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On the cover

Gulf of Mexico looking northeast from the promontory at Villa Rica, Veracruz Photograph by Geoff Winningham from the book Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea

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Photograph by Geoff Winningham

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Covering nine hundred species, with rare photographs of coral reef and deep-water seashells . . . .

Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells

Identification, Ecology, Distribution, and History John W. Tunnell Jr., Jean Andrews, Noe C. Barrera, and Fabio Moretzsohn An essential reference book for every collector and researcher of American seashells, Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells is a complete sourcebook and up-to-date identification guide, covering an unprecedented nine hundred species of seashells and mollusks that reside in the marine habitats of the Gulf of Mexico.

Special features: Illustrated guide to the general features of mollusks Family overviews Descriptions of deep-water, tropical, coral reef, and bank species Information boxes on notable species Assemblage photos of dominant species in primary Texas habitats Checklist and glossary This reference contains 987 detailed and data-rich color images for even the tiniest shells, a valuable primer on shell collecting as a hobby, and a wealth of entries on the history of use and study, habitats and ecology, shell characteristics, distribution, biology, and identification.

Covering species that range from Florida to South America, the Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells will also be a valuable resource for anyone interested in seashells of the Western Atlantic.

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

JOHN W. (WES) TUNNELL JR. is a professor of biology, associate director of the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, and director of the Center for Coastal Studies at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. JEAN ANDREWS is a naturalist, artist, author, and illustrator who was first published on Texas seashells in 1971. She resides in Austin, Texas. NOE C. BARRERA is a malacologist, microphotographer, and book designer at the Center for Coastal Studies.

FABIO MORETZSOHN is an assistant research scientist at the Harte Research Institute in systematics and conservation of marine invertebrates.

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Coral Reefs of the Southern Gulf of Mexico John W. Tunnell 978-1-58544-617-9 hardcover $50.00

Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota Volume I, Biodiversity Darryl L. Felder 978-1-60344-094-3 hardcover $95.00

“. . . combines the most recent taxonomic information available with vivid color photography, detailed accounts of applicable molluscan family and species, and an overview of the varied environments of the Texas coast. . . .”—Thomas E. Eichhorst, editor of American Conchologist

Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota Volume II, Ocean and Coastal Economy James C. Cato 978-1-60344-086-8 hardcover $40.00

Encyclopedia of Texas Seashells 978-1-60344-141-4 hardcover $50.00

81/2x11. 512 pp. 987 color, 12 b&w photos. 15 maps. 18 line art. 3 figs. 2 Tables. Glossary. BIb. Index.

Natural History. Marine Science.

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A historic family and their landmark home . . .

The Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion Henry Wiencek Foreword by Robert L. Moody Sr. Epilogue by E. Douglas McLeod In 1900, just a few months after the deadly hurricane in September W. L. Moody Jr. and his family moved into the four-story mansion at the corner of Broadway and Twentysixth Street in Galveston. For the next eight decades, the Moody family occupied the 28,000-square-foot home: raising a family, creating memories, building business empires, and contributing their considerable wealth and influence for the betterment of their beloved city.

In 1983, Hurricane Alicia damaged the mansion, and Mary Moody Northen, eldest child of W. L. Moody Jr., moved out so a major restoration could begin. When the mansion opened to the public as a museum, education center, and location for community gatherings in 1991, it had been restored to its original grandeur.

The Moody Foundation then commissioned award-winning author Henry Wiencek to write a history of the Moodys of Galveston and their celebrated home. Robert L. Moody Sr., grandson of W. L. Moody Jr. and nephew of Mary Moody Northen, contributes a foreword, giving a brief introduction and personal tone to the book, which also features fifteen color photographs of the Moodys and their home. An epilogue by E. Douglas McLeod summarizes the family’s accomplishments and developments associated with the mansion since Northen’s death in 1986.

The Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion is a must-read for Galvestonians, for the thousands of visitors who tour the mansion each year, and for anyone interested in the captivating tale of this influential and generous family and their magnificent house.

Number Thirteen: Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities

RELATED INTEREST HENRY WIENCEK, of Charlottesville, Virginia, is the author of numerous books, including The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White, which won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award in Biography in 1999, and An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History.

The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston An Architectural and Social History Ellen Beasley 978-1-58544-582-0 cloth $39.95

The Galveston That Was Howard Barnstone 978-089096-887-1 cloth $49.95

Galveston Architecture Guidebook Stephen Fox 978-0-89263-345-6 paper $17.95

The Moodys of Galveston and Their Mansion 978-1-60344-182-7 flexbound $19.95

7x10. 136 pp. 15 color, 76 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

Texas History. Business History.

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The fascinating and revealing story behind one of Houston’s bestkept secrets . . .

Houston’s Silent Garden Glenwood Cemetery, 1871-2009

Suzanne Turner and Joanne Seale Wilson Photographs by Paul Hester Glenwood Cemetery has long offered a serene and pastoral final resting place for many of Houston’s civic leaders and historic figures.

In Houston’s Silent Garden, Suzanne Turner and Joanne Seale Wilson reveal the story of this beautifully wooded and landscaped preserve’s development—a story that is also very much entwined with the history of Houston.

In 1871, recovering from Reconstruction, a group of progressive citizens noticed that Houston needed a new cemetery at the edge of the central city. Embracing the picturesque aesthetic that had swept through the Eastern Seaboard, the founders of Glenwood selected land along Buffalo Bayou and developed Glenwood. Since then, the cemetery’s monuments have memorialized the lives of many of the city’s most interesting residents (Allen, Baker, Brown, Clayton, Cooley, Cullinan, Farish, Hermann, Hobby, House, Hughes, Jones, Law, Rice, Staub, Sterling, Weiss, and Wortham, among many others). The monuments also showcase the artistry and craftsmanship of some of the region’s finest sculptors and artisans.

Accompanied by the breathtaking photography of Paul Hester, this book chronicles the cemetery’s origins from its inception in 1871 to the present day.

Through the story of Glenwood, readers will appreciate some of the natural features that shaped Houston’s evolution and will also begin to understand the forces of urbanization that positioned Houston to become the vital community it is today.

Houston’s Silent Garden is a must-read for those interested in Houston civic and regional history, architecture, and urban planning.

“The garden may be silent, but the authors have given it a voice, and anyone who really wants to know Houston should listen.”—Bill White, mayor, city of Houston “. . . introduces us to the bucolic setting that continues to be what its founders intended, a beautiful garden that my life-long friend Carrington Weems says seems to reach ‘up to the heavens’ on starry nights.”—James A. Baker III, 61st U.S. Secretary of State

Number Twelve: Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities SUZANNE TURNER is professor emeritus of the School of Landscape Architecture at Louisiana State University and principal of Suzanne Turner Associates. She resides in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

JOANNE SEALE WILSON is the author of several publications in horticulture and landscaping, including a biography of historic landscape architect Rose Ishbel Greely. PAUL HESTER teaches in the Department of Visual and Dramatic Arts at Rice University. His photographs have appeared in many books, magazines, and exhibitions.

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The Country Houses of John F. Staub Stephen Fox 978-1-58544-595-0 cloth $75.00

Houston Atlas of Biodiversity Houston Wilderness 978-1-58544-618-6 paper $23.95

Capturing Nature The Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodr’guez Patsy Pittman Light 978-1-58544-610-0 cloth $30.00

Houston’s Silent Garden 978-1-60344-163-6 cloth $60.00

11x12. 304 pp. 191 color, 54 b&w photos. 21 maps. 3 Apps. Bib. Index.

Art. Landscape Architecture. Texas History.

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Two nations, two cultures, one coastline . . .

Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea The Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico Geoff Winningham In a work of sweeping breadth and beauty, Geoff Winningham has created a profusely illustrated, contemplative travel journal that showcases his talent as both a photographer and a writer and reveals his affection and respect for the two countries he calls home. In 2003, photographer Geoff Winningham saw for the first time both the southern coast of Veracruz, with its volcanoes, rain forests, and steep mountains, and the Texas coast near High Island, where the land seems to stretch endlessly, covered by a sea of salt grass. He decided that these two visually striking areas could be the beginning and end points of a photographic study that would also engage the two cultures in which he had lived for twenty years, the U.S. and Mexico.

Now, seven years and more than a hundred trips later, Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea: The Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico is the result. In this beautifully illustrated and engagingly written book, Winningham also considers the role that the Gulf of Mexico played in the discovery and exploration of the New World.

Winningham’s journey begins east of High Island, in Port Arthur, where the images suggest a cautionary tale relating to the oil industry and the land. It ends twelve hundred miles down the coast at the end of an old, stone road in tropical terrain of almost indescribable beauty, overlooking the sea. In between, more than 200 photographs include natural landscapes (ranging from unspoiled to completely despoiled), roadside architecture and signage, and images of people Winningham met. As he attempts to come to terms with the disturbing changes he witnessed to the coastal environment, the book also contains elements of a poignant, personal lament for what is being lost.

Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea: The Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico will delight and enchant readers with its deeply felt personal narrative and the power and beauty of its images.

“Why should we love the world, the difficult world? Accomplished picture makers and storytellers, of whom Geoff Winningham is surely one, help us toward an answer by describing individual regions—in this case the relatively little known western Gulf Coast—so vividly and fondly that they impart even to our distant homes a borrowed splendor. I am grateful.

Winningham knows that he has composed in some respects an elegy, but it is a tender and redemptive one.”—Robert Adams, photographer

RELATED INTEREST GEOFF WINNINGHAM is professor of visual arts at Rice University. His work is included in major anthologies of photographs and is in most major collections in the U.S., including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the major art museums of Texas.

Coastal Texas Water, Land, and Wildlife John L. Tveten 978-0-89096-138-4 cloth $29.95

Galveston Bay Sally E. Antrobus 978-1-58544-460-1 cloth $40.00 978-1-58544-461-8 paper $19.95

Texas Coral Reefs Jesse Cancelmo 978-1-58544-633-9 cloth $24.95

Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea 978-1-60344-161-2 cloth $45.00

12x9. 360 pp. 257 color photos. 6 maps. Bib. Index.

Natural History. Photography. Art. Environmental History. History.

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Plants of Deep South Texas

A Field Guide to the Woody and Flowering Species Alfred Richardson and Ken King Covering the almost three million acres of southernmost Texas known as the Lower Rio Grande Valley, this user-friendly guide is an essential reference for nature enthusiasts, farmers and ranchers, professional botanists, and anyone interested in the plant life of Texas.

Alfred Richardson and Ken King offer abundant photographs and short descriptions of more than eight hundred species of ferns, algae, and woody and herbaceous plants—twothirds of the species that occur in this region.

Plants of Deep South Texas opens with a brief introduction to the region and an illustrated guide to leaf shapes and flower parts. The book’s individual species accounts cover: Leaves Flowers Fruit Blooming period Distribution Habits Common and scientific names In addition, the authors’ comments include indispensible information that cannot be seen in a photograph, such as the etymology of the scientific name, the plant’s use by caterpillars and its value from the human perspective. The authors also provide a glossary of terms, as well as an appendix of butterfly and moth species mentioned in the text.

Perspectives on South Texas, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Kingsville

RELATED INTEREST ALFRED RICHARDSON is professor emeritus of biological sciences at the University of Texas at Brownsville.

KEN KING, of Weslaco, Texas, is a plant biologist. He serves on the board of directors for the Native Plant Project.

Plants of the Texas Coastal Bend Roy L. Lehman 978-1-60344-130-8 paper $29.95s

Rare Plants of Texas A Field Guide Jackie M. Poole 978-1-58544-557-8 flexbound $35.00

Nesting Birds of a Tropical Frontier The Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas Timothy Brush 978-1-58544-436-6 paper $24.95

Plants of Deep South Texas 978-1-60344-144-5 flexbound $30.00

7x10. 448 pp. 1,026 color photos. 28 line art. Map. Glossary. Bib. Index.

Natural History. Nature Guide. Botany.

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Richly illustrated with black-and-white photographs and architectural drawings. . .

Chilean Modern Architecture since 1950 Fernando Pérez Oyarzún, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce, and Horacio Torrent Edited by Malcolm Quantrill Chilean architecture—along with that of São Paolo and Mexico City—sets a benchmark for the intersection of modernism with vernacular influences in Latin America. Culture, landscape, and the geology of this earthquake-prone region have all served as important filters for the practice of post-1950s design in Chile.

This volume introduces the modern architecture of Chile to readers in the United States.

Looking primarily at domestic architecture as a lens for studying the larger movement, Fernando Pérez Oyarzún considers the relationship between theory and practice in Chile.

As he shows in his chapter, during the early 1950s the School of Valparaíso offered the possibility of developing experimental projects accompanied by theoretical statements.

There, visual artists considered poetry the starting point of modern architecture and contributed their radically modern views to the design process of the project.

Next, Rodrigo Pérez de Arce examines the material context of architecture in Chile: the availability of materials and technologies, the frequency of violent earthquakes and related seismic activity, and the nation’s craft-based, labor-intensive building practices. He applies these considerations to a series of case studies to demonstrate how they interact with cultural, historical, economic, and even political influences.

In the book’s final chapter, Horacio Torrent reviews the interplay between the architectonic culture and modern shapes that came into sharp focus in the 1950s in Chile. In another series of case studies, he highlights the formation of a system of concepts, thought processes, instruments, and values that have given Chilean architecture a certain singularity during the last fifty years.

Number Eight: Studies in Architecture and Culture

RELATED INTEREST FERNANDO PéREZ OYARZúN, RODRIGO PéREZ DE ARCE, and HORACIO TORRENT are professors of architecture at Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile. All have written extensively on modern architecture in Chile.

