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Four Men and Sixteen Mustangs Three Thousand Miles across the American West
Unbranded Ben Masters
On an epic 3,000-mile journey through the most pristine backcountry of the American West, four friends rode horseback across an almost contiguous stretch of unspoiled public lands, border to border, from Mexico to Canada. For their trail horses, they adopted wild mustangs from the US Bureau of Land Management that were perfectly adapted to the rocky terrain and harsh conditions of desert and mountain travel. A meticulously planned but sometimes unpredictable route brought them face to face with snowpack, downpours, and wildfire; unrelenting heat, raging rivers, and sheer cliffs; jumping cactus, rattlesnakes, and charging bull moose; sickness, injury, and death. But they also experienced a special camaraderie with each other and with the mustangs. Through it all, they had a constant traveling companion—a cameraman, shooting for the documentary film Unbranded. The trip’s inspiration and architect, Ben Masters, is joined here by the three other riders, Ben Thamer, Thomas Glover, and Jonny Fitzsimons; two memorable teachers and horse trainers; and the film’s producers and intrepid cameramen in the telling of this improbable story of adventure and self-discovery. BEN MASTERS is CEO of Fin & Fur Films, LLC. He is an avid horseman, angler, hunter, and packer; an accomplished photographer; and a dedicated advocate for conservation. Masters is from San Angelo, Texas, and lives in Bozeman, Montana.
978-1-62349-280-9 cloth $40.00 978-1-62349-281-6 flexbound $24.95 978-1-62349-287-8 ebook 9x10. 188 pp. 165 color photos. Conservation. Range Management. Nature Photography. Western Americana. February
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Champion of the Barrio The Legacy of Coach Buryl Baty R. Gaines Baty
Buryl Baty (1924–1954) was a winning athlete, coach, builder of men, and an early pioneer in the fight against bigotry. In 1950, Baty became head football coach at Bowie High School in El Paso and quickly inspired his athletes, all Mexican Americans from the Segundo Barrio, with his winning ways and his personal stand against the era’s extreme, deep-seated bigotry—to which they were subjected. However, just as the team was in a position to win a third district title in 1954, they were jolted by an unthinkable tragedy that turned their world upside down. Later, as mature adults, these players realized that Coach Baty had helped mold them into honorable and successful men, and forty-four years after the coach’s death, they dedicated their high school stadium in his name. In 2013, Baty was inducted posthumously into the El Paso Athletic Hall of Fame. In this poignant memoir, R. Gaines Baty also describes his own journey to get to know his father. Coach Baty’s life story is portrayed from the perspectives of nearly one hundred individuals who knew him, in addition to many documented facts and news reports. Spirit of Sport, sponsored by James C. ’74 and Debra Parchman Swaim, Nancy and T. Edgar Paup ’74, and Joseph Wm. and Nancy Foran
R. GAINES BATY, Coach Baty’s son, founded and directs an executive search firm in Dallas, serving high-growth and Fortune 500 companies. He was an accomplished athlete in high school and college, receiving All-Southwest Conference and All-Era honors. In 2011, he was inducted into the Garland, Texas, Sports Hall of Fame.
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. . . a coach would consider himself mightily blessed to get one Buryl Baty during his coaching career.” —Raymond Berry, Pro Football Hall of Fame player and coach Buryl Baty took on the world, and he won. This is an inspiring account and a great read.”—Gene Stallings, former head coach at Texas A&M University, St. Louis Cardinals (NFL), and the University of Alabama
978-1-62349-266-3 cloth $24.95 978-1-62349-267-0 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 40 b&w photos. Index. Sports. Biography. High School Football. March
Introducing Spirit of Sport Spirit of Sport, sponsored by James C. and Debra Parchman Swaim, Nancy and T. Edgar Paup, and Joseph Wm. and Nancy Foran, focuses on the evolving nature, structures, and motivations underlying sport in modern societies, including their cultural and economic impacts. The series will examine all aspects of collegiate sports, including individual and team sports at Texas A&M and peer institutions, as well as high school and post-collegiate sports, both amateur and professional, throughout the world.
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Working with thirteen of Major League Baseball's greatest pitchers . . .
The Cy Young Catcher
Charlie O'Brien and Doug Wedge During fifteen seasons in the major leagues, Charlie O’Brien was battery-mate to thirteen pitchers who won the Cy Young Award, presented each year by the Baseball Writers Association of America. To put that accomplishment in perspective, Hall of Fame catchers Johnny Bench and Yogi Berra each worked with only one Cy Young winner during their careers. Legendary hurlers caught by O’Brien include such greats as Roger Clemens, Dwight Gooden, Bret Saberhagen, and Steve Bedrosian. O’Brien’s The Cy Young Catcher, written with Doug Wedge, includes up-close views of the thirteen Cy Young Award–winning pitchers at their best . . . and occasionally at their worst. O’Brien shares an inside perspective on how catchers talk to umpires, what it’s like to be on the receiving end of a 90-mph fastball, and how it feels to be in a clutch situation when the World Series is on the line. This authentic, down-to-earth memoir will not only delight baseball fans of all stripes, it will also provide keen insights into what separates the game’s greatest competitors from the also-rans. Spirit of Sport, sponsored by James C. ’74 and Debra Parchman Swaim, Nancy and T. Edgar Paup ’74, and Joseph Wm. and Nancy Foran
CHARLIE O’BRIEN led National League catchers in caught-stealing percentage in 1990, with a score of 45.7 percent, and three times he led the league in outs and assists by catchers. His clutch hitting contributed to a National League Championship and subsequent World Series Championship for the Atlanta Braves in 1995. He is retired from baseball and lives in Oklahoma. DOUG WEDGE is an attorney and freelance writer based in Alabama. His short story, “What Are You Doing?” was a winner of the 2008 South Carolina Arts Commission’s Short Fiction Contest.
978-1-62349-292-2 cloth $29.95 978-1-62349-293-9 ebook 6x9. 288 pp. Index. Sports. Memoir. Baseball. April
RELATED INTEREST Baseball and the Pursuit of Innocence A Fresh Look at the Old Ball Game Richard Skolnik 978-0-89096-559-7 cloth $29.95s 978-0-89096-612-9 paper $16.95
The Meaning of Nolan Ryan Nick Trujillo 978-0-89096-575-7 paper $17.95
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A Guide to the Historic Buildings of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County Kenneth Hafertepe This richly illustrated book tracks the evolution of Fredericksburg architecture and guides readers through the streets of this oncewesternmost German settlement in America, pointing out the log, fachwerk, and stone buildings that housed the town’s full-time residents, its weekenders, and the businesses of the nineteenth century. Abundant with details uncovered by Hafertepe in his research, including corrections to construction dates based on newly tapped records, this guide features those buildings visible to visitors from the public streets and sidewalks. The author lists which buildings are open for tours and which ones have been converted to public use such as museums, stores, or restaurants. The buildings of Fredericksburg reflect memories of classic German construction and technique with a gradual transition to American styles, including a few remarkable decades that were neither purely German nor American distinctively but saw the creation of a regional style. This book allows readers to walk down the streets of Fredericksburg and see the layers of Texas history on display: everything from a pioneer log cabin to an art deco courthouse. KENNETH HAFERTEPE is chair of the department of museum studies at Baylor University. He is the author of several books, including America’s Castle: The Evolution of the Smithsonian Building and Its Institution, 1840–1878 and Abner Cook: Master Builder on the Texas Frontier.
978-1-62349-272-4 flexbound $24.95 978-1-62349-273-1 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 230 color photos. Bib. Index. Architecture. Heritage Travel. June
RELATED INTEREST Historic Hotels of Texas A Traveler's Guide Liz Carmack 978-1-58544-608-7 flexbound $23.00
The Galveston That Was Howard Barnstone Photography by Henri Cartier-Bresson and Ezra Stoller 978-1-62349-247-2 flexbound $38.00
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Texas State Parks and the CCC The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps
Cynthia A. Brandimarte, with Angela Reed Foreword by Carter P. Smith “This book, which has plenty of vintage and current photos, should stand as the definitive work on this interesting segment in the history of Texas's state parks program.”—Austin American-Statesman “In Texas State Parks and the CCC, Cynthia Brandimarte has written a rich history about how this New Deal program left an indelible stamp on many of the Texas State parks.”—Texas Public Radio “Those interested in Texas State Parks and the [Civilian Conservation Corps] will want this coffee-table volume, but more importantly it is a logical purchase for all community, regional, and historical libraries in Texas . . . a valuable resource for all who are curious about the CCC’s legacy of Texas parks. Throughout, the book employs maps, posters and photos of places, people and events; charts, architectural renditions, and cartoons in the parks to illustrate its story.” —Southwestern Historical Quarterly CYNTHIA BRANDIMARTE is director of the historic sites and structures program at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in Austin, where she oversees the architectural preservation and protection of historic park resources. ANGELA REED, who now serves as preservation program manager for Preservation Austin, formerly coordinated the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy Parks Initiative.
978-1-62349-296-0 flexbound $24.95 978-1-60344-825-3 ebook 10x10. 188 pp. 113 color, 110 b&w photos. Index. Bib. Texas History. Architecture. Heritage Travel. March
RELATED INTEREST Wildlife Watching in America's National Parks A Seasonal Guide Gary W. Vequist and Daniel S. Licht 978-1-60344-814-7 flexbound $25.00 978-1-60344-827-7 ebook
The Texas Post Office Murals Art for the People Philip Parisi 978-1-58544-231-7 cloth $50.00
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I’ve Been Out There
On the Road with Legends of Rock ‘n’ Roll Grady Gaines with Rod Evans
In the 1950s, as the leader of the Upsetters, the original backing band for rock pioneer Little Richard, Grady Gaines first exposed the music world to his unique brand of “honkin’,” bombastic, attitude-drenched saxophone playing. In the years that followed, the Upsetters became the backing band for Sam Cooke and crisscrossed the country as the go-to-band for revue-style tours featuring James Brown, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Supremes, Jackie Wilson, Little Willie John, and Etta James. In I’ve Been Out There, the Houston blues and R&B legend Grady Gaines speaks candidly about his sixty-year music career and life on the road supporting some of the biggest names in blues, soul, and R&B. This annotated autobiographical account details Gaines's professional triumphs and personal sacrifices. The book contains anecdotes about life on the road and in the studio during a period when the entertainment industry was vastly different, affording readers a glimpse into the creative makeup of a man whose distinctive sax playing powered some of the most popular songs of the era, helped define the genre, and mesmerized countless audiences. John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
GRADY GAINES, from Houston, Texas, was the musical director and saxophonist for Little Richard’s seminal backing band the Upsetters during the rock ‘n’ roll icon’s biggest hitmaking era in the mid-1950s. He continues to perform as leader of Grady Gaines and the Texas Upsetters. ROD EVANS is an award-winning, Houston-based freelance journalist, writer, and editor.
I’V E B E E N OUT THERE
On the Road with Legends of Rock ’n’ Roll
GRADY GAINES WITH ROD EVANS
978-1-62349-270-0 cloth $23.00 978-1-62349-271-7 ebook 6x9. 160 pp. 31 b&w photos. Index. Music. African American Studies, Texas. April
RELATED INTEREST Texas Blues The Rise of a Contemporary Sound Alan B. Govenar 978-1-58544-605-6 cloth $40.00 978-1-60344-510-8 ebook
I'll Be Here in the Morning The Songwriting Legacy of Townes Van Zandt Brian T. Atkinson Foreword by "Cowboy" Jack Clements and Harold F. Eggers Jr. 978-1-60344-526-9 cloth $24.95 978-1-60344-527-6 ebook
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Take a trip through Caddo, the “fantastic maze” of a forest-lake . . .
Caddo
Visions of a Southern Cypress Lake
Narrative by Thad Sitton Photographs by Carolyn Brown Foreword by Andrew Sansom In a stunning tribute to one of Texas’ most enigmatic waterways, a veteran East Texas historian and a professional photographer have together created an homage to a lake like no other—half Texas, half Louisiana, a swampy labyrinth of bald cypress and water plants filled with mystery, legend, and a staggering amount of biological complexity. Classified as a Category 1 Habitat for wildlife by the US Fish and Wildlife Service and encompassing a state wildlife management area as well as a state park, Caddo Lake and adjacent areas have also been designated as a Ramsar Site under the international convention to preserve world-class wetlands and their waterfowl. In both words and pictures, writer Thad Sitton and photographer Carolyn Brown have captured the human, animal, and plant life of Caddo, as well as the history of the lake itself, better likened to an ever-changing network of cypress woodlands, bayou-like channels, water-plant meadows, and hardwood bottoms covered more or less by water. River Books, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
THAD SITTON, a Texas historian and author best known for his expertise in oral history and East Texas, is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including the award-winning Every Sun That Rises: Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake. He lives in Austin, Texas. CAROLYN BROWN is a professional photographer based in Dallas, Texas. Her photography of Dallas, Mexico, and Egypt has appeared in solo and group exhibitions in Texas and beyond, and she has been photographer and coauthor of several books, including four promotional books on Dallas.
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In Caddo: Visions of a Southern Cypress Lake Sitton and Brown have shown that wetlands, long considered by many to be insect-ridden, unattractive, and dangerous, are instead an incredibly beautiful place, with a rich and exciting array of plants and wildlife, just waiting to be discovered by the adventuresome.”—Richard M. Donovan, author of Paddling the Wild Neches
978-1-62349-239-7 cloth $30.00 978-1-62349-251-9 ebook 11x10. 188 pp. 109 color photos. Map. Bib. Index. Natural History. Nature Photography. Nature Travel. March
RELATED INTEREST The Living Waters of Texas Edited by Ken W. Kramer Photographs by Charles Kruvand 978-1-60344-201-5 cloth $30.00 978-1-60344-312-8 ebook
Paddling the Wild Neches Richard M. Donovan Foreword by Andrew Sansom 978-1-58544-496-0 flexbound $19.95 978-1-60344-555-9 ebook
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Birding Hot Spots of Santa Fe, Taos, and Northern New Mexico Judy Liddell and Barbara Hussey
In their second guide to birding in New Mexico, Judy Liddell and Barbara Hussey share their experiences and intimate knowledge of the best places to find birds in and around Santa Fe and other areas in northern New Mexico. Following the same format as their book on the Albuquerque area, the authors describe 32 sites organized by geographic regions. Along with a general description of each area, the authors list target birds; explain where and when to look for them; give driving directions; provide information about public transportation, parking, fees, restrooms, food, and lodging; and give tips on availability of water and picnic facilities and on the presence of hazards such as poison ivy, rattlesnakes, and bears. Maps and photographs provide trail diagrams and images of some of the target birds and their environments. A “helpful information� section covering weather, altitude, safety, transportation, and other local birding resources is included along with an annotated checklist of 276 bird species seen with some regularity in and around Santa Fe. Number Fifty-one: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series
JUDY LIDDELL is a freelance writer, teacher, blogger, and board member of Audubon New Mexico and the Central New Mexico Audubon Society, as well as president of the New Mexico Audubon Council. BARBARA HUSSEY is former president, board member, birding field trip leader, and newsletter editor for the Central New Mexico Audubon Society. Liddell and Hussey live in Albuquerque and are coauthors of Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico.
