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This new year of publishing brings at least two noteworthy developments in the Press’s continuing quest to serve the interests and needs of our authors and readers.

We have recently established a partnership with the Texas A&M University Libraries to create a digital publishing presence for our books in the online University Repository and in the associated Texas Digital Library, of which Texas A&M is a co-founder. The first set of full-text, open-access books in this collection is now available through the Press’s web site (www.tamu. edu/upress), offering all thirteen of the previously published titles in the Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology. We now invite you to enjoy these acclaimed books, by many of the leading authorities on Jungian psychology, online. Once you sample them there, you may well wish to order printed copies from our web site or pick them up at selected book stores. Then stay tuned for other A&M e-books, such as the one announced on page 24 of this catalog, that will be released in the coming year.

On the cover Sunrise on Lost Mine Trail Photograph by Kathy Adams Clark from the book Enjoying Big Bend National Park

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We also want to make our readers aware of an important symposium that Texas A&M Press is co-sponsoring in February on “The Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communication in the Digital Age.” This three-day conference, featuring major national speakers, will focus on crucial issues such as open access, intellectual property rights, and how best to meet the challenges and advance the opportunities that new publishing technologies offer us. For a detailed schedule of events and to register online, please visit http://futureofpublishing.tamu.edu. There is no charge for attendance, but early registration is strongly advised.

These are some of the new ways in which we pledge to advance A&M’s mission of research and knowledge dissemination, now and in the future.

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Taming the Land

“. . . clearly a labor of love . . . an important contribution to the documentary history of Texas and especially the Panhandle region . . .”—Roy L. Flukinger, senior research curator, University of Texas

The Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plains

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Winner of the 2008 Robert A. Calvert Book Prize

John Miller Morris

JOHN MILLER MORRIS is associate professor of political science and geography at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

He specializes in the historical geography of the Southwest and is the author of three books, including the multiple award winner El Llano Estacado: Exploration and Imagination on the High Plains of Texas and New Mexico, 1536–1860 and Private in the Texas Rangers: A. T. Miller of Company B, Frontier Battalion. He resides in Austin, Texas.

Plains of Light: The Pioneer Postcard Photographers of West Texas A set of books in the Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series Number Twelve: Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series

Taming the Land 978-1-60344-037-0 cloth $45.00 LC 2008015577. 11x12. 232 pp. 171 color photos. 4 color maps. 1 table.

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A postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. Hundreds of people took up cameras, and photographers of note chose some of their best work for duplication as photo postcards—sold for a nickel and mailed for a penny to distant friends and relatives.

These postcards, which now enjoy another kind of craze in the collecting world, left what author John Miller Morris calls a “significant visual legacy” of the history and social geography of Texas. For more than a decade, Morris has been finding and studying the photographers and methodically gathering their postcards. In Taming the Land, he shares those finds with readers, introducing each photographer and providing interpretive descriptions of the places, people, or events depicted in the photographs. The stories the cards tell—in the images captured and the messages carried—add an exceptional dimension to our understanding of life in rural Texas a century ago.

Taming the Land presents postcards from twenty-four counties in the booming Texas Panhandle. This is the first book in a set called Plains of Light, which will collect and document turnof-the-twentieth-century photo postcards from all over West Texas.

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Selling Air Power Military Aviation and American Popular Culture after World War II Steve Call In Selling Air Power, Steve Call provides the first comprehensive study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness popular culture in support of their agenda. In the 1940s and much of the 1950s, hardly a month went by without at least one blatantly pro–air power article appearing in general interest magazines.

Public fascination with flight helped create and sustain exaggerated expectations for air power in the minds of both its official proponents and the American public. Articles in the Saturday Evening Post, Reader’s Digest, and Life trumpeted the secure future assured by American air superiority. Military figures like Henry H. “Hap” Arnold and Curtis E. LeMay, radiotelevision personalities such as Arthur Godfrey, cartoon figures like Steve Canyon, and actors like Jimmy Stewart played key roles in the unfolding campaign. Movies like Twelve O’Clock High!, The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell, and A Gathering of Eagles projected onto the public imagination vivid images confirming what was coming to be the accepted wisdom: that America’s safety against the Soviet threat could best be guaranteed by air power, coupled with nuclear capability.

But as the Cold War continued and the specter of the mushroom cloud grew more prominent in American minds, another, more sinister interpretation began to take hold. Call chronicles the shift away from the heroic, patriotic posture of the years just after World War II, toward the threatening, even bizarre imagery of books and movies like Catch-22, On the Beach, and Dr. Strangelove.

Call’s careful analysis goes beyond the public relations campaigns to probe the intellectual climate that shaped them and gave them power. Selling Air Power adds a critical layer of understanding to studies in military and aviation history, as well as American popular culture.

STEVE CALL, associate professor of history at Broome Community College in Binghamton, New York, is author of Danger Close: Tactical Air Controllers in Afghanistan and Iraq (Texas A&M University Press, 2007). Call’s Ph.D. in military history is from Ohio State University. He resides in Sayre, Pennsylvania.

Number 124: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series

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978-1-60344-091-2 cloth $50.00s 978-1-60344-100-1 paper $24.95 LC 2008036833. 6x9. 256 pp. 16 photos.

Military History. Popular Culture. History of Flight.

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Texas A&M Press is proud to announce the creation of a substantial new fund, established through the generosity of Davis L. Ford and Clayton W. Williams Jr., to support the continued publication of fine books in our distinguished military history series, which now numbers more than 120 titles. Five new military history books announced in this catalog will be the first to carry the Williams-Ford designation.

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“Execute Against Japan” The U.S. Decision to Conduct Unrestricted Submarine Warfare Joel Ira Holwitt

JOEL IRA HOLWITT is a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy, serving aboard the nuclear fast-attack submarine USS Houston. His Ph.D. in history is from Ohio State University. His residence is in San Antonio, Texas.

Number 121: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series

“Joel Holwitt’s ‘Execute Against Japan’ is a wonderful military history that examines with sophistication the development of ideas within the U.S. Navy about unrestricted submarine warfare. It is a major contribution to the history of World War II.”—Williamson Murray, author of The Iraq War,: A Military History “It is a complex story of diplomacy, politics, and doctrinal debate, involving strong personalities and powerful intellects. It is well told and will reward the general reader and the specialist in naval history alike.” —John F. Guilmartin Jr., professor of history, Ohio State University

“Execute Against Japan” 978-1-60344-083-7 cloth $37.50

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Less than five hours after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, U.S. naval leaders reluctantly chose to pursue a form of warfare they despised—targeting not only Japanese military assets but also civilian-operated fishing trawlers, freighters, and tankers.

The move to unrestricted submarine warfare represented a major change in the longstanding American adherence to the classic doctrine of “freedom of the seas,” under which commercial vessels were held to have the right to navigate the oceans without threat of attack.

This dramatic about-face in naval policy, potentially as controversial as the decision to use the atomic bomb, has never been seriously challenged and, until now, closely examined.

Holwitt combed archival sources from the National Archives, the Naval Historical Center, the Naval War College, Yale University, and the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library in order to reconstruct the development of both the U.S. submarine fleet and the policies for its use during World War II. As he shows in this meticulously researched book, the U.S. move to launch unrestricted air and submarine warfare against Japan was illegal.

“Execute Against Japan” offers a new understanding of U.S. military policy during World War II. This thoughtful analysis will be a vital resource for military and maritime historians and professionals, as well as students of World War II.

LC 2008024073. 6x9. 272 pp. 14 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

Military History. World War II. U.S. Navy.

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Crosswinds 978-1-60344-126-1 paper $24.95s LC 92-31067. 6x9. 336 pp. 3 maps. Bib. Index.

Military History. Vietnam. U.S. Air Force.

Original publication: 1993.

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Crosswinds The Air Force’s Setup in Vietnam Earl H. Tilford Jr.

Foreword by Caroline F. Ziemke

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Disaster in Korea The Chinese Confront MacArthur Roy E. Appleman

Disaster in Korea tells the story of General MacArthur’s November 1950 attack to the Yalu River, an attack that was repulsed by 200,000 Chinese “volunteer” infantry.

“The research is meticulous, the narrative enlightening, and the lessons profound. Appleman knows the war intimately, and he conveys it with authority. . . . balanced, candid, and engrossing.”—Union News Sunday Republican “Appleman’s full, authoritative Disaster thus fills a vital gap in the history of American arms and the Korean War. It is a candid and compelling story, chock full of lessons for battlefield commanders.”—Parameters The late Lt. Col. ROY E. APPLEMAN, AUS (Ret.), leading historian of the Korean War and a veteran of that conflict, is also author of East of Chosin: Entrapment and Breakout in Korea, 1950.

Number Eleven: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series Disaster in Korea

978-1-60344-128-5 paper $34.95s LC 88-28133. 6x9. 472 pp. 15 b&w photos. 16 maps. 7 tables. App. Bib. Index.

Military History. Korean War. Original publication: 1989.

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“Tilford exposes the generals’ tunnel-vision. . . . He demolishes the myth that the 1972 ‘Christmas bombing’ brought Hanoi to its knees . . . . His controversial thesis is that the bombing of the North and the interdiction campaign against the Ho Chi Minh Trail were in no way decisive and that USAF leadership obtusely failed to perceive that North Vietnam, an agricultural nation, was simply not susceptible to strategic bombing.”—Publishers Weekly “. . . . hard hitting study on the failure of American air power in the Vietnam War . . . . The acute intellectual content of the book and the author’s engaging writing style make the book easy to recommend.”—Armed Forces Journal International EARL H. TILFORD JR. was an Air Force officer from 1969 to 1989, serving during the Vietnam War in Thailand as an intelligence officer. A resident of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, he is writing a history of the University of Alabama in the 1960s.

Number Thirty: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series

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Americans All! Foreign-born Soldiers in World War I Nancy Gentile Ford

“In this original and long-overdue study, Ford provides an interesting new perspective on the experiences of the doughboy during World War I, and more generally, the role of ethnicity in America during the war years.”—Journal of America’s Military Past

Finalist, 2001 Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Book Awards NANCY GENTILE FORD, a professor of history at Bloomsburg University in Pennsylvania, has written a number of articles dealing with ethnicity, gender, and citizenship in war.

Number Seventy-three: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series

Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II Emilio Zamora

Foreword by Juan Gómez Quiñones

In Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas, Emilio Zamora traces the experiences of Mexican workers on the American home front during World War II as they moved from rural to urban areas and sought better-paying jobs in rapidly expanding industries.

Contending that discrimination undermined job opportunities, Zamora investigates the intervention by Mexico in the treatment of workers, the U.S. State Department’s response, and Texas’ emergence as a key site for negotiating the application of the Good Neighbor Policy. He examines the role of women workers, the evolving political struggle, the rise of the liberal-urban coalition, and the conservative tradition in Texas.

Zamora also looks closely at civil and labor rights–related efforts, implemented by the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and the Fair Employment Practice Committee.

EMILIO ZAMORA is an associate professor of history and associate of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

Number Fifteen: Rio Grande/Río Bravo—Borderlands Culture and Traditions

Americans All!

978-1-60344-132-2 paper $19.95s LC 00-011797. 6x9. 208 pp. 12 b&w photos.

Military History. World War I. Ethnic Studies.

Original publication: 2001.

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Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas

978-1-60344-066-0 cloth $60.00x 978-1-60344-097-4 paper $27.95s LC 2008024039. 6x9. 26 b&w photos. 336 pp. 8 tables. 2 apps. Bib. Index.

Mexican American History. Texas History. Labor HIstory. World War II. FEBRUARY

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A surge of immigrant draftees in the U.S. Army permanently challenged the way military leaders approached citizenship training.

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota Announcing

The 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 Offering authoritative books to promote international scientific understanding of the Gulf of Mexico, from one of the world’s premier marine science research institutions

John W. Tunnell Jr., General Editor Presenting the first two volumes of the benchmark publication Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota Edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia Earle When complete, this multivolume synthesis will capture the state of knowledge about the Gulf of Mexico from the world’s foremost scientists to encourage an ecosystem view of the Gulf among scientists, businesses, and policy makers; cooperation and collaboration among Mexico, Cuba, and the United States; and additional research and funding to increase knowledge and awareness about the Gulf.

