Fall/Winter 2011 Catalog / Texas A&M University Press

Fall & Winter 2011

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Southern Methodist University Press

We are pleased to announce books published by the new Stephen F. Austin State University Press are available from TAMU Press Consortium. See pages 54-66.

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Race: an idea whose time has passed?

Race?

Debunking a Scientific Myth Ian Tattersall and Rob DeSalle Race has provided the rationale and excuse for some of the worst atrocities in human history. Yet, according to many biologists, physical anthropologists, and geneticists, there is no valid scientific justification for the concept of race.

To be more precise, although there is clearly some physical basis for the variations that underlie perceptions of race, clear boundaries among “races” remain highly elusive from a purely biological standpoint. Differences among human populations that people intuitively view as “racial” are not only superficial but are also of astonishingly recent origin.

In this intriguing and highly accessible book, physical anthropologist Ian Tattersall and geneticist Rob DeSalle, both senior scholars from the American Museum of Natural History, explain what human races actually are—and are not—and place them within the wider perspective of natural diversity. They explain that the relative isolation of local populations of the newly evolved human species during the last Ice Age—when Homo sapiens was spreading across the world from an African point of origin—has now begun to reverse itself, as differentiated human populations come back into contact and interbreed.

Indeed, the authors suggest that all of the variety seen outside of Africa seems to have both accumulated and started reintegrating within only the last 50,000 or 60,000 years— the blink of an eye, from an evolutionary perspective.

IAN TATTERSALL & ROB DeSALLE

The overarching message of Race? Debunking a Scientific Myth is that scientifically speaking, there is nothing special about racial variation within the human species. These distinctions result from the working of entirely mundane evolutionary processes, such as those encountered in other organisms.

Number Fifteen: Texas A&M University Anthropology Series

IAN TATTERSALL, curator emeritus in the American Museum of Natural History, is also the author of Paleontology: A Brief History of Life (Templeton Press, 2010), The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2009), and The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE (Oxford University Press, 2008). ROB DESALLE is a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics. He curated the American Museum of Natural History’s new Hall of Human Origins (2006) and has written more than 300 peer-reviewed scientific publications and several books. Tattersall and DeSalle recently coauthored Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves (Texas A&M University Press, 2007).

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Human Origins What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves Rob DeSalle 978-1-60344-518-4 paper $29.95

Assumed Identities The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World John D. Garrigus 978-1-60344-192-6 cloth $29.95s

The Early Modern Human from Tianyuan Cave, China Hong Shang 978-1-60344-177-3 cloth $45.00s

Race?

978-1-60344-425-5 cloth $35.00 6x9. 256 pp. Photo. 9 line art. 6 tables. Index.

Anthropology.

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Unprecedented Power

Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good Steven Fenberg As President Obama began to unveil sweeping government programs to restore the crippled economy, the public and media drew numerous comparisons with the actions of Franklin Roosevelt, who faced the grim prospects of the Great Depression almost eighty years earlier. Steven Fenberg tells the story of Jesse Holman Jones, the Houston businessman who went to Washington as an appointed official and provided the pragmatic leadership that salvaged capitalism during the Great Depression and militarized industry in time to fight and win World War II. Jones—an entrepreneur with an eighth-grade education who built Houston’s tallest buildings of the time—was considered to be the most powerful person in the nation, next to President Roosevelt. As chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Jones saved farms, homes, banks, and businesses; built infrastructure; set the price of gold with FDR each morning in the president’s bedroom; and in the process made a substantial profit for the government. Then Jones turned the RFC’s focus from domestic economics to global defense.

In writing the comprehensive, definitive biography of this imposing twentieth-century figure, Fenberg had unrestricted access to the collections of Houston Endowment—the philanthropic foundation established by Jesse and Mary Gibbs Jones in 1937—and utilized the archives of the Library of Congress, the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, the Houston Public Library, and an impressive array of other sources. According to Fenberg, Jones recognized that he would prosper only if his community thrived, a belief that directed him to combine capitalism and public service to strengthen his community, to restore the fortunes of his country, and to save nations.

As we grapple today with economic recovery, the role of government, and reliance on other nations for vital resources, Unprecedented Power offers a fascinating and timely perspective. Students and scholars of government and business history, as well as policy makers, regional historians, and interested general readers, will find this book an indispensable addition to their libraries.

“Jesse Jones is one of those vital figures who has inexplicably slipped into the historical shadows. Now Steven Fenberg has given us a wonderful new biography of a man who played a critical role in the most tumultuous years of the American Century, bringing Jones back to vivid life.”—Jon Meacham, author of the Pulitzer Prize winning American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House and the bestselling Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of An Epic Friendship

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STEVEN FENBERG was executive producer and writer of the Emmy Award–winning documentary film, Brother, Can You Spare a Billion? The Story of Jesse H. Jones, which was narrated by Walter Cronkite.

Unprecedented Power 978-1-60344-434-7 cloth $35.00 6x9. 616 pp. 60 photos. Bib. Index.

Biography. American History. Business History.

Texas History.

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The inside story of one of America’s favorite snack foods . . .

Fritos® Pie

Stories, Recipes, and More Kaleta Doolin Foreword by Davia Nelson Fritos® Pie is an insider’s look at the never-before-told story of the Frito Company written

by Kaleta Doolin, daughter of the company’s founder. Filled with personal anecdotes, more than 150 vintage and newly created recipes, and stories, this book recounts the company’s early days, the 1961 merger that created Frito-Lay, Inc., and beyond.

In 1932 C. E. Doolin, the operator of a struggling San Antonio confectionery, purchased for $100 the recipe for a fried corn chip product and a crude device used to make it, along with a list of nineteen customer accounts. From that humble beginning sprang Fritos® (“fries” in Spanish), a product that, thanks to Doolin’s marketing ingenuity and a visionary approach to food technology, would become one of the best-known brands in America.

One of the first firms to utilize point-of-sale advertising, the Frito Company developed dozens of recipes intended to get American homemakers “Cooking with Fritos.” Indeed, Doolin shows that many of the vintage recipes developed by her grandmother, her father, and company employees became integral to the company’s marketing success.

The book includes recipes—for everything from appetizers to desserts, all using Fritos as an ingredient—along with the author’s comments and anecdotes about her adventures experimenting with them in her kitchen.

Doolin also draws upon hours of interviews with her mother, siblings, cousins, and many of her father’s closest business associates as well as focused research in Frito-Lay corporate archives and other collections to paint a portrait of her father as not only an innovator in food marketing but also a visionary inventor, a forward-thinking agriculturalist, and an entrepreneur with an amazing grasp of detail.

“Kaleta has written a deep-fried, wide-eyed American saga of family and food.”

—from the foreword by Davia Nelson of NPR’s award-winning Kitchen Sisters

Number Twenty-four: Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities

RELATED INTEREST KALETA DOOLIN is a writer and artist dedicated to exploring and interpreting the creative process through book arts, sculpture, and cutting-edge technologies applied to photography and video installation. She lives in Dallas.

Voices in the Kitchen Views of Food and the World from Working-Class Mexican and Mexican American Women Meredith E. Abarca 978-1-58544-477-9 cloth $40.00x 978-1-58544-531-8 paper $19.95s

A Bowl of Red Frank X. Tolbert 978-1-58544-209-6 paper $19.95

Moctezuma’s Table Rolando Briseño’s Mexican and Chicano Tablescapes Norma E. Cantú 978-1-60344-183-4 cloth $42.00

Fritos® Pie 978-1-60344-256-5 flexbound $22.00 6x9. 228 pp. 75 color, 69 b&w photos. 5 line art. 6 apps.

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Business History. Cooking.

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On the trail of some of the most notorious outlaws of the early twentieth century . . .

Gangster Tour of Texas T. Lindsay Baker Bonnie and Clyde, Machine Gun Kelly, the Newton Boys, the Santa Claus Bank Robbers. . . . During the era of gangsters and organized crime, Texas hosted its fair share of guns and gambling, moonshine and morphine, ransom and robbery. The state’s crime wave hit such a level that in 1927 the Texas Bankers Association offered a reward of $5,000 for a dead bank robber; no reward was given for one captured alive.