978-1-62349-254-0 flexbound $27.00 978-1-62349-258-8 ebook 6x9. 296 pp. 63 color photos. 13 maps. Index. Birding/Ornithology. Nature Travel. April
RELATED INTEREST Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico Judy Liddell and Barbara Hussey 978-1-60344-426-2 flexbound $24.95 978-1-60344-668-6 ebook
Finding Birds on the Great Texas Coastal Birding Trail Houston, Galveston, and the Upper Texas Coast Ted L. Eubanks Jr., Robert A. Behrstock, and Seth Davidson 978-1-58544-534-9 flexbound $23.00 978-1-60344-392-0 ebook
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“By tying suet to limbs of trees in winter, and providing a small board upon which grain, crumbs, etc., may be sprinkled, large numbers of winter birds may be fed. . . .” —Chester A. Reed, Guide to the Land Birds East of the Rockies (1906)
Feeding Wild Birds in America Culture, Commerce, and Conservation
Paul J. Baicich, Margaret A. Barker, and Carrol L. Henderson Foreword by George H. Petrides, Sr. Today, according to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, more than fifty million Americans feed birds around their homes, and over the last sixty years, billions of pounds of birdseed have filled millions of feeders in backyards everywhere. Feeding Wild Birds in America tells why and how a modest act of provision has become such a pervasive, popular, and often passionate aspect of people’s lives. Each chapter provides details on one or more bird-feeding development or trend including the “discovery” of seeds, the invention of different kinds of feeders, and the creation of new companies. Also woven into the book are the worlds of education, publishing, commerce, professional ornithology, and citizen science, all of which have embraced bird feeding at different times and from different perspectives. The authors take a decade-by-decade approach starting in the late nineteenth century, providing a historical overview in each chapter before covering topical developments (such as hummingbird feeding and birdbaths). On the one hand, they show that the story of bird feeding is one of entrepreneurial invention; on the other hand, they reveal how Americans, through a seemingly simple practice, have come to value the natural world. PAUL J. BAICICH is a conservation writer and editor and an avitourism consultant. He lives in Maryland. MARGARET A. BARKER, a writer and educator in the Chesapeake Bay area, coordinated the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology’s Project FeederWatch. CARROL L. HENDERSON is supervisor of Minnesota’s Nongame Wildlife Program in the Department of Natural Resources.
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978-1-62349-211-3 flexbound $27.95 978-1-62349-217-5 ebook 6x9. 320 pp. 76 color, 37 b&w photos. 3 maps. 2 tables. Index. Birding/Ornithology. Business History. April
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Even after 32 years in the industry, I still learned incredibly interesting information about the history of bird feeding and bird feeding vendors. The authors did a great job researching and organizing the details of the hobby as it has grown over the last 120 years.”—Jim Carpenter, founder, president, and CEO of Wild Birds Unlimited Inc.
Backyard bird feeding is by far the most popular form of bird watching. Via strategically placed feeders, our kitchen windows, rec rooms, man caves, and dining rooms have become portals to the natural world. This information-packed book is your bridge to the history of this thoroughly enjoyable pastime. Your greatest challenge may well be apportioning your time between this engagingly written book and the feathered minions gathering on the far side of your window.” —Pete Dunne, Birding Ambassador, New Jersey Audubon
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Famous Trees of Texas
Texas A&M Forest Service Centennial Edition
Gretchen Riley and Peter D. Smith Foreword by Bruce Miles Introduction by Tom Boggus Famous Trees of Texas was first published in 1970 by the Texas Forest Service (now Texas A&M Forest Service), an organization created in 1915 and charged with protecting and sustaining the forests, trees, and other related natural resources of Texas. For the 100-year anniversary of TFS, the agency presents a new edition of this classic book, telling the stories of 101 trees throughout the state. Some are old friends, featured in the first edition and still alive (27 of the original 81 trees described in the first edition have died); some are newly designated, discovered as people began to recognize their age and value. All of them remain “living links” to the state’s storied past. GRETCHEN RILEY is a staff forester and the urban forestry partnership coordinator at Texas A&M Forest Service (TFS), College Station, Texas. PETER D. SMITH is the urban forestry program manager at the Arbor Day Foundation and the former urban forestry program manager at TFS. He lives in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
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Thanks to books like the original Famous Trees of Texas and, now, Famous Trees of Texas centennial edition, the popularity of these trees and interest in protecting them continues to grow. From the Goose Island Oak near Rockport estimated to be 1,100 years old to the Austin Moon Tree that made a trip to the moon and back, these trees have captivating stories to tell that literally span both space and time.”—Damon Waitt, Senior Director and Botanist, Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center
978-1-62349-238-0 cloth $35.00 978-1-62349-240-3 ebook 9x10. 188 pp. 186 color photos. Map. Index. Natural History. Nature Travel. Photography, Texas. February
RELATED INTEREST History Ahead Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers Dan K. Utley and Cynthia J. Beeman 978-1-60344-151-3 flexbound $23.00 978-1-60344-344-9 ebook
History along the Way Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers Dan K. Utley and Cynthia J. Beeman 978-1-60344-769-0 flexbound $25.00 978-1-60344-818-5 ebook
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A Naturalist’s Guide to the Texas Hill Country Mark Gustafson
a n at u r a l i s t ’ s g u i d e to t h e
Texas Hill Country m a r k g u sta fso n
In this guide, biologist Mark Gustafson introduces residents and visitors to the history, geology, water resources, plants, and animals found in the nineteen counties occupying the eastern part of the Edwards Plateau, the heart of the Hill Country. He profiles three hundred of the most common and unique species from all of the major groups of plants and animals: trees, shrubs, wildflowers, cacti, vines, grasses, ferns, fungi, lichens, birds, mammals, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, and invertebrates. Color photographs are included for each species along with a brief description. He closes with a chapter on significant state parks and natural areas in the region as an invitation to visit and explore the Texas Hill Country. As large metropolitan areas continue to encroach on the Hill Country, newcomers are moving in and more people are flocking to its many attractions. This guidebook will enrich the appreciation of the region’s rich and unique biodiversity and encourage conservation of the natural world encountered. Number Fifty: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series
MARK GUSTAFSON is professor of biology at Texas Lutheran University in Seguin, Texas, where he directs the environmental studies program and specializes in aquatic biology and ecology.
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. . . provides an excellent introduction to most of the common plants and animals of the Texas Hill Country and is well suited to the budding naturalist, visitor, or newcomer to the region.”—Steve Nelle
978-1-62349-235-9 flexbound $24.95 978-1-62349-236-6 ebook 6x9. 368 pp. 328 color photos. 3 maps. Table. Bib. Index. Nature Guide. Nature Travel. April
RELATED INTEREST Trees, Shrubs, and Vines of the Texas Hill Country A Field Guide, Second Edition Jan Wrede 978-1-60344-188-9 flexbound $24.00 978-1-60344-377-7 ebook
Grasses of the Texas Hill Country A Field Guide Brian and Shirley Loflin 978-1-58544-467-0 flexbound $23.00 978-1-62349-054-6 ebook
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Heads above Water
The Inside Story of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program
Robert L. Gulley Foreword by Andrew Sansom Since the 1950s, competing interests for use of Edwards Aquifer resources—the primary source of water for more than two million people in south central Texas—were at war. They had tried many times to resolve their differences about how to conserve, allocate, and use the water, but had always failed. Finally, under the patient leadership of Robert Gulley, thirtynine diverse stakeholders reached a consensus on the use of the Edwards Aquifer that balanced the needs of south central Texas for water with the needs of eight species protected by the Endangered Species Act, culminating a half century of rancor and legal wrangling. In this book, Gulley tells the inside story of the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program (EARIP), a federally sponsored process put in place by the Texas legislature. How such a large and fractious group came together to resolve one of the nation’s most intractable and longstanding water problems serves as a case study in consensus building. That consensus brought certainty to the region regarding the use of the aquifer while creating an unlikely but lasting partnership for conservation. Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. Books on Conservation Leadership, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
ROBERT L. GULLEY was the executive director of the Edwards Aquifer Habitat Conservation Program and the mediator for the Edwards Aquifer Recovery Implementation Program (EARIP). Before being chosen to lead the EARIP, he was a senior trial attorney with the US Department of Justice, responsible for litigation involving natural resource issues. He lives in San Antonio.
HEADS ABOVE WATER THE INSIDE STORY OF THE EDWARDS AQUIFER RECOVERY IMPLEMENTATION PRO GR AM
ROBERT L. GULLEY Foreword by Andrew Sansom
978-1-62349-268-7 cloth $29.95 978-1-62349-269-4 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. Map. Index. Water. Conservation. February
RELATED INTEREST River of Contrasts The Texas Colorado Margie Crisp Foreword by Andrew Sansom 978-1-60344-466-8 flexbound $29.95 978-1-60344-747-8 ebook
Hillingdon Ranch Four Seasons, Six Generations David K. Langford and Lorie Woodward Cantu Forewords by Andrew Sansom and Steve C. Lewis 978-1-62349-012-6 cloth $35.00 978-1-62349-024-9 ebook
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Green in Gridlock
Common Goals, Common Ground, and Compromise Paul Walden Hansen Foreword by Andrew Sansom
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 costeffective environmental legislation 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. Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. Books on Conservation Leadership, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
PAUL WALDEN HANSEN, a longtime environmental protection, wildlife science, and conservation management professional, is executive director of the Murie Center, located in Grand Teton National Park. 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.
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RELATED INTEREST Money for the Cause A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising Rudolph A. Rosen Foreword by Andrew Sansom Illustrations by Katie Dobson Cundiff 978-1-60344-693-8 hardcover $35.00 978-1-60344-752-2 ebook
On Politics and Parks George Bristol Foreword by Andrew Sansom 978-1-60344-762-1 cloth $30.00 978-1-60344-777-5 ebook
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Benthic Foraminifera
OF THE GULF OF MEXICO D I S T R I B U T I O N , E C O L O G Y, P A L E O E C O L O G Y
C. WYLIE POAG
Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico
Distribution, Ecology, Paleoecology C. Wylie Poag
In 1981, Woods Hole researcher C. Wylie Poag published the book Ecological Atlas of the Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico. In this new volume, Poag has revised and updated the atlas, incorporating three decades of extensive data collections from the open Gulf and from an additional seventeen estuarine systems to cover species of benthic foraminifera from more than eight thousand sample stations. Benthic Foraminifera of the Gulf of Mexico features 68 plates of scanning electron photomicrographs, 64 color figures, and a large color foldout map, indicating species distribution of forams. This book is designed to aid students and teachers of geology, biology, oceanography, and ecology, as well as micropaleontologists in government and industry laboratories, and other researchers and consultants who have an interest in benthic ecology or paleoecology. 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
C. WYLIE POAG is a retired senior research scientist with the US Geological Survey at Woods Hole, Massachusetts. 978-1-62349-195-6 hardcover $75.00s 978-1-62349-213-7 ebook 81/2x11. 288 pp. 64 color images. 4 line art. 68 b&w plates. Map. Bib. Index. Geology. Gulf of Mexico. Natural History. March
Texas Riparian Areas
Edited by Thomas B. Hardy and Nicole A. Davis Foreword by Andrew Sansom
Riparian areas—transitional zones between the aquatic environments of streams, rivers, and lakes and the terrestrial environments on and alongside their banks—are special places. They provide almost two hundred thousand miles of connections through which the waters of Texas flow. Keeping the water flowing, in as natural a way as possible, is key to the careful and wise management of the state’s water resources. Texas Riparian Areas evolved from a report commissioned by the Texas Water Development Board as Texas faced the reality of over-allocated water resources and long-term if not permanent drought conditions. Its purpose was to summarize the characteristics of riparian areas and to develop a common vocabulary for discussing, studying, and managing them. River Books, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
THOMAS B. HARDY is professor of biology and chief science officer at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University. NICOLE A. DAVIS is a graduate research assistant at The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment and a PhD candidate in aquatic resources at Texas State University. 978-1-62349-255-7 hardcover $40.00s 978-1-62349-259-5 ebook 81/2x11. 224 pp. 81 color images. 12 line drawings. 14 maps. 23 tables. Glossary. Bib. Index. Water. Conservation. Natural History. May
The American Sea
A Natural History of the Gulf of Mexico
Rezneat Milton Darnell Forewords by John W. Tunnell Jr. and Sylvia Earle For more than a decade, Rezneat Darnell worked on this major synthesis of what is known about the Gulf of Mexico. His goal: to bring a deeper understanding of “the American Sea” to students, scientists, managers, and educated citizens of the public at large. The American Sea builds on Darnell’s own research, the research of his graduate students, government agency research reports, data synthesis reports, and literature summaries to present a holistic view of the Gulf of Mexico. Although he is recognized as a pioneer in the study of continental shelf ecology, Darnell largely resisted specialization, remaining throughout his career “the writer and bringer together of things.”
The American Sea
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Here, he has written a book that embraces history, geology, geography, meteorology, chemistry, biology, ecology, and human relations in one comprehensive reference. Although it is thorough and meticulous in coverage, what comes through in these pages is the enormity, complexity, and mystery of the world that lies just beyond the Texas vacation beach, the Louisiana wetland, or the Mexico fishing village. In addition to photographs of deep water and other organisms that are included in the book, a number of illustrations have been added to provide excellent visual material, including historical and ocean floor maps and many works of original art depicting marine species, sea turtles, fish, and crustaceans. 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
REZNEAT MILTON DARNELL was professor emeritus of oceanography at Texas A&M University, where he trained a generation of scientists on the ecology of the continental shelf. He coauthored the Northwestern Gulf Shelf Bio-Atlas for the National Marine Fisheries Service and authored Impacts of Construction Activities in Wetlands of the United States for the EPA and the book Ecology and Man.
A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE GULF OF MEXICO
R e zn e at DaRn e l l
978-1-62349-282-3 hardcover $75.00s 978-1-62349-301-1 ebook 81/2x11. 768 pp. 14 color, 83 b&w photos. 122 line art. Bib. Index. Natural History. Gulf of Mexico. Marine Science. June
RELATED INTEREST Sea-Level Change in the Gulf of Mexico Richard A. Davis Jr. 978-1-60344-224-4 flexbound $25.00 978-1-60344-485-9 ebook
Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells Identification, Ecology, Distribution, and History John W. Tunnell Jr., Jean Andrews, Noe C Barrera, and Fabio Moretzsohn 978-1-60344-141-4 hardcover $50.00 978-1-60344-337-1 ebook
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Pioneering Archaeology in the Texas Coastal Bend The Pape-Tunnell Collection
John W. Tunnell Jr. and Jace W. Tunnell Foreword by Thomas R. Hester When Harold F. Pape moved to Gregory, Texas, in 1927, he quickly became fascinated by the wealth of Native American artifacts along the nearby shoreline of Corpus Christi Bay and what is now called Port Bay, a southern arm of the larger Copano Bay. A lifelong natural history enthusiast and collector, Pape met and married Lucile H. Tunnell, a widow with three young sons. Before long, John W. Tunnell, Lucile’s oldest son, was accompanying Pape on his field studies in surrounding areas and the wider Texas Coastal Bend. Working in the days before much of the development that now covers the region, Pape and Tunnell studied more than two hundred sites throughout the Coastal Bend, making meticulous logs, maps, and notes of their discoveries.
978-1-62349-274-8 hardcover $50.00s 978-1-62349-275-5 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 146 color photos. 8 maps. Chart. Bib. Index. Archaeology. Biography. May
John W. (Wes) Tunnell Jr. and Jace Tunnell have organized and documented their family collection and present it, along with brief biographies of the two collectors, as a survey of the state of knowledge in the late 1920s and 1930s, as well as a tribute to these two important early researchers and their body of work.
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Number Twenty-six: Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University– Corpus Christi
JOHN W. (WES) TUNNELL JR. is associate director and endowed chair of biodiversity and conservation science at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies and regents’ professor, Fulbright scholar, and retired professor of biology at Texas A&M University– Corpus Christi. JACE W. TUNNELL is the director of research and planning at the Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program in Corpus Christi, where his work focuses on large-scale habitat restoration, water quality, and environmental planning initiatives.
