teargas and vulcanism. They are not nostalgia, but ‘lucidities that appear when one goes home,’ ‘evidence of who we are.’”—Angela Ball

It is here I heap the platitudes I cannot keep.

He grounds his struggle precisely:

The coordinates of the country of doubt are 29º, 45’ N / 95º, 21’ W,

which are those of Houston, his adopted city. It is an unusual poet who is willing to pare away belief and accept that truths— received or earned—must be discarded as we face the unknowable mystery. In the end what Lieberman wrests from the void is the recognition that there is no ultimate choice but dissolution:

This fire burns in me— it cannot set me free it leaves me ash, not tree.

And yet ash is both residue and tree, offering the possibility that dissolution is a kind of redemption.

MICHAEL LIEBERMAN is a research physician and poet who has published six collections of poetry and a novel, Never Surrender, Never Retreat. TRP will be publishing his novella, The Lobsterman’s Daughter, in 2014. Lieberman lives in Houston with his wife, the writer Susan Lieberman.

978-1-937875-30-5 paper $10.95 51/2x81/2. 80 pp.

Poetry.

September ebook 978-1-937875-31-2

“The poems in Richard Boada’s The Error of Nostalgia are quick and tactile, moving through landscapes and histories with the speed of fresh recognition, what Brodsky called the ‘accelerated thinking’ of poetry.”—Jesse Graves, author, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine “These poems brim with sonic lushness, with musicality, and with a delicacy that reminds me of James Wright and Louise Glück. However, Boada’s poetry is his own: complex, pulsing, curious, and always surprising.”—William Wright, author, Night Field Anecdote and Bledsoe

RICHARD BOADA teaches writing at Misericordia University in Pennsylvania.

His chapbook Archipelago Sinking was nominated for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters 2012 Poetry Award, and his poems have appeared in RHINO, Crab Orchard Review, Yalobusha Review, and The Louisville Review among others. The Error of Nostalgia is his first full-length collection.

978-1-937875-20-6 paper $10.95 51/2x81/2. 80 pp.

Poetry.

August ebook 978-1-937875-21-3

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Daily Devotions for Superintendents Kerry Roberts, Pauline Sampson, and Jeremy Glenn

In the tradition of Texas universities . . .

The SFA Story The History of Stephen F. Austin State University Jere Jackson

Jere Jackson’s The SFA Story is an engaging pictorial history of Stephen F. Austin State University, from its inception in 1923 through to its 90th anniversary in 2013. One decade shy of being a century old, the East Texas state university has nurtured the intellectual, aesthetic, and athletic interest of students not only from the region but nationally and internationally.

The SFA Story chronicles a proud tradition, celebrating its heritage and the vision of the university to serve its students and its missions to the community. While Jackson provides an engaging historical overview, readers will take delight in the numerous photographs accompanying the text. This oversized, full color book shares stories of campus life and the impact of its alumni.

The SFA Story is a wonderful gift for alumni, friends, prospective students, community members, visitors, and leaders across the country.

This book is a terrific way for all Lumberjacks, past, present, and future, to relive and live the legacy of Stephen F. Austin State University.

Axe ‘Em, Jacks!

JERE LANGDON JACKSON is a Regents Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University for East Texas Studies. He has received the Texas Governor’s Special Service Award in the field of historic preservation.

978-1-62288-021-8 cloth $65.00 11x12. 350 pp. Index.

History. Education. Gift Books.

October

Many books have been written about the superintendency and all aspects of it. Additionally, “standards for superintendents” have been written by the American Association for School Administrators (AASA). These eight standards deal with Leadership and District Culture, Policy and Governance, Communications and Community Relations, Organizational Management, Curriculum Planning and Development, Instructional Management, Human Resource Management, and Values and Ethics of Leadership.

States have standards that mirror these. Texas, for example, put the standards into three domains: Leadership of the Educational Community; Instructional Leadership; and Administrative Leadership. Within these three domains are listed the eight competencies which reflect AASA’s eight standards. Daily Devotions for School Superintendents covers many of the standards but really hones in on Competency 1 which reads, “The superintendent knows how to act with integrity, fairness, and in an ethical manner in order to promote the success of all students.”