The Architectural Project Malcolm Quantrill 978-1-58544-186-0 cloth $40.00

Latin American Architecture Six Voices Malcolm Quantrill 978-0-89096-901-4 cloth $60.00

Urban Forms, Suburban Dreams Malcolm Quantrill 978-0-89096-535-1 cloth $50.00

Chilean Modern Architecture since 1950 978-1-60344-135-3 cloth $45.00

7x10. 192 pp. 65 b&w photos. 51 line art. Index.

Architecture. Latin American Studies.

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At the intersection of religious faith and social justice . . .

Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas

Farm Workers and the Churches

The Movement in California and Texas

Edited by Jesús F. de la Teja Foreword by David J. Weber

Tejanos (Texans of Mexican heritage) were instrumental leaders in the life and development of Texas during the Mexican period, the war of independence, and the Texas Republic.

Jesús F. de la Teja and ten other scholars examine the lives, careers, and influence of many long-neglected but historically significant Tejano leaders who were active and influential in the formation, political and military leadership, and economic development of Texas.

In Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas, lesser-known figures such as Father Refugio de la Garza, Juan Martín Veramendi, José Antonio Saucedo, Raphael Manchola, and Carlos de la Garza join their better-known counterparts—José Antonio Navarro, Juan Seguín, and Plácido Benavides, for example—on the stage of Texas and regional historical consideration.

This book also features a foreword by David J. Weber, in which he discusses how Anglocentric views allowed important Tejano figures to fade from public knowledge. Students and scholars of Texas and regional history, those interested in Texana, and readers in Latino/a studies will glean important insights from Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas.

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

JESúS F. DE LA TEJA is a former president of the Texas State Historical Association. He is a professor and chair of the Department of History at Texas State University–San Marcos.

Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas

978-1-60344-152-0 cloth $40.00x 978-1-60344-166-7 paper $19.95

6x9. 224 pp. 13 b&w photos. Index.

Borderlands Studies. Texas History. Mexican American Studies.

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Alan J. Watt

In the mid-1960s, the charismatic César Chávez led members of California’s La Causa movement in boycotting the grape harvest, and melon pickers in South Texas called a strike against growers, contesting unfair labor and wage practices in both states.

In Farm Workers and the Churches, Alan J. Watt shows how the religious and social contexts of the farm workers, their leaders, and the larger society helped or hindered these two pivotal actions.

Watt explores the ways in which liberal expressions of Northern Protestantism, transplanted to California and combined with the pro-labor wing of the Catholic Church and the heritage of Mexican popular piety, provided a fertile field for the growth of broad support for Chávez and his organizing efforts. Eventually, La Causa was able to achieve collective bargaining victories, including a historic labor contract between California agribusiness and farm workers.

The movement did not fare as well in Texas, where the combination of a locally weak union leadership, a more conservative Southern Protestant ethos, and the strikebreaking measures of the Texas Rangers all boded ill.

However, a general Chicano/a movement ultimately took permanent root in the state, because of the workers’ struggle.

Watt offers a careful examination of the complex interactions among religious traditions, social heritage, and ethnicity as these factors affected the course and outcomes of these two pioneering campaigns undertaken

by La Causa.

Number Eight: Fronteras Series, sponsored by Texas A&M International University ALAN J. WATT, a pastor for twenty-six years, has served as a minister in the Southwestern Texas Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America since 2002. He holds a PhD from Vanderbilt University and his previous publications have focused on religion and social movements. He resides in New Braunfels, Texas.

Farm Workers and the Churches

978-1-60344-174-2 cloth $48.00x 978-1-60344-193-3 paper $24.00s

6x9. 264 pp. 20 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

Labor History. Agriculture. Religion.

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Caprock Canyonlands

Journeys into the Heart of the Southern Plains, Twentieth Anniversary Edition Dan L. Flores Foreword by Annie Proulx Afterword by Thomas R. Dunlap Twenty years ago, Dan Flores’s Caprock Canyonlands became one of the first books ever to treat the flat, arid landscape of the southern High Plains as a place of uncommon beauty and enduring spirit. Now a classic, Caprock Canyonlands has been favorably compared by readers to the work of such icons of nature and environmental writing as William Bartram, Aldo Leopold, John Muir, and Henry David Thoreau.

Containing the author’s stunning photography, a foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Annie Proulx, author of “Brokeback Mountain,” an afterword by environmental historian Thomas R. Dunlap, and a new preface by the author, this twentieth anniversary edition makes available to a new generation of readers Flores’s knowledgeable and heartfelt narrative of the canyons and badlands of eastern New Mexico and western Oklahoma and Texas. He evokes the history and natural history that shaped the region, drawing upon geology, mythology, botany, art, history and natural history that shaped the region, drawing upon geology, mythology, botany, art, history, and literature.

“Caprock Canoynlands keeps its place on our bookshelves . . . for its exploration of a deeply human activity: the search for the beauty of the earth, the depth and strength of our ties to it, and the ways those appear in a particular landscape . . . here illuminated by love.”—from the afterword by Thomas R. Dunlap Number Twenty-three: Environmental History Series

“Some of us dream of the days when it was possible to light out for the territories and discover new and fascinating parts. We think we know this country now, that every corner and byway has been explored, quantified, described, mapped, and stamped. But when we open Caprock Canyonlands we get a flash of enlightenment and understand that exploration and discovery are still possible. . . “—from the foreword by Annie Proulx, author of “Brokeback Mountain”

RELATED INTEREST DAN FLORES is A. B. Hammond Professor of Western History at the University of Montana. He serves as general editor of the Environmental History series at Texas A&M University Press. Flores currently divides his time between Missoula, Montana, and Santa Fe, New Mexico.

The Book of Texas Bays Jim Blackburn 978-1-58544-339-0 cloth $40.00

Adios to the Brushlands Arturo Longoria 978-0-89096-769-0 cloth $19.95

The Deer Pasture Rick Bass 978-0-89096-228-2 cloth $19.95

Caprock Canyonlands 978-1-60344-180-3 flexbound $24.95

7x10. 232 pp. 73 color photos. 4 maps. Bib. Index.

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Trees, Shrubs, and Vines of the Texas Hill Country A Field Guide, Second Edition Jan Wrede If you imagine the Texas Hill Country as dry limestone slopes of cedar and scrub oak, prepare to have your eyes opened. The Edwards Plateau, upon which the Hill Country sits, is also a land of lush cypress-lined streams, thickets, and shady hardwood bottomlands.

Edged by canyonlands and intersected by creeks, these rocky hills support an abundance of trees, shrubs, and vines that provide food and cover for wildlife and create a distinct and durable landscape.

In this book, Jan Wrede has compiled a field guide to more than 130 species of mostly native, mostly woody plants of the Texas Hill Country. A thoughtful introduction discusses deer, cedar, water, oak wilt, and invasive species—timely issues of increasing importance for a growing number of Texas landowners. Plant descriptions contain information about the leaves, flowers, fruit, and bark of each plant and also give insights into the species’ range and habits. A color photograph accompanies each account.

In addition to a comprehensive plant chart with tips about color, scent, flowering period, height, site preference, and wildlife and livestock utilization, this revised edition includes: A new, expanded section on living with deer; A list of “priority plants” for the Hill Country; Seven additional plant species descriptions.

A recommended reading list, a resource guide, and a glossary round out this informationpacked book.

Number Thirty-nine: Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series

“The beauty of this book is that anyone in the Texas Hill Country associated with just plain everyday gardening as well as those involved with more esoteric botanical pursuits can rely upon it to cover the woody plant life of this small part of Texas. Jan Wrede nicely sliced off a small piece of Texas and bound it in a convenient backpack size book.”—American Reference Books Annual

RELATED INTEREST JAN WREDE is director of education at the Cibolo Nature Center in Boerne, Texas, where she runs an outdoor classroom, directs field research projects, and conducts education programs for Hill Country landowners and families with children. Wrede also writes a nature column for the Boerne Star and Hill Country View.

Trees of Texas An Easy Guide to Leaf Identification Carmine Stahl 978-1-58544-242-3 hardcover $29.95

Hill Country Landowner’s Guide Jim Stanley 978-1-60344-137-7 flexbound $19.95

Grasses of the Texas Hill Country A Field Guide Brian and Shirley Loflin 978-1-58544-467-0 flexbound $23.00

Trees, Shrubs, and Vines of the Texas Hill Country 978-1-60344-188-9 flexbound $24.00

53/4x81/2. 272 pp. 194 color. 2 tables. Glossary.

Natural History. Plants. Botany. Field Guides.

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A 4,000-mile journey to arrive at the heart of the Lone Star State

Exploring the Edges of Texas Walt Davis and Isabel Davis Drawings by Walt Davis In 1955, Frank X. Tolbert, a well-known columnist for the Dallas Morning News, circumnavigated Texas with his nine-year-old-son in a Willis Jeep. The column he phoned in to the newspaper about his adventures, “Tolbert’s Texas,” was a staple of Walt Davis’s childhood. Fifty years later, Walt and his wife, Isabel, have re-explored portions of Tolbert’s trek along the boundaries of Texas.

The border of Texas is longer than the Amazon River, running through ten distinct ecological zones as it outlines one of the most familiar shapes in geography. According to the Davises, “Driving its every twist and turn would be like driving from Miami to Los Angeles by way of New York.”

Each of this book’s sixteen chapters opens with an original drawing by Walt, representing a segment of the Texas border where the authors selected a special place—a national park, a stretch of river, a mountain range, or an archeological site. Using a firsthand account of that place written by a previous visitor (artist, explorer, naturalist, or archeologist), they then identified a contemporary voice (whether biologist, rancher, river-runner, or paleontologist) to serve as a modern-day guide for their journey of rediscovery. This dual perspective allows the authors to attach personal stories to the places they visited, to connect the past with the present, and to compare Texas then with Texas now.

Whether retracing botanist Charles Wright’s 600-mile walk to El Paso in 1849 or paddling Houston’s Buffalo Bayou, where John James Audubon saw ivory-billed woodpeckers in 1837, the Davises seek to remind readers that passionate and determined people wrote the state’s natural history. Anyone interested in Texas or its rich natural heritage will find deep enjoyment in Exploring the Edges of Texas.

“. . . the ultimate road trip, celebrating the remarkable history, natural history, and diversity of the Lone Star State. . . .”—Robert McCracken Peck, The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia

RELATED INTEREST WALT DAVIS is an art teacher and museum consultant living in Campbell, Texas. He is a past director of the Panhandle–Plains Historical Museum in Canyon and former curator of exhibits at the Dallas Museum of Natural History. ISABEL DAVIS retired as reference librarian at West Texas A&M University.

Chronicle of a Small Town Jim W. Corder 978-0-89096-414-9 cloth $19.95

It’s a Long Road to Comondú Mexican Adventures since 1928 Everett Gee Jackson 978-0-89096-296-1 cloth $21.95

Adventures Afar A Nature Trails Book John and Gloria Tveten 978-1-58544-541-7 cloth $26.95

Exploring the Edges of Texas 978-1-60344-153-7 cloth $24.95

6x9. 304 pp. 16 b&w drawings. Map. Bib. Index.

Texana. Texas History.

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The Texas history you never learned in school . . .

History Ahead

Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers Dan K. Utley and Cynthia J. Beeman More than 13,000 historical markers line the roadsides of Texas, giving drivers a way to sample the stories of the past. But these markers tell only part of the story.

In History Ahead, Dan K. Utley and Cynthia J. Beeman introduce readers to the rich, colorful, and sometimes action-packed and humorous history behind the famous (Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, The Big Bopper, and jazz great Charlie Christian) and the notso-famous (Elmer “Lumpy” Kleb, Don Pedro Jaramillo, and Carl Morene, the “music man of Schulenburg) who have left their marks on the history of Texas. They visit cotton gins, abandoned airfields, forgotten cemeteries, and former World War II alien detention camps to dig up the little-known and unsuspected narratives behind the text emblazoned on these markers.

Written in an anecdotal style that presents the cultural uniqueness and rich diversity of Texas history, History Ahead includes nineteen main stories, dozens of complementary sidebars, and many never-before-published historical and contemporary photographs.

History Ahead offers a rich array of local stories that interweave with the broader regional and national context, touching on themes of culture, art, music, technology, the environment, oil, aviation, and folklore, among other topics. Utley and Beeman have located these forgotten gems, polished them up to a high shine, and offered them along with convenient maps and directions to the marker sites.

“I’m a native Texan, and I thought I knew most of the state’s oddballs. This book introduced me to a whole new set of hermits, flimflam men, curanderos, bimetalists, ghost busters, and aviatrixes. . . .”—John Burnett, National Public Radio Texas correspondent “. . . an extremely enjoyable and informative book. Utley and Beeman divulge the fascinating back stories behind some of Texas’ more obscure historic sites. . . . I’m ready for more!”— Liz Carmack, author, Historic Hotels of Texas

RELATED INTEREST DAN K. UTLEY, of Plugerville, is the former chief historian of the Texas Historical Commission and a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association. CYNTHIA J. BEEMAN, of Austin, retired in 2007 as director of the Texas Historical Commission’s History Programs Division. She is a board member of the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation for Texas Women’s History.

Wanted Historic County Jails of Texas Edward A. Blackburn Jr. 978-1-58544-308-6 cloth $39.95

Historic Hotels of Texas A Traveler’s Guide Liz Carmack 978-1-58544-608-7 flexbound $23.00

The Courthouses of Texas Mavis P. Kelsey 978-1-58544-549-3 flexbound $22.95

History Ahead 978-1-60344-151-3 flexbound $23.00

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“It was a cherished ambition with me to aid in redeeming my native State . . . . That dream has fled.”