Veteran historian T. Lindsay Baker brings his considerable sleuthing skills to the dark side, leading readers on a fascinating tour of the most interesting and best preserved crime scenes in the Lone Star State. Gangster Tour of Texas traces a trail of crime that had its beginnings in 1918, when the Texas legislature outlawed alcohol, and persisted until 1957, when Texas Rangers closed down the infamous casinos of Galveston.

Baker presents detailed maps, photographs of criminals, victims, and law officers, and pictures of the crime scenes as they appear today. Steeped in solid historical research, including personal visits by the author to every site described in the book, this volume offers entertaining and informative insights into a particularly lawless period in our nation’s history. Readers interested in true crime, regional history, or this unique aspect of heritage tourism will derive hours of enjoyment as they follow—on the road or from their armchairs—the trail of both cops and robbers in Gangster Tour of Texas.

“Baker knows how to spin a yarn that keeps his readers engrossed; knows that it does history no harm to write it so folks will enjoy many illustrations, maps, and pictures of outlaws, lawmen, victims, witnesses, and crime scenes that accompany each story. Plus, his picture captions are as informative as his story narratives.”—Bill Neal, author, Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier

“. . . a captivating new collection of historic sites for Texas travelers. Baker painstakingly located hundreds of sites from the sordid world of Bonnie and Clyde, the bank-robbing Newton boys, Machine Gun Kelly, Galveston’s high-rolling Maceo brothers, and a colorful host of other Lone Star rogues. In addition to an enticing photo collection and narrative, there are precise directions that will make this travel guide an indispensable companion while driving across Texas.”—Bill O’Neal, author, Ghost Towns of the American West

RELATED INTEREST T. LINDSAY BAKER, who holds the W. K. Gordon Endowed Chair in Texas History at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, has produced numerous books on Texas and southwestern history, including Adobe Walls (Texas A&M University Press, 1986; with Billy R. Harrison) and The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town (Texas A&M University Press, 2008).

The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town Thurber, 1886–1933 Mary Jane Gentry Edited by T. Lindsay Baker 978-1-58544-629-2 cloth $29.95s

Adobe Walls The History and Archaeology of the 1874 Trading Post T. Lindsay Baker 978-0-89096-243-5 hardcover $49.95s 978-1-58544-176-1 paper $29.95s

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

Gangster Tour of Texas 978-1-60344-258-9 flexbound $29.95 7x10. 384 pp. 224 b&w photos. 66 maps. Bib. Index.

Texas History. Texana Gift Books. Historic Travel. True Crime.

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“Galveston . . . never became a habitat for me . . . but it has become a habit. . . .”—from the Prologue

Going Back to Galveston

Nature, Funk, and Fantasy in a Favorite Place M. Jimmie Killingsworth Photographs by Geoff Winningham In this witty, thoughtful, and clear-eyed look at a place that has engaged the imaginations and energies of generations of Galvestonians, Texans, and others, writer M. Jimmie Killingsworth and photographer Geoff Winningham reflect on the various Galvestons—virtual and real, natural and artificial—that compete and overlap to create a location, a destination, and the defining experiences associated with “going to Galveston.”

From the tepid, still waters and steamy beaches of the Texas Gulf Coast to the computerized, air-conditioned seductions of places like Moody Gardens and the Rainforest Café, Galveston offers a wide array of opportunities for observation of the frequently ironic interplay of human and natural history. Killingsworth’s affectionate, wry prose and Winningham’s distinctive, surprising images offer a unique tribute to Galveston’s past, present, and future: a barrier island that once hosted native peoples, shipwrecked Spaniards, and buccaneers; a birding hotspot that draws nature watchers from all over the world to its estuarine and bay habitats; a hurricane-buffeted city built for tourism, with a storied—sometimes shady—nightlife, a restored historic downtown district, and a trucked-in beach.

Going Back to Galveston is a deeply personal meditation on why and how people relate to the places they love. With Killingsworth and Winningham as your guides, explore the multisensory realities: bays and beaches, birding and fishing; grand hotels and Victorian mansions alongside tumbledown docks and sleazy bars; glitzy, modern palaces of recreation and posh eateries competing with fast-food joints and vendors of tourist trinkets. Going Back to Galveston is an excursion you can carry in your hand—one you’ll want to take again and again.

M. JIMMIE KILLINGSWORTH is professor of English at Texas A&M University. An award-winning author, nature writer, and Texas Master Naturalist, Killingsworth’s books include Reflections of the Brazos Valley (with D. Gentry Steele, Texas A&M University Press, 2007). GEOFF WINNINGHAM’s photographs have appeared in 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. A professor of visual arts at Rice University, Winningham is the author of Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea (Texas A&M University Press, 2009).

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Traveling the Shore of the Spanish Sea The Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico Geoff Winningham 978-1-60344-161-2 cloth $45.00

Reflections of the Brazos Valley D. Gentry Steele Text by M. Jimmie Killingsworth 978-1-58544-615-5 cloth $25.00

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

Going Back to Galveston 978-1-60344-294-7 flexbound $24.95 10x9. 132 pp. 98 color photos.

Coastal Texas. Photography. Literary Nonfiction.

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River Music

An Atchafalaya Story Ann McCutchan With CD, Atchafalaya Soundscapes, by Earl Robicheaux Louisiana’s Atchafalaya River Basin, the heart and soul of Acadiana, or Cajun country, is the focus of this compelling narrative by Ann McCutchan. A masterful weaving of cultural and environmental history, River Music also tells the life story of Louisiana musician, naturalist, and sound documentarian Earl Robicheaux.

With Robicheaux as her guide, McCutchan embarks on a musical, visual, literary, and historical tour of the Atchafalaya, where bayous, swamps, marshes, and river delta country have long sustained nature and culture, even as industry has changed both the landscape and the people. Along the way, she and Robicheaux pay homage to distinctive voices of the region’s singular soundscape, including Acadian and Native American elders, birds, frogs, alligators, wind, water, and weather, which Robicheaux chronicles in archival recordings and musical compositions for museum exhibits, radio programs, and repositories such as the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. A CD of Robicheaux’s soundscapes is included with the book. In counterpoint, McCutchan recounts Robicheaux’s remarkable struggles as a jazz and classical artist, Katrina victim, cancer survivor, and steadfast son of the Basin devoted to remembering, preserving, and sounding out the ecological and cultural riches of his home.

An original blend of nature writing, music history, biography, journalism, and memoir, River Music: An Atchafalaya Story eloquently celebrates the one-and-half-million watery acres that have shaped the lives of the people there—and been transformed by them in return. An epilogue written in the aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon explosion and the disastrous oil spill that followed provides a fitting and poignant coda to this memorable book.

Number Twenty: Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi

“Intelligent and richly engaging, this book is an eco-cultural exploration of Louisiana’s dreamy and disaster-prone Atchafalaya Swamp as it washes through the life of one of its most curious creatures, the composer and acoustic ecologist Earl Robicheaux.”—David Abram, author of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology and The Spell of the Sensuous

RELATED INTEREST Award-winning writer and musician ANN McCUTCHAN is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Texas in Denton and the author of three previous books. In 2010 she was writer in residence at the Thinking Like a Mountain Foundation in Fort Davis, Texas.

The Louisiana Coast Guide to an American Wetland Gay M. Gomez 978-1-60344-033-2 paper $24.00

Designing the Bayous The Control of Water in the Atchafalaya Basin, 1800–1995 Martin Reuss 978-1-58544-375-8 paper $24.95

Life on Matagorda Island Wayne H. McAlister 978-1-58544-337-6 cloth $35.00s 978-1-58544-338-3 paper $17.95

River Music 978-1-60344-289-3 cloth $24.95 51/2x81/2. 224 pp. 37 b&w photos. CD. Index.

Biography. Rivers. Literary Nonfiction.

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Gripping images of one of the nation’s most elite search and rescue teams . . .