Containing 366 devotionals written to challenge, encourage, and to daily feed the superintendents as they face the many different situations in their personal lives and in the schools under their leadership, Daily Devotions for School Superintendents looks at all areas of the superintendency and provides daily devotionals from every book in the Bible. In addition, each daily verse is followed with powerful reflections to clearly illustrate and drive the principles home. All verses are taken from the King James version of the Bible and uncover God’s presence, power, and provision for directing superintendents in their daily activities.

KERRY L. ROBERTS received his doctorate from Washington State University in 1983 and is an associate professor at Stephen F. Austin State University. He has 37 years of education experience, including ten years as a superintendent.

PAULINE M. SAMPSON received her PhD from Iowa State University and is currently an associate professor at Stephen F. Austin State University. JEREMY GLENN has served Texas public school districts in the role of teacher, principal, and superintendent. An active member of various local and state organizations, his research and publications emphasize the importance of educational leadership and the school superintendency.

978-1-62288-033-1 paper $24.00 6x9. 400 pp.

History. Religion.

September

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New from behind the pine curtain. . .

A delightful retelling. . .

Under the Blackgum Tree

A Winter Tale

Winnie Graham

How Raven Gave Light to the World Mark Turner

I originally started out to write down a few of my family’s tales for our current generation, but the Piney Woods kept butting in. That is, telling only about family would be about like serving black-eyed peas without cornbread. So, while this memoir is built around my family’s tales and history, the Piney Woods lore and way of life, dating back to the earliest settlers, get their share of attention.

Most of the tales in these pages are cheerful since we were, and are, a jolly bunch. The grownups passed lots of the stories along as we sat on the porch or in front of the fireplace. They wedged in other shorter tales as folks took a break from work (often in my family) in the shade of the black gum tree.

Mark Turner’s beautiful children’s book, A Winter’s Tale: How Raven Gave Light to the World, is a sensitive retelling of the Native American creation myth, of how Raven, transformed into a child, stole light from the mythical grandfather who held it as a treasure, and bestowed it upon a world encased in darkness. Shared among numerous Native American tribes, the Raven’s trickery is well-known. However, what makes Turner’s contemporary narrative so compelling is the role the child plays in retrieving light from the loving metaphorical grandfather, the empowerment the child receives from that love, and how, transforming into the Raven, the child takes flight into a world that needed the penultimate gift: light itself. A Winter’s Tale is beautifully presented, with 33 wonderful full-color illustrations by Emily Graves and Mark Turner’s accompanying musical score on compact disc. Children will delight not only in the story retold but in the combined visual and auditory interpretations of the Raven myth.

WINNIE GRAHAM is a sixth-generation Texan with a long family lineage in the East Texas Piney Woods. She earned a degree in electrical engineering from Louisiana State University and studied anthropology at the University of California at Los Angeles. She lives near Lufkin.

MARK E. TURNER is Associate Professor of Music at Stephen F. Austin State University. EMILY GRAVES attends Stephen F. Austin State University where she is majoring in art.

978-1-62288-022-5 paper $20.00 6x9. 200 pp.

Texas Folklore.

September

978-1-62288-032-4 cloth $25.00 10x8. 48 pp. 33 color paintings. CD included.

Young Readers.

September

A heartwrenching story of the Texas frontier. . .

Civilizing the Texas Frontier Bill McCarron

978-1-62288-024-9 paper $24.00 6x9. 250 pp. 24 b&w photos.

Western Fiction.

September

Civilizing the Texas Frontier traces the lives of Mr. and Mrs. James Lowry Smith, Amarillo pioneers when the population of that city was just two hundred. The story begins in Salado, Texas, and Horn Lake, Mississippi where they spent their early lives; then focuses on their meeting and subsequent engagement in Colorado City; and ends with their immense contributions to the spiritual, cultural, business, and social growth of the Queen City of the Plains. The book is thematically tied to the numerous evolving civilizing events of the Texas frontier including the advent of telephone and postal service and the west Texas roots of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the formation of the largest wholesale grocery business of the time.

BILL McCARRON is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who subsequently taught for twenty-one years at Texas A&M-Commerce before retiring a second time in 2008.