Exploring the Edges of Texas Walt and Isabel Davis 978-1-60344-153-7 cloth $24.95 978-1-60344-306-7 ebook
Texas Indians David La Vere 978-1-62349-060-7 paper $19.95 978-1-60344-561-0 ebook
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The Hogeye Clovis Cache
Michael R. Waters and Thomas A. Jennings Roughly thirteen thousand years ago, Clovis hunters cached more than fifty projectile points, preforms, and knives at the toe of a gentle slope near present-day Elgin, Bastrop County, in central Texas. Over the next millennia, deposition buried the cache several meters below the surface. The entombed artifacts lay undisturbed until 2003. A circuitous path brought thirteen of the original thirty-seven Clovis bifaces and points through many hands before reaching the attention of Michael Waters at Texas A&M University. At the site of the original cache, Waters and coauthor Thomas A. Jennings conducted excavations, studied the geology, and dated the geological layers to reconstruct how the cache was buried. This book provides a well-illustrated, thoroughly analyzed description and discussion of the Hogeye Clovis cache, the projectile points and other artifacts from later occupations, and the geological context of the site, which has yielded evidence of multiple Paleoindian, Archaic, and Late Prehistoric occupations. The cache of tools and weapons at Hogeye, when combined with other sites, allows us to envision a snapshot of life at the end of the last Ice Age. Peopling of the Americas Publications, sponsored by the Center for the Study of the First Americans
MICHAEL R. WATERS directs the Center for the Study of the First Americans in the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University and is executive director of the North Star Archaeological Research Program. THOMAS A. JENNINGS is a faculty member in the department of anthropology at the University of West Georgia.
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Waters and Jennings provide a valuable contribution to the study of Clovis archaeology, lithic technology, and individual cache assemblages. Their work stands as an excellent model for reporting these relatively rare finds. If only all Clovis caches were investigated and reported in this level of detail.”—David Kilby, Eastern New Mexico University
978-1-62349-214-4 hardcover $30.00s 978-1-62349-232-8 ebook 81/2x11. 156 pp. 59 color photos. 33 line art. 2 maps. 6 charts. References. Bib. Index. Archaeology. Anthropology. April
RELATED INTEREST Clovis Lithic Technology Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas Michael R. Waters, Charlotte D. Pevny, and David L. Carlson 978-1-60344-278-7 hardcover $45.00s 978-1-60344-467-5 ebook
Arch Lake Woman Physical Anthropology and Geoarchaeology Douglas W. Owsley, et al 978-1-60344-208-4 cloth $30.00 978-1-60344-307-4 ebook
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Inside Reagan’s Navy The Pentagon Journals Chase Untermeyer
While serving as an assistant to Vice Pres. George H. W. Bush, Chase Untermeyer concluded that the only way to learn how the US government really works was to leave the silken cocoon of the White House and seek a position in one of the departments or agencies.
I NSIDE R E AGAN ’S NAVY The Pentagon Journals
In March 1983, when offered an appointment as a deputy assistant secretary of the navy, he jumped at the opportunity. After only a year as a “DASN,” he was named by Pres. Ronald Reagan as assistant secretary for Manpower & Reserve Affairs, in charge of all personnel issues affecting nearly one million sailors and Marines and a third of a million civilian workers. Inside Reagan’s Navy offers an engaging, up-close narrative of Untermeyer’s experiences in the Pentagon, interwoven with descriptions of events and people, humorous anecdotes, and telling quotations. As in his earlier book, When Things Went Right: The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration, Inside Reagan’s Navy paints a portrait of official Washington during the Reagan years, with its politics, parties, and personalities. A diarist since the age of nine and later a journalist, CHASE UNTERMEYER began his service in Washington in January 1981 as executive assistant to Vice President Bush. Subsequently he was an assistant secretary for the US 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.
Chase Untermeyer 978-1-62349-212-0 cloth $35.00 978-1-62349-216-8 ebook 6x9. 352 pp. 19 b&w photos. Bib. Index. Memoir. Navy. Presidential Studies. March
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Victory on the Potomac The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies the Pentagon James R. Locher III Foreword by Sam Nunn 978-1-58544-398-7 paper $36.00s
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Chasing Thugs, Nazis, and Reds Texas Ranger Norman K. Dixon Kemp Dixon
Texas Ranger Norman Dixon made the front pages of newspapers, but his rigid sense of integrity prevented him from discussing his cases with his wife or his sons, or anyone else, even decades later. As a Ranger, Dixon broke up the largest oil field theft ring in Texas history, worked to solve the most infamous cold case in Texas history, sought the Phantom Killer, investigated a near-mutiny by cadets and veterans on the campus of Texas A&M, rushed to a rural county to head off a lynching, and kept watch over Texas during World War II. He became the go-to investigator for the director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, governors, and the state legislature. During the final years of his career, which coincided with the McCarthy era in the 1950s, he was the chief of internal security, charged with protecting Texans from the Red Menace. Using Ranger Dixon’s meticulously-kept diary entries, Kemp Dixon now tells his father’s compelling story. KEMP DIXON, the son of Norman K. Dixon, teaches at Austin Community College.
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Much of our populations consider Texas Rangers as pursuing cattle and horse thieves thanks to the media representation of this iconic law enforcement group. With Kemp Dixon’s biographical study of his father’s life and career we appreciate that the Texas Ranger did so much more. The ‘common criminal’ of course required Ranger Norman Dixon’s attention but in his career he dealt with enemies of our country who intended much more than theft. He had to deal with the rise of Nazism and the threat to America in the 1930s and ’40s; then continued to combat the growing Communist threat. Ranger Dixon’s lengthy career in law enforcement revealed by his son Kemp Dixon emphasizes the fact that for Texas to remain safe we continue to need the Texas Rangers.”—Chuck Parsons, author of John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman and “Pidge,” Texas Ranger
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This is Texas history at its best.”—Jerry Thompson
978-1-62349-256-4 cloth $29.95 978-1-62349-260-1 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 27 b&w photos. 2 maps. Bib. Index. Biography. Texas Rangers. Criminal Justice. March
RELATED INTEREST John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman Chuck Parsons 978-1-58544-553-0 cloth $20.00 978-1-62349-155-0 paper $18.95 978-1-60344-496-5 ebook
Texas Ranger Jack Hays in the Frontier Southwest James Kimmins Greer 978-0-89096-572-6 paper $19.95 978-1-60344-920-5 ebook
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“We Never Retreat”
Filibustering Expeditions into Spanish Texas, 1812–1822 Ed Bradley
The term “filibuster” often brings to mind a senator giving a longwinded speech in opposition to a bill, but the term had a different connotation in the nineteenth century—invasion of foreign lands by private military forces. Spanish Texas was a target of such invasions. Generally given short shrift in the studies of American-based filibustering, these expeditions were led by colorful men such as Augustus William Magee, Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara, John Robinson, and James Long. Previous accounts of their activities are brief, lack the appropriate context to fully understand filibustering, and leave gaps in the historiography. Ed Bradley now offers a thorough recounting of filibustering into Spanish Texas framed through the lens of personal and political motives: why American men participated in them and to what extent the US government was either involved in or tolerated them. “We Never Retreat” makes a major contribution by placing these expeditions within the contexts of the Mexican War of Independence and international relations between the United States and Spain.
“We Never Retreat” Filibustering Expeditions into Spanish Texas, 1812–1822
k Ed Br adlEy
978-1-62349-257-1 cloth $47.00s 978-1-62349-261-8 ebook 6x9. 352 pp. 4 b&w photos. 2 maps. Bib. Index. American History. Revolution/Republic. Military History, Texas. Western History. March
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Number Forty: Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
The Secret War for Texas
ED BRADLEY is an assistant editor with the Papers of Abraham Lincoln. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.
Stuart Reid 978-1-58544-565-3 cloth $29.95 978-1-60344-506-1 ebook
More Zeal Than Discretion The Westward Adventures of Walter P. Lane Jimmy L. Bryan 978-1-60344-070-7 cloth $35.00 978-1-60344-411-8 ebook
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Militarizing the Border
Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal
When Mexicans Became the Enemy
Miguel Antonio Levario
As historian Miguel Antonio Levario explains in this timely book, current tensions and controversy over immigration and law enforcement issues centered on the US-Mexico border are only the latest evidence of a long-standing atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust plaguing this region. “. . . a thoroughly researched, well-organized examination of how militarization of the border affected Mexican racial identity, Anglo-Mexican relations, and United States-Mexico relations.” —The Americas “Levario’s Militarizing the Border offers readers a gripping analytical narrative of US state policing of ethnic Mexicans in the far west Texas and the New Mexico borderlands from 1893 and 1933. . . . The book examines how border people’s perceived transgressions against Anglo authority linked the Mexican community with criminal activity in the minds of officials in Austin and Washington. . . .” —H-Net
MIGUEL ANTONIO LEVARIO, an associate professor of history at Texas Tech University, recently contributed a chapter to War along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities. 978-1-62349-302-8 paper $22.95s 978-1-60344-779-9 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 8 b&w photos. 3 appendixes. Bib. Index. Borderlands Studies. Mexican American Studies. Military History, Texas. March
Keith J. Volanto
In this book, Keith J. Volanto relates the story of the New Deal’s efforts to aid Texas cotton farmers, specifically with the production-control policies introduced by the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA). He explores the reasons the AAA cotton programs in Texas were instituted, the implementation problems the AAA encountered and how they were resolved, and the results of the programs. He draws conclusions concerning how well Texans benefited from the AAA cotton programs and about those who were actually harmed by them. In addition, he examines the role of Texas politicians and bureaucrats in formulating the policies in Washington and the importance of Texas to New Deal cotton policy broadly. Volanto’s study of the AAA cotton programs in Texas is a study not only of agriculture policy but also of the New Deal itself. The AAA provides an example of how the New Deal attempted to solve a natural problem in a largely experimental fashion. Number Seven: Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University–Commerce
KEITH J. VOLANTO holds a PhD in history from Texas A&M University. He is currently chair of the history department at Collin College in Plano, Texas.. 978-1-60344-299-2 paper $22.95s 978-1-62349-108-6 ebook 6x9. 216 pp. 8 b&w photos. 2 tables. 8 cartoons. Bib. Index. Agricultural History. American History. Texas History. March
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Woman of the Plains
Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas
The Journals and Stories of Nellie M. Perry
Edited by Sandra Gail Teichmann
“Teichmann’s collection thus grants readers access to a loose chronicle of a ranching community, from its sod houses to the formation of its first school board, on which Perry served as the only woman member.”—Great Plains Quarterly “. . . readable and interesting; Teichmann supplements Perry’s account with excerpts from the writings of her neighbors and relatives in Ochiltree County, lending multi-dimensionality to the narrative of homesteading life. This book is highly recommended for the historian and general reader alike.”—Journal of the West “Her descriptive language creates a sense of place that enhances our perception of the late-nineteenthand early-twentieth-century settler’s life. Teichmann appropriately and respectfully presents these writings ‘for what they are’ without literary or historical criticism. These journals stand on their own merit and provide important insights from a woman’s perspective into the lives and ideas of early Texas Panhandle settlers.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly Number Five: West Texas A&M University Series
SANDRA GAIL TEICHMANN, retired professor of English from West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas, presently resides in Kansas City, Missouri. 978-1-62349-298-4 paper $18.95 6x9. 224 pp. 4 b&w photos. 7 line drawings. Appendix. Index. Memoir. Texas History. Women's Studies. March
Jacquelyn Masur McElhaney
“This work reminds the reader of the power of the press to effect positive change in individuals and communities.”—Journal of Women’s History “Pauline Periwinkle will be a delightful discovery for many readers. . . . This is a scholarly piece of Dallas research with a womanly tilt.”—Dallas Morning News “Not only does McElhaney bring to fascinating life this dynamic woman, she also gives us an unwavering look, through Callaway’s own word pictures, at Dallas at the turn of the century . . . The biographer links the well-chosen column excerpts together with gracefully written, seamless segues of scene-setting background and analysis. Her book is a valuable addition to our knowledge and understanding not only of this accomplished woman, but also of life and the status of women in turn-of-the-century Dallas and Texas.”—Legacies Number Seventy-three: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
JACQUELYN MASUR McELHANEY, a historical consultant specializing in Dallas social and cultural history, received her Master’s in history from Southern Methodist University. She lives in Dallas. 978-1-62349-299-1 paper $22.95 6x9. 224 pp. 3 b&w photos. Bib. Index. Biography. Texas History. Women's Studies. March
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“Since humans first scratched thought on stone, we have recorded a longing for peace.”—Walter Cronkite
Landmark Speeches on US Pacifism Edited by Susan Schultz Huxman
Collections of important speeches tend to focus on and are organized around nationalistic “flashpoints”—violent interventions, diplomatic crises, battles, and wars—that shape the nation’s identity. Words about war—including scholarly literature on war—vastly outweigh words about peace. In Landmark Speeches in US Pacifism, Susan Schultz Huxman addresses that imbalance by highlighting the rhetoric of peace movements, nonviolent resistance, and anti-war discourse. Eighteen speeches are featured, from Robert La Follette and Jane Addams in the Progressive Era to Martin Luther King Jr. and Muhammad Ali on the Vietnam War. Each speech in this collection disarms or disrupts common sensibilities about America’s role in the world. They challenge fundamental positions regarding safety, security, sovereignty, or patriotism, and substitute internationalism, respect for individual conscience, or unconditional love. Ideal for the classroom and collector alike, Landmark Speeches in US Pacifism gives voice to a universal longing for peace.
978-1-62349-285-4 cloth $35.00s 6x9. 362 pp. Bib. Index. Landmark Speeches. Rhetoric. May
Landmark Speeches: A Book Series
SUSAN SCHULTZ HUXMAN is president of Conrad Grebel University College in Ontario, Canada and professor of communication. She is the author of The Rhetorical Act: Thinking, Speaking, and Writing Critically and Public Speaking: A Repertoire of Resources.
LANDMARK SPEECHES: A BOOK SERIES
Landmark Speeches on the Vietnam War Edited and with introductions by Gregory Allen Olson 978-1-60344-164-3 cloth $44.00x 978-1-60344-181-0 paper $22.00s
Landmark Speeches of the American Conservative Movement Edited by Peter Schweizer and Wynton C. Hall 978-1-58544-584-4 cloth $30.00s 978-1-58544-598-1 paper $18.95 978-1-60344-498-9 ebook
Landmark Speeches of National Socialism Edited by Randall L. Bytwerk 978-1-60344-014-1 cloth $35.00s 978-1-60344-015-8 paper $19.95 978-1-60344-441-5 ebook
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Engineering Agriculture at Texas A&M The First Hundred Years
Henry C. Dethloff and Stephen W. Searcy The abundance of agricultural production enjoyed in the United States is the result of a federal-state partnership that relies on land grant universities to respond to the needs of society through research, invention, problem-solving, outreach, and applied science and engineering. The Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, established in 1915, has been an important part of that effort. Over the hundred years of its existence, it has successfully tackled the challenges of mechanization, electrification, irrigation, harvest, transport, and more to the benefit of agriculture in Texas, the United States, and the world. In this book, historian Henry Dethloff and current department chair Stephen Searcy explore the history of the department—its people, its activity, its growth—and project the department’s future for its second century, when its primary task will be to sustainably help meet the needs of a predicted 9.6 billion Earth residents and to recognize that societal food concerns are focused more and more on sustainable production and human health. Published for the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department, Texas A&M University Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series
HENRY C. DETHLOFF is professor emeritus of history at Texas A&M University and the author of several books on the history of Texas A&M. STEPHEN W. SEARCY is professor and head of the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at Texas A&M University.
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RELATED INTEREST Together We Can Pathways to Collective Leadership in Agriculture at Texas A&M Edward A. Hiler and Steven L. Bosserman 978-1-60344-428-6 cloth $25.00s 978-1-60344-514-6 ebook
Human Issues in Animal Agriculture H. O. Kunkel 978-0-89096-927-4 cloth $39.95s
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Leadership in Agriculture
Bale o’ Cotton
Case Studies for a New Generation
John Patrick Jordan, Gale A. Buchanan, Neville P. Clarke, and Kelly C. Jordan
The Mechanical Art of Cotton Ginning Karen Gerhardt Britton Fort
In a world facing chronic and increasing shortages in food crops and natural resources, visionary leadership in agriculture becomes more and more critical for building and maintaining a sustainable future. Leadership in Agriculture: Case Studies for a New Generation uses case studies from research, industry, education, administration, and extension services, presenting real-world circumstances ranging from natural disasters to major restructuring that demanded problem solving, new initiatives, consensus, and organizational commitment.