Texas Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue

Bud Force Foreword by G. Kemble Bennett Trained for ground, water, and air missions throughout Texas and the nation, Texas Task Force 1 serves as the state’s primary search and rescue team and as one of twenty-eight federal teams in the national urban search and rescue system. Founded in 1997, this elite team has been dispatched for state and national emergencies, probing the devastation at Ground Zero and saving lives on the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Texas Task Force 1’s more than four hundred highly trained members come from sixty organizations throughout Texas and include firefighters, canine handlers, medical specialists and doctors, heavy equipment operators, structural engineers, and others.

Photographer Bud Force gives us an intimate picture of Texas Task Force 1 at work as he follows the team on their major deployments and documents their specialized equipment and training, including time spent at the unique facility known as Disaster City. The result is a lively mix of history, interviews, and photographs that paints a fascinating portrait of these courageous people—and their canine partners—who place themselves in danger in order to save others.

“The principle of helping others is as fundamental to the search and rescue members I know as is breathing.”—Matthew Minson, Responder “There’s a feeling in the room when I walk in and I see the faces of the other responders I work with. My stress level drops because I know that whatever happens, we’ll figure it out and do what we need to do to get the job done. I know that because I know the people in that room can do it.”—Susann Brown, Responder

RELATED INTEREST BUD FORCE is a commercial and editorial photographer specializing in search and rescue, outdoor/adventure sports, travel, lifestyle, and humanitarian aid issues. He works for clients around the globe and is based in Fort Worth, Texas. www.budforce.com

After Ike Aerial Views from the No-Fly Zone Bryan Carlile 978-1-60344-150-6 flexbound $24.95

Agroterrorism A Guide for First Responders Jason B. Moats 978-1-58544-572-1 cloth $45.00x 978-1-58544-586-8 paper $19.95

Flash Floods in Texas Jonathan Burnett 978-1-58544-590-5 hardcover $35.00

Texas Task Force 1 978-1-60344-288-6 flexbound $24.95 9x9. 160 pp. 289 color photos. Index.

Photography. Search and Rescue. Emergency Response.

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“Come with us to learn about a great Texas river . . . . We will explore . . . camp on its banks . . . and look for places of excitement, beauty, and learning—some of them surprising.”—from the Introduction

Exploring the Brazos River From Beginning to End

Jim Kimmel Photographs by Jerry Touchstone Kimmel Foreword by Andrew Sansom From its ancient headwaters on the semiarid plains of eastern New Mexico to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico, the Brazos River carves a huge and paradoxical crescent through Texas geography and history. Its average flow is the largest of Texas rivers, but its floods, low flows, silt, and natural salt have often frustrated human desires. It is one of the most dammed of Texas rivers, but its lower four hundred miles constitute one of the longest undammed stretches of river in North America.

In Exploring the Brazos River, Jim Kimmel follows this long, changeable river from its rocky “arms” in West Texas, through the stretch made famous by John Graves in his classic book, Goodbye to a River, to its lumbering presence as it flows, undammed and mostly untouched, down the Brazos Valley and into the Gulf of Mexico.

Exploring the entire river system, Kimmel first sets the context of climate and geology that determines the characteristics of the Brazos. He then explains the ecological processes that define the Brazos watershed before focusing on four reaches of the river, from the headwaters to the mouth. Each chapter features the captivating photography of Jerry Touchstone Kimmel and includes maps, charts, and descriptions of the water, land, ecology, and people. To encourage readers to explore on their own, Kimmel closes the chapters with tips on where best to experience the river and the surrounding countryside.

Amateur and professional naturalists and outdoor enthusiasts of all stripes will find Exploring the Brazos River a practical and inspiring guide for the introduction of—or re-acquaintance with—one of the most important, historic, and diverse natural resources in the Lone Star State.

River Books, sponsored by The River Systems Institute at Texas State University

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The San Marcos A River’s Story Jim Kimmel 978-1-58544-542-4 flexbound $24.95

Paddling the Wild Neches Richard M. Donovan 978-1-58544-496-0 flexbound $19.95

JIM KIMMEL is professor of geography and former Jesse H. and Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Southwestern Studies at Texas State University in San Marcos. He is also the director of the university’s Research Center for River Recreation and Tourism. His previous book, which also featured the photography of JERRY TOUCHSTONE KIMMEL, was The San Marcos: A River’s Story (Texas A&M University Press, 2006).

Paddling the Guadalupe Wayne H. McAlister 978-1-60344-021-9 flexbound $24.95

Exploring the Brazos River 978-1-60344-432-3 flexbound $24.95 81/2x10. 192 pp. 72 color photos. 7 maps. Reference list.

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Rivers. Water. Conservation. Nature Travel.

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A month-by-month guide for Austin nature lovers. . .

Nature Watch Austin

Guide to the Seasons in an Urban Wildland Lynne Weber and Jim Weber

A detailed guide to the most important birding locations in Central New Mexico . . .

Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico Judy Liddell and Barbara Hussey

Ducks in January . . . bats in March . . . rain lilies in April . . . meteors in August . . . the predictable appearance of fauna and flora allows humans to experience the natural cycles in the environment, no matter how urban the setting. In Nature Watch Austin, avid amateur naturalists Lynne and Jim Weber provide an introduction and guide to some of the natural events that define the seasons in the city of Austin and its surrounding areas.

From pine forest to desert scrub, from alpine meadow to riparian wetland, Albuquerque and its surrounding area in New Mexico offer an appealing variety of wildlife habitat. Birders are likely to see more than two hundred species during a typical year of bird-watching. Now, two experienced birders, Judith Liddell and Barbara Hussey, share their intimate knowledge of the best places to find birds in and around this important region.

Month-by-month, each chapter profiles the plants, animals, insects, and other natural phenomena that are particularly noteworthy at that time of year. The authors also provide suggestions on how and where to see them—from driving to a nearby water treatment plant to lounging by the backyard bird feeder. Opening with a chart on weather, temperature, and daylight hours, each month’s chapter features photographs and original illustrations by the authors. A list of references includes area field guides and more in-depth sources of information by subject.

Covering the Rio Grande corridor, the Sandia and Manzano Mountains, Petroglyph National Monument, and the preserved areas and wetlands south of Albuquerque (including crane and waterfowl haven Bosque del Apache), Birding Hotspots of Central New Mexico offers twenty-nine geographically organized site descriptions, including maps and photographs, trail diagrams, and images of some of the birds and scenery birders will enjoy. Along with a general description of each area, the authors list target birds; explain where and when to look for them; give driving directions; provide information about public transportation, parking, fees, restrooms, food, and lodging; and give tips on availability of water and picnic facilities and on the presence of hazards such as rattlesnakes, bears, and poison ivy.

No matter how clogged with traffic and entombed in concrete, even large cities harbor wildlife and support a community of plants, either in tucked-away places both familiar and unexpected, or in parks and preserves dedicated to city dwellers in search of open space. Learning the annual rhythms of “urban wildland” encourages everyone to be in tune with nature and welcome the opportunities to enjoy it, year after year.

The book includes a “helpful information” section that discusses weather, altitude, safety, transportation, and other local birding resources. The American Birding Association’s code of birding ethics appears in the back of the book, along with an annotated checklist of 222 bird species seen with some regularity in and around Albuquerque.

LYNNE WEBER and JIM WEBER work at IBM in Austin, where she is a senior manager and he is a senior engineer. Both are certified Texas Master Naturalists, and Lynne is past president of the Capital Area chapter. The Webers are dedicated naturalists who conduct bird surveys, monitor and map invasive species, write nature columns for neighborhood newsletters, and lead nature hikes, among their many outdoor activities.

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

Nature Watch Austin 978-1-60344-431-6 flexbound $24.95 53/4x81/2. 240 pp. 179 color photos. 78 sketches. 2 maps.

Ref. Index.

Nature Guides. Nature Travel.

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Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico 978-1-60344-426-2 flexbound $24.95 6x81/2. 192 pp. 41 color photos. 11 maps. Bib. Index.

Birding/Ornithology. Nature Travel.

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JUDY LIDDELL is a board member of the Central New Mexico Audubon Society and a bird monitor for the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque. In addition to being a former president and board member of the Central New Mexico Audubon Society, BARBARA HUSSEY is also a founding member of the Rio Grande Nature Center. She lives in Arlington, Virginia.