He has previously published a monograph on the Vietnam War and collection of short stories. He lives in Rockwall, Texas.

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The hauntingly beautiful and mysterious photographic works of Frank Dituri . . .

La Cerca

Pray

Piero Fenci Frank Dituri 978-1-62288-026-3 paper with flaps $24.00 10x10. 80 pp. 50 color photos.

Sculpture. Art. August

978-1-62288-055-3 paper $36.00 9x12. 88 pp. 80 b&w and color photos.

Photography. Religion. Philosophy.

September

In this follow-up to his recently published collection Frank Dituri: Of Things Not Seen, this visionary photographer explores the idea of prayer as a communion with the divine unknown. Rejecting popular notions of the photograph as a fixed, unchanging moment in time, Dituri un-fixes the imagery and sets it in motion, restoring to it a sense of past, present, and possible future. Full of mystery, power, and fascination, Dituri’s engaging images capture moments of epiphany. They are hauntingly beautiful. Essayist David A. Lewis explores the nature of time and transcendence in Dituri’s photographs.

FRANK DITURI currently teaches at the Libera Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is the subject of several books.

“La Cerca,” Fenci’s solo exhibition, opened at the state museum in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua, Mexico.

The exhibition, which includes twenty-four ceramic pieces, a 5-foot-by9-foot drawing and several smaller drawings, is the culmination of two years of work, both on the art and in negotiations with the museum officials.

All of the works in some way or another deal with defense strategies, and so Fenci chose the Spanish translation for “The Wall” as the exhibition’s title. “We build these elaborate structures that give us a sense of safety and protection, but the fact is, they’re all futile.”

In addition to this photographed collection of Fenci’s work are essays by David A. Lewis, Scott Robinson, Adan Saenz, and others.

PIERO FENCI holds an MFA from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in Alfred, New York, and a BA in Latin American Studies from Yale University. Since 1975, Fenci has been a teacher and the head of the ceramics department at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches. Fenci’s vessels have been featured in numerous magazines and books, such as Ceramics Monthly, American Ceramics, The Contemporary Potter, and Clay and Glazes for the Potter. His pieces have been exhibited in solo and group exhibitions from coast to coast (including Houston Center for Contemporary Craft Texas 2010) and are included in many private and museum collections, including The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art in Alfred, NY.

Fotografia Italiana Ora / Italian Photography Now Thirteen Young Contemporaries David A. Lewis

Italiana Fotografia features thirty-five works by thirteen advanced photography students from Libera Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence, Italy. These works represent a wide range of subject, media, and approach to contemporary photography in Italy, and they demonstrate the impact of global culture. The photographs contained in this collection range from landscape, portrait and self-portrait, the nude, to fantasy and constructed realities of dream-like intensity. Also included are biographical descriptions for each artist as well as an inciteful introduction by the curator.

978-1-62288-025-6 paper $24.00 81/2x81/2. 44 pp. 32 color images, 3 b&w photos.

Photography.

October

DAVID A. LEWIS, Professor of Art History and former director of the SFA School of Art, is a specialist in Modern American and European art. Lewis is the compiler of Rico Lebrun: Consulting the Tangible World and has written about Dorothy Shakespear Pound, Leonard Baskin, and Michael (Corinne) West. He is currently working on a catalogue of the SFA Galleries’ collection of works by the sculptor and painter Samuel Rothbort.

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| stephen f. austin state university press | 57 A stunning new novel from the author of Dreamland Motel.

Playing the Angel

La Salle’s Ghost

Kenneth Womack

Miles Arceneaux

Drifting silently on the water about forty nautical miles off theTexascoast, Charlie Sweetwater sits aboard his boat, alone with his thoughts, when from the darkness he hears a man swimming toward him. But not just any man. His name is Julien Dufay, the wealthy French scion of a family-owned petrochemical dynasty headquartered in Houston.

Charlie plucks the exhausted Frenchman from the Gulf of Mexico and delivers him back to his rarified world. But of course, no good deed ever goes unpunished.