“In this wonderfully comprehensive look at the history of the cotton industry, the author has combined sound scholarship with folklore and legend to offer a poignant and accurate look at the history of the cotton industry.”—Dallas Morning News
Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series
“. . . a good introduction for the novice on the important technological developments from Eli Whitney's cotton engine to modern-day cotton processing technology. . . .”—Choice
JOHN PATRICK JORDAN is the former administrator of the USDA Cooperative State Research Service in Washington, DC. GALE A. BUCHANAN is the former dean of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and former director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. NEVILLE CLARKE served as an associate dean and professor in the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and as director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. He is the founding director of the Texas A&M Institute for Countermeasures against Agricultural Bioterrorism and currently works as a special assistant for program development for the Texas A&M University System. KELLY C. JORDAN, a former Commandant of Cadets at Culver Military Academy, is currently the Vice President of Student Affairs and Dean of Students at Holy Cross College. 978-1-62349-303-5 paper $18.95s 978-1-60344-961-8 ebook 6x9. 208 pp. 4 b&w photos. Map. Line art. Bib. Index. Agriculture. Education. February
“. . . should become a standard source for twentiethcentury Texans interested in the technical aspects of ginning and the cotton business.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly
“An attractive blend of valuable information and pleasant reading. . . .”—Georgia Historical Quarterly Number Forty-three: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
KAREN GERHARDT BRITTON FORT, MA, a sixth-generation Texan, is the author of seven books, many articles, short stories, poems, and book reviews on cotton-related subjects and Texas history. She lives in South Texas with her husband Tom A. Fort. 978-1-60344-969-4 ebook 978-1-62349-297-7 paper $19.95 81/2x11. 160 pp. 109 b&w photos. Bib. Index. Agricultural History. Business History. History of Technology. Texas History. March
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Wendy van Duivenvoorde foreword by jeremy green
Dutch East India Company
Shipbuilding
T h e A r c h A e o lo g i c A l S T u dy o f B atav i a A n d oT h e r S e v e n T e e n T h cenTury voc ShipS
Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Seventeenth- Century VOC Ships
maritime studies in the wake of the byzantine shipwreck at yassiada , turkey EDITED BY
Deborah N. Carlson, Sarah M. Kampbell,
AND
Justin Leidwanger
Wendy van Duivenvoorde Foreword by Jeremy Green
Eight months into its maiden voyage to the Indies, the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia sank on June 4, 1629 on Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia. Wendy van Duivenvoorde’s five-year study was aimed at reconstructing the hull of Batavia, the only excavated remains of an early seventeenth-century Indiaman to have been raised and conserved in a way that permits detailed examination, using data retrieved from the archaeological remains, interpreted in the light of company archives, ship journals, and Dutch texts on shipbuilding of this period. Over two hundred tables, charts, drawings, and photographs are included. Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series, in association with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology and the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation
WENDY VAN DUIVENVOORDE is a lecturer in maritime archaeology at Flinders University and deputy director of the Australian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres. She is also affiliated faculty with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M University. 978-1-62349-179-6 hardcover $90.00s 978-1-62349-231-1 ebook 81/2x11. 356 pp. 125 b&w photos. Map. 85 line art. Bib. Index. Nautical Archaeology. Archaeology. World History. April
Maritime Studies in the Wake of the Byzantine Shipwreck at Yassıada, Turkey Edited by Deborah N. Carlson, Justin Leidwanger, and Sarah M. Kampbell Foreword by George F. Bass
In 2007 a symposium was held at Texas A&M University to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Texas A&M University Press’s publication of the first volume reporting the Yassıada shipwreck site. Seventeen papers from that symposium featured in this book broadly illustrate such varied topics as ships and seafaring life, maritime trade, naval texts, commercial cargoes, and recent developments in the analysis of the Yassıada ship itself. Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series, in association with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology and the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation
DEBORAH N. CARLSON is an associate professor and the Sara W. and George O. Yamini fellow in the department of anthropology at Texas A&M University. She is also president of the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. SARA M. KAMPBELL is completing her doctoral work in the department of history at Princeton University. She worked on Institute of Nautical Archaeology’s projects in Turkey. JUSTIN LEIDWANGER is an assistant professor of classics at Stanford University. 978-1-62349-215-1 hardcover $75.00x 978-1-62349-229-8 ebook 81/2x11. 256 pp. 32 b&w photos. 12 maps. 26 line art. 22 graphs. Bib. Index. Nautical Archaeology. Nautical Archaeology. April
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The Origins of the Lost Fleet of the Mongol Empire Randall J. Sasaki
In The Origins of the Lost Fleet of the Mongol Empire, Randall Sasaki provides a starting point for understanding the technology of the failed Mongol invasion of Japan in 1281 CE, as well as the history of shipbuilding in East Asia. He has created a timber category database, analyzed methods of joinery, and studied contemporary approaches to shipbuilding in order to ascertain the origins and types of vessels that composed the Mongol fleet. Although no conclusive statements can be made regarding the origins of the vessels, it appears that historical documents and archaeological evidence correspond well to each other, and that many of the remains analyzed were from smaller vessels built in China's Yangtze River Valley. Large, V-shaped cargo ships and the Korean vessels probably represent a small portion of the timbers raised at the Takashima shipwreck site. Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series, in association with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology and the Center for Maritime Archaeology and Conservation
RANDALL J. SASAKI is a PhD candidate in nautical archaeology at Texas A&M University. His previously published work has focused on the Battle of Bach Dang near Hai Phong, in northern Vietnam.
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Randall Sasaki provides an insightful, detailed forensic study of the lost fleet of Khubilai Khan. The legend of the 'Divine Wind' is peeled back with careful detail as archaeology shows why such a well-equipped and experienced armada failed some seven centuries ago.” —James P. Delgado, author of Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine and Khubilai Khan’s Lost Fleet
The Origins
of the Lost Fleet
of the Mongol Empire
Randall J. Sasaki
978-1-62349-194-9 cloth $50.00s 978-1-62349-230-4 ebook 6x9. 216 pp. 68 b&w photos. 2 maps. Bib. Index. Nautical Archaeology. Asian History. February
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Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant Shelley Wachsmann 978-1-60344-080-6 paper $40.00s
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SHIPS FROM THE DEPTHS Fredrik Søreide $45.00 hardcover 978-1-60344-218-3
THE SEA OF GALILEE BOAT Shelley Wachsmann $23.00 paper 978-1-60344-113-1
COFFINS OF THE BRAVE Kevin J. Crisman $60.00 cloth 978-1-62349-032-4
THE MAN WHO THOUGHT LIKE A SHIP Loren C. Steffy $35.00 cloth 978-1-60344-664-8
SEAGOING SHIPS AND SEAMANSHIP IN THE BRONZE AGE LEVANT Shelley Wachsmann $40.00s paper 978-1-60344-080-6
THE GUROB SHIP-CART MODEL AND ITS MEDITERRANEAN CONTEXT Shelley Wachsmann $75.00s cloth 978-1-60344-429-3
THE SHIP THAT HELD UP WALL STREET Warren C. Riess With Sheli O. Smith $29.00 hardcover 978-1-62349-188-8
USS MONITOR John D. Broadwater $39.95 cloth 978-1-60344-473-6 $24.95 paper 978-1-60344-474-3
MISADVENTURES OF A CIVIL WAR SUBMARINE James P. Delgado $34.95 cloth 978-1-60344-472-9
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Footprints in Aggieland Remembrances of a Veteran Fundraiser
Robert L. Walker
ART & ARCHAEOLOGY OF VENETIAN SHIPS & BOATS Lillian Ray Martin $77.50s cloth 978-1-58544-098-6
NICOLAES WITSEN AND SHIPBUILDING IN THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE A. J. Hoving $120.00x cloth 978-1-60344-286-2
The “dean” of development officers in Texas, if not the entire nation, Bob Walker has been instrumental in raising hundreds of millions of dollars for Texas A&M University, including many of the largest gifts in the university’s history. He provides through this book many instructive and sometimes amusing vignettes of his encounters with a wide range of benefactors to Texas A&M. “Bob Walker is much more than a fundraiser. He devotes all of his time to making and keeping friends for the university. I have never met anyone with as much capacity to help Aggies as he has.” —Former Texas A&M President Ray M. Bowen
THE WESTERN RIVER STEAMBOAT WOODEN SHIP BUILDING AND THE INTERPRETATION OF SHIPWRECKS Adam I. Kane J. Richard Steffy $39.95s cloth 978-1-58544-322-2 $60.00s paper 978-1-60344-520-7 $19.95 paper 978-1-58544-343-7
“Bob Walker contributed significantly in creating the culture of stewardship that has helped make Texas A&M one of the nation’s truly great landgrant, sea-grant, and space-grant universities.” —Mark A. Hussey, Interim President, Texas A&M University Distributed for the Ed Rachal Foundation
ROBERT L. WALKER has served for more than five critical decades in leading fundraising roles at Texas A&M University, including holder of the distinctive James Aston University Chair in Institutional Development. Recently retired from Texas A&M, he still lives in College Station, where he and his son, Sid A. Walker, manage The Walker Consulting Group.
HOMERIC SEAFARING Samuel Mark $60.00s cloth 978-1-58544-391-8
SHIPS' FASTENINGS Micheal McCarthy $65.00s cloth 978-1-58544-451-9
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A groundbreaking study on the emergence and dispersal of modern humans in Asia . . .
Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia
Edited by Yousuke Kaifu, Masami Izuho, Ted Goebel, Hiroyuki Sato, and Akira Ono Despite the obvious geographic importance of eastern Asia in human migration, its discussion in the context of the emergence and dispersal of modern humans has been rare. Emergence and Diversity of Modern Human Behavior in Paleolithic Asia focuses long-overdue scholarly attention on this under-studied area of the world. Arising from a 2011 symposium sponsored by the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, this book gathers the work of archaeologists from the Pacific Rim of Asia, Australia, and North America, to address the relative lack of attention given to the emergence of modern human behavior as manifested in Asia during the worldwide dispersal from Africa. Peopling of the Americas Publications, sponsored by the Center for the Study of the First Americans
YOUSUKE KAIFU is the head of the Division of Human Evolution of the Department of Anthropology at the National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo, Japan, and is also affiliated with the department of biological sciences at the University of Tokyo. MASAMI IZUHO is an associate professor of archaeology at Tokyo Metropolitan University. TED GOEBEL is professor of anthropology and assistant director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans in the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University. HIROYUKI SATO is a professor in the Department of Archaeology of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo. AKIRA ONO is a professor of prehistoric archaeology, director of the Center for Obsidian and Lithic Studies, Meiji University, and emeritus professor at Tokyo Metropolitan University.
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At last: a coherent account of the coming of ‘modernity’ in the Paleolithic of Asia!”—Colin Renfrew, Senior Fellow, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge . . . a major contribution to one of the most important and interesting topics in paleoanthropology. . . .” —John F. Hoffecker, author of A Prehistory of the North and coauthor of Human Ecology of Beringia
978-1-62349-276-2 hardcover $65.00x 978-1-62349-277-9 ebook 81/2x11. 600 pp. 230 b&w photos. Index. Archaeology. Anthropology. February
RELATED INTEREST The Early Modern Human from Tianyuan Cave, China Hong Shang and Erik Trinkaus 978-1-60344-177-3 cloth $45.00s 978-1-60344-245-9 ebook
Kennewick Man The Scientific Investigation of an Ancient American Skeleton Edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz 978-1-62349-200-7 hardcover $75.00s 978-1-62349-234-2 ebook
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New revised edition
Lone Star Blue and Gray Essays on Texas and the Civil War
Edited by Ralph A. Wooster and Robert Wooster From the bitter disputes over secession to the ways in which the conflict would be remembered, Texas and Texans were caught up in the momentous struggles of the American Civil War. Tens of thousands of Texans joined military units, and scarcely a household in the state was unaffected as mothers and wives assumed new roles in managing farms and plantations. Still others grappled with the massive social, political, and economic changes wrought by the bloodiest conflict in American history. The sixteen essays (eleven of them new) from some of the leading historians in the field in the second edition of Lone Star Blue and Gray illustrate the rich traditions and continuing vitality of Texas Civil War scholarship. Along with these articles, editors Ralph A. and Robert Wooster provide a succinct introduction to the war and Texas and recommended readings for those seeking further investigations of virtually every aspect of the war as experienced in the Lone Star State. RALPH A. WOOSTER was named Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus by Lamar University in 2006. Author or editor of eleven books, including Civil War Texas (TSHA, 1999), Wooster is also coauthor of Texas & Texans, a widely used seventh grade history text now in its sixth edition. He is a fellow and past president of the Texas State Historical Association and the East Texas Historical Association, as well as recipient of numerous teaching awards. ROBERT WOOSTER is Regents Professor of History at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, where he has taught since 1986. A fellow and past president of the Texas State Historical Association, he has received several teaching awards and is author, editor, or coeditor of fourteen books, most recently The American Military Frontiers: The United States Army in the West, 1783–1900, which received the Western History Association’s Robert M. Utley Award.
978-1-62511-025-1 paper $30.00 6x9. 280 pp. 5 b&w photos. Military History. Civil War. February
RELATED INTEREST Sacred Memories The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas Kelly McMichael 978-0-87611-238-0 paper $9.95 978-0-87611-299-1 ebook
The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862 The Accounts of Thomas Barrett and George Washington Diamond Thomas Barrett and George Washington Diamond 978-0-87611-255-7 cloth $34.95s
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Wests of Texas
Cattle Ranching Entrepreneurs
Bruce M. Shackelford Foreword by Marise McDermott With the Wests of Texas, noted author Bruce M. Shackelford tells the story of the West family of Lavaca County, forgotten Texas legends. Originally from Tennessee, Washington and Mary West moved to Lavaca County, Texas, in the early 1850s. There they raised three sons who were destined to leave an indelible mark on the Texas cattle industry. At the end of the Civil War, George, the eldest, made his first trail drives, as so many Texans did. But unlike many who made the trip, George saw the venture as the business of moving cattle to market and became a professional drover. As his brothers Sol and Ike came of age, George brought them into his already growing business of trailing cattle herds north. The brothers became some of the most important drovers in the cattle business, standing out during the era of the great trail drives. In their lifetimes their accomplishments were legendary, but today they have been largely forgotten.
978-1-62511-026-8 cloth $39.95 101/2x11. 170 pp. 250 b&w photos. Index. Texas History. Biography. May
New in paper
Their history and achievements are examined in this beautiful volume illustrated with photographs and personal effects from the family. BRUCE M. SHACKELFORD is a nationally recognized authority on the history of the American West. Currently the curator of the South Texas Heritage Center and the George West Trail Drivers Gallery at the Witte Museum in San Antonio, Texas, he has created exhibits utilizing the museum’s important history collections on subjects from American Indian cultures to the history of horsemanship and the cattle industry in North America. In addition he frequently lectures on related topics and has written numerous articles, authored chapters for the books Black Cowboys of Texas and Texas Women on the Cattle Trails, and compiled Photography on the South Texas Frontier: Images from the Collection from the Witte Museum Collection.