Forthcoming volumes will focus on Geology (Charles W. Holmes and Noreen A. Buster, eds.)

Ecosystem-based Management (John W. Day and Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia, eds.)

Physical Oceanography (William J. Schmitz Jr., ed.)

Chemical Oceanography (Norman L. Guinasso Jr., ed.)

Human Issues (Nancy Rabalais, ed.)

already published Coral Reefs of the Southern Gulf of Mexico John W. Tunnell Jr., Ernesto A. Chávez, and Kim Withers, eds.

978-1-58544-617-9 hardcover $50.00

Volume 1, Biodiversity edited by Darryl L. Felder and David K. Camp This landmark scientific reference for scientists, researchers, and students of marine biology tackles the monumental task of taking a complete biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with full biotic and biogeographic information. Presenting a comprehensive summary of knowledge of Gulf biota through 2004, the book includes seventy-seven chapters, which list more than fifteen thousand species in thirty-eight phyla or divisions and were written by 138 authors from seventy-one institutions in fourteen countries.

This first volume of Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, a multivolumed set edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle, provides information on each species’ habitat, biology, and geographic range, along with full references and a narrative introduction to the group, which opens each chapter.

DARRYL L. FELDER is professor of biology and head of the laboratory for crustacean research at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. DAVID K. CAMP, a former research scientist at the Florida Marine Research Institute of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, is now a consulting biologist and freelance science editor in Seminole, Florida. Both Felder and Camp are associates at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, sponsored by the Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi “This volume will become THE BIBLE for biota of the Gulf of Mexico for the next decade or two, and will be heavily used until another version is attempted, if ever. Felder, Camp, and Tunnell all richly deserve the accolades they will receive.”

—Thomas C. Shirley, Endowed Chair for Biodiversity and Conservation Science for the Harte Research Institute

Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota

978-1-60344-094-3 cloth $95.00s LC 2008025312. 81/2x11. 1,312 pp. 225 color illus. 248 line art. Index.

Natural History. Gulf of Mexico. Marine Science.

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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota Edited by James C. Cato

JAMES C. CATO is senior associate dean and director of the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Florida, where he is also professor of food and resource economics and former director of the Florida Sea Grant College Program. An expert on fisheries economics with more than 160 publications, he is also coauthor of Marine Ornamental Species: Collection, Culture & Conservation.

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, sponsored by the Harte Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi

Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota

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Natural History. Gulf of Mexico. Marine Science.

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The many economic factors affecting sustainability of the Gulf of Mexico region are perhaps as important as the waves on its shores and its abundant marine life. This second volume in Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota (a multivolumed work edited

by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle) assesses the Gulf of Mexico as a single economic region.

The book provides information and baseline data useful for assessing the goals of economic and environmental sustainability in the Gulf. In five chapters, economists, political scientists, and ecologists from Florida, California, Louisiana, Texas, Maine, and Mexico cover topics such as: the idea of the Gulf as a transnational community; the quantitative value of its productivity; a summary of the industries dependent on the Gulf, including shipping, tourism, oil and gas mining, fisheries, recreation, and real estate; the human uses and activities that affect coastal economies; and the economic trends evident in Mexico’s drive toward coastal development.

This first-of-its-kind reference work will be useful to scientists, economists, industry leaders, and policy makers whose work requires an understanding of the economic issues involved in science, business, trade, exploration, development, and commerce in the Gulf of Mexico.

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The Sea of Galilee Boat Shelley Wachsmann

“Wachsmann’s engrossing account of [the boat’s] excavation and restoration, enlivened by photographs and drawings, provides a well-positioned window on the biblical past. . . .”

—Publishers Weekly

On a cold, cloudy day in early February 1985, Shelley Wachsmann, then resident nautical archaeologist for the Israel Department of Antiquities and Museums, drove to Kibbutz Ginosar, an agricultural settlement near the shores of the Sea of Galilee. Two brothers, avid amateur archaeologists, had found a boat buried in the lake, its outlines revealed by receding lake waters. The boat was “possibly ancient,” according to the handwritten note placed on Wachsmann’s desk a day or two before.

So begins the fascinating story of The Sea of Galilee Boat, as Wachsmann narrates the intriguing discovery and painstaking excavation of the very first biblical-era boat ever found in the Sea of Galilee.

Shelley Wachsmann, a distinguished nautical archaeologist, is an expert on seacraft of the Ancient Near East.

Wachsmann is the Meadows Professor of Biblical Archaeology in the nautical archaeology program at Texas A&M University.

Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series

“The storyline style and the author’s personal engagement with it in turn provide the reader with an informative and captivating experience with the boat itself. The book is an excellent model for archaeological reporting that bridges the gap between research and the lay reader.”—The Biblical Archaeologist “The Sea of Galilee Boat takes readers with the author through each stage of his investigation and communicates the excitement felt as excavation and research progress . . . . Wachsmann’s pleasure in his work is evident and well conveyed by his personal reflections. “—American Journal of Archaeology

of related interest Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant 978-1-60344-080-6 paper $40.00s

The Sea of Galilee Boat 978-1-60344-113-1 paper $23.00

51/2x81/2. 438 pp. 92 b&w photos. 32 line drawings. 2 maps. Bib. Index.

Archaeology. Nautical Archaeology. Israel. Biblical Studies.

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Storm over the Bay The People of Corpus Christi and Their Port Mary Jo O’Rear

MARY JO O’REAR has served in regional and local history groups and as adjunct history professor at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi and Texas A&M University–Kingsville. She is also a former instructor in history, economics, and geography for the Corpus Christi Independent School District.

Number Sixteen: Gulf Coast Studies, sponsored by Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi

of related interest Through a Night of Horrors: Voices from the 1900 Galveston Storm 978-1-58544-228-7 paper $15.95 A Weekend in September 978-0-89096-390-6 paper $13.95

“ . . . . a welcome, engaging, and up-to-date account of Corpus Christi’s struggle to achieve a deep water port. With fascinating vignettes of participants, Mary Jo O’Rear reveals behind-the-scenes political maneuvering that brought together supporters and sometimes antagonists, who ultimately achieved the long-sought goal of a deep water seaport for South Texas.”—James C. Maroney, professor of history, Lee College “ . . . . provides a realistic, and delightful, close-up of Corpus Christi’s important place in . . . . the Gulf Coast.”—Charles W. Macune Jr., professor of history, California State University– Northridge

Storm over the Bay 978-1-60344-088-2 cloth $24.95 LC 2008042786. 6x9. 200 pp. 13 b&w photos, 2 line art, 4 maps. Bib. Index.

Texas History. Gulf Coast History.

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Since the late 1830s, the natural harbor at the mouth of South Texas’ Nueces River has been a center of regional maritime trade. But by the early 1900s, a storm of political wrangling, cronyism, and corruption was threatening to scuttle the city’s efforts toward securing a dependable deep water port to attract international commerce to Corpus Christi. On September 14, 1919, a massive hurricane struck the bay, burying the downtown area under ten feet of debris and killing as many as one thousand people. The storm left millions of dollars of damage in its wake. The citizens of Corpus Christi, rather than being demoralized, however, were galvanized by the disaster.

In gripping detail, author Mary Jo O’Rear chronicles the successful efforts of the newly unified Corpus Christi—efforts that culminated in the dedication of the Port of Corpus Christi on September 14, 1926, seven years to the day after the storm that devastated the city. Storm over the Bay will appeal to readers interested in regional history, politics, and economics. It is a must-read for anyone who appreciates Corpus Christi and its colorful past.

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Brush and Weeds of Texas Rangelands

Charles R. Hart, Barron Rector, C. Wayne Hanselka, Robert K. Lyons, and Allan M c Ginty

More than one hundred million acres of Texas land are either native rangeland or permanent pasture, but most of this land is infested with unwanted weed and brush species that compete with desirable forage plants. With this book at their fingertips, landowners and rangeland managers now can easily identify the brush and weeds posing greatest concern in their area.

This easy-to-use field guide includes plant descriptions, identifying characteristics, geographic distribution, and habitat descriptions, along with range maps and multiple color photos for each species.

CHARLES R. HART is professor, associate department head, and extension program leader for Ecosystem Science and Management. He resides in Stephenville, Texas. BARRON RECTOR is an assistant professor and extension range specialist. C. WAYNE HANSELKA, ROBERT K. LYONS, and ALLAN McGINTY are each professors and range specialists. All are with the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, Texas A&M University System.

Plants of the Texas Coastal Bend Roy L. Lehman, Ruth O’Brien, and Tammy White Drawings by Eveline May Jackson and Kim Keplar For everyone who studies or simply enjoys the impressive variety of wild plants that grow in the counties of Texas’ coastal bend, here is an authoritative, user-friendly book that will make an excellent reference.

ROY L. LEHMAN is an associate professor of biology and director of the Laguna Madre Field Research Station. RUTH O’BRIEN is curator of the university’s herbarium. TAMMY WHITE is an instructor, laboratory coordinator, and seasoned botanical field collector. The authors, colleagues at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, also co-authored the guide, Plants of Webb County, Texas.

Number Seven: Gulf Coast Studies, sponsored by Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi Plants of the Texas Coastal Bend

Distributed for the Texas AgriLife Extension Service Brush and Weeds of Texas Rangelands

978-0-9721049-4-4 $25.00 paper 51/2x81/2. 204 pp. 97 maps. 406 color photos. Index.

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978-1-60344-130-8 paper $29.95s LC 2004020662. 6x9. 368 pp. 65 line drawings.

1 b&w photo. Companion CD with 650 color photos. Bib. Index.

Natural History. Botany.

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What Can I Do with My Herbs?

How to Grow, Use, and Enjoy These Versatile Plants Judy Barrett

Art by Victor Z. Martin

JUDY BARRETT, editor and publisher of the bimonthly magazine Homegrown, also is the author of Tomatillos: A Gardener’s Dream, A Cook’s Delight and How to Become an Organic Gardener in Seven Easy Steps. She lives in Taylor, Texas.

Number Forty: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series

“A convenient, comprehensive, and easy-to-read users’ guide to all the herbs you’ll want to grow. Barrett tells you what you want to know to make the best use of the plants you love.”

—Susan Wittig, author of the bestselling China Bayles Herbal Mysteries “There is much to like about Judy Barrett’s What Can I Do with My Herbs? From the title to the final recommendation encouraging greater use of herbs in the landscape, I found it great fun to read and learned a lot. Barrett writes naturally, engagingly, and with ease.”—Cheryl Hazeltine, coauthor of The New Central Texas Gardener

of related interest Doug Welsh’s Texas Garden Almanac 978-1-58544-619-3 flexbound with flaps $24.95

What Can I Do with My Herbs? 978-1-60344-092-9 flexbound

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With tips covering everything from artemisia to vetiver grass, What Can I Do with My Herbs? offers a fun and lively look at forty common herbs and the creative and useful things people do with them. Each herb description includes the plant’s history and a list of popular uses, as well as helpful information about how to successfully grow them, how to enjoy them in the garden (watch the swallowtail butterflies and caterpillars that love fennel), or how to use them in the kitchen (substitute the yellow flowers of calendula for saffron). Judy Barrett even shares some of her favorite recipes, including lavender lemonade and thyme cheese rolls.

Barrett also suggests uses for each specific herb outside the kitchen. Readers will learn how to bathe with basil, fight fungus with chamomile, fertilize with comfrey, clean house with rosemary, and much, much more. Gardeners, herbalists, and anyone interested in learning more about herbs will relish this compact and easy-to-understand practical guide to growing and enjoying these versatile plants.

(with flaps) $19.95 LC 2008031016. 6x9. 144 pp. 40 color paintings. Index.

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The Eastern Screech Owl New in flexbound, with updates

Hummingbirds of Texas with Their New Mexico and Arizona Ranges Clifford E. Shackelford, Madge M. Lindsay, and C. Mark Klym Photographs by Sid and Shirley Rucker Illustrations by Clemente Guzman III

Foreword by Greg W. Lasley “Hummingbirds of Texas is a book Texans long have needed. . . . Stunning photographs, color drawings, and explanatory tables augment the clearly written text. You can enjoy the book by merely flipping the pages or giving it a close read, but in either case you will gain pleasure and knowledge in equal measure.”—Houston Chronicle “Hummingbird enthusiasts, particularly those in Texas and its surrounding states, will love this book.”—The Quarterly Review of Biology CLIFFORD E. SHACKELFORD is the state-wide non-game ornithologist at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in Nacogdoches. MADGE M. LINDSAY is the former executive director of Audubon Mississippi in Holly Springs. She resides in Fort Davis, Texas. C. MARK KLYM, an information specialist at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in Austin, coordinates the Texas Hummingbird Roundup. He resides in Bastrop, Texas.