By day, Tiff Proulx works as a living statue, posing as the Statue of Liberty for the French Quarter’s tourist trade in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. By night, she descends into the darkness costumed as the Angel of Mercy, defending and protecting the storm refugees from the thugs who pock the city’s wayward streets. But her acts of heroism are no accident: Tiff ’s days as an innocent college student came to an abrupt end after a National Guardsman, pretending to be a Good Samaritan, raped her during the height of the storm’s fury.

As Charlie is drawn deeper into Julien’s erratic orbit, he discovers aman possessed. Dufay is consumed by his vision of discovering the site of Fort Saint Louis: the famed—and doomed—17th century settlement of French explorer, Robert Cavelier de La Salle.

Tiff ’s skills as a living statue include extraordinary stealth and an uncanny ability to render herself completely motionless. Using these “powers,” she transforms herself into a vigilante hero, combing the Quarter to fight evil and injustice, as well as to hunt down the man who plunged her life into despair during the storm’s darkest hours.

Thanks to Julien, and his own restless curiosity, Charlie is pulled into a web of obsession, murder, and greed. Julien wants to find La Salle’s long-lost colony (and the treasure of artifacts buried with it) as a legacy for himself, his family and the greater glory of France. But the project’s ambitious sponsor, Jean-Marc Dufay, is hell-bent on getting at the rich natural gas resources hidden beneath the site, even if it means using his own brother as a pawn to feed his ambitions. Standing in the way is the stubborn old man on whose South Texas ranch Julien and Jean-Marc are converging, along with his trio of scurrilous sons, who have their own covert agenda—an agenda that can be lethal to outsiders.

Charlie struggles to make sense of it all, with the help of the beautiful marine archeologist who is excavating La Salle’s shipwreck La Belle in nearby Matagorda Bay. But as he digs deeper into Julien Dufay’s danger-fraught quest, he discovers that history has a way of repeating itself, and that some ghosts just won’t stay buried.

MILES ARCENEAUX, from Austin, Texas, is the storytelling alter ego of Texasbased writers Brent Douglass, John T. Davis and James R. Dennis. Miles Arceneaux is also the author of Thin Slice of Life, which, like La Salle’s Ghost, is set on the salty Gulf Coast of Texas.

978-1-62288-027-0 paper $24.00 6x9. 300 pp.

Fiction.

September

“There are two of them now. I can tell by the sound of their standard-issue shoes hurtling across the cobblestones of the cemetery walk. Running breathlessly, one after the other. Two New Orleans policemen chase me through the dark recesses of St. Louis No. 1 Cemetery. And they’re after little old me—or more precisely, they’re after her.

They’re dying to get their hands on the Angel of Mercy. This place is spooky enough during the day. At night, it’s a whole ’nother kind of fright. I’m standing inside the crumbling entryway to one of the above-ground crypts—above-ground on account of the earth in these parts, swollen as it is with the ever-present waters of the New Orleans basin. And it smells in here. Why mince words? It smells like death. I’m trying hard not to imagine the corpses lying in the vaults just beyond my wings. And the bones, and the demons, and God-knows-what else. Ghostly demarcations, I suppose you might call them. If you believe in that sort of thing.

I thought I had given these two the slip back on Royal Street, but they caught up with me somehow on Canal, where I tried to secret myself among a gaggle of tourists making their way back to the hotels from gambling their lives away at Bally’s on the riverfront.”—from the book KENNETH WOMACK is the author of two previous novels, including John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel, which won the Bronze Award in Foreword Reviews’ Book of the Year competition,and The Restaurant at the End of the World. He is the author of numerous works of nonfiction, including Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles. He is Professor of English and Integrative Arts at Penn State University’s Altoona College, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

978-1-62288-023-2 paper $18.00 6x9. 200 pp.

Fiction.

September

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A true East Texas beauty. . .

A book of true beauty. . .

Let the River Run Wild!

The Azaleas of Nacogdoches

Adrian Van Dellen and F. E. Abernethy

Barbara Stump

The Neches River is not wild in its youth. It flows gently along pastures, under barb-wire fences, and through culverts lying under asphalt roads. It flows placidly through East Texas pastures and farm land, watering stock and nourishing the fringe trees along its margin.

The Azaleas of Nacogdoches offers a photographic tour of some of the finest gardens in East Texas. Follow Barbara Stump on her annual tour of these magnificent plants, culminating in the Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden where over one hundred feet of purple spider azaleas are planted along University Road and frame one edge garden.