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Bats of Texas Loren K. Ammerman, Christine L. Hice, and David J. Schmidly

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Trees of Texas

An Easy Guide to Leaf Identification Carmine Stahl and Ria Nicholas

Illustrations by Carson Brown Photographs by J. Scott Altenbach

With all new illustrations, color photographs, revised species accounts, updated maps, and a sturdy flexible binding, this new edition of the authoritative guide to bats in Texas will serve as the field guide and all-around reference of choice for amateur naturalists as well as mammalogists, wildlife biologists, and professional conservationists.

Texas is home to all four families of bats that occur in the United States, including thirty-three species of these important yet increasingly threatened mammals. Although five species, each represented by a single specimen, may be regarded as vagrants, no other state has a bat fauna more diverse, from the state’s most common species, the Brazilian freetailed bat, to the rare hairy-legged vampire.

The introductory chapter of this new edition of Bats of Texas surveys bats in general—their appearance, distribution, classification, evolution, biology, and life history—and discusses public health and bat conservation. An updated account for each species follows, with pictures by an outstanding nature photographer, distribution maps, and a thorough bibliography. Bats of Texas also features revised and illustrated dichotomous keys accompanied by gracefully detailed line drawings to aid in identification. A list of specimens examined is located at batsoftexas.com.

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

LOREN K. AMMERMAN is associate professor of biology at Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, where she specializes in the ecology of bats in the Big Bend area. CHRISTINE L. HICE is research assistant professor of biology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque where she is an expert on hantavirus. DAVID J. SCHMIDLY, president of the University of New Mexico, is a widely published mammalogist and an inductee into the Texas Hall of Fame for Science, Mathematics, and Technology.

Bats of Texas 978-1-60344-476-7 flexbound $35.00 7x10. 288 pp. 47 color photos. 1 b&w photo. 28 maps.

99 illus. 8 tables. Bib. Index.

Mammals. Natural History. Field Guides.

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This guide to the identification of more than two hundred of Texas’ most common native and naturalized trees brims with life-sized, black-andwhite photographs of leaves, fruit, flowers, and bark. Scanned directly from actual specimens, these images accompany species descriptions that include height, growth rate, commercial or wildlife value, family, and vegetation region of the trees, with captivating folklore and interesting cultural and historical annotations.

To aid in identification, the authors have organized the book by leaf shape and have provided a simple but clear, illustrated key to help the reader match the leaf to the pertinent description. For the more knowledgeable reader, scientific and common names appear in the index. Appendixes list trees by family, by scientific and common names, by region, and as introduced species. Just for fun, the authors have added appendixes for wild edible recipes, light and water requirements, and butterfly host trees.

The Trees of Texas is innovatively organized and friendly to the novice, using life-sized illustrations as a visual guide to common native and naturalized trees.

Number Thirty-four: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series CARMINE STAHL is a naturalist and forester, retired as program coordinator at Mercer Arboretum and Botanic Gardens and the Jesse H. Jones Park and Nature Center in Houston, Texas. He resides in Somerset, Ohio. RIA NICHOLAS is a teacher, attorney, writer, and illustrator, whose idea for this book originated with her own desire to learn about trees and her frustration with the organization of available state tree books.

Trees of Texas 978-1-60344-515-3 paper $24.95 81/2x11. 338 pp. 18 color, 270 b&w photos. Map. Bib. Index.

Field Guides. Plants/Botany. Trees.

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Now in its new AgriLife Edition

Doug Welsh’s Texas Garden Almanac Doug Welsh Illustrations by Aletha St. Romain Think of Doug Welsh’s Texas Garden Almanac as a giant monthly calendar for the entire state—a practical, information-packed, month-by-month guide for gardeners and “yardeners.” With nearly 20,000 copies sold and now in its second printing, this book provides everything you need to know about flowers and garden design; trees, shrubs, and vines; lawns; vegetable, herb, and fruit gardening; and also soil, mulch, water, pests, and plant care to create beautiful, productive, healthy gardens—and have fun doing it!

Praise for Doug Welsh’s Texas Garden Almanac: “ . . . a must for all Texas gardeners.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram “ . . . a comprehensive, fun-to-use guide full of colorful and instructive pages. The helpful boxes, plant lists, charts, sidebars, and tips in the book make it one you can pick up here and there or dive into reading all at once.”—Austin American Statesman “Welsh has packed this month-by-month guide with information. . . .”—Houston Chronicle “. . . a must-have book for gardeners and ‘yardeners’ packed with useful information. . . a reference book that will be helpful throughout the year, not just in the prime growing seasons.”—Lubbock Avalanche-Journal “This month-by-month guide provides a wealth of practical advice.”—Publishers Weekly “I find it easy to appreciate Doug Welsh’s Texas Garden Almanac, a new month-to-month illustrated horticultural guide. More than just a how-to-manual, this information-laden compendium earns its title designation as an almanac.”—Texas Gardener’s Seeds

Awards: 2008 Silver Award of Achievement for Best Overall Product and Silver Award of Achievement for Graphic Design-Book Category, sponsored by the Garden Writer’s Association.

2008 Benjamin Franklin Awards, sponsored by PMA, The Independent Book Publishers Association.

2009 Texas Reference Source Award, sponsored by Texas Library Association Reference Round Table.

AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series

“This month-by-month gardening guide uses handy hints and beautiful illustrations to present the ins and outs of planting flowers, trees, vegetables, herbs and more. You’ll also find tips on when to plant, managing pests, beautifying your land and designing that perfect garden.”—Texas Highways RELATED INTEREST

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

The Texas Tomato Lover’s Handbook William D. Adams 978-1-60344-239-8 flexbound $25.00

Texas Peach Handbook Jim Kamas 978-1-60344-266-4 flexbound $24.95

DOUG WELSH, an associate department head in horticulture for the Texas AgriLife Extension Service, served for twenty-one years as the statewide coordinator for the Texas Master Gardener program.

A former gardening columnist for the San Antonio Express-News, he currently hosts a gardening call-in radio show and provides gardening tips on television each week in the Brazos Valley. He is the author of a book on xeriscaping and coeditor of the Texas Master Gardener Handbook.

Doug Welsh’s Texas Garden Almanac 978-1-60344-478-1 flexbound $24.95 7x10. 512 pp. 231 color illus. 66 b&w drawings.

8 color maps. Index.

Gardening. Plants/Botany.

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A comprehensive guide to the grasses of Texas . . .

Field Guide to Texas Grasses Institute of Renewable Natural Resources Compiled by Robert B. Shaw Photographs by Paul Montgomery and Robert B. Shaw In this new, complete Field Guide to Texas Grasses, Robert B. Shaw and the team at the Texas A&M University Institute of Renewable Natural Resources provide an indispensable reference to the world’s most economically important plant family. After discussing the impact of grass on our everyday lives as food, biofuels, land restoration, erosion control, and water become ever more urgent issues worldwide—the book then provides:

a description of the structure of the grass plant; details of the classification and distribution of Texas grasses; brief species accounts; distributional maps; color photographs; plus black-and-white drawings of 670 grass species—native, introduced, and ornamental.

Scientific keys help identify the grasses to group, genera, and species, and an alphabetized checklist includes information on:

origin (native or introduced); longevity (annual or perennial); growth season (cool or warm season); endangered status; and occurrence (by ecological zone).

A glossary, literature citations, and a quick index to genera round out the book.

Field Guide to Texas Grasses is a comprehensive treatment of Texas grasses meant to assist students, botanists, ecologists, agronomists, range scientists, naturalists, researchers, extension agents, and others who work with or are interested in these important plants.

AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series

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Grasses of the Texas Gulf Prairies and Marshes Stephan L. Hatch 978-0-89096-889-5 paper $24.95s

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

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

The INSTITUTE OF RENEWABLE NATURAL RESOURCES (IRNR) was founded in 1978 to promote interdisciplinary research and outreach and to develop, coordinate, and implement land and ecosystem management programs that help meet the natural resource needs of the state. ROBERT B. SHAW (Compiler), professor of ecosystem science and management at Texas A&M University, is a plant specialist and grass expert with many scientific publications to his credit. Shaw coauthored (with Frank W. Gould) the second edition of Grass Systematics (Texas A&M University Press, 1983), and is the author of Grasses of Colorado.