The La Salle Expedition to Texas The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684–1687 Edited by William Foster Translated by Johanna S. Warren 978-1-62511-030-5 paper $35.00 71/4x101/4. 360 pp. Illus. Maps. Texas History. February
Here is the definitive English translation of Henri Joutel’s classic account of Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle’s 1684–1687 expedition to establish a fort and colony near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
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Dateline Purgatory
Examining the Case that Sentenced Darlie Routier to Death Kathy Cruz
The brutal murders of young Devon and Damon Routier in the early morning hours of June 6, 1996, put their mother—Darlie Routier—at the heart of one of the most notorious murder cases in modern Texas history—despite her own throat having been slashed to within two millimeters of her carotid artery. The actions of a small-town police department and those within Dallas County's ruthless justice system created a perfect storm that swept up the young mother and landed her on death row. There she has remained, in a nine-feet-by-six-feet cell, despite claims of her innocence by those who know her, findings about the alarming fallibility of bloodstain analysis, and her husband's admission that at the time of the murders he was soliciting help to stage a home burglary to commit insurance fraud. In Dateline Purgatory, award-winning journalist Kathy Cruz enlists current-day legal experts to weigh in on the shocking transgressions that resulted in one of the country's most controversial death penalty convictions. With the help of the infamous death row inmate and a former FBI Special Agent known as “Crimefighter,” Cruz would find that her journey through Purgatory was as much about herself as it was about the woman dubbed “Dallas’s Susan Smith.” KATHY CRUZ has received numerous Journalist of the Year honors from Texas press associations, as well as four Stephen Philbin awards for excellence in legal reporting from the Dallas Bar Association—two of which were grand prizes. She is a recipient of a 2011 Texas Gavel Award. Cruz currently resides in Granbury, Texas.
978-0-87565-610-6 paper $22.95 6x9. 224 pp. Criminal Justice. Texas Women’s History. Texas History. April
RELATED INTEREST Literary Dallas Edited by Frances Brannen Vick 978-0-87565-382-2 cloth $29.50
The Wright Stuff Edited by Anthony Champagne, James W. Riddlesperger, and Dan Williams 978-0-87565-506-2 cloth $32.50 978-0-87565-571-0 paper $26.95
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Playing Custer Gerald Duff
Playing Custer is a novel narrated from varying points of view and time, illuminating personal and political events leading up to the death of General George Armstrong Custer. The historic events are framed by the story of two men from the late twentieth century—one white and one Native American—who travel together to the annual reenactment of the battle at the Little Bighorn National Monument battlefield. Chatting during their journey, the two reenactors discuss their obsessions, personal ambitions, and failures of nerve. Interwoven with their progress toward the battle are narrations, journal entries, and first-person viewpoints from many others who were actually involved in the historic events. Soldiers and scouts for the cavalry; Sioux, Crow, and Cheyenne witnesses; and wives and daughters all offer their versions of “truth,” establishing a texture and depth of irony, humor, and tragic meaning to those modern Americans driven to attempt to “play Custer.” This year—a special anniversary of the real battle—they are suddenly chosen for crucial new roles. This time, they will play Custer and Crazy Horse. All builds toward the real and reenacted final moments on the battlefield of Custer’s last stand. GERALD DUFF is a winner of the Cohen Award for Fiction, the Philosophical Society of Texas Literary Award, and the Silver Medal for Fiction from the Independent Publishers Association. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he has published nineteen books. He published Home Truths: A Deep East Texas Memory with TCU Press in 2011. He resides in Lebanon, Illinois.
978-0-87565-606-9 paper $22.95 6x9. 256 pp. Literary Novel. Western Fiction. Native American Studies. American History. March
RELATED INTEREST Home Truths A Deep East Texas Memory Gerald Duff 978-0-87565-435-5 paper $21.95 978-0-87565-492-8 ebook
Slow Moving Dreams Tom Hardy 978-0-87565-424-9 paper $22.95 978-0-87565-490-4 ebook
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“No creed but Christ; no law but love.”
History of the Union Gospel Mission
Friends of the Union Gospel Mission Foreword by Tom Stoker A missionary and shelter, a home and salvation, Union Gospel Mission has been a place of refuge for many since 1888. From cowboys to the homeless and jobless, to drug addicts and drunks, Union Gospel Mission of Fort Worth has unrelentingly helped and provided for people of all different backgrounds and struggles in life to help ease their pain, hunger, and need, while bringing them closer to Christ. This book takes readers through the 1800s as the Mission cared for and housed prostitutes, cowboys, and drifters, to the 1900s, when it transformed more by the message of Jesus Christ’s saving grace, to now as it has physically expanded to a campus and partners with other organizations and churches to help not only the homeless but all those in need. Fighting debt, eviction, and addiction, the Union Gospel Mission has provided food, shelter, jobs, and spiritual sustenance to thousands of struggling souls for well over a century. This inspiring journey through time will amaze you in the ways the Union Gospel Mission’s selfless acts have helped lives through Christ. The UNION GOSPEL MISSION OF TARRANT COUNTY is a united Christian organization and ministry dedicated to providing love, hope, respect, and a new beginning for the homeless in Tarrant County. Since the earliest days, preaching the Gospel has been the focus of the Mission. From the early 1900s through World War I, demand for the Mission’s services grew dramatically. Fort Worth’s population had grown faster than the city could support. People requested food, clothing, shelter, and guidance, and the Mission freely ministered to all those in need. The Union Gospel Mission is located at 1331 E. Lancaster Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas.
978-0-87565-609-0 cloth $32.00 81/2x11. 224 pp. Texas History. Social Sciences. Religion. May
RELATED INTEREST Hell's Half Acre The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District Richard F. Selcer 978-0-87565-088-3 paper $17.95 978-0-87565-511-6 ebook
A Hundred Years of Heroes A History of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show Clay Reynolds 978-0-87565-145-3 cloth $29.95 978-0-87565-149-1 paper $16.95
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Chili Queen Mi historia
Marian Martinello “It happened on the plaza that never slept—my favorite place in the whole of the city,” writes Lupe Pérez, to begin her memoir. A mix of historical fact, vintage photos and maps, recipes, music, folklore, and south Texan culture, Lupe’s story offers an eyewitness account of life on Military Plaza in San Antonio during the 1880s. Facing the impending failure of her family’s chili stand, Lupe is certain she can improve profits. But her older sister and hostess, Josefa, resists Lupe’s arguments—until Tom O’Malley, an itinerant vaudeville actor, arrives. By default, Lupe becomes Chili Queen, but each new venture presents new challenges for the struggling chili stand. Peter Meyer comes to town from the Hill Country to pursue his dream of becoming a shopkeeper. Despite their cultural differences, he and Lupe are drawn to one another by more than romantic feelings. They share a common entrepreneurial dream, and Peter helps Lupe grow in her business savvy. Just as business improves, word spreads of a new city hall on the plaza and the subsequent eviction of all chili stands. Where will they go? What will they do? The choice is Lupe’s to make. And her response is bold. MARIAN MARTINELLO has enjoyed a forty-year career as teacher and university professor in interdisciplinary learning and teaching. She holds the title of professor emeritus at the University of Texas at San Antonio and serves as president of the UTSA Retired Faculty Association. She has previously published The Search for Emma’s Story (1987), The Search for Pedro’s Story (2006), and The Search for a Chili Queen (2009) with TCU Press. She currently resides in San Antonio, Texas.
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Marian Martinello has discovered not only a topic which illuminates the Mexican heritage of Texans in San Antonio but also the stories and heritage of many others.”—Mary Hood, author of How Far She Went and Familiar Heat
978-0-87565-613-7 paper $22.95 6x9. 192 pp. 20 b&w photos. 15 recipes. Fiction. Young Readers Fiction. Cooking. Mexican American Studies. Memoir. Texas History. Southwestern History. February
RELATED INTEREST The Search for Pedro’s Story Marian Martinello and Samuel P. Nesmith 978-0-87565-324-2 paper $17.95
The Search for a Chili Queen On the Fringes of a Rebozo Marian Martinello 978-0-87565-386-0 paper $22.95
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Winner, 2012 Will Rogers Medallion for Best Young Adult Fiction
Yours in Filial Regards The Civil War Letters of a Texas Family
Texas Tales Illustrated
Kassia Waggoner and Adam Nemmers
In March of 1861 Texas seceded from the Union, and the Love brothers of Limestone County— Cyrus, Samuel, James, and John—enlisted to fight for the Confederate cause. For the next four years, the brothers travelled the war-torn South as cavalry in Terry's Texas Rangers, seeing action in some of the fiercest battles in the Western Theater, yet faithfully sending letters home to their expectant family. Complete with a scholarly introduction shedding insight into the Love family, their travels, and their family communication network, this volume collects, transcribes, and annotates 78 letters by eight authors spanning the entire Civil War. In addition to soldiers’ correspondence, the collection also contains letters written to and from their female relatives on the domestic front. Yours in Filial Regards: The Civil War Letters of a Texas Family offers a fascinating inside perspective of the Civil War from both the Confederate battle lines and the home front. KASSIA WAGGONER lives in Fort Worth. She is a doctoral candidate in the TCU English department, where she teaches composition, literature, and women’s studies courses. ADAM NEMMERS currently resides in Fort Worth. He is an English doctoral student at TCU, where he teaches both composition and literature. 978-0-87565-612-0 paper $27.50 6x9. 192 pp. Letters. Civil War. Civil War/Reconstruction. American History. Southern History. Texas History. February
The Trail Drives, #2 Mike Kearby Illustrated by Mack White
Drawing upon the increasing popularity of graphic novels among young readers, Texas Tales Illustrated: The Trail Drives, #2 is an innovative retelling of the cattle drive era, sure to become an invaluable classroom resource. Author Mike Kearby and illustrator Mack White designed the book for use in seventh grade Texas history courses, in response to a need for more interactive textbooks, which appeal to the learning styles of students in today’s overwhelmingly visual media culture. White’s detailed line drawings recall classic comicbook style and capture the drama and dangers of trailing cattle, while Kearby’s narration is enticing, full of intriguing historic detail. The comic pages are supplemented with five pages of maps depicting the historic cattle trails. The Trail Drives is the second in the Texas Tales series. The first, Texas Tales Illustrated: The Revolution, #1, was published by TCU Press in 2011. Texas Tales Illustrated
MIKE KEARBY, a retired high school reading and English teacher, is the author of eleven novels. He currently resides in Lometa, Texas. Native Texan MACK WHITE is an illustrator and comics creator who has been publishing professionally for twenty years. He currently resides in Austin, Texas. 978-0-87565-608-3 paper $5.95 65/8x101/4. 24 pp. 24 b&w illustrations. Young Readers. Texas History, Young Readers. Texas Ranching. Exploration/Settlement. February
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New ebook edition
James Hoggard
New and Selected Poems
The Illegal Man Patrick Dearen
James Hoggard
As the Texas Poet Laureate of 2000, James Hoggard writes beautifully on themes of love, loss, and nature. His unique voice, visual imagery, and carefully crafted syntax take his audience on a journey from Texas to Paris, Taos to Rome, and into their own pasts. Here’s a brief poem titled “Drought” based on his experiences in the stark West Texas landscape. So go ahead and call this place the place that gets no rain because no rain falls here though memories say rains have been here – they’ve swept through ditches, they’ve flooded lawns and drowned roads so we’ve had rains, a lot of rains, and with rain winds strong enough to rip ceiling joists loose and hurl barn roofs away. TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series
JAMES HOGGARD, of Wichita Falls, Texas, is a poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, short-story writer, and translator. 978-0-87565-583-3 cloth $18.95 6x9. 96 pp. Poetry. Texana Gift Books. Texana. April
A story that could have come out of today’s headlines, this reissue of Patrick Dearen’s 1981 novel explores an illegal alien’s desperate attempt to provide for his family. Ricardo has known only poverty in Mexico, but he dreams of a better life in the United States. He enlists a “coyote” to smuggle him across the Rio Grande, a river that separates not only one nation from another, but one world from another. The Illegal Man is also the story of Ann Rawlings, a recent widow struggling to preserve her West Texas ranch. There is also her bigoted foreman, who considers his Mexican national ranch hands to be little more than animals. For Ricardo, it’s a world in which he will suffer hardship and indignity, but one he will gladly endure to support his family. The Illegal Man grew out of a newspaper series by Dearen, who interviewed Mexican and American officials and accompanied border patrolmen along the Rio Grande. He based his character, Ricardo, on an actual Mexican national he interviewed in West Texas. Although The Illegal Man is fiction, Dearen’s insight into illegal immigration is sure to spark discussion. PATRICK DEAREN is author of twelve novels and nine nonfiction books. He makes his home in Midland, Texas. 978-0-87565-614-4 ebook $15.95 6x9. 364 pp. Western Fiction. Borderlands Studies. Mexican American Studies. Literary Novel. February
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Death on Base
The Fort Hood Massacre
Anita Belles Porterfield and John Porterfield When Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan walked into the Fort Hood Soldier Readiness Processing Center and opened fire on soldiers within, he perpetrated the worst mass shooting on a United States military base in our country’s history. Death on Base is an in-depth look at the events surrounding the tragic mass murder that took place on November 5, 2009, and an investigation into the causes and influences that factored into the attack. The story begins with Hasan's early life in Virginia, continues with his time at Fort Hood, Texas, covers the events of the shooting, and concludes with his trial. The authors analyze Hasan's connections to radical Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki and Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) and demonstrate how radical Islam fueled Hasan’s hatred of both the American military and the soldiers he treated. Hasan's mass shooting is compared with others, such as George Hennard's shooting rampage at Luby's in Killeen in 1991, Charles Whitman at the University of Texas, and Virginia Tech shooter Seung-Hui Cho. The authors explore the strange paradox that the shooting at Fort Hood was classified as workplace violence rather than a terrorist act. This classification has major implications for the victims of the shooting who have been denied health benefits and compensation. Number Eight: North Texas Crime and Criminal Justice Series
ANITA BELLES PORTERFIELD is a seasoned journalist who also served as the Director of Emergency Medical Services for the state of Louisiana, which provided her with a technical perspective in critiquing the response to the Fort Hood shooting. JOHN PORTERFIELD has a BA in journalism from the Manship School of Mass Communications at Louisiana State University. They both live in Boerne, Texas.
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This is a story that is expertly told and is useful as a reference into this ghastly event. It should be looked upon as a reliable case study presenting facts for researchers to consider in their investigations into the phenomena of terrorism, workplace violence, and mass murder.”—Gary M. Lavergne, author of A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders
978-1-57441-596-4 cloth $29.95 978-1-57441-605-3 ebook 6x9. 384 pp. 28 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. Texas History. Criminal Justice. May
RELATED INTEREST A Sniper in the Tower The Charles Whitman Murders Gary M. Lavergne 978-1-57441-029-7 paper $18.95
Bad Boy from Rosebud The Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen McDuff Gary M. Lavergne 978-1-57441-508-7 paper $18.95
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Making JFK Matter
Popular Memory and the Thirty-fifth President Paul H. Santa Cruz
In Making JFK Matter, Paul Santa Cruz examines how popular memory of John F. Kennedy has been used politically by various interest groups, primarily the city of Dallas, Lyndon Johnson, and Robert Kennedy, as well as how the memory of Kennedy has been portrayed in various museums. Santa Cruz argues that we have memorialized JFK not simply out of love for him or admiration for the ideals he embodied, but because invoking his name carries legitimacy and power. Memory can be employed to accomplish particular ends: for example, the passage of long overdue civil rights legislation, or even successfully running for political office. Santa Cruz demonstrates the presence and use of popular memory in an extensive analysis of what was being said, and by whom, about the late president through White House memoranda and speech material, museum exhibits (such as the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas and the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston), public correspondence, newspapers and periodicals of the time, memoirs, and archival research. He also explores how JFK has been memorialized in films such as Bobby, JFK, and Thirteen Days. Written in an accessible manner to appeal to both historians and the general public, Making JFK Matter tells us much of how we have memorialized Kennedy over the years. PAUL H. SANTA CRUZ is an archivist at the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas. Previously he was with the DeGolyer Special Collections Library at Southern Methodist University. He received his BA in history from Southwestern University and his MA in history from Southern Methodist University.