Hummingbirds of Texas 978-1-60344-110-0 flexbound with flaps $19.95

LC 2004028320. 8x91/2. 112 pp. 87 color photos. 47 color illus. 20 color maps. Index.

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Life History, Ecology, and Behavior in the Suburbs and Countryside Frederick R. Gehlbach “Owl lovers will rejoice at the publication of this classic 25-year study of suburban and rural screech owls.”—Bird Watcher’s Digest “Birders will welcome this modern natural history with its conservation implications.”—Choice “This book contains a wealth of information about the breeding biology of eastern screech owls.”’

—Journal of Raptor Research

FREDERICK R. GEHLBACH is a research professor of biology at Baylor University. He has authored more than one hundred scientific and popular articles and books, including Mountain Islands and Desert Seas: A Natural History of the U.S.Mexican Borderlands, also published by Texas A&M University Press.

Number Sixteen: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series The Eastern Screech Owl

978-1-60344-121-6 paper $24.95s LC 94-11135. 6x9. 320 pp. 2 color, 36 b&w photos.

23 figs. 27 tables. 10 apps. Bib. Index.

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Original publication: 1994.

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A Practical Guide David H. Kattes

DAVID H. KATTES is a professor of agronomy and horticulture at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas, where he specializes in entomology and integrated pest management.

Number Thirty-nine: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series “The outstanding features of the book are the pictures and how well organized it is and easy to find what you are referencing.”—Tina Marie (Waliczek) Cade, associate professor of horticulture, Texas State University

Insects of Texas 978-1-60344-082-0 flexbound with flaps $27.00 LC 2008023996. 6x9. 216 pp. 486 color photos. 11 tables. Index.

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This practical, non-technical introduction to insect classification offers a well-illustrated, straight-forward primer in entomology.

Whether you are part of a master naturalist program, are interested in environmentally friendly pest management, or simply enjoy knowing what to call that strange-looking bug on your back porch, Insects of Texas will be your first resource for insect classification and identification.

This book will help you sort out many of the millions of insect species by learning the readily distinguishable field characteristics needed to identify groups most commonly seen in Texas. David H. Kattes provides short tutorials on morphology and metamorphosis and uses a simple color-coding scheme to present the five classes of arthropods and the orders, suborders, and families of insects most relevant to Texas observers. Photo keys, pronunciation guides, illustrated tables, abundant photographs, and highlighted accounts of physical and biological characteristics help introduce readers to the various tiny creatures that inhabit our world, steering them through arachnids, crustaceans, millipedes, centipedes, and hexapods. Within each account, Kattes comments on habits and other interesting information, reflecting his long experience in teaching and speaking to a variety of receptive audiences.

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Enjoying Big Bend National Park A Friendly Guide to Adventures for Everyone Gary Clark, with photographs by Kathy Adams Clark

This book will help turn every trip to Big Bend National Park into a memorable adventure.

Veteran naturalist Gary Clark and photographer Kathy Adams Clark help you choose the best hike or drive in Big Bend National Park, based on the season in which you visit; the number of days you have in the park; and your activity, age, and fitness levels. The Clarks provide valuable practical information, along with a descriptive list of items essential for being outdoors in desert and mountain environments and an overview of park rules.

They describe more than thirty activities available in the park: two-hour or half- and full-day adventures; adventures for the physically fit or physically challenged; and adventures with children, for nature lovers, or in vehicles. The Clarks also point out scenic highlights and animals and plants that might be seen along the way.

“. . . a handy guide for first-time and repeat visitors to Big Bend National Park.”—Liz Carmack, author of Historic Hotels of Texas: A Traveler’s Guide “Through their thoughtful text and eye-catching photographs, Gary and Kathy Clark transport readers to one of our nation’s last frontiers, Big Bend State Park. . . . “—John and Gloria Tveten, authors of Our Life with Birds, Adventures Afar, and Nature at Your Doorstep, published by Texas A&M University Press

of related interest Frogs and Toads of Big Bend National Park 978-1-58544-576-9 paper $12.95

GARY CLARK, an active Texas birder, is dean of business, social, and behavioral sciences at Lone Star College in Houston.

The author of Texas Wildlife Portfolio and Texas Gulf Coast Impressions, he writes a weekly nature column in the Houston Chronicle. His articles on birds, nature, and travel have appeared in many magazines, including AAA Journeys, Birder’s World, Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine, and Texas Highways. Nature photographer KATHY ADAMS CLARK, owner of the photo agency KAC Productions, has served as president of the North American Nature Photography Association. Her photographs have appeared on the covers of Texas Parks & Wildlife magazine, Texas Highways, as well as in numerous books, magazines, and calendars. Her photos illustrate Gary’s weekly newspaper column in the Houston Chronicle. They reside in The Woodlands, Texas.

Number Forty-one: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series

Enjoying Big Bend National Park

978-1-60344-101-8 flexbound $17.95 LC 2008036919. 6x9. 128 pp. 57 color photos. 1 color map. Index.

Big Bend National Park. Travel.

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Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle William Henry Bush Paul H. Carlson

“Paul Carlson’s biography of W. H. Bush is a welcome addition to the historical literature detailing the economic, social, and cultural development of the Texas Panhandle and Amarillo in particular.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly PAUL H. CARLSON is a professor of history at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He is the author of six books, including The Plains Indians and The Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877, both published by Texas A&M University Press.

Number One: West Texas A&M University Series Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle 978-1-60344-133-9 paper $19.95

LC 96-10628. 6x9. 208 pp. 13 b&w photos. 1 map.

Bib. Index. Texas History.

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They All Want Magic Curanderas and Folk Healing Elizabeth de la Portilla Curanderas—traditional healers in Mexican culture—bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existence—spiritual and material, modern and premodern—dispensing medicinal herbs, prayers, and instruction. Elizabeth de la Portilla writes of the world and practices of San Antonio curanderas. As a scholar, an ethnographer, and a curandera in training, her parallel perspectives uniquely aid readers in understanding this subordinated culture. Retelling the stories various healers have shared, interpreting their answers to her probing questions, and describing the herbs and recipes they use in their arts, the author vividly illuminates the borderland context of San Antonio. Scholars and readers of anthropology, sociology, Chicana and Chicano studies, and women’s studies will savor the many layers of meaning and application in They All Want Magic.

ELIZABETH DE LA PORTILLA, an assistant professor of bilingual and bicultural studies in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio, holds a joint appointment in the anthropology department there.

Number Sixteen: Rio Grande/Río Bravo—Borderlands Culture and Traditions They All Want Magic 978-1-60344-099-8 cloth $45.00s

978-1-60344-114-8 paper $19.95 LC 2008034983. 6x9. 160 pp. 3 apps. Bib. Index.

Mexican American Studies. Borderlands Studies. Folklore.

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“ . . . . Carlson’s book is a fine addition to histories of the Panhandle, and his writings about the region belong with those of some of the older historians and luminaries of West Texas . . . .”

—Southwestern American Literature

“. . . . This book will enlighten us and remind us of a living part of Mexican American-Latina/o culture with which we all need to remain in contact.”

—Eliseo “Cheo” Torres, author of Curandero: A Life in Mexican Folk Healing

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Guarding the Border The Military Memoirs of Ward Schrantz, 1912–1917 Jeff Patrick Ward Loren Schrantz, of Carthage, Missouri, entered the U.S. Army in 1912, at a time when military leaders were still seriously debating the future of the horse cavalry. He left active military service in 1946, after the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Japan. Schrantz served capably at a time when the U.S. military was undergoing rapid technological and strategic transformation and, as a journalist and attentive observer, left a vivid personal account of his time in the Army and Missouri National Guard.

Editor Jeff Patrick has woven three undated versions of Schrantz’s memoir into a single narrative focused on the sparsely documented pre–World War I period from 1912 to 1917, thus helping to fill a significant gap in the existing literature.

Schrantz’s memoir is notable not only for the period it covers, but also for its lively evocation of a soldier’s life during the U.S.-Mexico border disturbances of the early twentieth century.

Schrantz’s account demonstrates the perennial contrast between how soldiers were expected to behave and how they actually behaved; it offers colorful and authentic details not usually available from official histories. Patrick also has added an appendix consisting of the letters that Schrantz wrote for publication in his hometown newspaper, the Carthage Evening Press.

These documents yield interesting insights into the attitudes and dispositions of U.S. soldiers during this time, as well as the perceptions and opinions of the “folks back home.” Students, scholars, and others interested in military and borderlands history will find much to enjoy in Guarding the Border: The Military Memoirs of Ward Schrantz, 1912–1917.

JEFF PATRICK has been with the National Park Service since 1991. He has previously edited for publication the memoirs of Civil War soldiers; he has also written a number of journal articles on individuals’ military experiences, ranging from the Civil War to World War I. He resides in Republic, Missouri.

Number Thirteen: Canseco-Keck History Series

“Schrantz’s recollections, covering the important period from 1912 to 1917, have to be among the best.”

—Jerry Thompson, author of Cortina: Defending the Mexican Name in Texas

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LC 2008034786. 6x9. 224 pp. 21 b&w photos. 2 maps. 2 apps. Bib. Index.

Military History. Borderlands Studies.

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Hasinai

A Traditional History of the Caddo Confederacy Vynola Beaver Newkumet and Howard L. Meredith Foreword by Arrell Morgan Gibson

New in paperback

Frontier Blood The Saga of the Parker Family

Authors Vynola B. Newkumet and Howard L. Meredith culled traditional lore and scholarly research to survey the major landmarks of the Hasinai experience—the Caddo Indians of the American Southwest. “ . . . . an excellent introduction to the world of the Caddo. For anyone who has wondered what the Indians of East Texas were like, and why they maintain such pride in their heritage, this book is a great place to start.” —Heritage

The late VYNOLA B. NEWKUMET was with the Hasinai Cultural Center in Caddo County, Oklahoma. The late HOWARD L. MEREDITH was professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Science and Arts at Oklahoma and research associate with Cookson Institute.

Hasinai 978-1-60344-129-2 paper $17.95 LC 88-16079. 6x9. 160 pp. 36 b&w photos. Index.

Native American Studies.

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“ . . . . only now do we have the whole fascinating story of the Parker Clan, from their westward migration on to Texas and Cynthia’s Commanche captivity, to Quanah’s role as the last great war chief (and eventual peacemaker) of that tribe. Along the way in this well-told narrative, we meet Sul Ross, Ranald Mackenzie, even Custer, as well as the brave buffalo hunters of Adobe Walls. “—True West “Vivid, unsparing accounts, much insight into the pioneer experience and the details of early interracial relations will make this book popular among devotees of the history of the American West.”—Publisher’s Weekly JO ELLA POWELL EXLEY is a fifth-generation descendant of Texas pioneers.

She is a longtime schoolteacher in the Houston area and editor of Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine: Voices of Frontier Women, also published by Texas A&M University Press.

Number Ninety: Centennial Series of Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University Frontier Blood 978-1-60344-109-4 paper $19.95

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Jo Ella Powell Exley

LC 2001002241. 6x9. 346 pp. 12 b&w photos. 3 genealogy charts. Bib. Index.

Western History.

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The Uncompromising Diary of Sallie McNeill, 1858–1867 978-1-60344-087-5 cloth $32.50

LC 2008024058. 6x9. 216 pp. 10 b&w photos. 1 map. 2 apps. Bib. Index.

Civil War. Texas History. Women’s History.

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The Uncompromising Diary of Sallie McNeill, 1858–1867 S . R. Martin Jr.

On the Move A Black Family’s Western Saga S. R. Martin Jr.

Foreword by Albert Broussard In distinctive, engaging prose, S. R. Martin Jr. crafts the story of his forebears and their westward journey, begun even before the great black migration that occurred around the two world wars.