Field Guide to Texas Grasses 978-1-60344-186-5 flexbound $45.00s 7x10. 832 pp. 1,357 color, 34 b&w photos. 947 line drawings. 645 maps. Bib. Index.

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“There is a memory stays upon old ships / A weightless cargo in the musty hold.”—David Morton (1886–1957)

The Ship That Would Not Die

USS Queens, SS Excambion, and USTS Texas Clipper Stephen Curley Afterword by J. Dale Shively Starting its life as an attack transport in World War II—and one of the last five left afloat by war’s end—the USS Queens saw action at Iwo Jima and other hot spots in the Pacific theater. After the war, the ship became the SS Excambion, one of the “Four Aces” of American Export Lines: the only fully air-conditioned ships in the world at the time.

In 1965, the versatile Excambion underwent yet another transformation—into a floating classroom. Recommissioned as the USTS Texas Clipper, the ship began a third life as a merchant marine training vessel with its home port in Galveston. For the next three decades the Texas Clipper would be home to merchant marine cadets, and by the time it was retired in 1996, it was the oldest active ship in the U.S. merchant marine fleet. Finally, the Texas Clipper, after protracted bureaucratic wrangling, was designated to be sunk in the Gulf of Mexico as an artificial reef to provide habitat for marine life. In 2009, the ship was towed to its final resting place, seventeen nautical miles off the coast of South Padre Island. Now, 136 feet below the surface, the venerable Texas Clipper lives on as the home to a wide variety of underwater species.

Filled not only with meticulously researched technical and historical data about the ship’s construction, service record, crew procedures, and voyages, The Ship That Would Not Die also features lively anecdotes from crew members, passengers, and officers. More than 140 color and black-and-white photos illustrate the ship’s construction, its wide variety of shipboard life, the exacting process of making the Texas Clipper ready to become an artificial reef, and its final sinking in the Gulf of Mexico.

Number 117: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University

RELATED INTEREST STEPHEN CURLEY is the author of Aggies by the Sea: Texas A&M University at Galveston (Texas A&M University Press, 2005). He is a Regents Professor of English at Texas A&M University at Galveston.

Aggies by the Sea Texas A&M University at Galveston Stephen Curley 978-1-58544-458-8 cloth $30.00s

Battleship Texas Hugh Power 978-0-89096-519-1 paper $19.95

Carrier Lexington Hugh Power 978-0-89096-681-5 paper $19.95

The Ship That Would Not Die 978-1-60344-427-9 cloth $29.95 9x10. 320 pp. 69 color, 48 b&w photos. Line art. Map. Bib. Index.

Aggie Books. Military History, Texas. Navy.

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The gripping personal memoir of an ordinary young man, sent to Europe in 1943 to accomplish extraordinary things . . .

Glider Infantryman Behind Enemy Lines in World War II

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The Ghosts of Iwo Jima Robert S. Burrell

Donald J. Rich and Kevin Brooks

A member of the famed Screaming Eagles of the 101st Airborne Division, Donald J. Rich went ashore on D-Day at Utah Beach, was wounded in the bloody conflict at Carentan, landed in a flimsy plywood-and-canvas glider on the battlefields of Holland, and survived the grim siege with the “Battling Bastards of Bastogne” during the Battle of the Bulge. Glider Infantryman is his eyewitness account of how he, along with thousands of other young men from farms, small towns, and cities across the United States, came together to answer the call of their nation. It is also a heartfelt tribute to the many thousands who gave their lives in the struggle.

Coauthored by Kevin Brooks, the son of Rich’s best friend and World War II comrade, Glider Infantryman covers a span of nearly three years: from February 1943, when Rich left his family in Wayland, Iowa, until his return home, five months after the war’s end, as a toughened bazooka gunner and veteran of five campaigns. Rich’s first-person narrative includes vivid coverage of the action, featuring an especially rare account of arriving on a combat landing zone by glider. Detailed, day-to-day depiction of some of the heaviest fighting in Holland follows, including the action at Opheusden, the center of the infamous “Island.” Later highlights include the Battle of the Bulge, where Rich recounts his experiences in some of the hottest defensive fighting of the European Theater, including the epic tank battles at Marvie, Champs, and Foy. Number 136: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series DONALD J. RICH served in 1943 and 1944 with 1st Squad, 2nd Platoon, G Company, 327th Glider Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. He lives in Wayland, Iowa. KEVIN BROOKS, a former resident of Wayland, is a freelance writer based in Mahomet, Illinois.

In February 1945, 80,000 U.S. Marines attacked the heavily defended fortress that the Japanese had constructed on the tiny Pacific island of Iwo Jima. Leaders of the Army Air Forces said they needed the airfields there to provide fighter escort for their B-29 bombers. At the cost of 28,000 American casualties, the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Marine Divisions dutifully conquered this desolate piece of hell with a determination and sacrifice that have become legendary in the annals of war, immortalized in the photograph of six Marines raising the American flag on Mount Suribachi.

But the Army Air Forces’ fighter operations on Iwo Jima subsequently proved both unproductive and unnecessary. After the fact, a number of other justifications were generated to rationalize this tragically expensive battle. Ultimately, misleading statistics were presented to contend that the number of lives saved by B-29 emergency landings on Iwo Jima outweighed the cost of its capture.

In The Ghosts of Iwo Jima, Captain Robert S. Burrell masterfully reconsiders the costs of taking Iwo Jima and its role in the war effort. His thought-provoking analysis also highlights the greater contribution of Iwo Jima’s valiant dead: They inspired a reverence for the Marine Corps that proved critical to its institutional survival and its embodiment of American national spirit. From the 7th War Loan Campaign of 1945 through the flag-raising at Ground Zero in 2001, the immortal image of Iwo Jima has become a symbol of American patriotism itself.

Number Ten: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series Maj. ROBERT S. BURRELL of Wesley Chapel, Florida is a former instructor of naval history at the U.S. Naval Academy. His work on Iwo Jima has received awards from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, the Society of Military History, and the Naval Historical Center. He is a combat veteran of two tours in Iraq with more than twenty years of service.

Winner, 2007 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award presented by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation

Glider Infantryman 978-1-60344-424-8 cloth $35.00 6x9. 320 pp. 28 b&w photos. 8 cartoons. 17 maps. Bib. Index Military History. World War II. Aviation. Memoir.

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The Ghosts of Iwo Jima 978-1-60344-517-7 paper $23.95 6x9. 280 pp. 25 b&w photos. 4 drawings. 3 maps. 6 tables.

3 diagrams. Bib. Index.

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Harsh Country, Hard Times

Clayton Wheat Williams and the Transformation of the Trans-Pecos Janet Williams Pollard and Louis Gwin

Clayton Wheat Williams—West Texas oilman, rancher, civic leader, veteran of the Great War, and avocational historian—was a risk taker who both reflected and molded the history of his region.

As a youngster accompanying his father on surveying trips through the countryside and subsequently as a cadet at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, Williams developed a toughness that served him well on the battlefields of France and Flanders. After the war, Williams returned home, where he taught himself petroleum geology—so effectively that he picked the site of what would become in 1928 the deepest producing oil well in the world. With his brother, he mapped the structure of what later became the Fort Stockton oil and gas field.

On the civic front, Williams served for fourteen years as a Pecos County commissioner, and he held offices in a number of social and civic organizations.

Williams left behind a treasure trove of letters, personal papers and writings, and interviews with his family, documenting in rich detail the story of an unforgiving landscape and its people during a pivotal period of American history. These materials, lovingly mined by Williams’s daughter, Janet Pollard, in collaboration with scholar and author Louis Gwin, reveal the tale of a life that made a lasting impact on the economy and history of the region and the nation.

Number Thirteen: Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series

Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers Jane Pattie Foreword by Don Worcester

Cowboy spurs are a pure form of American folk art. Like the cowboy himself, the way spurs developed was molded by their use and the environment of the range, along with a generous dose of individualism and pride. Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers tells for the first time the fascinating story of this western art and the artisans whom professional historians reference for identifying spurs used by riders of Texas and the Southwest.