New in paperback

The Texas Military Experience

Why Texans Fought in the Civil War

From the Revolution through World War II

Charles David Grear

The quote above was written by Samuel Bell Maxey in an 1862 letter to his wife at their home in Paris, Texas. Maxey was serving with Confederate general Braxton Bragg, whose campaign to secure Maxey’s home state of Kentucky for the Confederacy had just collapsed.

In Why Texans Fought in the Civil War, Charles David Grear provides insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining important primary sources—including thousands of letters and unpublished journals—he affords readers the opportunity to hear, often in the combatants’ own words, why it was so important to them to engage in tumultuous struggles occurring so far from home.

As Grear notes, in the decade prior to the Civil War the population of Texas had tripled. The state was increasingly populated by immigrants from all parts of the South and foreign countries. When the war began, it was not just Texas that many of these soldiers enlisted to protect, but also their native states, where they had family ties.

Number Twenty: Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University–Commerce CHARLES DAVID GREAR is an assistant professor of history at Prairie View A&M University.

Edited by Joseph G. Dawson III

Ever since the Alamo, the military has been a vivid part of the Texas experience. In this classic work, thirteen scholars address the significance of that military experience.

In The Texas Military Experience, prominent authors reevaluate famous personalities, reassess noted battles and units, and bring fresh perspectives to such matters as the interplay of fiction, film, and historical understanding.

“Collectively, these essays provide an excellent overview of Texas military history, while they also ask us to reevaluate some of the distinctions we draw between image and reality.”—Journal of American History “An engaging and well-organized introduction to the state’s military history. . . .”—New Mexico Historical Review “Brings together twelve scholars—including some of the best who have worked or continue to work in this field . . .”—East Texas Historical Journal Number Forty-three: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series JOSEPH G. DAWSON III is a professor of history at Texas A&M University. He served as director of Texas A&M’s Military Studies Institute from 1986 to 2000.

Why Texans Fought in the Civil War

The Texas Military Experience

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The little book that started a big argument.

How Did Davy Die? And Why Do We Care So Much?

Commemorative Edition

Dan Kilgore and James E. Crisp Just over thirty years ago, Dan Kilgore ignited a controversy with his presidential address to the Texas State Historical Association and its subsequent publication in book form, How Did Davy Die? After the 1975 release of the first-ever English translation of eyewitness accounts by Mexican army officer José Enrique de la Peña, Kilgore had the audacity to state publicly that historical sources suggested Davy Crockett did not die on the ramparts of the Alamo, swinging the shattered remains of his rifle “Old Betsy.” Rather, Kilgore asserted, Mexican forces took Crockett captive and then executed him on Santa Anna’s order.

Soon after the publication of How Did Davy Die?, the London Daily Mail associated Kilgore with “the murder of a myth;” he became the subject of articles in Texas Monthly and the Wall Street Journal; and some who considered his historical argument an affront to a treasured American icon delivered personal insults and threats of violence.

Now, in this enlarged, commemorative edition, James E. Crisp, a professional historian and a participant in the debates over the De la Peña diary, reconsiders the heated disputation surrounding How Did Davy Die? and poses the intriguing follow-up question, “. . .

And Why Do We Care So Much?”

Crisp reviews the origins and subsequent impact of Kilgore’s book, both on the historical hullabaloo and on the author. Along the way, he provides fascinating insights into methods of historical inquiry and the use—or non-use—of original source materials when seeking the truth of events that happened in past centuries. He further examines two aspects of the debate that Kilgore shied away from: the place and function of myth in culture, and the racial overtones of some of the responses to Kilgore’s work.Number Thirty-six: Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest

DAN KILGORE (1921–1995) was a Certified Public Accountant and acclaimed amateur historian from Corpus Christi. He served as president and was elected a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association.

JAMES E. CRISP is associate professor and assistant head of the Department of History at North Carolina State University. He contributed previously unpublished material and wrote an introduction to the expanded edition of Carmen Perry’s translation of the De la Peña diary, With Santa Anna in Texas, (Texas A&M University Press, 1997).

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From horseback patrols to artillery battles in the bloody jungles of New Guinea and Leyte . . .

“Boy Scouts with guns,” or trained, professional soldiers?

Combat Ready?

Learning under Fire

The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War

The 112th Cavalry Regiment in World War II

Thomas E. Hanson

James S. Powell

Thrown into the heart of war with little training—and even less that would apply to the battles in which they were engaged—the units of the 112th Cavalry Regiment faced not only the Japanese enemy, but a rugged environment for which they were ill-prepared. They also grappled with the continuing challenge of learning new military skills and tactics across ever-shifting battlefields.

The 112th Cavalry Regiment entered federal service in November 1940 as war clouds gathered thick on the horizon. By July 1942, the 112th was headed for the Pacific theater.

As the war neared its end, the regiment again had to shift its focus quickly from an anticipated offensive on the Japanese home islands to becoming part of the occupation force in the land of a conquered enemy.

James S. Powell thoroughly mines primary documents and buttresses his story with pertinent secondary accounts as he explores in detail the ways in which this military unit adapted to the changing demands of its tactical and strategic environment. He demonstrates that this learning was not simply a matter of steadily building on experience and honing relevant skills. It also required discovering shortcomings and promptly taking action to improve—often while in direct contact with the enemy.

Number 130: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series LT. COL. JAMES S. POWELL deployed to Iraq in November 2006. He is a strategic plans and policy officer who has served in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.

In the decades since the “forgotten war” in Korea, conventional wisdom has held that the Eighth Army consisted largely of poorly trained, undisciplined troops who fled in terror from the onslaught of the Communist forces. Now, military historian Thomas E. Hanson argues that the generalizations historians and fellow soldiers have used regarding these troops do little justice to the tens of thousands of soldiers who worked to make themselves and their army ready for war.

In Hanson’s careful study of combat preparedness in the Eighth Army from 1949 to the outbreak of hostilities in 1950, he concedes that the U.S. soldiers sent to Korea suffered gaps in their professional preparation, from missing and broken equipment to unevenly trained leaders at every level of command. But after a year of progressive, focused, and developmental collective training—based largely on the lessons of combat in World War II—these soldiers expected to defeat the Communist enemy.

By recognizing the constraints under which the Eighth Army operated, Hanson asserts that scholars and soldiers will be able to discard what Douglas Macarthur called the “pernicious myth” of the Eighth Army’s professional, physical, and moral ineffectiveness.

Number 129: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series LT. COL. THOMAS E. HANSON, a former instructor in the Department of History at the United States Military Academy at West Point, has served in and commanded units at Panmunjom in the Korean Demilitarized Zone. He currently commands the 2nd Battalion, 353rd Infantry Regiment of the 162nd Infantry Training Brigade in Fort Polk, Louisiana.

Learning under Fire

Combat Ready?

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A Very Short War

Halford Mackinder

The Mayaguez and the Battle of Koh Tang

A Biography

Brian W. Blouet

John F. Guilmartin Jr. Foreword by John Keegan

On May 12, 1975, less than two weeks after the fall of Saigon, Khymer Rouge naval forces seized the S.S. Mayaguez, an American container ship, off the Cambodian coast in the Gulf of Siam. The swift military response ordered by President Gerald Ford was designed to recapture the Mayaguez, held at anchor off the island of Koh Tang, to liberate her crew, and to demonstrate U.S. strength and resolve in the immediate aftermath of America’s most humiliating defeat.

Guilmartin, a former air rescue helicopter pilot stationed in Thailand, provides a unique and compelling account of the Mayaguez–Koh Tang crisis, shedding new light on the politics, the tactics, the orders, the highlevel decision makers, and the fighting men entangled in a crucial military action that nearly ended in disaster for U.S. forces. “. . . a brilliant and exceptionally clear tactical study that offers a point of departure for broader reflections on the nature of contingency and uncertainty in all military operations.”—Foreign Affairs “This is an exceptional book. . . [Guilmartin’s] work transcends the events themselves, illustrating numerous aspects of men in war. His insights and observations are compelling.”—Journal of Military History “. . . written with the flair and excitement of an adventure novel. Even those who know the outcome and the lessons of the Mayaguez incident will find this book hard to put down until finished.”—Proceedings Number Forty-six: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series JOHN F. GUILMARTIN JR., professor of history at the Ohio State University, flew 119 combat missions over Southeast Asia as an Air Force helicopter pilot.

In the early twentieth century, Halford Mackinder established geography as a new discipline in English universities, predicted the decline of British influence in world affairs and the rise of European totalitarian regimes, and made the first ascent of Mount Kenya.

His views colored American foreign policy during World War II, and his far-reaching ideas—especially his “Heartland” theory—eventually had great influence on the way leaders of many nations thought about the world.

Brian W. Blouet’s vivid biography of this remarkable geopolitician describes the major phases of his life and the development of his thought, with a large segment devoted to Mackinder’s prescient analyses of world affairs. “[Blouet’s] book is a welcome addition to the growing body of writing on Mackinder; it is enjoyable to read and reflects the author’s diligent search for new material. . . . This is a well-drawn portrait of a most remarkable man.”—The Geographical Journal “. . . does an excellent job of introducing and interweaving both Mackinder’s multiple careers and his geographical ideas and writings. This is an excellent intellectual biography of an important if enigmatic figure in the history of geography.”—Social Science Quarterly “Blouet has written a fine biography of Mackinder . . . Interesting reading for intellectual historians, upper-division and graduate students, and general readers.”—Choice BRIAN W. BLOUET, born in Britain and educated at the University of Hull, is Huby Professor of Geography and International Education at The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. His research for this book in British archives included collections in Oxford, Reading, London, and Edinburgh.

A Very Short War

Halford Mackinder

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Exploring Texas’ “other” political heritage. . .

The titanic battle between a railroad king and his workers that altered the course of the labor movement in America.

The Texas Left

The Radical Roots of Lone Star Liberalism

The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor

Edited by David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison

Theresa A. Case

The Texas Left. Some would say the phrase is an oxymoron.

For most of the twentieth century, the popular perception of Texas politics has been that of dominant conservatism, punctuated by images of cowboys, oil barons, and party bosses intent on preserving a decidedly capitalist status quo.

In fact, poor farmers and laborers who were disenfranchised, segregated, and, depending on their ethnicity and gender, confronted with varying levels of hostility and discrimination, have long composed the “other” political heritage of Texas. In The Texas Left, fourteen scholars examine this heritage.

Though largely ignored by historians of previous decades who focused instead on telling the stories of the Alamo, the Civil War, the cattle drives, and the oilfield wildcatters, this parallel narrative of those who sought to resist repression reveals themes important to the unfolding history of Texas and the Southwest.

Volume editors David O’Donald Cullen and Kyle G. Wilkison have assembled a collection of pioneering studies that provide the broad outlines for future research on liberal and radical social and political causes in the state and region.

Among the topics explored in this book are early efforts of women, blacks, Tejanos, labor organizers, and political activists to claim rights of citizenship, livelihood, and recognition, from the Reconstruction era until recent times.

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

Focusing on a story largely untold until now, Theresa A. Case studies the “Great Southwest Strike of 1886,” which pitted entrepreneurial freedom against the freedom of employees to have a collective voice in their workplace.

This series of local actions involved a historic labor agreement followed by the most massive sympathy strike the nation had ever seen. It attracted western railroaders across lines of race and skill, contributed to the rise and decline of the first mass industrial union in U.S. history (the Knights of Labor), and brought new levels of federal intervention in railway strikes.

Case takes a fresh look at the labor unrest that shook Jay Gould’s railroad empire in Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Kansas, and Illinois. In Texas towns and cities like Marshall, Dallas, Fort Worth, Palestine, Texarkana, Denison, and Sherman, union recognition was the crucial issue of the day. Case also powerfully portrays the human facets of this strike, reconstructing the story of Martin Irons, a Scottish immigrant who came to adopt the union cause as his own.

Irons committed himself wholly to the failed strike of 1886, continuing to urge violence even as courts handed down injunctions protecting the railroads, national union leaders publicly chastised him, the press demonized him, and former strikers began returning to work. Irons’s individual saga is set against the backdrop of social, political, and economic changes that transformed the region in the post–Civil War era. Students, scholars, and general readers interested in railroad, labor, social, or industrial history will not want to be without The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor.

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DAVID O’DONALD CULLEN and KYLE G. WILKISON are professors of history at Collin College in Plano. Wilkison is author of Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists: Plain Folk Protest in Texas, 1870–1914 (TAMU Press, 2008), winner of the Texas Historical Commission’s T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award.

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The Great Southwest Railroad Strike and Free Labor

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THERESA A. CASE is an associate professor of history at the University of Houston–Downtown.

978-1-60344-170-4 cloth $40.00s

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Labor History. Business History. Texas History.

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“I feel with all the strength of my woman’s being that war is a relic of barbarism.”—Anna Pennybacker, 1918

In Struggle against Jim Crow

Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900-1957

Call Her a Citizen

Progressive-Era Activist and Educator Anna Pennybacker

Merline Pitre

Kelley M. King

Executive secretary of the Houston branch of the NAACP and state director of branches, White was a significant force in the struggle against Jim Crow during the 1940s and 1950s. She was at the helm of the Houston chapter when the Supreme Court struck down the white primary in Smith v. Allbright. She led the fight to get more blacks elected to public office, to gain economic parity for African Americans, and to integrate the University of Texas.

Author Merline Pitre places White in her proper perspective in Texas, Southern, African American, women’s, and general American history.

Pitre points to White’s successes and achievements, as well as the problems and conflicts she faced in efforts to eradicate segregation. She also assesses the strategies and techniques White used in her leadership roles.

Pitre effectively places White within the context of twentieth-century Houston and the civil rights movement that was gripping the state. In Struggle Against Jim Crow is pertinent to the understanding of race, gender, interest group politics, and social reform during this turbulent era.