By narrating the struggles and triumphs of his family—both paternal and maternal—during their move west, he illuminates an under-studied facet of African American history. As Martin explains it, he and his brother “arrived on the scene at the confluence of these family streams in time to catch a ride to the shining sea.”

Students, scholars, and interested general readers of modern African American history and sociology will be greatly rewarded by reading this warm and vivid personal and family memoir.

S. R. MARTIN JR., born in Fort Worth, Texas, resides in Olympia, Washington, where he retired from The Evergreen State College in 1997. He helped start the interdisciplinary college in 1970, after initiating Washington State University’s first African American Studies program.

Number Thirty-two: Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest

On the Move 978-1-60344-104-9 cloth $24.95 LC 2008034987. 53/4x91/4. 208 pp. 22 photos. 1 app. 2 tables. Bib. Index.

African American History. Western History.

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Edited and with an Introduction by Ginny M c Neill Raska and Mary Lynne Gasaway Hill In this annotated diary, Sallie McNeill chronicles thoughts, observations, and details of her daily life during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.

This remarkably well-preserved document tells McNeill’s story from her days as a student in the female department of Baylor College at Independence until her death in 1867.

McNeill’s story—common to the era and place and still intensely personal—lets readers glimpse the numbing expectations of a young woman’s proper behavior, moral referencing of those living under the influence of the second Great Awakening, intellectual questions posed by the education of the day, and the lifestyle of the planter class at the margins of its geographical reach.

GINNY McNEILL RASKA, one of Sallie’s descendants, transcribed the original diary. Raska is the Sweeny, Texas, Junior High School librarian. MARY LYNNE GASAWAY HILL attended the archaeological field school at the Levi Jordan plantation. Her doctorate is from Tulane University.

Number 109: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University

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Moss Bluff Rebel A Texas Pioneer in the Civil War Philip Caudill

PHILIP CAUDILL wrote Moss Bluff Rebel after a thirty-five year career in business and public affairs in the United States and Europe. He holds Master’s degrees in history and journalism and explores Texas from his home in The Woodlands.

Number Eighteen: Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored

by Texas A&M University–Commerce

“ . . . . provides an unusual and detailed glimpse into the war years of a junior officer who spent his Civil War service in East Texas and southwestern Louisiana.”—Cary D. Wintz, Texas Southern University “Phil Caudill’s skillful interweaving of biography and history has resulted in a fascinating portrait of a Texas cattleman, entrepreneur, Confederate officer, and poker player extraordinaire.”—Deborah Chester, John Crain Presidential Professor at the University of Oklahoma

of related interest Confederate Struggle for Command: General James Longstreet and the First Corps in the West 978-1-60344-052-3 cloth $32.95

Moss Bluff Rebel 978-1-60344-089-9 cloth $29.95

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“I was not willing, but finally agreed. . . .” So wrote Texas pioneer cattle drover William Berry Duncan in his March 1862 diary entry, the day he joined the Confederate Army.

Despite his misgivings, Duncan left his prosperous business to lead neighbors and fellow volunteers as commanding officer of cavalry Company F of Spaight’s Eleventh Battalion which later became the 21st Texas Infantry in America’s Civil War. Philip Caudill’s rich account—drawn from Duncan’s previously untapped diaries and letters, written by candlelight on the Gulf Coast cattle trail to New Orleans, in Confederate Army camps, and on his southeast Texas farm after the war— reveals the personable Duncan as a man of steadfast integrity and extraordinary leadership. After the war, he returned to his home in Liberty County and battled for survival on the chaotic Reconstruction-era Texas frontier.

Supplemented by archival records and complementary accounts, Moss Bluff Rebel paints a picture of everyday life for the Anglo-Texans who settled the Mexican land grants in the early nineteenth century and subsequently became citizens of the proudly independent Texas Republic. Moss Bluff Rebel will appeal to history lovers of all ages who are attracted to the drama of the Civil War period and interested in the stories of the men and women who shaped the Texas frontier.

LC 2008034068. 6x9. 232 pp. 7 b&w photos. 3 maps. Bib. Index.

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Honest Broker? 978-1-60344-098-1 cloth $60.00x 978-1-60344-102-5 paper $29.95s LC 2008034985. 6x9. 448 pp. 2 apps. Bib. Index Presidential Studies. U.S. Politics. Political Science. Public Policy.

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Honest Broker?

The National Security Advisor and Presidential Decision Making John P. Burke

John Hill for the State of Texas My Years as Attorney General John L. Hill Jr. and Ernie Stromberger Foreword by john cornyn

During his distinguished career, John L. Hill Jr. served as secretary of state, attorney general, and chief justice of the state supreme court—the only person to hold all three state offices.

Hill’s office played a significant role in vastly expanding Texas consumer protections, waging war against wholesale rate increases by AT&T/Southwestern Bell; and resolving the disposition of Howard Hughes’s fabled estate to bring tens of millions of dollars into Texas coffers.

Before Hill’s death in July 2007, Ernie Stromberger, journalist and Hill’s longtime friend, worked with him to craft this first-person narrative.

JOHN L. HILL JR. was born in Breckenridge, Texas, on October 9, 1923. He graduated with honors from the University of Texas School of Law in 1947. For forty years, ERNIE STROMBERGER focused on Texas government issues and political personalities as a capitol press reporter and trade association manager. He lives in Austin, Texas.

John Hill for the State of Texas

978-1-60344-072-1 cloth $35.00 6x9. 304 pp. 28 photos. 8 line art. 2 apps. Bib. Index.

Politics. Texas History.

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Presidential scholar John P. Burke systematically and thoroughly reviews the office of national security advisor from its inception during the Eisenhower presidency to its latest iteration in the White House of George W. Bush. He explores the ways in which the original conception of the national security advisor— as an “honest broker” who, rather than directly advocating for any certain policy direction, was instead charged with overseeing the fairness, completeness, and accuracy of the policymaking process—has evolved over time.

In six case studies he analyzes the implications of certain pivotal changes in the advisor’s role, providing thoughtful and sometimes critical reflections on how these changes square with the role of “honest broker.” Finally, Burke offers some prescriptive consideration of how the definition of the national security advisor’s role relates to effective presidential decision making and the crucial issues of American national security. Honest Broker? will be an important resource for scholars, students, political leaders, and general readers interested in the U.S. presidency, foreign policy, and national security.

JOHN P. BURKE is a professor of political science at the University of Vermont in Burlington. He is winner of the American Political Science Association’s Richard Neustadt Award for the best book on the American Presidency.

Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership “John Burke has written a book that all students of the presidency will want to absorb. It also should be high on the reading lists of new presidents and their national security teams.”—Fred I. Greenstein, professor of politics, emeritus at Princeton University

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“Texas A&M University Press has truly helped to put the study of presidential discourse on the academic map.”—Martin J. Medhurst

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Running against the Grain How Opposition Presidents Win the White House

Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda

David A. Crockett

Mary E. Stuckey

“Well written and carefully argued, Crockett’s book continues the exploration of ‘opposition presidencies’ begun in his excellent book The Opposition Presidency.”—Charles E. Walcott, professor of political science, Virginia Tech

DAVID A. CROCKETT, an associate professor of political science at Trinity University in San Antonio, is the author of The Opposition Presidency: Leadership and the Constraints of History, also published by Texas A&M University Press.

Joseph V. Hughes and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership Running against the Grain

978-1-60344-131-5 paper $21.95s LC 2007037950. 6x9. 342 pp. 15 tables. Bib. Index.

Presidential Studies. Political Science.

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Though Jimmy Carter is widely viewed as one of the least effective modern presidents, the human rights agenda for which his administration is known remains high in the national awareness and continues to provide important justifications for presidential and congressional action a quarter-century later. The very elements of Carter’s communications on human rights that engendered obstacles to the formation of a coherent and consistent policy— the term’s vagueness, the difficulties of applying it, its uneasy relationship with national security interests, and the divergence between Democratic and Republican understandings—allowed “human rights” to become a useful rubric for presidents, both Democratic and Republican, who followed Carter.

Stuckey discusses the key elements of how human rights came to the nation’s attention.

MARY E. STUCKEY, professor of communication and political science at Georgia State University, is also the author of Slipping the Surly Bonds: Reagan’s Challenger Address, published in 2006 by Texas A&M University Press. Her Ph.D. is from the University of Notre Dame.

Number Twenty: Presidential Rhetoric Series Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda

978-1-60344-074-5 cloth $39.95s LC 2008012828. 6x9. 232 pp. Bib. Index.

Presidential Studies. Human Rights. Communication.

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“A fresh and incisive contribution to our understanding of presidential elections and the presidency. Ranging beyond media horse race coverage and quantitative models of voting behavior, Crockett provides several innovative explanations for presidential elections past and present.”—Steven Schier, Congdon Professor of Political Science, Carleton College

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The Southern Pacific, 1901–1985 Don L. Hofsommer

Foreword by Richard C. Overton

Don Hofsommer chronicles the twentieth-century history of a transportation giant. Here is a story of divestiture and merger, Sunset Route, and Prosperity Special. “ . . . a treasure house of information about the Southern Pacific Company . . . . This book is a joy to read.—Richard C. Overton, from the Foreword “. . . we can say that if you have any interest in the history of our industry you shouldn’t miss it. It’s well-written, interesting, and authoritative.”

—Modern Railroads In writing this corporate history, DON L. HOFFSOMMER had full access to corporate archives and conducted interviews with dozens of present and past company officers. He is the author of several books and many articles on other railroads.

Also available as an electronic, full-text, open-access edition.

Energy and Sustainable Development in Mexico John R. Moroney and Flory Dieck-Assad John R. Moroney and Flory Dieck-Assad cogently assess Mexico’s goals of sustainability and the major policy changes that will be required to achieve them. “ . . . . a compelling narrative of the complex political relationships between the energy monopoly PEMEX and several branches of the government. . . .”

—Marcelo Chauvet, director of Consultoría Energética and vice-president of the Mexican Association of Gas for Sustainable Growth (AMEDES)

JOHN R. MORONEY, a professor of economics at Texas A&M University, is author or editor of a dozen books and many scholarly articles.

FLORY DIECK-ASSAD is a professor of finance and accounting at the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey in Monterrey, Mexico.

Number Sixteen: Texas A&M University Economics Series Energy and Sustainable Development in Mexico

The Southern Pacific, 1901–1985 978-1-60344-127-8 paper $38.00

LC 85-40745. 81/2x11. 392 pp. 200 b&w illus. 24 maps. Bib. Index.

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Economics. Energy Policy.

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The Memorial Student Center at Texas A&M University Amy l. Bacon

foreword by john j. koldus iii

Texas Aggies Go to War: In Service of Their Country 978-1-58544-470-0 cloth $40.00 978-1-60344-077-6 paper $22.50

While an undergraduate student at Texas A&M, AMY L. BACON served as the vice president of development for the Memorial Student Center. She now resides in Baton Rouge, Lousiana.

Number 110: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University

“. . . . The sight of the MSC evokes a sense of calm acquaintance. When you take off your hat and walk inside, its unique aroma stirs memory, emotion, and hope. . . .”—Eddie J. Davis ‘67, President, Texas A&M Foundation

Building Leaders, Living Traditions

978-1-60344-095-0 cloth $20.00 LC 2008031064. 7x10. 176 pp. 38 color. 25 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

Higher Education History. Texana.

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For more than fifty years, the Memorial Student Center—the MSC—has served as the “living room” of the Texas A&M University campus. But aside from its role as a lounge, dining, and recreational facility for students, the MSC has fostered student programs that have played a vital role in Texas A&M’s transformation from an all-male, all-military, rural college to a university internationally recognized for excellence in a variety of fields. Conceived as a memorial to Aggies who lost their lives in the two world wars when it opened its doors in September 1950, the MSC eventually became far more than just a monument to fallen comrades.

The MSC and the programs initiated by its first director, J. Wayne Stark, helped the university expand its focus to include students not in the Corps of Cadets—such as returning veterans and, eventually, women and other civilian students. Author Amy Bacon surveys the development of two functions that quickly became vital to the mission of the Memorial Student Center: its role as a leadership laboratory, especially for non-military students; and its centerpiece location as a place of extracurricular, cultural, and intellectual enrichment. This attractively illustrated book draws heavily on recorded oral histories, archives, and extensive interviews with key administrative leaders and students, both former and current.