A visit with contemporary spur maker Jerry Lindley, with pictures of him at work, traces the process and mechanics of hand forging spurs and decorating them by the overlay method. Individual chapters are devoted to the most prominent makers of cowboy spurs—manufacturers Buermann and North & Judd, the spur and bit companies of Crockett, Shipley, and Kelly, and hometown blacksmiths such as Bianchi, Causey, and the Boone clan. In lively detail their histories unfold, along with helpful descriptions of their techniques and most representative spurs.

Eighty-five black-and-white photographs and twelve color plates lavishly illustrate the spurs and their makers. An appendix lists many other artisans, past and present, with the locations of their shops and the identifying characteristics of their products. This book will become a standard reference for students, historians, and general readers alike—for everyone who values the important contribution of the cowboy to our cultural heritage and of the blacksmith who shaped the cowboy’s badge of honor, his spurs.

JANET WILLIAMS POLLARD collected and organized her father’s archival materials, visited the sites in France where he was stationed in World War I, traveled throughout Texas and New Mexico to retrace her father’s career, and listened to and recorded stories told by relatives and friends. She now lives in Midland. LOUIS GWIN taught in Virginia Tech’s Department of Communication for fifteen years.

The author of Speak No Evil: The Promotional Heritage of Nuclear Risk Communication (Praeger, 1990), he lives in Henderson, Nevada.

Number Thirty-seven: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University

Harsh Country, Hard Times 978-1-60344-283-1 cloth $35.00 6x9. 320 pp. 37 b&w photos. 2 line art. Map. Bib. Index.

Biography. Texas Ranching. Business History.

September

Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers 978-1-60344-521-4 paper $29.95 81/2x11. 192 pp. 12 color, 84 b&w photos. Line drawing.

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Western History. Texas History. Photography.

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JANE PATTIE is a freelance writer and photographer specializing in Western topics. From her home in Aledo, Texas, she has traveled extensively throughout the United States to interview many of the old-time spur makers (all now deceased) and today’s collectors.

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Pioneer Jewish Texans

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Houston

The Unknown City, 1836–1946 Marguerite Johnston

Natalie Ornish Foreword by Sara Alpern

With more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989.

This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents Ornish’s meticulous research and her fascinating historical vignettes for a new generation of readers and historians. She chronicles Jewish buccaneers with Jean Lafitte at Galveston; she tells of Jewish patriots who fought at the Alamo and at virtually every major engagement in the war for Texan independence; she traces the careers of immigrants with names like Marcus, Sanger, and Gordon, who arrived on the Texas frontier with little more than the packs on their backs and went on to build great mercantile empires. Cattle barons, wildcatters, diplomats, physicians, financiers, artists, and humanitarians are among the other notable Jewish pioneers and pathfinders described in this carefully researched and exhaustively documented book.

Filling a substantial void in Texana and Texas history, the Texas A&M University Press edition of Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans brings back into circulation this treasure trove of information on a rich and often overlooked vein of the multifaceted story of the Lone Star State.

NATALIE ORNISH of Dallas, has had an extensive writing and journalism career that includes reporting for the Associated Press and working in advertising, magazines, and film. She is listed in Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in World Jewry, and Foremost Women in Communications.

Pioneer Jewish Texans 978-1-60344-423-1 cloth $30.00 81/2x11. 352 pp. 415 b&w illus. 6 maps. Bib. Index.

Texas History. Biography.

September

“If a city could write its autobiography, this is the one that Houston would proudly produce.”—Houston Post “ . . . Marguerite Johnston’s rich chronicling of the early days of Houston and the people who imbued it with a unique heritage and flavor. . . .

“—Houston Chronicle “Houston: The Unknown City, though it provides a general history, is as much a history of families who shaped Houston: the Andersons, Bakers, Browns, Claytons, Cullinans, Cullens, Hughes, Hobbys, and Hoggs. . . . [Johnston] did a good job showing how people can affect their chosen city.”—Austin American-Statesman “ . . . a popular history of the city up through the end of World War II. . . . The visual impact of the volume augments her approach, for the book contains seventy-one short, journalistic chapters, printed in double columns and amply documented with numerous photographs. The freshness of light reporting makes the book easy reading.”—Southern Historian “ . . . Johnston’s book is a rich and colorful mosaic of mini-biographies of those who gave to the city, whose names are identified with many of its greatest institutions. . . . But there are other reasons for relishing Johnston’s book: not only the personal details on these folks, but also the wealth of detail on popular culture, trivia in the happiest sense of the word.”—Texas Books in Review Number Fourteen: Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities MARGUERITE JOHNSTON, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, and graduate of Birmingham-Southern College, was Washington bureau chief for the Birmingham News and London Daily Mirror in 1945–46.

In 1948 she covered the U.N. Conference on Freedom of Information and the Press in Geneva for Editor and Publisher and the Houston Post, for which she wrote a daily column from 1947 to 1968.

Houston 978-1-60344-523-8 paper $29.95 7x10. 464 pp. 74 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

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Commander and Builder of Western Forts The Life and Times of Major General Henry C. Merriam, 1862–1901

Turmoil on the Rio Grande

History of the Mesilla Valley, 1846–1865 William S. Kiser

Jack Stokes Ballard

During his thirty-eight-year career as a military officer, Henry Clay Merriam received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Civil War, rose to prominence in the Western army, and exerted significant influence on the American West by establishing military posts, protecting rail lines, and maintaining an uneasy peace between settlers and Indians.

The mid-nineteenth century was a tumultuous yet formative time for the Mesilla Valley, home to present-day Las Cruces, New Mexico. With the coming of the U.S. Army to Mexican territory in 1846, the region became the site of a continent-shaping power struggle between two rival nations.

Historian Jack Stokes Ballard’s new study of Merriam’s life and career sheds light on the experience of the western fort builders, whose impact on the US westward expansion, though less dramatic, was just as lasting as that of Indian fighters such as Custer and Sheridan. Further, Merriam’s lengthy period in command of black troops offers a study in leadership and important understandings about the conditions under which African Americans served on the Western frontier.

When Mexican governor Manuel Armijo unexpectedly fled Santa Fe, he left the New Mexico territory undefended, and it fell to forces under Brigadier General Stephen Watts Kearny in a bloodless occupation. In the ensuing two decades, the southern portion of New Mexico’s Rio Grande Valley played a prominent role in the conflict that overtook the infant American territory.

During the course of his service, Merriam crisscrossed the country, from Brownsville, Texas, to the Pacific Northwest and Vancouver Barracks, serving in eastern Washington, California, and Denver.

Drawing extensively on the many letters and records associated with Merriam’s long army career, Ballard presents his service in a wide range of settings, many of which have become the stuff of Western history: from conflict with Mexican revolutionaries on the Rio Grande to the miners’ riots in Coeur d’Alene.

Ballard’s careful research provides a vivid picture of the military’s role in the westward expansion.

In Turmoil on the Rio Grande, William S. Kiser has mined primary archives and secondary materials alike to tell the story of those rough-andtumble years and to highlight the effect the region had in the developing US empire of the West. Kiser carefully limns in the culture into which the US soldiers inserted themselves before going on to describe the armed forces that arrived and the actions in which they were involved.

From the thirty-minute Battle of Brazito—in which the greenhorn recruits of the 1st Regiment of Missouri Volunteers, led by Col. Alexander Doniphan, vanquished Mexican troops through superior technology—to the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the international boundary disputes, and the Confederate victory at Fort Fillmore, Kiser deftly describes the actions that made the Mesilla Valley important in American history.

JACK STOKES BALLARD, of Centennial, Colorado, is a career Air Force officer and a former history instructor at the United States Air Force Academy. He has written several aviation histories, including War Bird Ace: The Great War Exploits of Capt. Field E. Kindley (Texas A&M University Press, 2007).

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

Commander and Builder of Western Forts 978-1-60344-260-2 cloth $35.00 6x9. 288 pp. 16 photos.12 maps. App. Bib. Index.

Western History. Military History. Civil War. Biography.