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No book covers JFK’s popular memory as comprehensively as Paul Santa Cruz does.”—James N. Giglio, author of The Presidency of John F. Kennedy This is a useful political history full of insights about how the contested ground of John F. Kennedy’s ‘legacy’ has been used and misused over time.”—Benjamin Hufbauer, author of Presidential Temples: How Memorials and Libraries Shape Public Memory
978-1-57441-597-1 cloth $29.95 978-1-57441-603-9 ebook 6x9. 416 pp. 19 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. Presidential Studies. American History. May
RELATED INTEREST No More Silence An Oral History of the Assassination of President Kennedy Larry A. Sneed 978-1-57441-148-5 paper $24.95
Twentieth-Century Texas A Social and Cultural History Edited by John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley 978-1-57441-245-1 cloth $39.95s 978-1-57441-246-8 paper $18.95s
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Return of the Gar Mark Spitzer
The alligator gar belongs to a family of fish that has remained fundamentally unchanged since the Cretaceous, over 100 million years ago. Its intimidating size and plethora of teeth have made it demonized throughout its range in North America, resulting in needless killing. Massive oil spills in its breeding range have not helped its population either. Interspersing science, folklore, history, and action-packed fishing narratives, Spitzer's empathy for and fascination with this air-breathing, armored fish provides for an entertaining odyssey that examines management efforts to preserve and propagate the alligator gar in the United States. Spitzer also travels to Central America, Thailand, and Mexico to assess the global gar situation. He reflects on what is and isn't working in compromised environments, then makes a case for conservation based on personal experience and a love for wildness for its own sake. This colorful portrait of the alligator gar can serve as a metaphor and measurement for the future of our biodiversity during a time of planetary crisis.
978-1-57441-599-5 cloth $24.95 978-1-57441-607-7 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 61 b&w illus. Bib. Natural History. Fish/Fishing. Wildlife. March
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MARK SPITZER has caught and studied gar all over the planet, leading to an appearance on Animal Planet’s River Monsters. He also consulted for National Geographic’s Monster Fish episode on the alligator gar. The author of 21 books, including fiction, poetry, translations, and nonfiction, Spitzer is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of Central Arkansas and the editor of Toad Suck Review. He lives in Conway, Arkansas.
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In the tradition of activists who speak up for those without a voice, Spitzer is on a crusade to save the gar. He’s also going to have some fun while doing so . . . a pleasure to read.”—Susan Cohen, coeditor of Shorewords: A Collection of American Women’s Coastal Writings Highly readable, entertaining and engaging . . . excellent attention to detail.”— Solomon R. David, research associate at Shedd Aquarium
RELATED INTEREST Zen of the Plains Experiencing Wild Western Places Tyra A. Olstad 978-1-57441-552-0 cloth $24.95
Morning Comes to Elk Mountain Dispatches from the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge Gary Lantz Foreword by David Taylor 978-1-57441-527-8 cloth $39.95 978-1-57441-539-1 paper $18.95
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The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 2 Edited by George Getschow
This anthology collects the twelve winners of the 2013 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, run by the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The event is hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. The contest honors exemplary narrative work and encourages narrative nonfiction storytelling at newspapers across the United States. First place winner: Eli Saslow, “Into the Lonely Quiet” (Washington Post), follows the family of a 7-year-old victim of the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, six months after the shooting. Second place: Eric Moskowitz, “Marathon Carjacking” (Boston Globe), is the story of “Danny,” who was carjacked by the suspects of the Boston Marathon bombing three days after the bombing. Third place: Mark Johnson, “The Course of Their Lives” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel), an account of first-year medical students as they take a human dissection course. Runners-up include Christopher Goffard, “The Manhunt” (Los Angeles Times); Stephanie McCrummen, “Wait—You Described It as a Cloudy Feeling?” (Washington Post); Michael M. Phillips, “The Lobotomy Files” (Wall Street Journal); Aaron Applegate, “Taken Under” (Virginian-Pilot); Meg Kissinger, “A Mother, at Her Wits' End” (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel); Michael Kruse, “The Last Voyage of the Bounty” (Tampa Bay Times); Shaun McKinnon, “Alone on the Hill” (Arizona Republic); Mike Newall, “Almost Justice” (Philadelphia Inquirer); and Sarah Schweitzer, “Together, Despite All” (Boston Globe). GEORGE GETSCHOW teaches narrative nonfiction in the University of North Texas’s Mayborn School of Journalism and is the writer- in-residence for the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. He was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal bureau in Chicago and also chief of the Dallas and Houston bureaus. Getschow was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
978-1-57441-595-7 paper $21.95 978-1-57441-604-6 ebook 6x9. 512 pp. Literary Nonfiction. June
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William & Rosalie A Holocaust Testimony William Schiff, Rosalie Schiff, and Craig Hanley 978-1-57441-261-1 paper $12.95
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Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands
The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones
Bob Alexander Foreword by Chief Kirby W. Dendy, Texas Rangers Many well-read students, historians, and loyal aficionados of Texas Ranger lore know the name of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones (1856–1893), who died on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. In Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands, Bob Alexander has now penned the first full-length biography of this important nineteenth-century Texas Ranger. At an early age Frank Jones, a native Texan, would become a Frontier Battalion era Ranger. His enlistment with the Rangers coincided with their transition from Indian fighters to lawmen. While serving in the Frontier Battalion officers' corps of Company D, Frank Jones supervised three of the four “great” captains of that era: J. A. Brooks, John H. Rogers, and John R. Hughes. Besides Austin Ira Aten and his younger brothers Calvin Grant Aten and Edwin Dunlap Aten, Captain Jones also managed law enforcement activities of numerous other noteworthy Rangers, such as Philip Cuney “P. C.” Baird, Benjamin Dennis Lindsey, Bazzell Lamar “Baz” Outlaw, J. Walter Durbin, Jim King, Frank Schmid, and Charley Fusselman, to name just a few. Frank Jones’s law enforcing life was anything but boring. Not only would he find himself dodging bullets and returning fire, but those Rangers under his supervision would also experience gunplay. Of all the Texas Ranger companies, Company D contributed the highest number of on-duty deaths within Texas Ranger ranks. Number Fifteen: Frances B. Vick Series
BOB ALEXANDER began a policing career in 1965 and retired as a special agent with the US Treasury Department. He is the author of Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten (winner of Wild West Historical Association Best Book Award); Bad Company and Burnt Powder; Riding Lucifer's Line: Ranger Deaths along the Texas-Mexico Border; and Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901, all published by UNT Press. He lives in Maypearl, Texas.
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For those fascinated by the Old West, this book is the true story.”—Rick Miller, author of award-winning Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874–1881
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Winchester Warriors Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874–1901 Bob Alexander 978-1-57441-310-6 paper $19.95
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The Notorious Luke Short
Sporting Man of the Wild West
Jack DeMattos and Chuck Parsons Foreword by Rick Miller Luke Short perfected his skills as a gambler in locations that included Leadville, Tombstone, Dodge City, and Fort Worth. In 1883, in what became known as the “Dodge City War,” he banded together with Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, and others to protect his ownership interests in the Long Branch Saloon—an event commemorated by the famous “Dodge City Peace Commission” photograph. During his lifetime, Luke Short became one of the best known sporting men in the United States, and one of the wealthiest. The irony is that Luke Short is best remembered for being the winning gunfighter in two of the most celebrated showdowns in Old West history: the shootout with Charlie Storms in Tombstone, Arizona, and the showdown against Jim Courtright in Fort Worth, Texas. He would have hated that. Number Sixteen: A. C. Greene Series
JACK DeMATTOS is the author of six books on western gunfighters, including Mysterious Gunfighter: The Story of Dave Mather. He lives in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. CHUCK PARSONS is the author of Captain John R. Hughes and The Sutton-Taylor Feud and coauthor of A Lawless Breed, a biography of John Wesley Hardin. He lives in Luling, Texas. 978-1-57441-594-0 cloth $29.95 978-1-57441-602-2 ebook 6x9. 352 pp. 55 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. Biography. Western History. June
The Twentyfive Year Century
A South Vietnamese General Remembers the Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon Lam Quang Thi
General Thi served in the Vietnamese National Army, also known as the Army of the Republic of Viet Nam (or ARVN). His last position was commander of an Army Corps Task Force south of the Demilitarized Zone. He fought for twenty-five years in Vietnam until Saigon fell in 1975. Here he provides a rare and valuable insight into South Vietnam’s side of the Vietnam War. General Thi pulls no punches in his denunciation of the various regimes of the Republic, and of the complacency and arrogance toward Vietnam in the policies of both France and the United States. “His narrative is a stunning portrayal of the gradual collapse of South Vietnam . . . replete with tales of heroism, treachery, and political intrigue and corruption. . . . This is a must-read book.” —Proceedings “A vivid, first-hand account. . . . Thi is also brutally frank in his assessment of South Vietnam’s fall, but he does not fall into the ‘how we might have won’ syndrome. He lays part of the blame on America’s failure to provide promised support, but he also acknowledges South Vietnam’s shortcomings, which contributed to the defeat.”—Military Review LAM QUANG THI, a general in the ARVN, is the author of Hell in An Loc: The 1972 Easter Invasion and the Battle That Saved South Viet Nam, also published by UNT Press. He lives in Fremont, California. 978-1-57441-598-8 paper $24.95s 978-1-57441-434-9 ebook 6x9. 448 pp. 8 b&w illus. 16 maps. Bib. Index. Vietnam War. Memoir. February
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Winner, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2014
Katherine Anne Porter’s Ship of Fools
Other Psalms Jordan Windholz
New Interpretations and Transatlantic Contexts Edited by Thomas Austenfeld
Containing pieces by distinguished scholars including Darlene Harbour Unrue and Robert Brinkmeyer, this book is the first full investigation of the links between Porter’s only novel and European intellectual history. Beginning with Sebastian Brant, author of the late medieval Narrenschiff, whom she acknowledges in her preface to Ship of Fools, Porter’s image of Europe emerges as more complex, more knowledgeable, and more politically nuanced than previous critics have acknowledged. Ship of Fools is in conversation with Europe’s humanistic tradition as well as with the political moments of 1931 and 1962, the years that elapsed from the novel’s conception to its completion.
In his debut collection, Jordan Windholz recasts devotional poetics and traces the line between faith and its loss. Other Psalms gives voice to the skeptic who yet sings to the silence that “swells with the noise of listening.” If faith is necessary, this collection suggests, it is necessary as material for its own unmaking.
“Unlike Porter’s short stories, her only novel has not received the sustained critical attention it deserves. Being the only of its kind and representing much original thinking, research, and new approaches, Austenfeld’s edition fulfills this lack of scholarship.”—Christine Grogan, president of the Katherine Anne Porter Society
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“In the field of Porter studies, this work will rank of great significance.”—Linda Kornasky, Angelo State University
Number Twenty-two: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
THOMAS AUSTENFELD is currently Professor of American Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. 978-1-57441-593-3 cloth $39.95s 978-1-57441-606-0 ebook 6x9. 240 pp. 17 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. Literary Criticism. April
“Ambitious and exigent, these poems are refreshingly alert to all of the formal necessities of contemporary poetry, recognizing the inadequacy of any single measure to encompass the human longing for presence.”—Averill Curdy, author of Song and Error, and judge
part self, part song the psalm drags sense from absence the eclogue anticipates response verdant and vined, its verges overtake the tongue. . .
JORDAN WINDHOLZ lives in Bridgeport, Connecticut, with his family. Having received an MFA from the University of Colorado, Boulder, he is currently a PhD candidate in English literature at Fordham University. His work was published in Best New Poets of 2007, Boston Review, and other journals. 978-1-57441-600-8 paper $12.95 978-1-57441-608-4 ebook 6x9. 84 pp. Poetry. April
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Economics
From the Dismal Science to the Moral Science, the Moral Economics of Kendall P. Cochran
Kendall P. Cochran Edited by Susan McHargue Dadres, Mona S. HershCochran, and David J. Molina Adam Smith published The Theory of Moral Sentiments in 1759 and established the ethical foundation for The Wealth of Nations (1776) as well as the important role played by custom and fashion in shaping behaviors and outcomes. Kendall P. Cochran believed in Smith’s emphasis on value-driven analysis and seeking solutions to major problems of the day. Cochran believed that economists moved too far in the direction of analysis free of words like ought and should, and he devoted his career to establishing that economics is a moral science. Cochran’s articles collected herein argue persuasively that economists have a moral obligation to provide policy recommendations that are consistent with a social agenda of fairness and opportunity. While many agree with Adam Smith that individuals are motivated by self-interest, it does not follow that any action or policy that promotes an individual’s selfinterest is therefore worthwhile or beneficial from society’s perspective. Cochran makes an eloquent case that economists must identify instances in which government policy can and should be used to protect and promote society’s well-being. KENDALL P. COCHRAN served as Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of North Texas. SUSAN L. McHARGUE DADRES is Senior Lecturer in Economics at University of North Texas. MONA S. HERSH-COCHRAN is Emerita Professor at Texas Woman’s University. DAVID J. MOLINA is Associate Professor of Economics at University of North Texas. 978-1-68040-000-7 paper $19.95s 6x9. 268 pp. Economics. January
Military History of the West Vol. 44 Edited by Alex Mendoza
ISSN 1071-2011 $15.00x 6x9. 100 pp. Military History. June
The Military History of the West is a peer-reviewed journal focused on scholarly study of western US military history, including the Mississippi Valley and all states west of that line. The journal features articles on the Texas Revolution, the Mexican War, frontier military service, the Civil War, the Indian Wars, the Spanish-American War, Mexican border service, and the Texas National Guard in the twentieth century, including its service in World War I and World War II.
Theoria, Vol. 21 Edited by Frank Heidlberger ISSN 1554-1312 $22.00x 71/2x91/4. 196 pp. Music. January
Theoria is an annual peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of the history of music theory. It includes critical articles representing the current stage of research, and editions of newly discovered or mostly unknown theoretical texts with translation and commentary. Analytical articles on recent or unknown repertory and methods are also published, as well as review articles on recent secondary literature and textbooks. Back issues are available from Texas A&M University Press.
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Blood on the Bayou
Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi Donald S. Frazier
Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the TransMississippi takes a well-known story, the struggle for control of the Mississippi River in the American Civil War, and recasts it as a contest for control of African-American populations. The Emancipation Proclamation may have freed the slaves, but the task of actually moving these liberated people into the Union lines and directing their labor to the benefit of the Union fell to the Federal army and navy. This book, by examining the campaigns from west of the river, shows how the campaign to reduce these rebel forts also involved the creation of a black army of occupation and a remaking of the social and political landscape of Louisiana and the nation. Challenging many commonly held notions of the Vicksburg and Port Hudson campaigns, Blood on the Bayou reveals small unit actions and big government policies in the Trans-Mississippi did as much to shape the outcome of the war as did the great armies and famous captains of legend and lore. Scholars of Vicksburg and Port Hudson will find their studies incomplete without a thorough examination of this work. DONALD S. FRAZIER is the award-winning author of Blood and Treasure: Confederate Empire in the Southwest; Cottonclads! The Battle of Galveston and the Defense of the Texas Coast; Fire in the Cane Field: The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861–January 1863; and Thunder Across the Swamp: The Fight for the Lower Mississippi, February–May 1863. His other work include serving as co-author of Frontier Texas: History of a Borderland to 1880 and editor of Love and War: The Civil War Letters and Medicinal Book of Augustus V. Ball. Donald lives in Abilene, Texas and is currently a professor of history at McMurry University.