Building Leaders, Living Traditions narrates the story of an institution that has transformed and enriched the lives of tens of thousands of Aggie students and is poised to continue its vital mission for decades to come.

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“At the heart of Texas A&M University, the Memorial Student Center is a special place where education and characterbuilding continue to occur for so many Aggies.”

—John H. Lindsey, Class of ‘44

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Canine Radiographic Anatomy An Interactive Instructional CD-ROM Anton G. Hoffman, Charles C. Farnsworth, and Stacy L. Eckman Designed specifically for students, practitioners, and technicians, this simple, interactive computer learning program is a great educational tool for anyone who wants to learn (or review) the normal radiographic anatomy of dogs. The program begins with an overview of basic radiology concepts, with explanations of x-rays and radiographs, radiographic densities, views and orientation of films, and artifacts. The rest of the program focuses on the identification of specific anatomic structures and offers three stages of learning: tutorial—various structures on a radiograph are highlighted as the user selects them from a list; review—the user is prompted to click on specific structures on the radiograph, which are then highlighted if correct; and quiz—the user must identify and type the correct name of various randomly generated structures as they appear highlighted on a radiograph.

Each stage is organized by body region (head, neck, thorax, abdomen, thoracic limb, pelvic limb), so users can focus on specific areas to maximize their learning experience.

ANTON G. HOFFMAN, D.V.M., PH.D., is a clinical associate professor of veterinary integrative biosciences at the College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at Texas A&M University. CHARLES C. FARNSWORTH, PH.D., is a clinical assistant professor of educational administration and human resource development at the College of Education and Human Development at Texas A&M University. STACY L. ECKMAN received her D.V.M. degree from Texas A&M University and is currently a practicing veterinarian in Corpus Christi, Texas.

System Requirements: Disc is PC compatible. 300 MHz processor; 1.5 GB hard disk space; 128 MB RAM or higher recommended (64 MB minimum supported but may limit performance and features).

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Canine Radiographic Anatomy

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The Improbable Life of a Texas Hero, Thomas William Ward, 1807–1872

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had sacrificed his leg for a noble cause—independence from Mexico.

David C. Humphrey, historian, has written three books and many articles on U.S. and Texas history and has won several awards, most recently from the Texas State Historical Association and the East Texas Historical Association. He lives in Annandale, Virginia.

“Rich in high drama and exceptionally well written—one of the most compelling and forceful pieces of research I have read in years.” —Jerry Thompson, Regents Professor of History, Texas A&M International University

Peg Leg 978-0-87611-237-3 cloth $39.95 6x9. 326 pp. Illus. Maps. Bib. Index.

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Irish-born Thomas William (“Peg Leg”) Ward ventured to Texas in 1835 to fight in the Texas Revolution, but in his first day of action his right leg was hit by Mexican cannon fire and amputated. Four years later he lost his right arm to cannon fire in an accident. Though confronted with an unending problem of mobility and tormented by pain in his residual leg, Ward surmounted his horrific injuries to become a notable public figure.

Ward’s public career spanned three decades and a multiplicity of responsibilities—military officer, three-time mayor of Austin, presidential appointments as U.S. Consul to Panama and a federal customs official in Texas—but it was as Texas land commissioner during the 1840s that he particularly made his mark. At a time when land was the principal asset of the Texas republic and the magnet that attracted immigrants, he fought to remedy the land system’s many defects and to fulfill the promise of free land to those who settled and fought for Texas.

If Ward had a remarkable career, his life was nonetheless troubled by symptoms comparable to those experienced by recent war veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder—a hairtrigger temper, an impulse to violence, and marital discord.

His wife, Susan Ward, though deeply in love with him at the start, eventually left him and accused him in two bitterly fought court cases of verbal, psychological, and physical abuse. To many of his fellow Texans, however, Ward remained a hero who

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Sacred Memories The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas Kelly M c Michael

War memorials are symbols of a community’s sense of itself, the values it holds dear, and its collective memory. They inform us more, perhaps, about the period in which the memorials were erected than the period of the war itself.

Kelly McMichael, in her book, Sacred Memories: The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas, takes the reader on a tour of Civil War monuments throughout the state and in doing so tells the story of each monument and its creation. McMichael explores Texans’ motivations for erecting Civil War memorials, which she views as attempts during a period of turmoil and uncertainty—“severe depression, social unrest, the rise of Populism, mass immigration, urbanization, industrialization, imperialism, lynching, and Jim Crow laws”—to preserve the memory of the Confederate dead, to instill in future generations the values of patriotism, duty, and courage; to create a shared memory and identity “based on a largely invented story”; and to “anchor a community against social and political doubt.”

Her focus is the human story of each monument, the characters involved in its creation, and the sacred memories held dear to them.

KELLY McMICHAEL is associate director of the Center for Learning Enhancement, Assessment, and Redesign at the University of North Texas. She lives in Denton, Texas.

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“A well-told story that captures . . . the changing dynamics of the populations of many small Texas towns . . . and the irony of the general treatment of war veterans.”—Ron Rozelle, author of Touching Winter and Into That Good Night.

Echoes of Glory Robert Flynn Robert Flynn’s new novel, Echoes of Glory centers on a fictitious Texas county that embraces its legends, but not its actual history. Set in the Reagan era, the novel exposes shared myths as lies and the truth, lacking all comfort. In his inimitable style Flynn paints a portrait of the denizens of the county who tacitly embrace the legend as all too human and all too frail.

Overshadowed by the accomplishments of adjacent Doss County, Mills County clings to its legends—the legendary Mills brothers. One brother had died at the Alamo, one at Goliad, three had fought at San Jacinto. The three survivors marched into the center of Texas bringing with them stories of heroism and acorns from the San Jacinto battlefield. According to tradition, they planted an oak tree for each hero who had died at the Alamo.

Then there was Timpson Smith, sole survivor of Second Platoon of Marine reserves, who had prevented the North Korean army from driving U.S. and U.N. forces into the sea.

To honor their memory the county erected a monument, “Second to None,” topped with the heroic figure of Timpson Smith.

But there is a less heroic side of Mills County. When Deputy Sheriff Larry Maddin decides to run against Sheriff and Local Hero Timpson Smith, and a drama professor at the university announces that he will write a play depicting the true story of Second Platoon, many fear the dark underside of Mills County will be exposed.

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ROBERT FLYNN is a native of Chillicothe, Texas, a town so small, he says, that one has to travel to nearby Quanah to have a coincidence. Flynn avers that his life’s work is “The Search for Morals, Ethics, and Religion, or at least a good story in Texas and lesser known parts of the world,” and his novels, North to Yesterday, In the House of the Lord, The Sounds of Rescue, The Signs of Hope, Wanderer Springs, The Last Klick, The Devils Tiger (co-authored with the late Dan Klepper), and Tie-Fast Country, attest to that fact. He lives in San Antonio with his wife, Jean.

“In a state that produces some of the best writers in the country, Bob Flynn is among the leaders of the pack.”

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The Texas Biography Series: Number 1 With the publication of Emily Austin of Texas, the Center for Texas Studies at TCU and TCU Press proudly inaugurate the Texas Biography Series. These modern, scholarly works invite all readers with an interest in the rich history of Texas and its people.

Light Townsend Cummins Foreword by Gregg Cantrell

LIGHT TOWNSEND CUMMINS is the Guy M. Bryan Jr. Professor of History at Austin College. A native of San Antonio, he is the author or editor of seven books dealing with the history of Texas and the Gulf Coast, including A Guide to the History of Texas, A Guide to the History of Louisiana, and Spanish Observers and the American Revolution.

“Emily was very much her own woman, with strong, well-articulated personal feelings centered on a steely personality. Her rock-solid resolve for action enabled her to survive almost six decades of frontier hardship . . . Above all else, Emily Austin was the touchstone at the center of an extended family that provided a common point of reference for four generations . . . “ Light Cummins, from Emily Austin Next in the series Edmund J. Davis: Civil War General, Radical Republican, Governor of Texas by Carl H. Moneyhon

Emily Austin of Texas, 1795-1851 978-0-87565-351-8 cloth $27.95

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The Austin family left an indelible mark on Texas and the expanding American nation. In this insightful biography, Light Townsend Cummins turns the historical spotlight on Emily Austin, the daughter who followed the trails of the western frontier to Texas, where she saw the burgeoning young colony erupt in revolution, establish a proud republic, and usher in the period of antebellum statehood.

Emily’s journey was one of remarkable personal change as the rigors of frontier life shaped her into a uniquely self-reliant southern woman, one who fulfilled the role of the plantation mistress while taking a distinct hand in ambitious public ventures. Despite her ties to influential family members, including her brother Stephen F. Austin, Emily’s determined spirit allowed her to live on her own terms.

In all of her notable activities, Emily principally remained a devoted daughter, sister, wife, and mother who proudly clung to her Austin roots. Utilizing her family’s written correspondence, Cummins provides insight into Emily’s multifaceted personality and the relationships that sustained her through times of tribulation and triumph.

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Comfort and Mirth Lori Joan Swick Comfort and Mirth offers a rare glimpse into the capital city of Texas during the early decades of the twentieth century and brings into play the formation of the Texas suffrage movement, Prohibition, the treatment of the mentally ill, and the first round of controversies over the Jim Crow laws.

This novel traces a young woman’s journey of self-discovery and the struggle for empowerment. Camille Abernathy leaves her home in Seattle to move to Austin with her worldly new husband who has accepted a position as professor of philosophy at the University of Texas. As she devotes herself to the tasks required to create a home of ease and elegance for her husband and her children, she is drawn into a whirling social circle of professors’ wives and introduced to the world of urban opulence and hypocrisy. Through the letters she writes to her mother, Camille unravels the complexities of her new life by trusting in her natural instincts and relying on her greatest innate strengths—depth of philosophical and spiritual wisdom.

Camille’s story is told against the background of the growth of Austin from a frontier town to a cosmopolitan southwestern city including such events as the arrival of the first motorcars to the dusty streets, Congress Avenue, the opening of the Hancock Opera House, the formation of Elisabet Ney’s sculpture museum in Hyde Park, and the construction, flooding, and reconstruction of the great dam to form the Texas Hill Country lake system.

LORI JOAN SWICK was born and raised in Austin where she teaches religion, mythology, and moral studies at St. Edward’s University. While she is a published poet, Comfort and Mirth is her first novel. The story was inspired by her research into Central Texas history—especially during the first “wave” of feminism when Texas women fought for the right to vote. It was developed through her love of the traditional women’s arts and her fascination with the natural powers of motherly instincts and womanly wisdom.

Excerpt from Comfort and Mirth “Camille watched the oranges and lavenders of the sunset flatten themselves across the western hills and understood how Austin had come to be called the violet crown. Shadows of dusk lengthened over the gold and green grass of her back lawn. Her herb garden was thriving, but another planting season had passed and still there was no trellis and no flower garden. Something almost cool wafted in the evening air after the longest, hottest summer she had ever known.

She inhaled all she could of the essence of autumn from the still-humid air as she finished hanging diapers for the last time that day.”

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A Geography of Change Sherrie Reynolds and Toni Craven

Table of Contents Chapter One Personal Change Sherrie Reynolds: Change Toni Craven: A Story of Change Chapter Two Emergent Change First and Second Order Change Change as Fractal Seeing through Old Ideas Chapter Three Changing Ideas about Consciousness Bedrock Ideas The Mechanical Universe A Transition How Does This Affect Teaching and Scholarship?

Chapter Four Changing Ideas about Learning Modern Learning Turning Points in Modern and PostModern Learning Post-Modern Learning

Chapter Five Changing Ideas about Curriculum Curriculum As Sequence Post-Modern Curriculum William Doll’s Curriculum As Matrix Curriculum as Autobiography Relationships in a Complex System Who Are Our Students?

Chapter Six Changing Ideas about Communities of Learning Caring Relationships Preparing Myself for Class Using Feedback Faculty and Community Searching for Excellence A New Story Metaphors for Teaching Seeing and More Caring about Students Relationality in Process

SHERRIE REYNOLDS is a professor and the director of the graduate studies at the College of Education of Texas Christian University. She has wide-ranging research interests including learning theory, complex systems, play, and urban education.