Praise for In Struggle Against Jim Crow: “Merline Pitre’s work gives voices and faces to this generation of bridge women who defined the quest for equality for the post-Brown era.”— American Historical Review

In an era when the dominant ideology divided the world into separate public and private spheres and relegated women to the private, Anna J. Hardwicke Pennybacker ardently promoted progressive causes including public education, women’s suffrage, social reform, and the League of Nations.

A Texas educator, clubwoman, writer, lecturer, and social and political activist whose influence in the early twentieth century extended nationwide, Pennybacker wrote A New History of Texas, which was the state-adopted textbook for Texas history from 1898–1913 and remained in classroom use until the 1940s. She was also active in the burgeoning women’s club movement and served as president of both the Texas Federation of Women’s Clubs and the General Federation of Women’s Clubs (1912–14). The latter position was considered by some to be the most powerful position for a woman in America at that time.

Kelley King has mined the fifty-two linear feet of Pennybacker archives at the University of Texas Center for American History to reconstruct the “hidden history” of a feminist’s life and work. There, she uncovered an impressive record of advocacy, interlaced with a moderate style and some old-fashioned biases.

“ . . . The story of Lulu White is local history at its best and a model of contextual biography.”—Choice

King’s work offers insight into the personal and political choices Pennybacker made and the effects these choices had in her life and on the American culture at large

Number Eighty-one: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students,

Number One hundred fourteen: Centennial Series of the Association of For-

Texas A&M University

mer Students, Texas A&M University

MERLINE PITRE is professor of history and former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Southern University. Her specialization is U.S. Reconstruction and African American history, particularly in Texas.

KELLEY M. KING is an assistant professor in the Department of Teacher Education and Administration at the University of North Texas.

In Struggle against Jim Crow

Call Her a Citizen

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Women’s Studies. Texas History. Biography.

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The Unitary Executive and the Modern Presidency Edited by Ryan J. Barilleaux and Christopher S. Kelley

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A front-row seat to presidential history as told by those who lived it

Bridging the Constitutional Divide

Inside the White House Office of Legislative Affairs Edited by Russell L. Riley

During his first term in office, Pres. George W. Bush made reference to the “unitary executive” ninety-five times, as part of signing statements, proclamations, and executive orders. Pres. Barack Obama’s actions continue to make issues of executive power as timely as ever.

Unitary executive theory stems from interpretation of the constitutional assertion that the president is vested with the “executive power” of the United States. In this groundbreaking collection of studies, eleven presidential scholars examine for the first time the origins, development, use, and future of this theory.

The Unitary Executive and the Modern Presidency examines how the unitary executive theory became a recognized constitutional theory of presidential authority, how it has evolved, how it has been employed by presidents of both parties, and how its use has affected and been affected by U.S. politics. This book also examines the constitutional, political, and even psychological impact of the last thirty years of turmoil in the executive branch and the ways that controversy has altered both the exercise and the public’s view of presidential power.

Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership RYAN J. BARILLEAUX is professor and former department chair of political science at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. He served previously on the staff of the U.S. Senate. CHRISTOPHER S. KELLEY is an adjunct assistant professor of political science at Miami University.

His research on presidential signing statements has been cited by scholars, government officials, and journalists.

In September 2003, seven former heads of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs gathered for the first time ever to compare their experiences working for every president from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton.

For two days, these congressional liaisons, charged with moving their respective presidents’ legislative agendas through an independent—and sometimes hostile—Congress, shared first-hand views of the intricacies of presidential-congressional relations: how it works, how it doesn’t work, and the fascinating interplay of personalities, events, and politics that happens along the way.

Hosted by noted presidential scholar Russell Riley and the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs, this seminar also featured a number of invited scholars of American politics, including the eminent Richard E. Neustadt, who appeared just before his death a month later.

As explained by Riley, “. . . these discussions enlighten in two ways: they provide us a revealing glimpse into the inside, usually hidden, business of Washington, and they afford us the considered reflections of a thoughtful group of political veterans.” What makes these exchanges especially compelling, however, is their bipartisan cast, with Republicans Max L. Friedersdorf, William L. Ball III, and Frederick McClure joining Democrats Frank Moore, Charles M. Brain, John Hilley, and Lawrence Stein in thoughtful and friendly conversation.

Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership RUSSELL L. RILEY is associate professor and chair of the Miller Center’s Presidential Oral History Program at the University of Virginia. A resident of Charlottesville, Virginia, he has also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Georgetown University.

The Unitary Executive and the Modern Presidency

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“The ear of the leader must ring with the voices of the people. Together they rise to the challenge of the day.”—Woodrow Wilson

“To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. . .”—Walter Cronkite, CBS Broadcast Editorial, 1968

The Provisional Pulpit

Landmark Speeches on the Vietnam War

Modern Presidential Leadership of Public Opinion

Edited and with introductions by Gregory Allen Olson

Brandon Rottinghaus

The cornerstone of the public presidency is the ability of the White House to influence, shape, and even manipulate public opinion. Ultimately, although much has been written about presidential leadership of opinion, we are still left with many questions pertaining to the success of presidential opinion leadership efforts throughout the modern presidency. What is still missing is a systematic, sequential approach to describe empirical trends in presidential leadership of public opinion in order to expand on important scholarly queries, to resolve empirical disputes in the literature, and to check the accuracy of conventional political wisdom on how, when, and under what conditions presidents lead public opinion.

In The Provisional Pulpit, Brandon Rottinghaus develops a simple theory of presidential leadership, arguing that presidential messages are more likely to be received if there are fewer countervailing agents or messages to contradict the president’s message. He concludes, based upon the findings presented in this book, that the “bully pulpit” is largely provisional for modern presidents. The more the president can avoid the political echo chamber associated with partisan battles or communications, the better the chance the president has to lead public opinion.

The Provisional Pulpit adds an important layer of understanding to the issue of how and under what conditions presidents lead public opinion.

All modern presidents clearly attempt to lead public opinion; often, due to factors outside their control, they fail.

This book is an exploration into how and when they succeed.

Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership BRANDON ROTTINGHAUS is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Houston. His primary research and teaching interests include the presidency, the media, public opinion, executive-legislative relations, and research methods.

Beginning more than sixty years ago, speechmaking supported the U.S. commitment to South Vietnam. Rhetoric helped send more than a halfmillion troops to defend the Vietnamese government the United States had yet sponsored; that policy led to dissent, and ultimately, Congress forcing the executive branch to terminate U.S. involvement.

The fourteen key speeches collected in this volume, from Ho Chi Minh’s “Declaration of the Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam” in 1945 to John Kerry’s “Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee” in 1971, express the entire range of positions on the war, which contributed to the political and societal developments that ordained its course and outcome. They span the most volatile years of that period, framed in the words that shaped an era.

These speeches include: Ho Chi Minh: “Declaration of Independence,” September 2, 1945 John F. Kennedy: “America’s Stake in Vietnam,” June 1, 1956 Michael J. Mansfield: “Interests and Policies in Southeast Asia,” June 10, 1962 Lyndon B. Johnson: “Peace Without Conquest,” April 7, 1965 Paul Potter: “Speech to the March on Washington,” April 17, 1965 George Aiken: “Vietnam Analysis—Present and Future,” October 19, 1966 Robert F. Kennedy: “On Viet Nam,” March 2, 1967 Martin Luther King Jr.: “Beyond Vietnam,” April 4, 1967 Gen. William C. Westmoreland: “Vietnam: The Situation Today,” April 28, 1967 Walter Cronkite: “We Are Mired in Stalemate,” February 27, 1968 Lyndon B. Johnson, “The President’s Address to the Nation,” March 31, 1968 Richard M. Nixon: “Address to the Nation,” November 3, 1969 Richard M. Nixon: “Address to the Nation,” April 30, 1970 John Kerry: “Testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,” April 22, 1971 Landmark Speeches: A Book Series GREGORY ALLEN OLSON is a professor of communication at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh.

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Landmark Speeches on the Vietnam War

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I Would Rather Sleep in Texas

A History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley & the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson, James A. McAllen, and Margaret H. McAllen This superb work of history tells the story of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the people who struggled to make this daunting land their home. Spanish conquistadors and Mexican revolutionaries, cowboys and ranchers, Texas Rangers and Civil War generals, entrepreneurs and empire builders are all a part of this centuries-long saga, thoroughly researched and skillfully presented here.

In this moving account of the history of the families of the Santa Anita land grant, almost two hundred years of the history of the lower Rio Grande Valley (1748–1940) are revealed. An important addition to any collection of Texas history, I Would Rather Sleep in Texas is one of the most complete studies of the lower Rio Grande, abundantly illustrated with maps and photographs, many never before published.

In 1790 the Santa Anita, a Spanish land grant, was awarded to merchant José Manuel Gómez. After the land passed to Gómez’s widow, part of the grant was acquired by Mar’a Salomé Ball’, the daughter of a powerful Spanish clan. Salomé married John Young, and her family connections combined with his business acumen helped to further assemble the Santa Anita under one owner.

In 1859, after Young’s death, Salomé struggled to hold onto her properties amid bandit raids and the siege of violence waged in the region by borderland caudillo Juan Cortina.

Soon after the beginning of the Civil War, she married John McAllen. They participated in the rapid wartime cotton trade and developed influential business connections. Rare firsthand accounts by Salomé Ball’ Young de McAllen, John McAllen, and their son, James Ball’ McAllen, add to a deeper understanding of the blending of the region’s frontier cultures, rowdy politics, and periodic violence.

“I Would Rather Sleep in Texas is a captivating, meticulously researched book that chronicles the life and times of some of the most remarkable people in the long and often violent history of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. . . .

Fast-paced, readable, and well balanced, the book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the history of the Valley and South Texas.”—Jerry Thompson, Texas A&M International University

RELATED INTEREST MARY MARGARET McALLEN AMBERSON is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and a student of history and anthropology. She is also the author of A Brave Boy and a Good Soldier: John C. C. Hill and the Texas Expedition to Mier (TSHA, 2006). JAMES A. McALLEN, Amberson’s father, compiled extensive notes, research, and data on South Texas and Valley history. MARGARET H. McALLEN, McAllen’s mother, began the book project in 1978.

A Brave Boy and a Good Soldier John C. C. Hill and the Texas Expedition to Mier Mary Amberson 978-0-87611-230-4 paper $12.95

A Wild and Vivid Land An Illustrated History of the South Texas Border Jerry Thompson 978-0-87611-164-2 cloth $29.95

Tejano Epic Essays in Honor of Félix D. Almaráz, Jr Arnoldo De León 978-0-87611-203-8 paper $19.95

I Would Rather Sleep in Texas

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Texas History. Borderlands Studies.

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Edmund J. Davis of Texas

Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor Carl H. Moneyon Volume two of The Texas Biography Series reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected the ideals of the nation than those of so many of his contemporaries. Carl H. Moneyhon presents a long overdue favorable account of a man who was determined to make progressive changes and stand in stark opposition to the state’s political elite. What moved this man to take such a dramatic stand against his political peers? Moneyhon strives to answer this very question.

Edmund J. Davis was not only a part of the political elite during the Civil War, but he also opposed secession. He refused to follow most of Texas’ leaders and actively opposed the Confederacy by attempting to bring Texas back to the Union. After the war, Davis was a leader in reconstructing the state based on true free labor and pursued progressive and egalitarian policies as governor of Texas.

Through the entire reconstruction process Davis faced extreme Confederate hostility.

After leaving the governor’s mansion an unpopular man and politician, he still remained dedicated to changing Texas. He worked to change his adopted state until the day he died.

Number Two: The Texas Biography Series

“Carl Moneyhon’s Edmund J. Davis will be a distinguished contribution to TCU’s Texas Biography Series. Certainly, both the series and this particiular volume are much needed. . . . As this impressively researched manuscript makes clear, Davis was a terribly consequential figure and one whose career reveals much about politics and society in postbellum Texas.”—Patrick G. Williams, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, author of Beyond Redemption: Texas Democrats after Reconstruction (TAMU Press, 2007)

CARL H. MONEYHON is professor of history at the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. A specialist on the Civil War and Reconstruction, much of his work focuses on the Texas experience. He’s published Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas; Texas After the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction; and Portraits of Conflict: A Photographic History of the Civil War in Texas. Moneyhon is a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, holds degrees from the University of Texas, Austin, and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Edmund J. Davis of Texas 978-0-87565-405-8 hardcover $27.95

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A joint project of the Herberger Theater Foundation and Texas Christian University Press.

Play by Play

Phoenix and Building the Herberger Theater Elizabeth B. Murfee and Jack L. August, Jr.

In their unrelenting drive to create a thriving desert metropolis, leaders of the most populous city in the arid Southwest, Phoenix, Arizona, seemed oblivious to two essential elements that form a vibrant urban environment. The arts were noticeably absent and the city’s urban core had dissipated into a vast and empty suburbia: a city lacking an urban heart. In 1980, a visionary—Dick Mallery, partner at the powerhouse law firm, Snell & Wilmer—emerged to take the first major step to shape Phoenix into a great city, not just a big one.

A veritable civic drama, Play by Play illustrates the central role the arts hold when a city consciously reaches for distinction and demonstrates how cultural life can influence politics and business. This lively study traces ten years in the life of a city 1980–1990; a defining decade that saw Phoenix descend from boomtown to bust as the savings and loan crisis fractured its real estate market and the economy collapsed. These devastating events almost derailed the selfless efforts of a new group of urban leaders—led by Mallery, along with Gary Herberger, architect, businessman, and philanthropist—who devoted a significant portion of their lives, often in the face of overwhelming odds, to make a place for the arts in downtown Phoenix. This interpretive history—an inside look at the heart of this desert metropolis—is placed in regional and national context and in many ways defines the modern urban Southwest.