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Turmoil on the Rio Grande 978-1-60344-296-1 cloth $35.00s 6x9. 320 pp. 16 photos. 10 maps. Bib. Index.

Western History. Civil War. October

WILLIAM S. KISER, a student in the graduate program at Arizona State University, is a young historian with a keen interest in the nineteenth century of the American West. This is his first book.

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War along the Border

The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities Edited by Arnoldo De León In 1910 Francisco Madero, in exile in San Antonio, Texas, launched a revolution that changed the face of Mexico. The conflict also unleashed violence and instigated political actions that kept that nation unsettled for more than a decade. As in other major uprisings around the world, the revolution’s effects were not contained within the borders of the embattled country. Indeed, the Mexican Revolution touched communities on the Texas side of the Rio Grande from Brownsville to El Paso. Fleeing refugees swelled the populations of South Texas towns and villages and introduced nationalist activity as exiles and refugees sought to extend moral, financial, and even military aid to those they supported in Mexico. Raiders from Mexico clashed with Texas ranchers over livestock and property, and bystanders as well as partisans died in the conflict.

One hundred years later, Mexico celebrated the memory of the revolution, and scholars in Mexico and the United States sought to understand the effects of the violence on their own communities. War along the Border, edited by noted Tejano scholar Arnoldo De León, is the result of an important conference hosted by the University of Houston’s Center for Mexican American Studies.

Scholars contributing to this volume consider topics ranging from the effects of the Mexican Revolution on Tejano and African American communities to its impact on Texas’ economy and agriculture. Other essays consider the ways that Mexican Americans north of the border affected the course of the revolution itself. The work collected in this important book not only recaps the scholarship done to date but also suggests fruitful lines for future inquiry. War along the Border suggests new ways of looking at a watershed moment in Mexican American history and reaffirms the trans-national scope of Texas history.

Number Six: University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies, Sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies

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ARNOLDO DE LEÓN, C. J. “Red” Davidson Professor of History at Angelo State University, is the author of a number of important books on Mexican American history. He is also coeditor (with Walter Buenger) of Beyond Texas Through Time (Texas A&M University Press, 2011).

Cortina Defending the Mexican Name in Texas Jerry Thompson 978-1-58544-592-9 cloth $32.50

Salt Warriors Insurgency on the Rio Grande Paul Cool 978-1-60344-016-5 cloth $24.95

Racial Borders Black Soldiers along the Rio Grande James N. Leiker 978-1-60344-159-9 paper $19.95s

War along the Border 978-1-60344-524-5 cloth $50.00x 978-1-60344-525-2 paper $24.95s 6x9. 360 pp. 8 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

Borderlands Studies. Mexican American Studies, Texas.

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Reagan on War

A Reappraisal of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980–1984 Gail E. S. Yoshitani At the time of its announcement in 1984, the Weinberger Doctrine, put forth as a list of points governing the commitment of troops by the United States, was labeled a conservative retreat from the use of force in US international relations. Indeed, the conventional wisdom since that time has largely held that the six points spelled out by Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger represented a reaction to the Vietnam War and were intended to limit US military action to wars either easily won or imperative for national security.

Now, however, historian Gail E. S. Yoshitani argues persuasively that the Reagan administration did not intend the Weinberger Doctrine to limit America’s efforts to defend and foster freedom abroad. Instead, the doctrine codified principles Ronald Reagan followed throughout his first term to ensure that, when military force was necessary, it was applied in a legitimate and decisive way. The Weinberger Doctrine attempted to navigate between the historic extremes of isolationism and overzealous intervention.

Making use of unprecedented access to resources including the Weinberger papers, Yoshitani constructs three case studies from the Reagan administration’s first term in office—one in Central America and two deployments in Lebanon—to analyze how Reagan and key leaders in his administration sought to build a bridge between their desire to reshape the world and the domestic political realities that demanded the avoidance of another Vietnam-type experience.

Yoshitani’s careful analysis facilitates a better understanding of the doctrine and how it might be applied by current national security decision-makers.

Number Ten: Foreign Relations and the Presidency

“. . . brings to the fore the underlying theories, ideas, and experience of President Reagan and Caspar Weinberger who combined to create a framework of strategy and policy for an enduring American role in the world.”

—Gian Gentile, history professor, United States Military Academy

RELATED INTEREST GAIL E. S. YOSHITANI, a lieutenant colonel in the US Army, is an Academy Professor of History at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.

Waltzing into the Cold War The Struggle for Occupied Austria James Jay Carafano 978-1-58544-213-3 cloth $44.95s

Victory on the Potomac The Goldwater-Nichols Act Unifies the Pentagon James R. Locher 978-1-58544-398-7 paper $36.00s

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

Reagan on War 978-1-60344-259-6 cloth $35.00 6x9. 224 pp. 11 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

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The first systematic study of the roles, structure, and performance of the office run by the president’s wife . . .

The Politics of the President’s Wife MaryAnne Borrelli

As the West Wing has grown in power and organizational complexity during the modern presidency, so has the East Wing, office home to the First Lady of the United States. This groundbreaking work by MaryAnne Borrelli offers both theoretical and substantive insight into behindthe-scenes developments from the time of Lou Henry Hoover to the unfolding tenure of Michelle Robinson Obama.

Political scientists and historians have recognized the personal influence the First Lady can exercise with her husband, and they have noted the moral, ethical, and sometimes policy leadership certain presidents’ wives have offered. Nonetheless, scholars and commentators alike have treated the personal relationship and the professional relationship as overlapping.

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Militant Citizenship Rhetorical Strategies of the National Woman’s Party, 1913–1920

Belinda A. Stillion Southard

Between 1913 and 1920, the National Woman’s Party (NWP) waged a campaign to write women’s voting rights into the U.S. Constitution. Unlike other woman suffrage advocacy organizations of the Progressive Era, however, the NWP was committed to militant agitation: publicly burning the printed speeches of the US president, heckling public officials, staging silent protests outside the White House gates, waging hunger strikes, and adopting other strategies. Predictably, such actions by the NWP were met with institutional measures of social control, including censorship, arrests, beatings, and force-feedings. And yet, by the end of the woman suffrage movement, the NWP had earned the endorsements of every major political party, as well as of prominent politicians—including some of those they heckled.

Borrelli offers a compelling counter-perspective: that the president’s wife exercises power intrinsic to her role within the administration. Like others within the presidency, she has sometimes presented the president’s views to constituents and sometimes presented constituents’ views to the president, thus taking on a representative function within the system. In mediating president-constituent relationships, she has given a historical and social frame to the presidency that has enhanced its symbolic representation; she has served as a gender role model, enriching descriptive representation in the executive branch; and she has participated in policy initiatives to strengthen an administration’s substantive representation.

These contributions have been controversial, as might be predicted for a gender outsider, but they have unquestionably made the First Lady a representative of and to the president and, by extension, the president’s administration.

In Militant Citizenship: Rhetorical Strategies of the National Woman’s Party, 1913–1920, Belinda A. Stillion Southard explores the ways in which the militant NWP negotiated institutional opposition and secured such a prominent position in national politics. In addition to her historical focus, Stillion Southard advances the critical concept of “political mimesis” to help explain the ways in which the NWP mimicked political rhetorics and rituals to simultaneously agitate and accommodate members of the political elite. Incorporating volumes of NWP discourse, including correspondence, photographs, protests, and publications, she situates the NWP in the historical and ideological forces of the period and examines how a relatively powerless group of women used rhetoric in order to constitute themselves as “national citizens.”

Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership

BELINDA A. STILLION SOUTHARD is assistant professor in the Department of Speech Communication at the University of Georgia in Athens.

Number Twenty-one: Presidential Rhetoric Series

MARYANNE BORRELLI, an associate professor of government at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut, specializes in the fields of presidential studies and women and politics.

The Politics of the President’s Wife 978-1-60344-284-8 cloth $50.00x 978-1-60344-285-5 paper $24.95 6x9. 282 pp. 14 b&w photos. 11 tables. Bib. Index.

Political Science. Women’s Studies.

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Militant Citizenship 978-1-60344-281-7 cloth $45.00x 6x9. 320 pp. 10 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

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Interpreting vital clues about the Clovis culture from a 13,000-year-old site in Central Texas . . .