She is author of Learning is a Verb. TONI CRAVEN is the I. Wylie and Elizabeth M. Briscoe Professor of Hebrew Bible at Brite Divinity School in Fort Worth, Texas. She has research interests in feminist literary-rhetorical criticism. Funded by a grant from the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, Craven and Reynolds directed sessions on Meaningful Teaching for Pre-tenured and Tenured Faculty at Brite Divinity School and Texas Christian University and then led a pre-tenure workshop which continued for two years.

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In Higher Education Reconceived: A Geography of Change, authors Sherrie Reynolds and Toni Craven examine the process of change in higher education as they engage the reader in conversation about how we relate to ourselves and to one another.

They draw on modern and post-modern elements of higher education as well as personal narratives to address personal change, emergent change, and changing ideas about learning, curriculum, and communities of learning. The traditional view in higher education is that teaching causes learning. However, these authors assess how, as our ideas of student learning, research, and disciplines have developed, our understanding of teaching has evolved as well. Throughout, the authors intimate a sense of the spiritual in the processes of teaching and learning.

This holistic volume encourages meditation on the multidimensional journey of teaching and learning, sheds new light on current paradigms of education, and presents ways of living together in a pluralistic and globally connected world. Opening each chapter with a labyrinth illustration to depict the winding and porous nature of the topic, this book should find a place on every educator’s bookshelf. As teacher-scholars together discover a new understanding of higher education fit for our times, they should never forget that—as Reynolds put it—“Being a university professor is a sacred trust.”

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Adversity is my Angel The Life and Career of Raúl H. Castro Raul H. Castro and Jack L. August, Jr.

Sundays with Ron Rozelle Ron Rozelle When Ron Rozelle and Bill Cornwell, the publisher of The Brazosport Facts, met for their annual lunch, Bill asked what current book Ron was writing. During lunch, they agreed that Ron should try his hand at a weekly column. Ron saw an opportunity both to allow his imagination to wander and to flex his writing muscles.

And so, it started. Each week, readers opened their Sunday morning papers to find a column devoted to whatever topic was at hand, be it wizards, geese, holidays, loss, John Wayne, his feline quartet, or sandwiches. Sundays with Ron Rozelle is a collection of these Sunday columns, characterized by open conversational charm that invites the reader to linger over coffee. Just as Robert Frost’s famous poem “The Pasture” concludes with “you come, too,” Ron beckons to us: you come, too. Through this warm and thoughtful collection, we realize what really matters in our lives.

Ron Rozelle was twice the memoir teacher at the Newman National Writer’s Conference at Mississippi College.

He is the author of seven books and has taught writing workshops at numerous conferences and universities. His memoir Into That Good Night was selected as the second best nonfiction work in the nation for 1998 by the San Antonio Express-News.

He and his wife Karen live in Lake Jackson.

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Raúl H. Castro was the first Hispanic governor of Arizona, ambassador to El Salvador, Bolivia, and Argentina, lawyer, judge, and teacher. Born in Mexico in 1916, he moved with his family to a small mining community in Arizona in 1926. His earliest memories include collecting cactus fruit in the desert for food.

His childhood served as a metaphor for Mexican and American attitudes of mutual suspicion and distrust.

Castro, nevertheless, defied the odds and, thanks to an athletic scholarship, entered Arizona State Teachers College where he graduated in 1939. By then an American citizen, he worked for the U.S. State Department as a foreign service officer at Agua Prieta, Sonora and then entered the University of Arizona College of Law. He was admitted to the Arizona bar in 1949.

After practicing law in Tucson for several years, he became deputy Pima County attorney. In 1954, he was elected county attorney and served until 1958, when he became a Pima County Superior Court Judge.

President Lyndon Johnson appointed Castro U.S. ambassador to Salvador in 1964 and to Bolivia in 1969. Castro was elected governor on the Democratic Party ticket in 1974 but an appointment as ambassador to Argentina interrupted his term.

Raul Castro’s story suggests much about the human spirit, the ability to overcome institutional and personal prejudice, and the hope inherent in the American dream.

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Braggin’ on Texas Sherrie S. McLeroy

Lone Star Lost Buried Treasures in Texas Patrick Dearen

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Quick! Do you know . . .

• Which college was the first in the world to award a degree in jazz?

• Which state had the most drive-in movie theaters?

• Who was the first person to push a peanut up Pike’s Peak with his nose?

• Who invented Frito Pie? Well, all the answers can be found here in Texas. “Texas Brag” is a long cherished tradition in the nation’s second largest state. But the fact is that Texas does have more than its share of unique people, places, events, inventions, and products: many of them the first, the largest, or the only representative of its kind.

Braggin’ on Texas takes an accurate but less than serious look at the Lone Star State—both past and present—by presenting some of the more obscure, convoluted, and occasionally outrageous achievements of Texans and their state. So sit back and prepare to enjoy Texas as you’ve never known it before!

SHERRIE S. MCLEROY is an independent scholar and writer who has written, co-authored, or contributed to some fifteen books. Among the most notable are Red River Women and Grape Man of Texas: The Life of T.V. Munson, which won the “Best Wine History Book in the World” award in 2004. McLeRoy also contributed to Grace and Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women (TCU Press, 2007).

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Patrick Dearen went in search of buried treasures, not gold or silver or jewels, but untapped tales worthy of J. Frank Dobie.

And he found for Lone Star Lost ten such stories that spring from the bedrock, shared with the author by native sons and daughters who know that the real treasure is our Texas heritage.

These stories grew from the land—the Texas soil that gives birth to history and sprinkles it with legend. From the piney woods on the east to the Chihuahuan Desert on the west, from the subtropical marshes on the south to the mountains on the north, Texas is alive with the kind of wonder that has sent men in quest of their own Cibolas for generations.

Recognized by Southwestern Historical Quarterly as a “worthy successor to J. Frank Dobie,” PATRICK DEAREN has researched lost treasures of Texas for more than twenty-five years. His book Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier broke new ground in the study of hidden bonanzas in the state’s western reaches. The author of nine novels and eight nonfiction books, Dearen has been honored by Western Writers of America, West Texas Historical Association, and Permian Historical Association. He makes his home in Midland, Texas.

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“A wonderful story, carefully told and well documented, not only about Louis A. Bedford Jr. and his many accomplishments in jurisprudence and public affairs, but also a study of how a local community struggled with race relations before the Supreme Court’s opinion in Brown v. Board of Education.

All people engaged in local public affairs during the twentyfirst century should use this book as a learning tool.”

—Charles V. Willie, professor emeritus, Harvard University, Graduate School of Education

U.S. District Judge Sarah T. Hughes (Indomitable Sarah, SMU, 2004), and the writers Owen Wister and Frederick Lewis Allen.

He’s written extensively on Dallas history, including Big D: Triumphs and Troubles of an American Supercity. W. Marvin Dulaney is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington and co-editor of Essays on the American Civil Rights Movement.

“Payne’s study is most valuable because it provides little-known (to most white Texans anyway) information and insights about the black middle class in general and the black legal community in Texas in particular. The rich detail about black life in Texas is impressive and makes a real contribution to Texas history.”

—Charles Martin, Texas historian of the civil rights movement and professor at the University of Texas-El Paso

“A must read for every lawyer and every person who believes in the importance of the struggle for equal rights under the law.”—Al Ellis, former president of the Dallas Bar Association

Darwin Payne is professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University. He’s the author of biographies of

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“L. A. Bedford is a remarkable example of thriving in the face of adversity. In Quest for Justice the reality of the impact of discrimination on the lives of a whole race of people comes through painfully loud and clear.”—Harriet Miers, noted attorney and former White House counsel

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“Among the strengths of Quest for Justice are its intimacy as a memoir of a prominent African American lawyer who observed and participated in many transformative legal and political challenges of the twentieth century, its remarkable portrait of black Dallas through five decades, and the author’s impressive knowledge of the city’s African American legal fraternity.”

—Michael L. Gillette, executive director of Humanities Texas

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God’s Dogs A Novel in Stories Mitch Wieland “God’s Dogs pulls off impressively what seems, in practice, almost impossible to do well—a novel in stories. Fastidious, trenchant, spare and often eloquent, Mitch Wieland’s stories have great breadth, powerful sympathies, and a renewing comprehension of our human selves which we only find in the best literature.”—Richard Ford

Ferrell Swan has fled the shambles of his life in Ohio for the vast and empty landscape of Idaho’s high desert. Here he tries to escape his past and its failures—even to escape memory itself.

He seeks solace in sunrises and sunsets, wild mustangs and wheeling hawks, and the coyotes that roam his one hundred acres of scrubland. Through visits from his stepson and his exwife, through occasional contacts with odd and reclusive neighbors, Swan confronts himself in order to realize his humanity.

“Wieland’s is a book bigger than its well-fit parts, a book that rouses and reaches for more than the expected, a book that gets our crooked kind right, a book that shakes the dickens out of the heart, a book that offers Big Answers to Big Questions.”— Lee K. Abbott, author of All Things, All at Once “Wieland writes with fearless wonder, a piercing sense of loss, and the resilient grace of humor.”—Melanie Rae Thon, author of Sweet Hearts Mitch Wieland is the author of a novel, Willy Slater’s Lane (SMU, 1996); his short fiction has been published in such venues as Southern Review, Kenyon Review, TriQuarterly, Yale Review, Shenandoah, and Sewanee Review. He teaches in the

M.F.A. program at Boise State University, where he is founding editor of the Idaho Review. He is the recipient of a Christopher Isherwood Fellowship and two literature fellowships from the Idaho Commission on the Arts.

“One of our country’s best magazine editors shows he’s a keen creator of fine stories and makes characters out of sentences all of us should envy.”—Alan Cheuse, book commentator for National Public Radio’s All Things Considered

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“With a keen divination of the deepest emotions, Mitch Wieland has found a mythological dimension in this accidental community of self-isolating loners in the vast (but hardly empty) spaces of Idaho.”—Madison Smartt Bell, author of All Souls Rising

Also by Mitch Wieland Willy Slater’s Lane 978-0-87074-409-9 paper $12.95 “Through the brevity born of perfectly chosen words and the pervasive intimations of hope, Wieland transforms this story of lives on the edge into a psalm.”—Publishers Weekly “Immensely moving.”—New York Times Book Review

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Mrs. Somebody Somebody Stories Tracy Winn “A dying mill town, beautifully evoked in all its gritty reality and lost luster: this is the setting for Tracy Winn’s remarkable debut collection. Winn writes with clarity and keen perception; her stories come together like a mosiac to create a compelling, deeply-textured world. You won’t easily forget these characters, mill owners and union organizers, hairdressers and immigrants, whose lives are full of loss and discovery, regret and beauty, and whose stories brush against one another, overlap, and intersect in unexpected ways. These are deeply satisfying stories, subtle, intelligent, and beautifully crafted.”—Kim Edwards, author of The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

“I love how fully Tracy Winn understands her characters and the complicated transactions between them in these richly imagined, eloquently written stories. Mrs. Somebody Somebody is rich in surprises and moments of unlikely beauty. A splendid debut.”—Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street Tracy Winn earned her M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She is the recipient of grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Barbara Deming Memorial Trust, and the Arch and Bruce Brown Foundation, and fellowships from the MacDowell and the Millay colonies. Her stories

have appeared in the New Orleans Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and Western Humanities Review, among other venues. She works with Gaining Ground, a local non-profit farm that gives its produce to local shelters and meal programs. She lives near Boston with her husband and daughter.