ELIZABETH B. MURFEE has been consultant to national foundations on cultural policy, worked with the Houston Opera, was manager of Texas Opera Theater, and written publications for the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities. A cum laude graduate of Rider University, she married Dino DeConcini in 1998; they reside in New York and Tucson.

JACK L. AUGUST, JR. is executive director of the Barry Goldwater Center and Visiting Scholar in Legal History at Snell & Wilmer. August writes on twentieth-century western political and environmental history, including Vision in the Desert, Senator Dennis DeConcini, and Dividing Western Waters. In 2009, August coauthored Adversity Is My Angel: The Life and Career of Raúl H. Castro.

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Paul Baker and the Integration of Abilities Robert Flynn 978-0-87565-271-9 cloth $35.00

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Paul Ruffin

New and Selected Poems Paul Ruffin The Texas Legislature recently named Paul Ruffin 2009 Poet Laureate of Texas. To those who read literary journals or mid-list popular books, Paul Ruffin is a well-known author and poet. Ruffin is prolific in his writing, having published over a thousand poems, short stories, novels, and nonfiction pieces with decades of unfailing artistry. In the fifth installment of the TCU Texas Poet Laureate Series, editor Billy Bob Hill writes in his introduction that he has long admired Paul Ruffin’s use of poetic devices. Ruffin uses alliteration and subtle textured sounds throughout his poetry, making them likeably conversational while full of crafted sound patterns. Ruffin also employs whimsical narratives, coining the word “Necrofiligumbo” in “When the Mummy Became a Mommy.” But, Hill explains, the true power of this book comes from its storytelling. With the new material, readers will encounter compelling, often drop-dead funny storytelling.

The state of Texas has honored Texas Poets Laureate for seventy-five years, but much of their work has gone unpublished and unrecognized. In a significant step toward recognizing their achievements, TCU Press publishes a series of the work of the Poets Laureate, with a volume dedicated to each poet. The series began with the 2005 and 2006 laureates and continues through each bi-annual appointment. These beautiful volumes collect the finest work of each individual poet. While a single volume may stand alone as a valuable selection of a poet’s work, the series as a whole will draw their different voices together into a singular poetic expression of Texas. The next book in the series will focus on the work of 2010 laureate, Karla K. Morton.TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series

“Readers will find Paul Ruffin’s inspired work in this fifth book of the TCU Texas Poet Laureate series. Enjoy Ruffin’s inspirations. Enjoy this, the best of his hard work.”—Billy Bob Hill in his introduction to Paul Ruffin: New and Selected Poems

RELATED INTEREST PAUL RUFFIN, 2009 Poet Laureate of Texas, is Texas State University Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of English at Sam Houston State University, where he edits The Texas Review and directs Texas Review Press. His books include two novels, three collections of short stories, two books of essays, and six collections of poetry.

Alan Birkelbach New and Selected Works 978-0-87565-340-2 cloth $15.95

Red Steagall New and Selected Works 978-0-87565-341-9 cloth $15.95

Larry D. Thomas New and Selected Poems 978-0-87565-360-0 cloth $15.95

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Back in print. . .

Grace and Gumption

Baja Oklahoma

Dan Jenkins

The Cookbook

Edited by Katie Sherrod

Grace & Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women (TCU Press, 2007) was a collection of profiles about women who moved beyond the traditional role of keeping house to make significant contributions to the history of Fort Worth. But whenever the fourteen authors of the original book gathered to make decisions, share information, give progress reports, and ask for help, they also shared wine and food.

But a cookbook of recipes used by the very women who were stepping out of the kitchen? Feeding themselves and their families was as vital to the women of Grace & Gumption, as it is to women, who today stand on their shoulders. For some, cooking was a joy; for others, it was just one more chore. Some women didn’t leave a food trail, but the contributors were inventive about finding “related” recipes—some of them wonderful sounding, some, not so much. Dozens of recipes are featured, everything from skinning a squirrel to Lamb Wellington, including recipes from the Kimbell Art Museum and Fort Worth’s City Club.

This is a book to read for pleasure and to cook from. Recipes are standardized when that was possible without losing the charm of the original directions. Recipes have not been tested, a chore that would have been monumental.

Contributors are Judy Alter, Joy Donovan, Sandra Guerra-Cline, Jan Jones, Ruth Karbach, Brenda Matthews, Ruth McAdams, Sherrie McLeRoy, Carol Roark, Brenda Sanders-Wise, Katie Sherrod, Cindy Smolovik, Hollace Weiner, and Joyce Williams.

Dan Jenkins’ second best-known novel, Baja Oklahoma, features protagonist Juanita Hutchins, who can cuss and politically commentate with the best of Jenkins’ male protagonists. Still convincingly female, though in no way dumb and girly, fortyish Juanita serves drinks to the colorful crew patronizing Herb’s Cafe in South Fort Worth, worries herself sick over a hot-to-trot daughter proving too fond of drugs and the dealers who sell them, endures a hypochondriac mother whose whinings would justify murder, dates a fellow middle-ager whose connections with the oil industry are limited to dipstick duty at his filling station—and, by the way, she also hopes to become a singer-songwriter in the real country tradition of Bob Wills and Willie Nelson. That Juanita is way too old to remain a kid with a crazy dream doesn’t matter much to her. In between handing out longneck beers to customer-acquaintances battling hot flashes and deciding when boyfriend Slick is finally going to get lucky, Juanita keeps jotting down lyrics reflective of hard-won wisdom and setting them to music composed on her beloved Martin guitar. Too many of her early songwriting results are one-dimensional or derivative, but finally she hits on something both original and heartfelt: a tribute to her beloved home state, warts and all.

Number Forty: Texas Tradition Series DAN JENKINS is the author of best-selling novels, non-fiction, and newspaper and magazine pieces. A native of Fort Worth and TCU graduate, Jenkins was a nationally acclaimed senior writer for Sports Illustrated. He currently writes a column for Golf Digest and is official historian for the National Football Foundation and College Football Hall of Fame.

KATIE SHERROD is an independent Fort Worth journalist. She received the Dallas Press Club Award for her 2001 documentary, “Freedman’s Cemetery Memorial,” and the Exceptional Media Merit Award from the National Women’s Political Caucus. Inducted into the Texas Women’s Hall of Fame in 1987 for outstanding contributions in communications, Sherrod was named one of Fort Worth’s Outstanding Women in 1988 and Texas Woman of the Year in 1989.

Grace and Gumption

Baja Oklahoma

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6x9. 220 pp. 110 b&w photos Cooking. Women’s Studies.

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The Far Canyon Elmer Kelton

The Far Canyon, the sequel to Slaughter was published in 1994 and won Elmer Kelton his sixth esteemed Spur Award from the Western Writers of America. By 2002 Kelton had not only earned his seventh Spur Award with Way of the Coyote, but had also won three Western Heritage Awards. The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum honored Kelton for The Time it Never Rained in 1974, The Good Old Boys in 1979, and The Man Who Rode Midnight in 1988. With such accomplishments, it is easy to understand why, in 1995, the Western Writers of America voted Elmer Kelton the greatest western writer of all time.

In The Far Canyon, Kelton masterfully unveils for his reader the finality of the buffalo’s demise, the beginning of a time when cattle would replace the American bison on the southern plains and ultimately end the Plains Indian culture. The novel reveals the history of the period, not in a general grand swoop of the pen, but rather, up close and personal, so his readership can judge the impact of the period upon his characters.

The novel’s first chapter introduces Comanche warrior Crow Feather, whose situation is emblematic of a common recurring theme in all of Kelton’s works . . . change. Protagonist Jeff Layne is faced with the very same dramatic problem, the devastating threat to one’s self-concept inherent in change. Layne, the hide hunter from Slaughter is weary of killing and death. He decides to return to South Texas, determined to earn his living with the newest resource on the plains, cattle. And the cultures collide.

Kelton eloquently reveals the impact of hide hunters on Plains Indian culture. Crow Feather realizes that no matter how many whites the Comanche kill, there will always be more “coming back.” Crow Feather also understands that his life and the lives of his wives and children will never be easy again. Are Layne and Crow Feather of a character that will allow them to escape a predetermined fate by reaching that far canyon, or will they simply perish under the cultural dictate of their historical time?

The question is a thematic dilemma that Kelton excels at and it is what transforms his writing into serious literature.

“Elmer Kelton once said, ‘All writers have some ego; otherwise they wouldn’t write.’ Elmer may have had a healthy ego, but he kept it more hidden than any writer I ever knew. His books were never to showcase Elmer Kelton but to picture a West that was fast getting away. He helped keep it alive. To paraphrase a country song, “When you’re down in Texas, Elmer Kelton is still the king.”—James Ward Lee, author, Adventures with a Texas Humanist (TCU, 2004)

Number Forty-one: Texas Tradition Series Elmer Kelton was voted All-Time Greatest Western Author by Western Writers of America. He received seven Spur Awards, four Wrangler Awards from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Museum, and lifetime achievement awards from WWA, Western American Literature Association, and the Texas Institute of Letters. He was the author of more than fifty novels.

The Far Canyon

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6x9. 336 pp.

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This memoir of retirement blazes a trail for Boomers to follow into largely unknown territory.

Distributed by TCU Press. . .

Material Culture This Last House A Retirement Memoir Janis Stout

Memoirs are tricky, especially when the author isn’t widely known. But Janis Stout tackles the memoir with a new and inventive approach—she organizes her memories around the houses she’s lived in. “Sometimes,” she wrote, “I picture my life as a long row of houses.” Houses, she claims, are metaphors for the structures of our lives, and Stout’s houses twine their way through this memoir along with reflections on work and retirement, marriages good and bad, and quietness for engaging in the important last work of life. She is, she says, a little different in each house—but each house shaped who she became as she prepared to move into the last house, the house of retirement.

A college professor, mother of four sons, and wife, she writes of her early life through the lens of the houses she lived in at the time of events. There was the rock house of her early childhood from which she escaped to a failed early marriage that produced her sons. Other houses enfold her determination to finish college and her PhD; her concern for a son who is blind and brain-damaged; and, finally, a new, happy and enduring marriage.

Stout recounts the planning and building of the dream house in the New Mexico mountains, where she and her husband, Loren, would build new lives in retirement. And then their lives take a sudden turn when health issues made the house impractical. New Mexico wasn’t, after all, the last house.

JANIS STOUT retired from Texas A&M University in 2002 as dean of faculties and associate provost. She is author of three novels and ten scholarly books, most recently, Coming Out of War: Poetry, Grieving, and the Culture of the World Wars and Picturing a Different West: Vision and Illustration in the Tradition of Cather and Austin.

Documenting the work of twelve contemporary sculptors from Texas, Material Culture was published to accompany the exhibition of the same name at TCU in 2008. Both representational and abstract, the works in the exhibition were made from readymade and commonplace materials with an emphasis on craft, process, and the use of the hand. Providing a survey of the ongoing embrace of object making in Texas, the essays in this book examine formal, conceptual, cultural, and social issues from American and international perspectives. The authors do not argue for a regional sensibility, given the irrelevance of regionalism in our global society, but for the strength of an art that celebrates material culture in an increasingly dematerialized world. Artists represented include Helen Altman, Richie Budd, Margarita Cabrera, Bill Davenport, Jonathan Durham, Lily Hanson, Joseph Havel, Jessica Halonen, Katrina Moorhead, Chris Sauter, Polly Lanning Sparrow, and Brad Tucker. Multiple color photographs document the works as they appeared in the exhibition.

Each artist is also represented by an extensive biography and bibliography.

Curator of the exhibition and lead author is FRANCES COLPITT, the Deedie Potter Rose Chair of Art History at TCU. Her extensive record of publications includes the books Minimal Art: The Critical Perspective and Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century. She is a corresponding editor for Art in America.

JENNIFER DAVY is an artist and arts writer living in Berlin, Germany.

She is completing her dissertation in media studies at the European Graduate School. KIRSTIE SKINNER is an art historian based in Scotland. Her PhD dissertation, at Edinburgh College of Art, examines minimal and installation art. Both authors have published widely on contemporary art.

This Last House

Material Culture

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A powerful memoir of single motherhood and transracial adoption. . .

On the Outskirts of Normal Forging a Family against the Grain Debra Monroe Mired in debt and on the run from a series of broken homes, about-to-be-divorced Debra Monroe pulls up in front of a tumbledown cabin outside a small Texas town. Its isolation—miles from her teaching job in a neighboring city—feels right. She buys the house and ultimately doubles its size as she waits for the call from the adoption agency to tell her she’s going to be a mom. Now in her forties, she is swept into the strange new world of single motherhood, complicated by the fact that she’s white and her daughter is black.

As Monroe learns to deal with her daughter’s hair and to re-enter the dating scene, all the while coping with her own and her daughter’s major illnesses, they live under the magnified scrutiny of the small, conservative town. Confronting her past in order to make a better life for her daughter, Monroe rebuilds not only a half-ruined cabin in the woods but her sense of what it is that makes a sustainable family.

“Having driven across the country to see her brand-new adopted granddaughter, Debra Monroe’s mother says the first thing that comes into her head: ‘I knew she’d be black, but not this black.’ Monroe simply says, ‘Mom, there’s a blank in the baby book called Grandma’s First Words.’ The sly, dry humor of this, the offering of the second chance, the reminder that everything, even the mistakes, will be written down—tells you most of what you need to know about Monroe’s approach to life, and to memoir. Her generosity of spirit never fails her.”—Marion Winik, author of First Comes Love “Monroe’s memoir forges a remarkable canniness about motherhood and its twin perils, grief and love.”—Karen Brennan, author of Being with Rachel

“An extraordinarily poignant, powerfully written memoir of one woman’s tenacious journey into strength and unlikely motherhood with its unexpected joys, gathering along the way the brave yet painful knowledge of what love costs.”—Bob Shacochis, National Book Awardwinning author of Easy in the Islands “The high-velocity verve and gripping insight of Debra Monroe’s story is matched in rare form by the level of her compassion.”—Naomi Shihab Nye, author of You and Yours

RELATED INTEREST DEBRA MONROE grew up in Wisconsin and moved to Texas in 1992. She is the author of two collections of stories, The Source of Trouble, which won the Flannery O’Connor Award, and A Wild, Cold State, and two novels, Newfangled and Shambles. She teaches at Texas State University and lives in Austin, Texas.