The river follows its valley and bottomland through thickets and dense woods, but its path is always narrow. Even when it floods, the water does not stray far from its banks. The young Neches nourishes the usual rural farmland population of deer, ’coons, ’possums and polecats, but nothing wild and scary, unless you count wild cat squirrels and scary water moccasins. When night falls, the river banks stir and scurry with wildlife sniffs and snorts and hogs rooting and frogs and toads in chorus. But the sound of the river is gentle.

With over one hundred photographs and maps, Let the River Run Wild! transports readers along the wooded banks of the Neches in a photographic journey that highlights the flora and fauna inhabiting the woods along this coursing river from its narrow upper reaches that run from Lake Palestine dam to its mouth on Sabine Lake. Learn about the highly controversial fight to save the the upper Neches led by the Texas Conservation Alliance and why the Neches River is listed as number six on the most endangered rivers list, complied by the American Rivers organization.

ADRIAN F. VAN DELLEN, DVM, is a retired United States Air Force pathologist and an avid canoer and nature photographer. F. E. ABERNETHY is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at SFASU.

978-1-62288-028-7 hardcover $35.00 14x11. 88 pp. 150 color photographs Rivers.

September

Composed of a broad variety of plant specimens, including Japanese maples, hydrangeas, camellias and more than 6,500 azaleas, The Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden is Texas’s largest azalea garden.

The garden is designed in a naturalistic style to showcase the full range of azalea colors, as well as carmellias in the winter, Japanese maple color throughout the year, and more than one thousand other ornamental trees.

BARBARA STUMP is the Research Associate for Development at SFA Gardens and the project coordinator for the Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden. Stump received a BS in English from Iowa State University in 1968 and her MS in horticulture from Stephen F. Austin State University in 2001. Her thesis topic was site analysis and design of the Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden.

978-1-62288-031-7 flexbound $35.00 10x8. 100 pp. 100 color photos.

Gardens. Nature Travel.

October

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A knockout collection from SFA Press. . .

A study in contemporary American poetry. . .

Deviants

Weight of the Weather

Peter Kline

Regarding the Poetry of Ted Koozer Mark Sanders

Deviants is about transgression and transcendence, about passing as a man or a woman, as gay or straight, about passing through unseen, passing by without stopping to help, passing over the threshold, passing from innocence, passing from life.

The deviants in this book are the many masks we wear, the loners and flirts, the worriers and snarlers; they can be found in the deviant use of ancient forms. These poems are beautiful and meaningfully interactive, clear and accessible on their own, but become even richer in meaning as they are understood in the context of poetic tradition.

Kline’s words stick both in the mind and the craw.

They engage powerfully with tradition while deviating into contemporary concerns in a contemporary idiom, while challenging the easy relationship between speaker and reader through the use of shifting personae whose designs on the reader are slippery and sometimes adversarial, in the tradition of Browning, Pound, and Plath.

PETER KLINE graduated with a BA in English from Nowrthwestern University, an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry Writing at Stanford University. He is currently an instructor of creative writing at the University of San Francisco and at Stanford Continuing Studies in Palo Alto, California. In 2014, he will hold the Amy Clampitt Residency Award.

978-1-62288-029-4 paper $16.00 51/2x81/2. 80 pp.

Poetry.

September

The Weight of the Weather: Regarding the Poetry of Ted Kooser is a comprehensive examination of the former US Poet Laureate’s longtime contribution to American letters. For many years, Kooser’s work, while well-regarded among regional audiences in the Midwest and Great Plains, had been considered quaint and provincial by readers elsewhere. This attitude largely changed circa 1980 with the publication of Sure Signs: New and Selected Poems, when Kooser’s work began to receive national readership.

In this new critical study, Mark Sanders, a long-time critic, publisher, and supporter of Great Plains poetry, compiles a comprehensive overview and evaluation of Kooser’s poetic legacy. The Weight of the Weather gathers numerous criticisms, book reviews, reflections, and interviews that span Kooser’s long poetic career, including work by a number of critics and fellow poets—Dana Gioia, David Baker, and Jonathan Holden among them. The book endeavors to balance early appraisals of Kooser’s work, from 1980 and before, through his contemporary success and popularity.