“A rare achievement. Tracy Winn’s characters struggle with unexpected losses and damaging habits, rarely triumphing over the troubles that fill their lives, but always questioning the hard truths that hold them in place.”—C. Michael Curtis, senior fiction editor, Atlantic Monthly

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“Like Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, these linked stories create shifting layers that delight individually and then, as a whole, reveal a place in all its complexity.”—Natalie Danford, author of Inheritance and co-editor of the Best New American Voices series

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“Tracy Winn’s depiction of change over time is masterful, tracing the years after World War II in Lowell, Massachusetts, when the textile industry moved south, the mills went condo, and a way of life ended for workers and owners, their children and their city. Split by the great Merrimack River, the geography of the city emblemizes the discontinuity between past and future, the class gulf between Belvidere Hill and the Bleachery, and the chasm of incomprehension between the women and men in these stories. Nothing is as simple as it seems in Tracy Winn’s world.”—Jack Beatty, senior editor, Atlantic Monthly

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Finalist for 2008 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction “Revelatory tales [that] capture the perpetual inquiry into love, life, and heritage.”—Booklist

“A superlatively crafted, deeply sympathetic debut collection.”—Publishers Weekly

“Ziesk’s taut and moving novel has the impact—and the enlightenment—of a savage revelation.”—Fred Chappell

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“Bukoski’s heart-piercing, poetic fiction of place and ethnicity makes one wish to be Polish, too, despite the heartbreak.”—Booklist

“Satisfying and well written, this [is a] haunting debut novel.”—Library Journal

“This is one of the finest baseball anthologies of all time.”—Jonathan Eig, author of Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig

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and sort fact from myth. McDonald’s motto says it all: “No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that’s in the right and keeps on ’a-comin’.”

HAROLD J. WEISS JR. is Emeritus Professor of History, Government, and Criminal Justice at Jamestown Community College. He received his doctorate in history from Indiana University at Bloomington. Weiss has published numerous articles and essays on the Texas Rangers and western law and order in the Journal of the West, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, and South Texas Studies. He lives in Leander, Texas.

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Captain Bill McDonald (1852–1918) is the most prominent of the “Four Great Captains” of Texas Ranger history. His career straddled the changing scene from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. In 1891 McDonald became captain of Company B of the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers. “Captain Bill” and the Rangers under his command took part in a number of incidents from the Panhandle region to South Texas: the Fitzsimmons-Maher prizefight in El Paso, the Wichita Falls bank robbery, the murders by the San Saba Mob, the Reese-Townsend feud at Columbus, the lynching of the Humphries clan, the Conditt family murders near Edna, the Brownsville Raid of 1906, and the shootout with Mexican Americans near Rio Grande City. In all these endeavors, only one Ranger lost his life under McDonald’s command.

McDonald’s reputation as a gunman rested upon his easily demonstrated markmanship, a flair for using his weapons to intimidate opponents, and the publicity given his numerous exploits. His ability to handle mobs resulted in a classic tale told around campfires: one riot, one Ranger. His admirers rank him as one of the great captains of Texas Ranger history. His detractors see him as an irresponsible lawman who accepted questionable information, precipitated violence, hungered for publicity, and related tall tales that cast himself in the hero’s role. Harold J. Weiss, Jr., seeks to find the true Bill McDonald

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The Sutton-Taylor Feud The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas Chuck Parsons

The Sutton-Taylor Feud of DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, and surrounding counties began shortly after the Civil War ended. The blood feud continued into the 1890s when the final court case was settled with a governmental pardon. Of all the Texas feuds, the one between the Sutton and Taylor forces lasted longer and covered more ground than any other. William E. Sutton was the only Sutton involved, but he had many friends to wage warfare against the large Taylor family. The causes are still shrouded in mystery and legend, as both sides argued they were just and right.

In April 1868 Charles Taylor and James Sharp were shot down in Bastrop County, alleged horse thieves attempting to escape. During this period many men were killed “while attempting to escape.” The killing on Christmas Eve 1868 of Buck Taylor and Dick Chisholm was perhaps the final spark that turned hard feelings into fighting with bullets and knives.

William Sutton was involved in both killings. “Who sheds a Taylor’s blood, by a Taylor’s hand must fall” became a fact of life in South Texas.

Violent acts between the two groups now followed. The military reacted against the killing of two of their soldiers in Mason County by Taylors. The State Police committed acts that were not condoned by their superiors in Austin. Mobs formed in Comanche County in retaliation for John Wesley Hardin’s killing of a Brown County deputy sheriff. One mob “liberated” three prisoners from the DeWitt County jail, thoughtfully hanging them close to the cemetery for the convenience of their relatives. An ambush party killed James Cox, slashing his throat from ear to ear—as if the buckshot in him was not sufficient.

A doctor and his son were called from their home and brutally shot down. Texas Rangers attempted to quell the violence, but when they were called away, the killing began again.

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In this definitive study of the Sutton-Taylor Feud, Chuck Parsons demonstrates that the violence between the two sides was in the tradition of the family blood feud, similar to so many other nineteenth-century American feuds. His study is well augmented with numerous illustrations and appendices detailing the feudists, their attempts at treaties, and their victims.

“Chuck Parsons is a true Texan whose writing of Texas history and the Texas Rangers is superb, always interesting and well researched so the reader gets the true facts.”—H. Joaquin Jackson, coauthor of One Ranger A Texan by choice, CHUCK PARSONS was born and raised in Iowa and Minnesota. His books include John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger, Pioneer Rancher; Texas Ranger N. O. Reynolds; Captain L. H. McNelly, Texas Ranger; Bowen and Hardin; Clay Allison: Portrait of a Shootist; and The Capture of John Wesley Hardin. Parsons is editor of the Wild West History Association Saddlebag.

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The Seventh Star of the Confederacy Texas during the Civil War Edited by Kenneth W. Howell

KENNETH W. HOWELL is an assistant professor at Prairie View A&M University. He received his Ph.D. in history from Texas A&M University and also taught there as a visiting assistant professor. He is the author of Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor: James Webb Throckmorton and coauthor of The Devil’s Triangle: Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction in Texas and Beyond Myths and Legends: A Narrative History of Texas.

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“Howell has managed to gather eighteen of the very best Texas Civil War historians for this fine publication that is certain to attract considerable attention. It surpasses similar edited versions of the war in Texas and may well be one of the very best books on the subject.”—Jerry Thompson, professor of history, Texas A&M International University

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The Seventh Star of the Confederacy

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Civil War. Texas History. Southern History.

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On February 1, 1861, delegates at the Texas Secession Convention elected to leave the Union. The people of Texas supported the actions of the convention in a statewide referendum, paving the way for the state to secede and to officially become the seventh state in the Confederacy. Soon the Texans found themselves engaged in a bloody and prolonged civil war against their northern brethren. During the course of this war, the lives of thousands of Texans, both young and old, were changed forever.

This new anthology, edited by Kenneth W. Howell, incorporates the latest scholarly research on how Texans experienced the war. Eighteen contributors take us from the battlefront to the home front, ranging from inside the walls of a Confederate prison to inside the homes of women and children left to fend for themselves while their husbands and fathers were away on distant battlefields, and from the halls of the governor’s mansion to the halls of the county commissioner’s court in Colorado County. Also explored are wellknown battles that took place in or near Texas, such as the Battle of Galveston, the Battle of Nueces, the Battle of Sabine Pass, and the Red River Campaign. Finally, the social and cultural aspects of the war receive new analysis, including the experiences of women, African Americans, Union prisoners of war, and noncombatants.

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One Man’s Music The Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell Vince Bell Foreword by Kathleen Hudson Texas singer/songwriter Vince Bell’s story begins in the 1970s.

Following the likes of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Bell and his contemporaries Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, and Lucinda Williams were on the rise. In December of 1982, Bell was on his way home from the studio (where he and hired guns Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Johnson had just recorded three of Bell’s songs) when a drunk driver broadsided him at 65 mph.

Thrown over 60 feet from his car, Bell suffered multiple lacerations to his liver, embedded glass, broken ribs, a mangled right forearm, and a severe traumatic brain injury. Not only was his debut album waylaid for a dozen years, life as he’d known it would never be the same.

In detailing his recovery from the accident and his roundabout climb back onstage, Bell shines a light in those dark corners of the music business that, for the lone musician whose success is measured not by the Top 40 but by nightly victories, usually fall outside of the spotlight. Bell’s prose is not unlike his lyrics: spare, beautiful, evocative, and often sneak-up-on-you funny. His chronicle of his own life and near death on the road reveals what it means to live for one’s art.

“This is the story of a man and his instrument; of good times and bad, and the damage sustained and survived by both through decades of hard use.”—Richard Dobson

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“Vince Bell sees with the focused eye of a poet and listens with the sensitive ear of a seasoned musician. His understated and elegant writing connects like a live wire, shedding light on the struggles and pleasures of a traveling troubadour.”—Robert Earl Hardy, author of A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt

VINCE BELL’s songs have been performed and recorded by Little Feat, Lyle Lovett, and Nanci Griffith. In addition to five critically acclaimed albums of his own, a ballet has been set to his work and his story turned into a musical. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife Sarah Wrightson.

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A Holocaust Testimony William and Rosalie Schiff and Craig Hanley

The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke Volume 4: July 3, 1880–May 22, 1881 Edited and Annotated by Charles M. Robinson III

CHARLES M. ROBINSON III is a history instructor at South Texas College. He has written more than fifteen books, including Bad Hand: A Biography of General Ranald S. Mackenzie. He lives in San Benito, Texas.

The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke, Vol. 4

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“This is a riveting, harrowing, dramatic true story, the stuff of which blockbuster movies and television mini-series are made.

William & Rosalie is particularly distinguished by an underlying message warning of the dangers of prejudice and ethnic hatred.”—Midwest Book Review WILLIAM and ROSALIE SCHIFF, now both in their eighties, live in Dallas, Texas, and devote themselves full time to teaching people the dangers of prejudice and hate. CRAIG HANLEY is a graduate of Harvard University. His writing appears in D Magazine.

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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. This fourth volume (of a projected set of eight) chronicles the political and managerial affairs in Crook’s Department of the Platte. A large portion centers on the continuing controversy concerning the forced relocation of the Ponca Indians from their ancient homeland along the Dakota-Nebraska line to a new reservation in the Indian Territory. An equally large portion concerns Bourke’s ethnological work under official sanction from the army and the Bureau of Ethnology.

Each volume in the series is extensively annotated and contains a biographical appendix on Indians, civilians, and military personnel named in the volume.

William & Rosalie is the gripping and heartfelt account of two young Jewish people from Poland who survive six different German slave and prison camps throughout the Holocaust. In 1941, newlyweds William and Rosalie Schiff are forcibly separated and sent on their individual odysseys through a surreal maze of hate. After Rosalie is saved by Oskar Schindler, the husband and wife end up at the Plaszow work camp under Amon Goeth, the bestial commandant played by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List. While Rosalie is on “heaven patrol” removing bodies from the camp, William is working in the factories. But when Rosalie is shipped by train to a different factory camp, William sneaks into a boxcar to follow, and he ends up at Auschwitz instead.

Craig Hanley powerfully narrates the struggle of the lovers to stay alive and find each other at war’s end.

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Texas History. Western History. Southern History.

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The Mason County “Hoo Doo” War, 1874–1902 David Johnson Foreword by Rick Miller

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Eleven Days in Hell The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas William T. Harper

The longest civilian hostage-taking siege in the history of the United States penal system took place in Texas’s Huntsville State Prison in the summer of 1974. Federico Carrasco, a former drug boss, and two other inmates used smuggled guns to take eleven civilian prison workers hostage in the prison library. They planned to escape using the hostages as shields in a moving barricade, but W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director of the Texas Department of Corrections, had his team blast the barricade with water hoses. In a violent end to the standoff, Carrasco committed suicide, one of his two accomplices was killed (the other later executed), and two female hostages were murdered by their captors. “[Harper] has assembled the best account written of the 11-day hostage siege. . . . His riveting narrative leaves the reader with a ‘you-were-there’ feeling that brings goose bump-producing memories from those of us who were there.”—Alan L. Bailey, San Antonio Express-News WILLIAM T. HARPER spent 14 years with the Philadelphia Inquirer as reporter, writer, and editor. He lives in Bryan, Texas.

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In 1874 the Hoo Doo War erupted in the Texas Hill Country of Mason County. The feud began with the rise of the mob under Sheriff John Clark, but it was not until the premeditated murder of rancher Timothy Williamson in 1875, orchestrated by Clark, that the violence escalated out of control. His death drew former Texas Ranger Scott Cooley to the region seeking justice, and when the courts failed, he began a vendetta to avenge his friend.