Shambles A Novel Debra Monroe 978-0-87074-486-0 cloth $22.50

Full Moon at Noontide A Daughter’s Last Goodbye Ann Putnam 978-0-87074-555-3 cloth $22.50

Last Stands Notes from Memory Hilary Masters 978-0-87074-492-1 paper $15.95

On the Outskirts of Normal 978-0-87074-560-7 cloth $22.50

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Star-studded desert tales. . .

One Day the Wind Changed Stories

Tracy Daugherty

“I’ve been waiting for this book for a long time: it includes stories to explain West Texas to me. I don’t mean in the fabled ‘cowboy’ way, but in a more useful way, more honest, and certainly braver than all the books that hordes of cowboys with typewriters can generate.”—Cynthia Shearer The sixteen stories in Tracy Daugherty’s fourth collection of short fiction explore American deserts—real geographical spaces as well as metaphorical areas of emptiness and possibility. The stories are mostly set in the desert Southwest, though the concluding novella, which features two Texas exiles, is set in New York City. Several of the stories deal with stars and astronomers; many feature architects and the built environment. Daugherty’s characters struggle with asthma, night fears, inertia, and the sense of being isolated in a world full of people.

In “Very Large Array,” a brief late-night encounter between a solitary New Mexico rancher and a visiting astronomer at the VLA radio telescope installation sparks a meditation on loneliness and isolation.

In “Magnitude,” the director of a failing planetarium in north Texas tries to cope with family losses in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing, and with his commitments to his patrons—the needy and homeless who use the planetarium for shelter and the schoolchildren who come to the facility for inspiration.

In “Bern,” the longest of the stories, a transplanted Texan in New York, working as an architect post-9/11, considers public and private space, as well as unexpected desire, when he encounters a vital young woman on one of his evening walks.

“This is a powerful and engaging work by a wonderfully talented writer.”—Allen Wier, author of Tehano

“Daugherty writes loneliness—emotional, spiritual, professional, cultural—as well as anyone alive. The outcasts who populate these intricately layered stories want to know how best to keep on living after 9/11, Katrina, and Oklahoma City. A terrific book.”—Pam Houston, author of Cowboys are My Weakness “This is the world and the people who inhabit it brought to us viscerally by a fine writer at the top of his game.”—Laura Kasischke, author of The Life Before Her Eyes

RELATED INTEREST TRACY DAUGHERTY is the author of four novels, three previous short story collections, and a book of personal essays. Hiding Man, his acclaimed biography of Donald Barthelme, was published in 2009.

A three-time winner of the Oregon Book Award, he is Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at Oregon State University.

The Woman in the Oil Field Stories Tracy Daugherty 978-0-87074-402-0 cloth $22.50

It Takes a Worried Man Stories Tracy Daugherty 978-0-87074-469-3 cloth $22.50

Late in the Standoff Stories and a Novella Tracy Daugherty 978-0-87074-498-3 cloth $22.50

One Day the Wind Changed 978-0-87074-559-1 cloth $22.50

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Fiction debut of linked stories off the beaten path. . .

Cold Snap

Bulgaria Stories Cynthia Morrison Phoel

As in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio, place is at the center of Cynthia Morrison Phoel’s debut collection of linked stories. Quirky, remote, and agonizingly intimate, the ragged village of Old Mountain is home to a cast of Bulgarian townsfolk who do daily battle with the heat or the bitter cold, with soul-crushing poverty, with petty disagreements among themselves—all the while attempting to adapt to changing times and keep up with their neighbors. Money is tight in this valley of run-down Communist blocks and crumbling plaster houses, but community is tighter.

When a largely unemployed father in “A Good Boy” trades his much-needed summer earnings for a hulking satellite dish, everyone knows about it. The same way everyone knows about the shop lady who rests her finger on the scale to drive up the price of cheese in “Galia.” In “Satisfactory Proof,” a budding mathematician completes a prestigious master’s degree in number theory but fails to recognize the patterns of care and compassion everywhere around him. And in the concluding novella, “Cold Snap,” as the town endures freezing temperatures and waits for the central heat to be turned on, the characters we have already met make a satisfying encore appearance—as the brittle cold pushes them to the edge of reason.

“Phoel transports us to a country where jobs are scarce and men are more in love with their satellite dishes than their wives. Old Mountain is not an easy place to live, but these stories, with their surprising leaps of empathy, make it a pleasure to visit.”—Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street “I admire Cynthia Phoel’s use of original material, and the skill with which she makes an unfamiliar world real.”—Alison Lurie, author of Truth and Consequences

“An audacious achievement. Phoel’s intricate, moving, altogether original fiction conjures a Bulgaria at once beautifully specific and untethered to the map: a place of hardship, cold weather, satellite TV, and fierce, crooked longings that erupt through the cracks like weeds. Her characters are so stubbornly alive, rendered with such generosity and precision and humor, it seems nothing—neither their small apartments nor their limited prospects, not even the pages of a book—can contain them.”—Robert Cohen, author of Amateur Barbarians

RELATED INTEREST CYNTHIA MORRISON PHOEL served as a Peace Corps volunteer in a Bulgarian town not unlike the one in her stories. She holds degrees from Cornell and the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers. Her work has appeared in the Missouri Review, Gettysburg Review, and Harvard Review. She lives near Boston with her husband and children.

Mrs. Somebody Somebody Stories Tracy Winn 978-0-87074-554-6 cloth $22.50

God’s Dogs A Novel in Stories Mitch Wieland 978-0-87074-553-9 cloth $22.50

North of the Port Stories Anthony Bukoski 978-0-87074-521-8 cloth $22.50

Cold Snap 978-0-87074-561-4 cloth $22.50

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A Young Man’s Letters Home from the U.S.-Mexico Boundary Survey. . .

Fiasco

George Clinton Gardner’s Correspondence from the U.S.-Mexico Boundary Survey 1849-1854 Edited by David J. Weber and Jane Lenz Elder “When young George Clinton Gardner was appointed assistant surveyor on the United States and Mexican Boundary Commission in 1849, he began a journey that took him across the tropical Isthmus of Panama, the desert lands of California, the territory of New Mexico and Texas, and into the political whirlwind of the commission itself. David J. Weber and Jane Lenz Elder have done a remarkable job in presenting Gardner’s letters home to his family in which he complains of the dust in his meals at camp in California, the lack of pretty women in El Paso del Norte, and the unending squabbles of the senior officers of the commission which gravely hindered the survey. This is the inside story of the international survey from a young man who tells it in a straightforward manner not found in any other correspondence. This is a gem; Gardner’s lively letters will be a delight to anyone interested in the history of the Southwest.”—Joseph Werne, author of The Imaginary Line: A History of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey, 1848-1857 “George Clinton Gardner’s observations about the Southwest are as fresh and vivid as the day he wrote them, thanks to the painstaking work of the editors. Their commentaries help us understand the conflicting personalities and problems that plagued this first boundary survey. This treasure trove of information about the people and places along the border is a valuable addition to the primary sources available to researchers who study early U.S.-Mexican border history.”—Richard Griswold del Castillo, author of The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: a Legacy of Conquest “A useful primary source, gracefully prepared.”—Benjamin H. Johnson, co-author of Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American PlaceNumber Six: DeGolyer Library Series

“Masterfully edited and annotated, these personal letters of a young American surveyor paint a detailed and colorful portrait of the men and women, Indians, Mexicans, and Americans of the border region at the moment of its making.”—John Mack Faragher, coauthor of The American West: An Interpretive History

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The author of several prize-winning books on the American Southwest, DAVID J. WEBER directs the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. JANE LENZ ELDER was founding associate director of the Clements Center, and is now a theological reference librarian at the Bridwell Library at SMU. Trading in Santa Fe John M. Kingsbury’s Correspondence with James Josiah Webb, 18531861 Jane Elder 978-0-87074-389-4 cloth $40.00s 978-0-87074-390-0 paper $19.95s

Documents of the Coronado Expedition, 1539-1542 “They Were Not Familiar with His Majesty, nor Did They Wish to Be His Subjects.”

Richard Flint 978-0-87074-496-9 cloth $75.00

New Spain’s Far Northern Frontier Essays on Spain in the American West, 1540–1821 David J. Weber 978-0-87074-280-4 paper $13.95s

Fiasco 978-0-87074-562-1 cloth $50.00s

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Cataclysm

General Hap Arnold and the Defeat of Japan Herman S. Wolk In Cataclysm, Herman S. Wolk examines the thinking and leadership of General Henry H. (Hap) Arnold, Commanding General, Army Air Forces (AAF), during World War II. Specifically, Wolk concentrates on Arnold’s role in crafting the weapons, organization, and command of the strategic bombing offensive against Japan.

The B-29 long-range bombing campaign against the Japanese home islands dictated unprecedented organization and command; hence, Arnold established the Twentieth Air Force, commanded by himself from Washington and reporting directly to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Arnold excelled in his command of the AAF, relieving a long-time colleague (Hansell) in favor of a hard-nosed operator (LeMay). This crucial move was a turning point in the Pacific War. In the spring and summer of 1945, Arnold was a driven leader, almost willing the B-29 campaign and the air and sea blockade to collapse Japan before the scheduled massive invasion of Kyushu on November 1st. Arnold agreed that politically the atomic bomb shocked the Japanese to capitulation, but as the architect of the bombing offensive, he emphasized that Japan was already defeated in the summer of 1945 by the bombing and blockade, and that it was not militarily necessary to drop the atomic bomb.

Wolk brings out important rationales and connections in doctrine, organization, and command not previously published. He also mines sources not previously exploited, including the author’s interviews with General LeMay, Hansell, and Eaker; Arnold’s wartime correspondence; documentation from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library; and postwar interrogations of Japanese officials and civilians. Cataclysm will prove an important addition to the history of the Pacific War, airpower, and the debate over the use of the atomic bomb against Japan.

“Cataclysm is a fine book. It deals with a subject that is central to the conduct of the always controversial last act of the Pacific War and indirectly with the creation of the USAAF.”—Eric M. Bergerud, author of Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific “Wolk’s book includes more detail and depth on Pacific air campaign grand strategy than any other available.”—Dik A. Daso, author of Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower

RELATED INTEREST HERMAN S. WOLK is retired as Senior Historian, U.S. Air Force. He is the author of Strategic Bombing: The American Experience; Planning and Organizing the Postwar Air Force, 1943-1947; The Struggle for Air Force Independence, 1943-1947; Fulcrum of Power: Essays on the Air Force and National Security; and Reflections on Air Force Independence.

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

In Hostile Skies An American B-24 Pilot in World War II James M. Davis 978-1-57441-239-0 paper $14.95

Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II Sarah Byrn Rickman 978-1-57441-241-3 cloth $24.95

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Stan Kenton

This Is an Orchestra!

Michael Sparke Stan Kenton (1911–1979) formed his first full orchestra in 1940 and soon drew recordbreaking crowds to hear and dance to his exciting sound. He continued to tour and record unrelentingly for the next four decades. Stan Kenton: This Is an Orchestra! sums up the mesmerizing bandleader at the height of his powers, arms waving energetically, his face a study of concentration as he cajoled, coaxed, strained, and obtained the last ounce of energy from every musician under his control.

Michael Sparke’s narrative captures that enthusiasm in words: a lucid account of the evolution of the Kenton Sound, and the first book to offer a critical evaluation of the role that Stan played in its creation. Insightful and thought-provoking throughout, and supported by liberal quotes from the musicians who made the magic, even at his most contentious the author’s high regard and admiration for his subject shines through. The most knowledgeable of Stan’s fans will learn new facts from this far-reaching biography of a man and his music. Stan Kenton will be essential reading for every Kenton devotee and jazz historian.

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“A delightful read, start to finish. The inclusion of so much primary source material makes this the most authoritative account of Kenton’s story to date. He ‘gets’ the man and the music and tells it like it was.”—Terry Vosbein, professor of music, Washington and Lee University “I read this book with mounting excitement and finished it confident that it is the best yet written on Kenton’s professional life. It is an irresistible volume that ought to be devoured in one sitting.”—Anthony Agostinelli, Kenton newsletter publisher RELATED INTEREST

Jade Visions The Life and Music of Scott LaFaro Helene LaFaroFernández 978-1-57441-273-4 cloth $24.95

One Long Tune The Life and Music of Lenny Breau Ron Forbes-Roberts 978-1-57441-230-7 paper $18.95

Living in the Woods in a Tree Remembering Blaze Foley Sybil Rosen 978-1-57441-250-5 cloth $24.95

MICHAEL SPARKE was born in Greater London, England, and continues to live there after retiring from teaching. He was first switched on to good music after hearing Woody Herman’s First Herd in 1945, and with Stan Kenton soon afterwards.

Collaboration with the Dutch discographer Pete Venudor resulted in the discographies Kenton on Capitol and The Studio Sessions. Sparke has written liner notes for Kenton CDs on several labels, but this is his first full historical narrative about his favorite subject.