Kooser, a Presidential Professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, served as US Poet Laureate from 2004–2006; among his many collections of poetry is Delights & Shadows which won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Long-noted for his poetry’s accessibility, clarity, and precision, Kooser’s poetry has too often been compartmentalized as regional or pastoral; The Weight of the Weather changes that perspective. Indeed, Kooser’s work is universally American, deeply ingrained in the poetic traditions of Whitman, Frost, Williams, Stafford, and Stevens.

MARK SANDERS received the Mildred Bennett Award in 2007 for his work on Great Plains poetry. His most recent books are Conditions of Grace: New and Selected Poems and Riddled with Light: The Poetry of W. B. Yeats. His essays, criticisms, poetry, and fiction have appeared widely in the US, Canada, and Great Britain.

978-1-62288-030-0 paper $24.00 6x9. 250 pp.

LIterary Criticism.

November

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KOREAN WAR

disaster in korea Roy E. Appleman $34.95s paper 978-1-60344-128-5

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Combat Ready?

Thomas E. Hanson $45.00s cloth 978-1-60344-167-4

escaping the trap Roy E. Appleman $29.95s paper 978-0-89096-994-6

COLD DAYS IN HELL: AMERICAN POWs IN KOREA William Clark Latham Jr. $32.00s cloth 978-1-60344-073-8

I CANNOT FORGET Imprisoned in Korea, Accused at Home Johnny Moore and Judith Fenner Gentry

from the hudson to the yalu Harry J. Maihafer $29.50s cloth 978-0-89096-554-2

ridgway duels for korea Roy E. Appleman $39.95s paper 978-1-58544-051-1

leadership in the crucible Kenneth E. Hamburger $32.95 cloth 978-1-58544-232-4

under army orders William Donnelly $34.95s cloth 978-1-58544-117-4

red wings over the yalu Xiaoming Zhang $39.95s cloth 978-1-58544-201-0 $24.95 paper 978-1-58544-340-6

with a black platoon in combat Lyle Rishell $21.95 paper 978-1-60344-740-9

I Cannot Forget: Imprisoned in Korea, Accused at Home Johnny Moore and Judith Fenner Gentry $32.00 cloth 978-1-62349-007-2 (See catalog page 11.)

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Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas James R. Dixon $39.95 flexbound 978-1-60344-734-8

Bats of Texas Loren K. Ammerman, et al. $35.00 flexbound 978-1-60344-476-7

EXOTIC ANIMAL FIELD GUIDE Elizabeth Cary Mungall $23.00 flexbound 978-1-58544-555-4

Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico H. Dickson Hoese and Richard H. Moore cloth $34.95s 978-0-89096-737-9 paper $18.95 978-0-89096-767-6

FRESHWATER FISHES OF TEXAS Chad Thomas, et al. $23.00 flexbound 978-1-58544-570-7

FROGS & TOADS OF BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK Gage H. Dayton, et al. $12.95 flexbound 978-1-58544-576-9

GRASSES OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY Brian Loflin and Shirley Loflin $23.00 flexbound 978-1-58544-467-0

GRASSES OF THE TEXAS GULF PRAIRIES AND MARSHES Stephan L. Hatch, et al. $24.95s paper 978-0-89096-889-5

Guide to Texas Grasses Robert B. Shaw $45.00s flexbound 978-1-60344-186-5

Insects of Texas David H. Kattes $27.00 flexbound 978-1-60344-082-0

Plants of Deep South Texas Ken King and Alfred Richardson $30.00 flexbound 978-1-60344-144-5

RARE PLANTS OF TEXAS Jackie M. Poole, et al. $35.00 flexbound 978-1-58544-557-8

Texas Cacti Brian Loflin and Shirley Loflin $24.00 flexbound 978-1-60344-108-7

TEXAS WATERFOWL William P. Johnson and Mark W. Lockwood $25.00 flexbound 978-1-60344-807-9

TREES, SHRUBS, & VINES OF THE TEXAS HILL COUNTRY Jan Wrede $24.00 flexbound 978-1-60344-188-9

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