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Fire in the Cane Field The Federal Invasion of Louisiana and Texas, January 1861–January 1863 Donald S. Frazier 978-1-933337-36-4 cloth $39.95
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I’m Frank Hamer
The Life of a Texas Peace Officer
John H. Jenkins and H. Gordon Frost Best known as the Texas Ranger captain who tracked down and killed Bonnie and Clyde, Frank Hamer was designated by Walter Prescott Webb as “one of the three most fearless men in Western history.” This reprint of the 1968 edition gives the complete details of the Barrow-Parker rampage and is the only authentic account of the events leading to their deaths. With more than one hundred pages of illustrations, I'm Frank Hamer tells the amazing story of one of the greatest Texas Rangers of all time. JOHN H. JENKINS attended the University of Texas on a General Motors Fellowship and a Rotary Fellowship and became a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. After a year of studies at the University of Texas Law School he began a career as a publisher and bookseller in Austin. Between 1963 and 1990 the Jenkins Publishing Company, including the Pemberton Press for trade publishing and the San Felipe Press for private publishing, produced more than three hundred titles, several of which Jenkins wrote or edited. In 1965 he compiled and published Cracker Barrel Chronicles: A Bibliography of Texas Town and County Histories, a comprehensive listing of five thousand titles, which won the Award of Merit from the American Association for State and Local History. His 10-volume Papers of the Texas Revolution, winner of the Summerfield G. Roberts Award from the Sons of the Republic of Texas as the outstanding publication on early Texas history for 1973, is a massive compilation of primary sources. An equally important work by Jenkins, Basic Texas Books, published in 1983, is a descriptive bibliographical guide to the most important books on Texas history. It was reissued in a revised edition by the Texas State Historical Association in 1988. H. GORDON FROST was a professional writer and high school teacher in El Paso. He was also author of Gentlemen's Club: The Story of Prostitution in El Paso.
978-1-933337-64-7 paper $24.95 6x9. 308 pp. 117 b&w photos. Drawing. Texas Rangers. April
RELATED INTEREST Terry Texas Ranger Trilogy J. K. P. Blackburn, L. B. Giles and E. S. Dodd Introduction by Thomas W. Cutrer 978-1-880510-46-9 paper $17.95
Taming Texas Captain William T. Sadler's Lone Star Service Stephen Moore 978-1-880510-68-1 cloth $34.95
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In this Southern memoir, The Help becomes family . . .
Hush Now, Baby Angela W. Williams
Hush Now, Baby is the story of how a little white girl climbed out of an uneasy childhood in the segregated South . . . on the backbone of a black woman who loved her unabashedly. A host of African-American women permeated Southern families. One of those stalwart women was Eva Aiken, a central figure in the author’s life from her birth . . . until Eva staged a sit-in at the girl’s wedding. The story captures the glorious early years of the Lowcountry South Carolina family then graphically depicts its unraveling. Eva holds them together. The family and the country’s parallel struggles converge. The author lives in bubble-wrap until Civil Rights issues escalate. This story is told without pathos and with graceful restraint—the Southern way. “Angela’s prose plunges us back in time when a generation of white children were raised by the calloused hands of slaves who, despite being freed by Lincoln, remained chained to a stubborn way of life. Instead of killing us in our sleep, they became our guardian angels, for reasons still mysteriously misunderstood.”—Ken Burger, author of Swallow Savannah, Sister Santee, Salkehatchie Soup, and Baptized in Sweet Tea. ANGELA WILLIAMS grew up in a family with deep roots in the Lowcountry of South Carolina and currently lives in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. A life-long teacher, she has published academic books and articles as well as short stories. Currently she is a communication consultant and coach.
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Coping with Transition Men, Motherhood, Money and Magic Edited by Susan Briggs Wright 978-1-933896-78-6 paper $24.95
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Recipes and such from the Texas State Poets Laureate . . .
Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate Elizabeth Ethredge
It should come as no surprise that poets are often exceptionally fine cooks, savoring food the way they savor words and at the same time recognizing that just as a gathering of words does not necessarily mean a good poem, neither does a mixture of ingredients necessarily mean a good recipe. In Cooking with the Texas Poets Laureate, the editors, all members of Dr. Paul Ruffin’s 2014 graduate Editing/Publishing class, solicited recipes and food-related poetry and prose from Texas Poet Laureates of this millennia. The result is a most unusual gathering of personalities equally comfortable with the spatula or the pen. EATING TEXAS It’s taken a long apprenticeship to make waffles in the shape of Texas. First there were mountains over Waco. Then the Panhandle sank. A few more false starts when the Red River swamped Oklahoma and the Rio Grande dripped into Mexico. Now I can make perfect ones. All I have to do is take care to stop pouring the batter a little shy of El Paso, Dalhart, and Texarkana. For some reason, Brownsville needs more. Otherwise, my grandchildren complain they don’t have the tail of Texas to bite off. —Jan Seale, 2012 TPL ELIZABETH ETHREDGE, who lives in The Woodlands, Texas, is a CIED graduate student minoring in English at SHSU. Joanna Baker, Matthew Bennett, Reina Shay Broussard, Gary Horton, Julian Kindred, and all in the English graduate program at SHSU, were members of Dr. Paul Ruffin’s Editing/Publishing Practicum (Spring 2014), which produced this book.
978-1-68003-020-4 paper $22.95 978-1-68003-021-1 ebook 7x9. 160 pp. Cooking. January
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Resurrecting Trash: Dan Phillips and the Phoenix Commotion Edited by Don R. Bates, Amanda Dellett, Christina Fernandez, et. al. 978-1-933896-86-1 paper with flaps $24.95
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The history of one of the first WWII POW camps in America . . .
The Enemy Within Never Did Without
German and Japanese Prisoners of War at Camp Huntsville, Texas, 1942–1945 Jeffrey L. Littlejohn and Charles H. Ford
Camp Huntsville was one of the first and largest POW camps constructed in America during World War II. Located roughly eight miles east of Huntsville, Texas, in Walker County, the camp was built in 1942 and opened for prisoners the following year. The camp served as a model site for POW installations across the country and set a high standard for the treatment of prisoners. Between 1943 and 1945, the camp housed roughly 4,700 German POWs and experienced tense relations between incarcerated Nazi and anti-Nazi factions. Then, during the last months of the war, the American military selected Camp Huntsville as the home of its top-secret re-education program for Japanese POWs. The irony of teaching Japanese prisoners about democracy and voting rights was not lost on African Americans in East Texas who faced disenfranchisement and racial segregation. Nevertheless, the camp did inspire some Japanese prisoners to support democratization of their home country when they returned to Japan after the war. Meanwhile, in this country, the US government sold Camp Huntsville to Sam Houston State Teachers College in 1946, and the site served as the school’s Country Campus through the mid-1950s. “This long-overdue project is one I started working on decades ago but didn’t finish. It is gratifying to see the book come to fruition through the efforts of these two history professors. And what a job they’ve done!”—Paul Ruffin, Director, TRP JEFFREY L. LITTLEJOHN is an associate professor of history and director of the graduate program in history at Sam Houston State University and lives in The Woodlands, Texas. CHARLES H. FORD is chair and professor of history at Norfolk State and lives in Norfolk, Virginia.
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RELATED INTEREST A Frontier Texas Mercantile The History of Gibbs Brothers and Company, Huntsville, 1841–1940 Donald R. Walker 978-1-881515-08-1 cloth $30.00
Upon this Chessboard of Nights and Days Voices from Texas Death Row Edited by Dana Allen, et. al. 978-1-933896-36-6 paper $26.95
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New from the author of Splinterville . . .
Pretty Enough for You Cliff Hudder
Ne’er-do-well immigration attorney Harrison Bent can’t imagine why the wealthy and mysterious Maggie Leudecke wants him to solve her eminent domain problem. If he didn’t have an angry wife to placate, an inscrutable stalker to identify, an obsessed girlfriend to escape, and a murder to solve, a successful outcome to the Leudecke case might revive his career, pay for his autistic son’s special school, and—most important of all—help convince his young paralegal, Chloe, that the afternoon she spent with him in a cheap motel wasn’t an error in judgment, but the beginning of something profound. If only he had some clue as to what he was doing . . . . From the book: I know myself. That’s the good news. That’s also the bad news. For example, I knew I was not equipped to deal with the Leudecke case. I also knew I wouldn’t turn it down or hand it off to somebody better suited. But, seriously, what background did I have in eminent domain? Or with Mexican drug dealers? Or dead Mexican drug dealers? None. And I knew it.
978-1-68003-038-9 paper $22.95 978-1-68003-039-6 ebook 51/2x81/2. 344 pp. Literary Novel. July
RELATED INTEREST CLIFF HUDDER earned an MFA in Fiction Writing from the University of Houston. His work has received the Barthelme and Michener Awards, the Peden Prize, and the Short Story Award from the Texas Institute of Letters. His novella, Splinterville, won the 2007 Texas Review Fiction Award. He teaches English at Lone Star College–Montgomery and lives in Conroe, Texas.
Splinterville Cliff Hudder 978-1-933896-13-7 paper $14.95
Vox Populi Clay Reynolds 978-1-933896-98-4 paper $22.95
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Gripping prison mystery . . .
Sign of Redemption Lisa Trow
Sign of Redemption tells the story of Richie Harrison, an innocent CPA who lands behind bars in a Texas prison—the unwitting “wheelman” in an unexpected armed robbery. Harrison falls in love with Elizabeth McKenna, a lawyer there to help Harrison’s deaf friend, and thoughts of her—and the life he’s lost—begin to obsess him. He escapes, on horseback and across a raging river, and finds safety with a drug-dealing family while scheming to win his love. To woo her, Harrison drags McKenna on a destructive journey that transforms him into the criminal he never imagined he’d become. From the book: When I first got sent down, I thought about escaping every day, and every day I thought of the bullet that would pierce my back and exit through my breastbone in a bloody spray. I thought of myself tumbling out of a dead run, my legs buckling, my face hitting the pavement. Maybe I’m just a coward if all it takes to make a coward is a vivid imagination. But I wasn’t here long before I found out what it sounded like when the blood left the body in gurgling rushes. LISA TROW is a poet and fiction writer and a former journalist. She has a master’s degree in creative writing from Oklahoma State University and has served as adjunct faculty teaching creative writing in Texas prisons. Trow was an editor at the Austin American-Statesman and managing editor for the Huntsville Item. She lives in Austin, Texas, and has a daughter, Katie Renaud.
978-1-68003-030-3 paper $18.95 978-1-68003-031-0 ebook 51/2x81/2. 240 pp. Literary Novel. July
RELATED INTEREST Degenerate George Williams 978-1-933896-34-2 paper $14.95 978-1-933896-41-0 cloth $24.95
Black August William Harrison 978-1-933896-75-5 paper $24.95 978-1-937875-79-4 ebook $2.99
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New stories from a fresh Southern voice . . .
Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales Tom Williams
Set in the suburbs and cities of the Midwest, Mid-South, and Texas, these stories explore the lives of characters biracial, black, white, and all sorts of in-between. The intersections and collisions of contemporary life are in full effect here, where the distinctions between fast food and fine art, noble and naked ambitions, reality and reality shows have become impossible to distinguish. Read these stories and understand why Steve Yarbrough said Williams “writes like Paul Auster if he were funnier or like Stanley Elkin might have if he’d ever been able to stop laughing.” “Tom Williams has done the near impossible in penning a book that is both undeniably entertaining and deeply thoughtful, Millhauser meets Bukowski meets Ellison.”—Alan Heathcock, author of Volt “Sure, we need the nudge of category to help us all think straight, but we also need the rangy trickster, Tom Williams, to do the bang-up boundary work of imaginary anthropology in these deadpan, dead-on gems. These infiltrating texts take us sideways, through and through, turn us inside-out.”—Michael Martone, author of Michael Martone and Four for a Quarter TOM WILLIAMS, who earned his PhD from the University of Houston, is the author of two books of fiction: The Mimic’s Own Voice and Don’t Start Me Talkin. The Chair of English at Morehead State University, he resides in Morehead, Kentucky, with his wife and son.
978-1-68003-018-1 paper $14.95 978-1-68003-019-8 ebook 51/2x61/2. 192 pp. Collection of Short Fiction. July
RELATED INTEREST Two-Up Eric Williamson 978-1-881515-74-6 cloth $25.95 978-1-881515-75-3 paper $16.95
Hide Island Richard Burgin 978-1-937875-67-1 cloth $24.95 978-1-937875-22-0 paper $14.95 978-1-937875-23-7 ebook
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Winner, TRP Southern Poetry Breakthrough Series: Louisiana
New from 2011 Texas State Poet Laureate . . .
Reaching for Longer Water
Alluvial Cities Christopher M. Hannan
New and Selected Poems David Mercier Parsons
The poems in Alluvial Cities are drawn from this layered landscape's geology and history, its people and language, and the kindred ties between earth and water, flesh and blood. DEUCALIONIDS The waters broke from the void before first light, a divinity ripping through the trembling flesh of marshes and the levees’ old clay thighs, covering every mile of St. Bernard Parish. Houses with their cement slabs have floated light as the rinds of watermelons you ate as a boy and chucked into Lake Catherine, swelled to overflowing by the god that surged into the Rigolets estuary and left an afterbirth of sweet crude leaked from foundered tanks. Cars hang like carrion birds on the highest branches and torn roofs. Leached of mud and flood waters, the houses we pass cry out broken window panes, duct-taped fridges, and a stillness that leaves us on the dead grass of this woman’s home, like so many thrown bones. CHRISTOPHER M. HANNAN is an attorney in New Orleans. 978-1-68003-022-8 paper $8.95 978-1-68003-023-5 ebook 51/2x81/2. 64 pp. Poetry. May
Award winning poetry critic Ange Mlinko wrote of Parsons and his work, “The Renaissance man was once a courtly ideal; Parsons shows that it is a democratic ideal too—warm-blooded, muscular, as companionable on the page as in the flesh.” Both tangible and cerebral, Parsons’s poetry lifts its readers into a new, transformational reality with a depth of insight that is truly exceptional. Reaching For Longer Water brings the reader, the most compelling of his poems from his previous four collections, poems hailed by poetry luminaries, Edward Hirsch, Stanley Plumly, Robert Phillips, and Paul Mariani. THE FRANK GAZE OF WOMEN After Baudelaire’s “Exotic Scent” Yes, yes, they bestow delights— not only in the seedy way we all know: they plant something in the littoral vacancy and in an instant there is an ineffable fire—that forging force on which so much more depends than wheelbarrows & chickens. DAVID M. PARSONS, 2011 Texas Poet Laureate, teaches at Lone Star College. He lives in Conroe, Texas. 978-1-68003-032-7 paper $12.95 978-1-68003-033-4 ebook 51/2x81/2. 200 pp. Poetry. April
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New poems from 2004 Texas State Poet Laureate . . .
New from 2008 Texas State Poet Laureate . . .
A Popular Play
As If Light Actually Matters
New and Selected Poems
New and Selected Poems
Cleatus Rattan
Larry D. Thomas
Poems from sonnets to free verse focus on pleasures and problems in ranch life and in west Texas, which include variations differing for generations returning to the ranch, and those family members who leave the ranch for city life. CORMORANTS’ JOURNEY Snowbirds come diving down, sliding in carelessly splatting, pecking on windows, doors, building nests, dropping threads, shards of old nests hanging on their beaks, claws. Their fluttering white feathers blocking the sun’s puny attempts to break through, making the streets slick with their droppings as their baggage slides by, bumping into place side by side by side. Odysseus would tramp off to far west Texas, hankering for firm enchiladas, crusty tacos, brown eyes, and thin clear skies. CLEATUS RATTAN, 2004 Texas State Poet Laureate, recently retired as Mayborn professor of English at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor. He lives in Cisco, Texas. 978-1-68003-026-6 paper $12.95 978-1-68003-027-3 ebook 51/2x81/2. 200 pp. Poetry. May
The present volume draws on nine book-length collections of Thomas’s poetry, and includes a generous selection of new poems. Five of the collections are comprised of poems of geographic place, four of which are set primarily in Texas. His fifth “place” collection is set on the coast of Maine. The poems selected from his remaining collections range in subject matter from outlaw bikers to ekphrasis; from the avian world to an asylum for the criminally insane. PIANO TUNER The tools of his trade are unassuming and relatively primitive. The stagehand is his counterpart in drama. In the shadows of architects, for grand cathedrals of sonatas, he lays the bricks. Of pitch and tone, he is master. Even a concert pianist steers clear of his ear. LARRY D. THOMAS, 2008 Texas Poet Laureate and resident of Alpine, Texas, retired from a career in social service and adult criminal justice. He is the author of several collections of poetry. 978-1-68003-024-2 paper $12.95 978-1-68003-025-9 ebook 51/2x81/2. 200 pp. Poetry. April
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New from the winner of the 2010 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize . . .
The history of a university English Department . . .
The Sam Houston State University English Department
Down & Dirty George Drew
A History
Gary Horton “Drew may have lived many years among the Yanks, but his Mississippi roots are having their say, shining through in every irreverent/reverent syllable. Once you pick this book up, you won’t be putting it down any time soon!”—Nancy White
In 1879 the Texas Legislature created the Sam Houston Normal Institute “to elevate the standard of education throughout the State, by giving thorough instruction and special training to our present and future teachers.”
THE DOWN AND DIRTY REDNECK HUNGERS FOR THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY I’ve always been afraid of burning to death, but with you I was like a tree in October, on fire with a shitload of leaves just before the north wind ripped them loose and sent them ass over teacup earthward. Girl, if only you would come again driving down Main Street, your long golden hair streaming out the window like yellow flames, your white Mustang unstained as you was, I wouldn’t give a damn about how I go, only that the crash when it comes rivals them leaves up to their stems in duff, and that one day we can look back and say okay, we crashed, but we crashed still burning.
This book concentrates on the evolution of the English Department at SHSU over the decades, with an emphasis on its expansion under the leadership of administrators from the level of presidents down to departmental chairs. After a general history of the department until the “modern era,” the book addresses the development of programs and growth of faculty under different departmental leaders up to the present day.
GEORGE DREW lives in Poestenkill in New York State. He is the author of five collections of poetry, including The View from Jackass Hill. 978-1-68003-036-5 paper $8.95 978-1-68003-037-2 ebook 51/2x81/2. 64 pp. Poetry. June
The book traces the hiring of new faculty under different chairs, presenting biographies of most of the faculties, along with group and individual photographs. It concludes with a section of anecdotes provided by active and retired members of the department. GARY HORTON is a retired geologist currently studying in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at SHSU. Joanna Baker, Matthew Bennett, Reina Shay Broussard, Elizabeth Ethredge, and Julian Kindred were members of Dr. Paul Ruffin’s 2014 Editing/Publishing Practicum, which produced the book. All the editors live in the Huntsville/Houston area. 978-1-68003-016-7 paper $12.95 978-1-68003-017-4 ebook 51/2x81/2. 160 pp. Education History. July
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Blues has been here since the world was born.
“If you don't hunt it down and kill it, it will hunt you down and kill you.” —F. O’Connor
My Black Angel
Drinking Rum from a Paper Cup
Blues Poems and Portraits
Kim Addonizio Illustrated by Charles D. Jones
Kim Addonizio’s latest collection of poetry, My Black Angel: Blues Poems and Portraits, featuring woodcuts by book artisan Charles D. Jones, is an auditory pleasure and visual feast. First, Addonizio’s poetry celebrates the blues tradition in poetry much the way Langston Hughes, James Weldon Johnson, and Paul Laurence Dunbar did; she understands, feels, knows blues rhythms, and the result is an incomparable and important poetry. Furthermore, Jones’s accompanying art encompasses the blues medium and personalities Addonizio so aptly employs in her poetry: edgy and surprising, multifaceted with concurrent streams of meaning. The concert resultant from this collaboration is a dynamic performance bound to turn readers’ attentions to the music and tradition of the blues, to seek out the sources, to immerse in the blues. KIM ADDONIZIO lives and teaches workshops in Oakland, California. CHARLES D. JONES, a printmaker, is the director of LaNana Creek Press. He is a Regents Professor of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University. 978-1-62288-037-9 cloth $40.00 8x10. 64 pp. 27 woodcut illus. Poetry. Music. Art. January
Kimberly D. Verhines
Kimberly Verhines is a wicked writer, and the characters of the short stories in Drinking Rum from a Paper Cup are a resilient, powerful group of Misfits, akin to Flannery O’Connor’s violently redeeming crew in A Good Man is Hard to Find. Verhines’s heroines and heroes may not be “good men,” but they are truly good exhortations of the human grotesque. Her ladies let car jacks fall on abusive husbands, go to whatever evils are necessary to buy their daughters' medicine, encourage just a little more morphine for elderly matrons because, after all, she’s no deader than the rest of us already. Readers will find amazement in the women who collect fleas on their socks just to drown them, and, in similar fashion, set their husbands up with crazy women just to cure their cheating hearts. KIMBERLY D. VERHINES received her BA in English from Southwestern Oklahoma State University and an MA in literature and women's studies from the University of Houston Clear-Lake, an MFA in creative writing from the University of Idaho, and an MA in elementary education from Stephen F. Austin State University. She lives in Nacogdoches. 978-1-62288-094-2 paper $18.00 6x9. 220 pp. Collection of Short Fiction. July
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A stunning collection from a lifetime of work. . .
New collection from an award-winning author. . .
A Kelly Cherry Reader
Why Guineas Fly Mark E. Sanders
Kelly Cherry Introduction by Fred Chappell
In Fred Chappell’s introduction to The Kelly Cherry Reader, he writes, “Cherry is a flambeau example of the extremely conscious artist, a writer who mediates ceaselessly upon the problems and possibilities of the poem, the novel, the short story and the essay. She ponders what she has done and how she has done it; she thinks about the approaches and techniques she has employed, and she labors to extend and expand them. This kind of effort is not common to all writers, many of whom will write this year pretty much the same novel they wrote a year before last, the same poem they wrote twenty years ago.” Cherry has long been a writer whose work has remained vital and, due to her diligence, fresh. Here, in the Reader, she collects a body of work, much of it no longer in print, and permits us to remap and re-explore where her writing has come from, where it has gone, and where it is bound yet to go; it reacquaints long-time fans and invites new readers to discover the importance of her work. KELLY CHERRY is an award winning author, poet, and former Poet Laureate of Virginia. She lives in Halifax, Virginia 978-1-62288-070-6 paper $22.00 6x9. 224 pp. Literary Novel. Poetry. Collection of Short Fiction. January
A native of the Great Plains, Sanders captures well what it is to live and survive the harsh territory of America’s flatlands. Unlike his literary forebears, however, writers such as Willa Cather, Mari Sandoz, and Wright Morris, Sanders does not romanticize—as Cather or Sandoz often did—the Plains experience; nor does he disengage his characters, in the manner of Morris, from the emotional weather straining to engulf them or to blow them off the earth’s face. The grotesque place of Sanders’s world places his people deep in the drought, the deluge, the erosion, and—even if they should fail—they go out scraping and scrapping. This is fiction that sees stubbornness as a virtue, ugly and mean as such virtue may be. MARK E. SANDERS is a Plains native—born, raised, and educated in Nebraska. In 2007, he received the Mildred Bennett Award from the Nebraska Center for the Book for fostering Nebraska’s literary heritage. He has taught in colleges and universities in Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Idaho, and Texas. He resides with his wife in East Texas. 978-1-62288-092-8 paper $18.00 6x9. 160 pp. Collection of Short Fiction. July
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Don’t Forget Me, Bro
Ransom Island
John Michael Cummings
Miles Arceneaux 978-1-62288-080-5 paper $22.00 6x9. 300 pp. Fiction. January
It’s 1953, and life is good at Shady’s, the Sweetwater brothers’ fish camp, dancehall, and beer joint on Ransom Island. The biggest event in the island’s history is coming up—an integrated dance featuring Duke Ellington. It’s a daring idea for fifties-era Texas, and not everyone is happy about it. But soon interracial dancing becomes the least of the Sweetwaters’ problems. Galveston mobsters track a runaway girl to Shady’s and decide the offbeat island is the perfect place to diversify their illegal rackets . . . And God help anyone who gets in their way. Suddenly, life on sleepy little Ransom Island becomes crowded, complicated—and very, very dangerous. MILES ARCENEAUX is the storytelling alter ego of Texas-based writers Brent Douglass, John T. Davis and James R. Dennis. Miles Arceneaux is also the author of Thin Slice of Life and LaSalle's Ghost, both set on the salty Gulf Coast of Texas.
978-1-62288-078-2 paper $18.00 6x9. 230 pp. Literary Novel. January
When families and their perceptions of mental illness collide, as happens with such gritty persistence in Don't Forget Me, Bro all the discomfort of relationships, normal and otherwise, comes to the fore. JOHN MICHAEL CUMMINGS is an American short story writer and novelist. Cummings lives in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Shearer captures emotion effortlessly.
Swift
Robert A. Shearer 978-1-62288-090-4 paper $15.00 6x9. 130 pp. Fiction. February
In a novel of dazzling suspense and excitement, Robert A. Shearer demonstrates the mastery of craft in this historically significant novel that has made him a significant voice in historical fiction. Based on actual events that occurred after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and set in a small Texas town, Swift is a fictional account of lives altered in a time of war. ROBERT A. SHEARER is a retired professor of criminal justice from Sam Houston State University. He currently lives in College Station, Texas.
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Alturas de Macchu Picchu / Heights of Macchu Picchu Translated by David Young Illustrated by Gary Young
Pablo Neruda’s Alturas de Macchu Picchu / Heights of Macchu Picchu, as translated by poet David Young, is a new look at Neruda’s long narrative poem, originally featured as Book 2 of his monumental Canto.
Back Room at the Philosophers’ Club
Christopher Buckley 978-1-62288-069-0 paper $16.00 6x9. 80 pp. Poetry. January
Naomi Shihab Nye writes, “In Back Room at the Philosophers' Club, Christopher Buckley’s gift for wide-ranging thinking meshes so gracefully with lovingly tender details, he feels like a companion voice for all time—a Hikmet, a Neruda, yes.”
David Young’s new translation sensitively captures the journey of Neruda’s persona through the ruins of the CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY teaches in the Creative WritInca city, Machu Picchu, the high ground where the ing Department at the University of California Riverside. Inca tribe endeavored to escape the conquest of Spanish invaders. In the 21st Century, where high ground seems less and less accessible and our escapes less possible, Young’s translation and the drawings accompanying the canto reaffirm the value and resonance of Neruda’s poetry. DAVID YOUNG's honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Ohio Arts Council. He resides in Oberlin, Ohio. GARY YOUNG is the editor and publisher of Greenhouse Review Press. Since 1975, he has designed, illustrated, and printed limited edition books, letterpress broadsides, and poetry and trade publications. He resides in Santa Cruz, CA. 978-1-62288-076-8 paper $20.00 6x9. 86 pp. 18 illus. Poetry. January
Telling the Bees Faith Shearin
978-1-62288-091-1 paper $18.00 6x9. 88 pp. Poetry. Women's Studies. January
Faith Shearin’s latest poetry collection, Telling the Bees, is evidence of an ongoing, important talent. The author of three previous collections of poetry, the most recent, Moving the Piano (Stephen F. Austin State University Press, 2011), was featured on numerous occasions on Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac. FAITH SHEARIN lives in Baltimore with her husband and daughter.
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The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire
A new collection from the poet, professor, and punk rocker. . .
978-1-62288-065-2 paper $22.00 6x9. 270 pp. Cooking. Literary Studies. Popular Culture. January
Gerry LaFemina
Gaylord Brewer
Palpable Magic
978-1-62288-089-8 paper $18.00 6x9. 130 pp. Literary Criticism. February
Gaylord Brewer’s The Poet’s Guide to Food, Drink, & Desire is an immediately delightful and surprising work by one of this country’s best poets. Indeed, the poet himself calls this book a “quirky volume,” the genesis being the desire to create something substantially different and sustained.
Palpable Magic features re-readings and reviews of such late 20th Century poets as Anne Sexton, Larry Levis, Charles Wright, Patricia Goedicke, and Wendell Berry, as well as provides commentaries on poetic craft, the prose poem, and what it means to be a poet.
Since food “had been increasingly creeping into my poetry,” Brewer writes, and because he had been asked to write anecdotally about recipes by a journal editor, this unusual memoir took shape.
GERRY LAFEMINA directs the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing at Frostburg State University in Frostburg, Maryland, where he is an associate professor of English.
As is the example of his best poems, these recipes are every bit as enjoyable, memorable, and delivered—of course—tastefully. GAYLORD BREWER is a professor at Middle Tennessee State University, where he founded and edits the literary journal Poems & Plays. He has published over eight hundred poems in journals and anthologies, such as Best American Poetry and The Bedford Introduction to Literature, and is also a widely published literary critic and produced playwright.
Vanishings Gary Fincke
978-1-62288-074-4 paper $20.00 6x9. 200 pp. Literary Nonfiction. February
Vanishings is a stunning collection of autobiographical narratives that propels us into the life and mind of a literary genius. GARY FINCKE is the Charles B. Degenstein Professor of English and Creative Writing and director of The Writers Institute at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania.
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The Theories of Decentral- ization and Local Government
Nacogdoches’s historic Washington Square Mound. . .
An Analysis of the Aboriginal Ceramics from the Washington Square Mound Site
Implementation, Implications, and Realities. A Global Perspective Edited by Kwame Badu Antwi-Boasiako and Peter Csanyi
John Paxton Hart Introduction by Timothy K. Perttula Theories of Decentralization and Local Government brings fresh perspective to the debate and comparative analysis of vertical division of power. In the introduction to John P. Hart’s study on Nacogdoches’s historic Washington Square Mound, Timothy K. Perttula notes that publication of Hart’s finding is long overdue. The Washington Square mound site, he describes, “is a Caddo multiple mound center” and is “one of the few known Caddo mound sites in the Neches-Angelina river basins in East Texas, and the study of its archeological deposits has contributed important and unique information on the lifeways, social and political organization, and religious beliefs of ancestral Caddo peoples” who occupied the area circa A.D. 1250–1425. Hart’s research reveals invaluable details about Caddo tribal life, particularly derived from decorative and engraved pottery retrieved from the Mound, and, for the first time, makes this information available to a wider audience. JOHN P. HART received his PhD in Anthropology in 1992 from Northwestern University. He is the Director of the Research & Collections Division of the New York State Museum in Albany, New York. 978-1-62288-034-8 paper $35.00 81/2x11. 176 pp. 39 b&w photos. 4 maps. 16 illus. 2 charts. 7 tables. Native American Studies. January
KWAME BADU ANTWI-BOASIAKO is chair of the
Department of Government and associate professor in Public Administration and Political Science at Stephen F. Austin State University. PETER CSANYI is an assistant professor and vice chair for International Relations in the Department of Linguistics and Translations Studies at the University of Economics in Bratislava, Slovakia. 978-1-62288-038-6 paper $35.00 7x9. 302 pp. 8 illustrations. Political Science. January
Cool Cats Carry Canes Myrna Johnson
978-1-62288-088-1 paper $12.00 81/2x81/2 . 32 pp. 26 watercolors. Young Readers. January
Cool Cats Carry Canes is filled with whimsical artwork and fun, alliterative wordplay appropriate for early readers. Children will delight in this book, as will parents and grandparents. MYRNA JOHNSON retired from the US Forest Service in 1998. She resides in Nacogdoches, Texas.
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PETRA’S LEGACY Jane Clements Monday & Frances Brannen Vick 978-1-58544-614-8 CLOTH $35.00
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