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University of North Texas Press

Americo Paredes

In His Own Words, an Authorized Biography Manuel F. Medrano Américo Paredes (1915-1999) was a folklorist, scholar, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who is widely acknowledged as one of the founding scholars of Chicano Studies. Born in Brownsville, Texas, along the southern U.S.-Mexico Border, Paredes grew up between two worlds—one written about in books, the other sung about in ballads and narrated in folktales.

After service in World War II, Paredes entered the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed his PhD in 1956. With the publication of his dissertation, “With His Pistol in His Hand”: A Border Ballad and Its Hero in 1958, Paredes soon emerged as a challenger to the status quo. His book questioned the mythic nature of the Texas Rangers and provided an alternative counter-cultural narrative to the existing traditional narratives of Walter Prescott Webb and J. Frank Dobie.

For the next forty years Paredes was a brilliant teacher and prolific writer who championed the preservation of border culture and history. He was a soft-spoken, at times temperamental, yet fearless professor. In 1970 he co-founded the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is credited with introducing the concept of Greater Mexico, decades before its wider acceptance today among transnationalist scholars. He received numerous awards, including La Orden del Aguila Azteca, Mexico’s most prestigious service award to a foreigner.

Manuel F. Medrano interviewed Paredes over a five-year period before Paredes’ death in 1999, and also interviewed his family and colleagues. For many Mexican Americans, Paredes’ historical legacy is that he raised, carried, and defended their cultural flag with a dignity that both friends and foes respected.

Number Five: Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series

“Medrano incorporates oral history, personal/ professional correspondence, and family input into his research. To my knowledge, no other scholar has had access to some of the material herein.”—Aaron Rodrigues, professor of ethnic studies, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo “Paredes is the leading academic figure for Texas Mexicans and his work continues to invoke not only personal attention but scholarly perspectives as well. This book has the potential of introducing Paredes to a new generation of readers and scholars.”—Richard Flores, Professor of Mexican-American Studies, University of Texas

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MANUEL F. MEDRANO is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Brownsville and the coauthor of Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands and Charro Days in Brownsville. He has written three bilingual poetry books and has produced and directed Los del Valle, an oral history of Rio Grande Valley people.

Contested Policy The Rise and Fall of Federal Bilingual Education in the United States, 1960-2001 Guadalupe San Miguel 978-1-57441-171-3 cloth $21.95

Sea la Luz The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 18291900 Juan Francisco Martínez 978-1-57441-222-2 cloth $24.95

Life in Laredo A Documentary History from the Laredo Archives Robert D. Wood 978-1-57441-173-7 cloth $24.95

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Nassau Plantation

Antebellum Jefferson, Texas

The Evolution of a Texas German Slave Plantation

Everyday Life in an East Texas Town

James C. Kearney

Jacques D. Bagur

In the 1840s an organization of German noblemen, the Mainzner Adelsverein, attempted to settle thousands of German emigrants on the Texas frontier. Nassau Plantation, located near modern-day Round Top, Texas, in northern Fayette County, was a significant part of this story. James C. Kearney has studied a wealth of original source material (much of it in German) to illuminate the history of the plantation and the larger goals and motivation of the Adelsverein.

This new study highlights the problematic relationship of German emigrants to slavery. Few today realize that the society’s original colonization plan included ownership and operation of slave plantations. Ironically, the German settlements the society later established became hotbeds of antislavery and anti-secessionist sentiment.

Several notable personalities graced the plantation, including Carl Prince of Solms-Braunfels, Johann Otto Freiherr von Meusebach, botanist F. Lindheimer, and the renowned naturalist Dr. Ferdinand Roemer. Dramatic events also occurred at the plantation, including a deadly shootout, a successful escape by two slaves (documented in an unprecedented way), and litigation over ownership that wound its way to both the Texas Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.

“In depth, thoroughness, and scope, Nassau Plantation has no equal in the literature of the Society.”—Wolfram M. Von-Maszewski, editor of Voyage to North America 1844-45: Prince Carl of Solms’s Texas Diary of People, Places, and Events “This will be a valuable reference work.”—Walter Buenger, author of Secession and the Union in Texas

Founded in 1845 as a steamboat port at the entryway to western markets from the Red River, Jefferson was a thriving center of trade until the steamboat traffic dried up in the 1870s. During its heyday, the town monopolized the shipping of cotton from all points west for 150 miles.

Jefferson was the unofficial capital of East Texas, but it was also typical of boom towns in general.

For this topical examination of a frontier town, Bagur draws from many government documents, but also from newspaper ads and plats. These sources provide intimate details of the lives of the early citizens of Jefferson, Texas. Their story is of interest to both local and state historians as well as to the many readers interested in capturing the flavor of life in old-time East Texas.

“Astoundingly complete and a model for local history research, with appeal far beyond readers who have specific interests in Jefferson.”—Fred Tarpley, author of Jefferson: Riverport to the Southwest “This will be ‘the book of record’ for antebellum Jefferson. No work in the past comes close to the massive detail in this study.”—James Smallwood, emeritus professor of history, Oklahoma State University

Jacques D. Bagur is an independent researcher specializing in the history and geography of Louisiana and East Texas. He holds a degree from Louisiana State University and has spent more than thirty years in applied public policy research. The author of UNT Press’s A History of Navigation on Cypress Bayou and the Lakes, he lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

JAMES C. KEARNEY has a degree in German and history from the University of Texas. He teaches German at Katy High School and has been a featured speaker at numerous conventions and symposia on Texas-German subjects.

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Texas History. Southern History.

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Texas History.

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New in paperback

Juneteenth Texas

A Deeper Blue

Essays in African-American Folklore

The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt

Edited by Francis E. Abernethy, Patrick B. Mullen, and Alan B. Govenar

Juneteenth Texas explores African-American folkways and traditions from both African-American and white perspectives. Included are descriptions and classifications of different aspects of African-American folk culture in Texas; explorations of songs and stories and specific performers such as Lightnin’ Hopkins, Manse Lipscomb, and Bongo Joe; and a section giving resources for the further study of African Americans in Texas. “[The] editors have contributed significantly to making our past relevant to our present in Juneteenth Texas, a collection of essays that explore African-American folkways and traditions. Drawing upon the expertise of folklorists, musicologists, filmmakers, historians, anthropologists and just plain folks . . . the objective is to use the prism of African-American folklore to enlighten all Americans about our common culture. . . . So evocative is the writing on musical folklore, one longs for a companion CD to add even more vitality to . . . an excellent text.”—Dallas Morning News “This volume on black Texas folklore is a fresh and fascinating contribution to African American history.”—Journal of Southern History “The editors have put together a valuable volume which will be treasured by all of those who are interested in the rich fabric of African American life in Texas.”—East Texas Historical Association Journal Number Fifty-four: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society FRANCIS EDWARD ABERNETHY is professor emeritus of English at Stephen F. Austin State University and former Secretary-Editor of the Texas Folklore Society. PATRICK B. MULLEN is professor of English at Ohio State University. ALAN GOVENAR is president of Documentary Arts and a writer, folklorist, photographer, and filmmaker.

Robert Earl Hardy

Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour. A Deeper Blue traces Van Zandt’s background as the scion of a prominent Texas family; his troubled early years and his transformation from promising pre-law student to wandering folk singer; his life on the road and the demons that pursued and were pursued by him; the women who loved and inspired him; and the brilliance and enduring beauty of his songs.

“Hardy delineates the musician’s chaotic life in honest, often dramatic detail, but always brings the focus back to Van Zandt’s music and the classic songs he penned.”—Billboard.com “A Deeper Blue demonstrates why Van Zandt has become Texas’ version of Mozart, Van Gogh, and Hank Williams all rolled up into one brilliant and beautiful burrito.”—Kinky Friedman “A Deeper Blue gives fascinating insight into what inspired this sweetsinging, tortured genius and what inevitably brought him down. Save a tear for Townes. You’ll need it.”—Joe Ely Number One: North Texas Lives of Musician Series ROBERT EARL HARDY has been a professional writer for twentyfive years, with articles on twentieth century American music and the arts published in newspapers, journals, and magazines, most recently in The Oxford American. Also a musician, since the 1970s, Mr. Hardy has played guitar in bands in the Washington, D.C., area.

He lives in Maryland.

Juneteenth Texas

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Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry 2009.

Multi-ethnic Bird Guide of the Subantarctic Forests of South America

Stray Home Amy M. Clark

Ricardo Rozzi and collaborators

In this unique book Ricardo Rozzi and his collaborators present a cultural ethnography and an illustrated guide to the forest birds of southern Chile and Argentina. Included are entries on fifty bird species, among them the Magellanic Woodpecker, Rufous-Legged Owl, Ringed Kingfisher, Buff-Necked Ibis, Giant Hummingbird, and Andean Condor. Each bird is named in Yahgan, Mapudungun, Spanish, English, and scientific nomenclature, followed by a description, full color photographs, the bird’s distribution map, habitat and lifestyle, and its history in the region.

Each entry is augmented further with indigenous accounts of the bird in history and folklore. The book includes two CDs with recordings of birdcalls and their names in four languages, followed by numerous narratives of Yahgan and Mapuche stories about the birds translated directly from interviews with elders of both communities.

“Highly original in its approach of combining information on natural history and biodiversity with information on the region’s human cultural and linguistic diversity.”—Chris Elphick, coauthor of The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior “Full of the rich complexity of human/animal relations as well as being a beautiful and informative guide to the birds of South America.”—David Rothenberg, New Jersey Institute of Technology

With poems that combine the self-scrutiny of Philip Larkin with the measure of Elizabeth Bishop, Amy M. Clark burnishes her first collection, Stray Home, with exquisite understatement and formal control. Sweeter than Larkin and more intimate than Bishop, these poems address the suppressed pain and shame of living as a childless woman in a world of mothers, the dissociation attendant on depression and fraught family relationships, and the search for a sense of belonging in the face of dislocation. Stray Home cuts deeply to discover the buried emotions and insights universal to all suffering and compassionate human beings.

“Clark is able to imbue our small, usually overlooked moments with unexpected grandeur. A quiet humor is employed in service of her twin gifts, imagination and metaphor. This is an accomplished, deft, and important debut.”—Beth Ann Fennelly, author of Tender Hooks and judge Number Seventeen: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry Amy M. Clark grew up in San Luis Obispo, California. She is a graduate of Carleton College, and holds degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno, and Spalding University’s MFA Program. She works as an editor and divides her time between Concord, Massachusetts, and San Diego, California. Her poems have been published in The Cincinnati Review, Cream City Review, and 32 Poems.

RICARDO ROZZI is an associate professor in philosophy and religion studies at the University of North Texas. He is the author or coauthor of The Route of Darwin through the Cape Horn Archipelago, The World’s Southernmost Ethnoecology, and The Cape Horn Biosphere Reserve.

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April

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Poetry.

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Journal of Schenkerian Studies 4

Theoria, Vol. 17 Historical Aspects of Music Theory

Edited by Frank Heidlberger

Edited by Colin Davis

The Journal of Schenkerian Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published annually by the Center for Schenkerian Studies at the University of North Texas. The journal features articles on all facets of Schenkerian thought, including theory, analysis, pedagogy, and historical aspects. Back issues can be obtained from Texas A&M University Press.

This special issue (Volume 4) contains articles adapted from papers delivered at the 2008 American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory conference in Nashville, Tennessee. The focus is on historical aspects surrounding Heinrich Schenker and, in particular, the on-going development of the Schenker Documents Online project. Volume 4 includes contributions from Ian Bent, “Schenker as Teacher: The Case of Gerhard Albersheim”; Marko Deisinger, “Heinrich Schenker as Reflected in His Diaries of 1918: Living Conditions and World View in a Time of Political and Social Upheaval”; William Drabkin, “Hans Weisse in Correspondence with Schenker and His Circle”; Christoph Hust, “’How desolating to have to say that he is and will be the premier conductor of our time!’ Heinrich Schenker and Wilhelm Furtwängler”; Timothy L. Jackson, “Punctus contra punctus—a Counterpoint of Schenkerian and Weissian Analysis: Hans Weisse’s Counterpoint Studies with Heinrich Schenker”; and John Koslovsky, “Primäre Klangformen, Linearität, oder Auskomponierung?: The Analysis of Medieval Polyphony and the Critique of Musicology in the Early Work of Felix Salzer.”

Journal of Schenkerian Studies 4

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Performing Arts.

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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.

Theoria Vol. 17 (2010) includes articles by John L. Snyder, “Pitch and Pitch relationships in Musicae artis disciplina: Letter Notation, Species, and Contour theory”; David Stern, “Thomas Morley’s View of the Importance of Modal Order in Renaissance Composition”; and Irna Priore, “Serialism in the 1950s: Berio’s Approach.” Stephen Slottow reviews Michiel Schuijer’s Analyzing Atonal Music: Pitch-Class Set Theory and Its Contexts (University of Rochester Press, 2008).

FRANK HEIDLBERGER is professor of music theory at the University of North Texas. He received his degrees in musicology at Würzburg University and has published on music history and theory of the 16th to 20th centuries; 19th century composers Carl Maria von Weber, Hector Berlioz, and Giacomo Meyerbeer; and 20th century composer and theorist Paul Hindemith.

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Texas and Texans in the Great War Ralph A. Wooster The outbreak of war in Europe in the summer of 1914 surprised Americans. Although most hoped to avoid involvement in the conflict, the German submarine campaign against shipping in the north Atlantic brought the United States into the war in April, 1917 as an ally of the British, French, Italians, and Russians.

Before World War I ended in November 1918 the United States mobilized over four million men and suffered over 350,000 casualties, including 120,000 who were killed in action or died from disease. 200,000 Texans served in the American armed forces during what contemporaries called “the Great War.” Over 5,000 Texans in uniform died during the conflict. Four Texans were awarded the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action.