In the ensuing months, Sheriff Clark’s mob ambushed ranchers George Gladden and Moses Baird, which drew gunfighters such as John Ringo into the violence. Local and state officials proved powerless, and it was not until the early 1900s that the feud burned itself out.

“Few blood feuds in the West were more vicious or more lethal than the Mason County War of Texas. . . . Depicting a formidable body count, along with episodes and motivations which are characteristic of other western feuds, David Johnson has placed the Mason County War in the front rank of extralegal frontier conflicts.”—Bill O’Neal, Journal of Arizona History DAVID JOHNSON is best known for John Ringo, his biography of the famous gunslinger also published by UNT Press. He has edited two editions of The Life of Thomas W. Gamel. He lives in Zionsville, Indiana.

RICK MILLER, who wrote the foreword, is the author of Bloody Bill Longley and Sam Bass & Gang.

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Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2008

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Ohio Violence

Historical Aspects of Music Theory

Alison Stine

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Edited by Frank Heidlberger

FRANK HEIDLBERGER is professor of music theory at the University of North Texas. He received his degrees in musicology at Würzburg University (Germany). He has published numerous books and articles on music history and theory of the 16th to 20th centuries, particularly on Italian instrumental music around 1600, 19th century composers Carl Maria von Weber, Hector Berlioz, and Giacomo Meyerbeer, and 20th century composer and theorist Paul Hindemith.

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“Alison Stine writes, ‘Believe me.’ I am telling you a story,’ and the story she tells us we believe as it unfolds. The poems are moving—beautiful, tragic, death-haunted, and uncanny— like old folk songs and murder ballads—lovely on the tongue, heavy on the heart. As a narrator, Stine does not and will not swerve when faced with the brutal, the adamantine and the ordinary damage that equals a life.”—Eric Pankey, judge and author of Reliquaries

ALISON STINE is a 2008 winner of a Ruth Lilly Fellowship.

She was born in Indiana and grew up in Ohio. A former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, she is the author of the chapbook Lot of My Sister, winner of the Wick Prize. Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Paris Review, Poetry, and The Kenyon Review. This is her first book. She lives in Athens, Ohio.

Number Sixteen: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry

The annual Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry is awarded to a previously unpublished collection of poetry.

The winner receives $1,000 and publication by the University of North Texas Press.

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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.

Volume 16 (2009) will include articles by James MacKay, “Into the Composer’s Workshop: Pre-Compositional Planning and Contrapuntal Design in William Byrd’s Imitative Points”; Kenneth Smith, “Sébastien de Brossard’s Entry for Cadenza in the Manuscript Draft of His Dictionnaire, F-Pn n.a.f. 5269, ff.

88r–91r:”; and Ildar Khannanov, “Revisiting Russian Music Theory: Victor Bobrovsky’s Functional Foundations of Musical Form.”

Ohio Violence starts with scandal: the narrator leads the high school football coach into the cornfields, but as she promises, “nothing happened.” In the fields, in the woods, in the dark water of Ohio, something is happening. Girls disappear, turn on each other. Men watch from the rearview as the narrator hedges, changes her mind, then shows all in this break-out collection of bittersweet and cataclysmic lyrics.

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He also serves as the Vice President and COO of the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation. Steve Butman, a local Abilene artist, is a San Francisco Art Institute trained freelance photographer specializing in commercial, aerial, and industrial photography.

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Abilene Landmarks: An Illustrated Tour

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Every city has a look and feel that informs how people respond to it. Visitors react to the skyline, clean streets, traffic patterns and the like, while its citizens speak of civic pride, heritage, and spirit. This love of place illustrates the passions and values of the society that fosters it. Some economists and thinkers refer to social capital, others cultural capital, when discussing the value added by the appreciation of the history and heritage of a community. The more people know about their hometown, the more they support it, love it, and keep it. The settlement that sprang up along the Texas and Pacific Railroad at milepost 407 is no exception.

Here, for the first time, are one hundred of Abilene’s landmark buildings telling the history, hopes, and humanity of this city. Readers will not only discover a host of remarkable stories in this book, but they will also find the architectural expressions of a civilization that have made their mark on the West Texas landscape. From humble cottages to the first Hilton Hotel, and from railway depots to an air force base, Abilene’s unique contribution to the American story unfolds through the buildings that compose its cityscapes.

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The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume II: Misssissippi edited by Stephen Gardner and William Wright

Often celebrated as the Literary State of the South, and quoted to have more writers per capita than any other state in the Union, Mississippi remains famous for its fiction writers: William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Barry Hannah, Willie Morris, and Walker Percy, among many others. Relatively unsung are those who dedicate themselves to the older craft of poetry. This book seeks to alleviate that absence and collect the best poetry written in contemporary Mississippi, to share with curious readers the luminous verses this beautiful state engenders.

The second edition of The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume II: Mississippi, seeks to continue the aspiration of the series: to take a snapshot of contemporary poetry in the American South and to observe how the “sense of place” manifests itself in the work of native poets or those just passing through. Featured in this edition, poets Natasha Trethewey, Gordon Weaver, Angela Ball, Paul Ruffin, Julia Johnson, T.R. Hummer, and many others reveal the Magnolia State as a place in which brilliant art continues to bloom.

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STEPHEN GARDNER is the G.L. Toole Professor of English at the University of South Carolina-Aiken, where he has taught literature and creative writing since 1972. The author of This Book Belongs to Eva and a forthcoming book of poems, Taking the Switchback, Gardner also edited the literary magazines kudzu and The Devil’s Millhopper. WILLIAM WRIGHT is a teaching fellow and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers. He is author of a book of poems, Dark Orchard, and has published in such journals as North American Review, New Orleans Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, and Colorado Review. His next editing project centers on contemporary Appalachian Poetry.

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Hog to Hog Jack Smith

A dark comedy written in rollicking prose, Hog to Hog deals with excessive development in a relatively pristine Midwestern rural area. The spoils of misadventure go to the top polluters, like Dick Columbus, who makes money for the state’s coffers with his Wheeleroo!, an ATV mega event that runs roughshod over the local nature sanctuary. Columbus wins a seat in the state Senate. Bernie Sapp, the novel’s protagonist, lacks political savvy and power and ends up in one of Columbus’s pet projects, the newly constructed prison. With a culture based on plunder and socio-economic injustice, the ordinary man’s American Dream turns into the American Nightmare.

“Boisterous and compelling, Hog to Hog is often a funhouse mirror reflecting American materialism, greed, and crassness. Jack Smith’s spot-on dialogue will make you laugh; this award-winning tale, the taller it grows, will convince you to treasure it as good old satire.”—Mark Wisniewski, author of Confessions of a Polish Used Car Salesman and All Weekend with the Lights On

JACK SMITH has published fiction in such literary journals as The Southern Review, The Texas Review, North American Review, X-Connect, Happy, In Posse Review, Southern Ocean Review, and B&A: New Fiction. His reviews have appeared in Missouri Review, Texas Review, Georgia Review, Pleiades, X-Connect, RE:AL, and Environment magazine. He has also written a number of articles for Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market and The Writer and coauthored the nonfiction work Killing Me Softly (Monthly Review Press, 2002). He is founder and co-editor of The Green Hills Literary Lantern, an online journal, published by Truman State University.

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“Jack Smith’s stunning first novel, Hog to Hog, proves William Styron’s thesis that ‘only a great satirist can tackle the world’s problems and articulate them.’ The pace is feverish, with non-stop action revealing new heights of national folly, greed, and excess. Bernie Sapp, Smith’s protagonist, is by turn a fearful, angry, arrogant, acquisitive, horny, and touching Everyman as he scrambles avidly for his slice of the pie.

Smith’s prose is crisp and acerbic, his themes reminiscent of Heller, Southern and Nathaniel West: surely this is what black humor is all about.”—Geoffrey Clark, author of Wedding in October and Jackdog Summer

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Winner of the 2008 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Award

Mom’s Canoe Rebecca Foust

Winner, 2007 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize

“Bocage” and Other Sonnets William Baer

“Bocage” and Other Sonnets is a collection of meticulously crafted sonnets that take a hard-edged, uncompromising look at human behavior—like the man trapped in an elevator with his former lover’s husband, the criminal staring at his own wanted poster, the colorblind visitor in an art gallery, or the cartographer who creates a fictitious town. This diverse collection of poems also includes some light verse, love sonnets, translations, and several Biblically based sonnets.

WILLIAM BAER is the author of fifteen books, including three previous collections of poetry: The Ballad Rode into Town, “Borges” and Other Sonnets, and The Unfortunates, recipient of the T.S. Eliot Prize. A current Guggenheim fellow, he’s also received a Fulbright (Portugal), an N.E.A. creative writing fellowship, and the Jack Nicholson Screenwriting Award.

He currently serves as the Melvin M. Peterson Chair in the English Department at the University of Evansville in southwest Indiana.

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Mom’s Canoe is a chapbook of 24 poems rooted in the author’s memories of growing up in the Allegheny Mountains in western Pennsylvania, an area of rich farmland and thickly wooded hills and valleys that was also the site of heavy coal mining and railroading activity in the last century. The eventual decline of those industries and the environmental and economic devastation left in their wake are important themes in this book, which also pays tribute to the enduring natural beauty of the region and to the strength, suffering, and joy of the people who have made their lives there.

“Rebecca Foust’s work is beginning to garner attention. I found these poems astonishingly strong and beautiful. It’s not common for me to find an unpublished collection of poems as good as this one.”—Susan Griffin, poet, writer, Pulitzer Prize finalist, and author of Wrestling the Angel of Democracy In 2007 Rebecca Foust’s book Dark Card won the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize (Texas Review Press), and her full-length manuscript was a finalist for Poetry’s Emily Dickinson First Book Award. A finalist in five competitions, a second chapbook, Mom’s Canoe, won the Robert Phillips Poetry Prize in 2008.

Foust’s recent poetry was nominated for two Pushcart Awards and appears or is forthcoming in Atlanta Review, Margie, North American Review, Nimrod, Spoon River Poetry Review, and others.

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A Week on the Chunky and Chickasawhay D.C. Berry

D.C. BERRY taught at the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers, Hattiesburg, where for years he was Poet in Residence. There he published hundreds of poems, and several volumes, and three times won the Excellence in Teaching Award, while being honored as a Charles W. Moorman Distinguished Professor in the Humanities.

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JACK CROCKER has published poems in The Texas Review, Southern Poetry Review, Mississippi Review, and other journals, and fiction in The Cimarron Review. His poems have been anthologized in The Texas Anthology, Mississippi Writers: Reflections of Childhood, Texas Stories and Poems, and Florida in Poetry. He has written for educational television, including “Introduction to Folksongs,” (scripted and performed). An interview with Galway Kinnell appeared in Walking Down Stairs.

A biography of Jimmy Rodgers was published in Mississippi Heroes and of Sergeant York in Heroes of Tennessee. He has written songs for StaFree Publishing Company and had a recording contract with Fretone Records of Memphis, Tennessee. Currently he is associate professor of English at Florida Gulf Coast University, where he was founding dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

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A Week on the Chunky and Chickasawhay is D.C. Berry’s log of a solo canoe expedition, one August week, down the Chunky and Chickasawhay creeks in eastern Mississippi. Along the way he recorded what happened on the creeks, the area history, and what crossed his mind pertaining to the god of that day.

Saturday, for instance, is Saturn’s day, the god of the hoe and of the hoedown. Sunday, the Sun’s day, god of religion, philosophy, and of jive. Monday, the Moon’s day, god of women, children, and otherness. Tuesday, Tiu’s day, god of war, Wednesday, Wodan’s day, god of art. Thursday, Thor’s day, god of bossiness.

Friday, Freyja’s day, goddess of love.

“The poems in The Last Resort fall thematically into four or five overlapping silos: poems about the making of poems; about time’s abrasions; about nature’s benign/malevolent indifference; about the cultural tattoos of growing up in the Mississippi Delta; about women, guilt, and love; about the inescapable separateness of the first-person pronoun.

The unifying sensibility is the ‘I’ that got us in this fortunate human mess in the first place. Turned horizontally, it is a barbell that grows heavier with time, making the poems a series of psychological bench presses. In the absence of a Spotter the weight is lightened only by irony, a comic self-consciousness, and ultimately acceptance.”

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