Several Texans received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Distinguished Service Medal, or the French Croix de Guerre. Three qualified as “aces” by shooting down five enemy aircraft.

Military historian Ralph A. Wooster describes the role Texans played in the war, both overseas in the major battles and campaigns and on the home front producing the materials needed to carry on a modern war. He shows that the mobilization of the mind and spirit during the war kindled the growth of patriotism and brought Texans into the mainstream of American life for the first time since the American Civil War.

RALPH A. WOOSTER, distinguished professor of history emeritus, spent his academic career at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. After completing military service with the Historical Division, Headquarters, U.S. Army Europe, he joined the Lamar faculty in 1955. Over the next 52 years he served in a variety of academic positions. He is past president of the Texas State Historical Association, East Texas Historical Association, and Texas Association of College Teachers and a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association and East Texas Historical Association.

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The Stars Were Big and Bright, Volume I The United States Army Air Forces and Texas During World War II Thomas E. Alexander 978-1-933337-27-2 paper $23.95

The Wings of Change The Army Air Force Experience in Texas During World War II Thomas E. Alexander 978-1-893114-35-7 cloth $29.95

Hellcats The 12th Armored Division in World War II John C. Ferguson 978-1-880510-88-9 paper $16.95

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The Spurs W.J. “Scotch Bill” Elliott New Foreword by Eric Swenson Save for a very few, the true West Texas cowboy has ridden his last round - up. Gone are the dusty trail drive, the remote line camps, the fence riders, the open pasture brandings, and the chuck wagons. But stories of those bygone days remain, albeit far too few. Fortunately, a handful of those cowboys were also of the literary type. “Scotch Bill” Elliot was one of those. He had the foresight to record those stories for posterity. Without Elliot and those like him, much of the history of the settling of West Texas would have been lost.

Elliot’s subjects were varied—from the killing of the last buffalo to the end of the open range, from searing droughts to winter blizzards, from lush pastures to barren prairies, from good cow horses and good companions to bad deeds done by bad men. Perhaps the greatest contribution of Elliot’s book is the numerous insightful profiles of cowboys and cattlemen. The American cowboy is always remembered as an unrivaled folk hero who possessed all of the qualities that people most admire. Elliot holds the cowboy and his lifestyle in the highest esteem, but he strips away the myth and writes forthrightly about that way of life.

This is not a scholarly treatise, being thoroughly researched and meticulously documented. This is an eyewitness account by a man who lived the history and simply recorded the events as they unfolded during his lifetime. If you want a recitation of cold facts frequently punctuated by dates, this is not your book. This volume is earthy, sometimes even crude, but it tells of life the way it really was on the West Texas range. For all who want to know about the life of the cowboy and the cattlemen, the day-to-day drudgery of ranch work, ranch cooking, cowboy customs, relations with “nesters,” cowboy pranksters and recreation, and the satisfaction and exhilaration of sittin’ on good horse flesh driving a herd of well - bred cattle to lush pastures—this is your book.—Eric Swenson

W. J. ELLIOT was a native of Scotland who arrived at the headquarters of the Espuela Land and Cattle Company on April 28, 1888, to become the ranch bookkeeper. He later participated in the surveying of the town of Espuela in 1891 and managed the general store and was postmaster until the store and post office were closed in 1910. He was also a serious student of the history and geology of the Espuela area, and a number of exhibits from his geological collection will be in the permanent collection of the Spur-Dickens County Museum.

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Degenerate George Williams A two year old mystery. A missing daughter. A cross country road trip. Chris, an aerospace engineer, is on a mission. He abandons his life in Savannah and drives west. Along the way, first in New Orleans and then in Austin, he picks up passengers. Julia, a Czech woman fleeing a boyfriend and business partner, and JC, the daughter of a Baptist minister, who on a manic whim joins them and leaves her life in Austin behind. Displaced, in flight from their respective pasts, with Chris planning a revenge he may not have the nerve or the opportunity to exact, the three form shifting alliances and friendships as they drive across Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and California. In Los Angeles, they rent a house in Venice Beach and explore the city—graveyards, art districts, the L.A. County Coroner’s Office, Catalina Island, bars, boardwalks, promenades, tar pits, dances clubs, flight museums. On Christmas Eve in a Holmby Hills mansion, the story culminates in a confrontation with the man Chris believes to be partly responsible for the disappearance of his daughter.

Degenerate is a road trip novel out of Kerouac and Nabokov, a comedy of revenge and satire about Los Angeles that brings to mind Nathaniel West and a story of love and loss at turns lyrical, hilarious and heartbreaking.

“George Williams’ debut novel, Degenerate, is a manic and brilliant of our fallen America. Nothing in American prose matches the sheer velocity of Williams’ prose, which reads like Hemingway on Benzedrine and steroids. Williams’ razor-honed sentences explode like grenades, rivaling the best work of Cormac McCarthy. No first novel in recent memory has been so stunning, and readers will come away breathless.”—Eric Miles Williamson, author of East Bay Grease, Two-Up, and Welcome to Oakland

“The term ‘original voice’ is over-used and misapplied to many fiction debuts that are really nothing new. Not in this case. Degenerate is like nothing you’ve ever read. George Williams is a brilliant writer, and this is a brilliant book.”— Larry Fondation, author of Angry Nights, Common Criminals, and Fish, Soap and Bond

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Hardwater Steve Sherwood 978-1-881515-68-5 paper $16.95

Murder in the Holy City Ben Greer 978-1-881515-92-0 paper $18.95

“George William’s Degenerate makes broke-back poetry out of desiccated American landscapes, and argues persuasively for the sanity of an offkilter existence. A rollicking, bracing, and wholly original debut.”—Tracy Daugherty, author of Woman in the Oil Field and What Falls Away

Texas Heat and Other Stories William Harrison 978-1-881515-84-5 paper $16.95

GEORGE WILLIAMS was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and Richmond, Virginia. He has been a scholar at Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conference and was the first recipient the Michener Fellowship in Honor of Donald Barthelme. His stories and essays have appeared in The Pushcart Prize, New Virginia Review, American Book Review, Gulf Coast, and The Texas Review, among other publications. He lives in Savannah, Georgia, and teaches at Savannah College of Art and Design.

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Call and Response Jack B. Bedell and Darrell Bourque The poems in Call and Response are the record of a friendship, conversations in verse with topics as varied and diverse as fine art and the traditions of southern Louisiana. The poems created here are a drawing out of the love and respect they have for each other and for the things they share with the world. It is an exchange in the tradition of artists like Homer and Lady Murasaki, as well as in the common traditions of work songs sung by field workers throughout “This exquisite collaboration by two of our state’s finest poets is a gift of extraordinary spiritual dimension.”—The Times-Picayune “Few collaborative books work as well as this one. Call and Response represents two poets at the height of their abilities. It also captures the contrast, harmony, and ultimate synthesis between two poetic voices, resulting in a book that succeeds as a strong collection of individual poems but also as a conversation in verse. The two poets, with their divergent sensibilities, have created a book in which the poems subtly and beautifully communicate with one another.”—Kevin Meaux, author of Myths of Electricity

JACK B. BEDELL, born and raised in south Louisiana, is the Woman’s Hospital Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he also serves as editor of Louisiana Literature and director of Louisiana Literature Press. His most recent books are Come Rain, Come Shine (Texas Review Press) and French Connections: A Gathering of Franco-American Poets (LaLit Press). DARRELL BOURQUE is Professor Emeritus in English from University of Louisiana, where he taught in the English Department and in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program. Bourque’s books include Plainsongs published by Cross-Cultural Communications (1994), The Doors Between Us (the inaugural issue of Louisiana Literature’s Chapbook Series-1997), Burnt Water Suite, Wings Press (1999), and The Blue Boat, The Center for Louisiana Studies (2004). Bourque was appointed Poet Laureate of Louisiana in 2007 and again in 2009.

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At the Bonehouse Poems by Jack Bedell Jack Bedell 978-1-881515-16-6 paper $11.00

Come Rain, Come Shine Jack Bedell 978-1-881515-86-9 paper $16.00

What Passes For Love Jack Bedell 978-1-881515-34-0 paper $8.00

Call and Response 978-1-933896-40-3 paper $14.95

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Winner of the 2008 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize

Winner of the 2008 George Garrett Fiction Prize

Across the River

River Roots

William Orem

Mary Kuykendall-Weber

Set over the course of one winter at a hospital in Washington, Across the River is a linked series of stories about the trials of the body and their meaning for the spirit. From the psychology of brain surgeons, to a suicide who has time to regret his act, to a college student’s first encounter with blood, Across the River brings together separate voices telling the common tale of how thinking beings encounter their own mortality.

WILLIAM OREM writes in multiple genres. His first collection of stories, Zombi, You My Love, won the GLCA New Writers Award, previously given to Sherman Alexie, Alice Munro, Louise Erdrich, and Richard Ford. Other stories and poems of his have appeared in over 100 publications, including The Princeton Arts Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and The New Formalist, and he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in both genres. His plays have been performed in Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Louisville, Buffalo and Boston.

Currently William Orem is Writer-in-Residence at Emerson College.

He grew up, however, in and around Washington, D.C., and worked for several years in a clinical psychobiology lab at the NIMH. Those experiences, along with his ongoing work as a popular science writer, formed the basis for the collection, Across the River.

Mary Kuykendall goes back to her roots along the South Branch of the Potomac River in West Virginia for this collection of short stories based on characters struggling for survival in a world which appears indifferent as they face adverse and social conditions beyond their control. River Roots’ stories interrelate to give one a total view of river valley life, then and now. In some ways, the Hampshire County she grew up in reminds her of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, in which man, in his essential nobility, sometimes repudiates himself in all his reprehensible weakness.

But mostly she hopes she has captured some of Wendell Berry’s love of land and the family farmer’s innate respect for it.

Mary Kuykendall-Weber holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from West Virginia University and a master’s degree in American literature from the State University of New York.

After 25 years at General Electric as a publicist and speechwriter, she wrote a book on corporate greed, The House That Jack Blew Down, of which parts were used in GE, Jack Welch and Profits at Any Cost, by Tom O’Boyle. A play, Gold Collars, a new category in the traditional labels of blue-, pink- (female workers) and white-collar workers, was more successful, a short version was produced in San Francisco.

She is now working on a book entitled The Perils of Pauline in Big Business. She has written some one hundred short stories, with seven published in small press anthologies.

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River Roots

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Penelope’s Design

Lyrics for Old Lovers

Fourteen Poems

Joyce Pounds Hardy

David Havird

The title poem, for Anthony Hecht “a truly great success in its knitting together of the modern scene, recent history, and Homeric myth,” finds a wizened Penelope hawking embroidery to tourists. Another recalls the death of Marilyn Monroe—how it awakened the sexual consciousness of a boy for whom her spirit became the scent of cured tobacco. An odyssey whose settings range from the Carolinas to Crete, from the Romsdal Fjord to the Buffalo River, Penelope’s Design also pays homage to such geniuses of place as Thomas Hardy and A. E. Housman, in whose Shropshire a 50-year-old literary pilgrim meets his own lightfoot ghost. Often elegiac, these richly allusive poems smile at the diminishing returns of aging and capture glimmers of a numinous Otherwhere.

“The memories of ‘a dream-disheveled child’ in the Deep South unfold into the meditative travels of the literary man in these elegant, assured poems, riddled with starlight, richly enlivened with deep-dyed images of nature and art, and a meticulous ear for echoes both allusive and actual, in a language as sensual as it is referential.”—Eleanor Wilner, author of Reversing the Spell and The Girl with Bees in Her Hair

DAVID HAVIRD grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, and studied at the university there under James Dickey. He completed his graduate studies at the University of Virginia with a doctoral dissertation on Thomas Hardy. Not a prolific poet, still he has published for many years in major journals: Agni, The New Yorker, Poetry, the Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southwest Review, the Yale Review—not to mention the Texas Review—and online at Poetry Daily. He lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he teaches at Centenary College.

Lyrics for Old Lovers conjures up couples walking down a beach holding hands, smiling contentedly into the setting sun, but old love is not like one of those three-mast sailing ships in a bottle with no waves and no wind. Old love tests the heart.

These poems are about living a lifetime together, happy, funny, familiar years of growing old with the one you love, but they are also about tough years of caregiving and heartache, of loss and survival, of regrets and loneliness.

The poet has lived these poems, finally discovering a need in herself to accept life again and move on. Yes, life again, in the form of another love; and because love comes in all ages, she finds that old love “without the urgencies of youth” can be soft and sweet and easy on the heart.

“It is often said that neither poetry nor philosophy would exist were it not for humankind’s timeless preoccupation with love and death. In her latest collection of poems, Hardy-McDonald probes the subject of love, and she does so with extraordinary courage, clarity and insight. By turns romantic, realistic, turgid with longing, and subtly erotic, these poems also explore the inevitable loss which makes love so poignant and the courageous recovery from that loss which new love may bring. Few poets have written of love with such deep feeling, honesty, understanding, reflection, hard-earned wisdom, and artistry.”—Larry D. Thomas, 2008 Texas Poet Laureate JOYCE POUNDS HARDY, a native Houstonian and a graduate of Rice University, was winner of the Texas Writers Recognition Award, a grant of $2000 given by the Texas Commission On Arts, for publication of her first book: The Reluctant Hunter (Latitudes Press, 1989).

Her second book, French Windows, written with four of her Paris friends, was published in 1995 by Eakin Press. She has won the Holland Award for Non-Fiction from Rice University, as well as the Golden Pen Award for poetry from the University of Houston. Her latest book, Roads to Forgotten Texas, a collaboration with photographer Tommy LaVergne (poems by Hardy), was published by Texas Review Press in 2007.

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Lyrics for Old Lovers

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