Clovis Lithic Technology

New in paperback

The Prehistory of Texas Timothy K. Perttula

Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas Michael R. Waters, Charlotte D. Pevny, and David L. Carlson Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped, collected stone, and shaped it into a variety of tools they needed to hunt game, process food, and subsist in the Texas wilderness. Their toolkit included bifaces, blades, and deadly spear points. Where they worked, they left thousands of pieces of debris, which have allowed archaeologists to reconstruct their methods of tool production. Along with the faunal material that was also discarded in their prehistoric campsite, these stone, or lithic, artifacts afford a glimpse of human life at the end of the last ice age during an era referred to as Clovis.

The area where these people roamed and camped, called the Gault site, is one of the most important Clovis sites in North America. A decade ago a team from Texas A&M University excavated a single area of the site— formally named Excavation Area 8, but informally dubbed the Lindsey Pit—which features the densest concentration of Clovis artifacts and the clearest stratigraphy at the Gault site. Some 67,000 lithic artifacts were recovered during fieldwork, along with 5,700 pieces of faunal material.

In a thorough synthesis of the evidence from this prehistoric “workshop,” Michael R. Waters and his coauthors provide the technical data needed to interpret and compare this site with other sites from the same period, illuminating the story of Clovis people in the Buttermilk Creek Valley.

Paleoindians first arrived in Texas more than 11,000 years ago, although relatively few sites of such early peoples have been discovered. Texas has a substantial post-Paleoindian record, however, and there are more than fifty thousand prehistoric archaeological sites identified across the state.

This comprehensive volume explores in detail the varied experience of native peoples who lived on this land in prehistoric times. Chapters on each of the regions offer cutting-edge research, the culmination of years of work by dozens of the most knowledgeable experts. “. . . an extremely important compilation that provides up-to-date information on Texas archeology as of about A.D. 1998–2000. . . If you truly want to learn about the rich cultural history of Texas during the 12,000 or so years before Europeans arrived in the Americas, you need to read this book.”—Texas Archeological Society “. . . a real and substantive work that will be on the bookshelves of every scholar of Texas history and prehistory for years to come. . . a major resource for archaeologists and other scholars. . . monumental in scope and execution.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly “One of the most impressive state summaries to date, the volume will serve avocational archaeologists, students, and professionals as an introduction to Texas prehistory and will provide an authoritative, readable source for general readers.”—Choice

Peopling of the Americas Publications Number Nine: Texas A&M University Anthropology Series MICHAEL R. WATERS is a professor of anthropology and geography at Texas A&M University and director of A&M’s Center for the Study of the First Americans. CHARLOTTE D. PEVNY received her PhD from Texas A&M University. She recently completed her post-doctorate as a research associate at the Center for the Study of the First Americans and currently works in the field of cultural resources management. DAVID L. CARLSON is an associate professor of anthropology at Texas A&M University and former head of the department.

He received his PhD from Northwestern University.

Clovis Lithic Technology 978-1-60344-278-7 hardcover $45.00s 81/2x11. 224 pp. 43 color photos. 60 color line drawings.

2 color maps. Reference list. Index.

Archaeology. Anthropology.

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TIMOTHY K. PERTTULA, a Fellow of the Texas Archaeological Society, is an archaeologist with Archaeological & Environmental Consultants, LLC, and lives in Austin, Texas.

The Prehistory of Texas 978-1-60344-519-1 paper $60.00s 9x12. 480 pp. 74 b&w images. 237 line drawings.

38 tables. Ref. Anthropology. Archaeology. Native American Studies.

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Human Origins

What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves Rob DeSalle and Ian Tattersall Ever since the recognition of the Neanderthals as an archaic human in the mid-nineteenth century, the fossilized bones of extinct humans have been used by paleoanthropologists to explore human origins. These bones told the story of how the earliest humans—bipedal apes, actually—first emerged in Africa some 6 to 7 million years ago. Starting about 2 million years ago, the bones revealed that, as humans became anatomically and behaviorally more modern, they swept out of Africa in waves into Asia, Europe, and finally the New World.

Even as paleoanthropologists continued to make important discoveries—Mary Leakey’s Nutcracker Man in 1959, Don Johanson’s Lucy in 1974, and most recently Martin Pickford’s Millennium Man, to name just a few—experts in genetics were looking at the human species from a very different angle. In 1953 James Watson and Francis Crick first saw the double helix structure of DNA, the basic building block of all life. In the 1970s it was shown that humans share 98.7% of their genes with the great apes—that in fact genetically we are more closely related to chimpanzees than chimpanzees are to gorillas.

And most recently the entire human genome has been mapped—we now know where each of the genes on the chromosomes that make up DNA is located on the double helix.

In Human Origins: What Bones and Genomes Tell Us about Ourselves, two of the world’s foremost scientists, geneticist Rob DeSalle and paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall, show how research into the human genome confirms what fossil bones have told us about human origins. This unprecedented integration of the fossil and genomic records provides the most complete understanding possible of humanity’s place in nature, its emergence from the rest of the living world, and the evolutionary processes that have molded human populations to be what they are today.

“. . . an accessible and authoritative summary of the major insights of the new synthesis.”

—Natural History

Number Thirteen: Texas A&M University Anthropology Series

ROB DESALLE is a curator at the American Museum of Natural History in the Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics. He curated the American Museum of Natural History’s new Hall of Human Origins (2006) and has written more than 300 peerreviewed scientific publications and several books.

IAN TATTERSALL, curator emeritus in the American Museum of Natural History, is also the author of Paleontology: A Brief History of Life (Templeton Press, 2010), The Fossil Trail: How We Know What We Think We Know about Human Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2009), and The World from Beginnings to 4000 BCE (Oxford University Press, 2008).

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Race?

Debunking a Scientific Myth Ian Tattersall 978-1-60344-425-5 cloth $35.00

The Early Modern Human from Tianyuan Cave, China Hong Shang 978-1-60344-177-3 cloth $45.00s

Assumed Identities The Meanings of Race in the Atlantic World John D. Garrigus 978-1-60344-192-6 cloth $29.95s

Human Origins 978-1-60344-518-4 paper $29.95 7x10. 216 pp. 113 color illus. Bib. Index.

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Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age A. J. Hoving Translated by Alan Lemmers Foreword by André Wegener Sleeswyk In 1671, Dutch diplomat and scientist Nicolaes Witsen published a book that served, among other things, as an encyclopedia for the “shell-first” method of ship construction.

In the centuries since, Witsen’s rather convoluted text has also become a valuable source for insights into historical shipbuilding methods and philosophies during the “Golden Age” of Dutch maritime trade. However, as André Wegener Sleeswyk’s foreword notes, Witsen’s work is difficult to access not only for its seventeenth-century Dutch language but also for the vagaries of its author’s presentation.

Fortunately for scholars and students of nautical archaeology and shipbuilding, this important but chaotic work has now been reorganized and elucidated by A. J. Hoving and translated into English by Alan Lemmers. In Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age, Hoving, master model builder for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, sorts out the steps in Witsen’s method for building a seventeenth-century pinas by following them and building a model of the vessel. Experimenting with techniques and materials, conducting research in other publications of the time, and rewriting as needed to clarify and correct some vital omissions in the sequence, Hoving makes Witsen’s work easier to use and understand.

Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age is an indispensable guide to Witsen’s work and the world of his topic: the almost forgotten basics of a craftsmanship that has been credited with the flourishing of the Dutch Republic in the seventeenth century.

Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series

RELATED INTEREST A. J. (AB) HOVING is the senior restorer of the Navy Collection in the department of Restoration and Conservation at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam and a recognized expert on historic Dutch shipbuilding methods.

The Porticello Shipwreck A Mediterranean Merchant Vessel of 415–385 B.C. Cynthia Jones Eiseman 978-0-89096-244-2 cloth $75.00s

The Athlit Ram Lionel Casson 978-0-89096-451-4 cloth $75.00s

Serçe Limani An Eleventh-Century Shipwreck Vol. 1, The Ship and Its Anchorage, Crew, and Passengers George F. Bass 978-0-89096-947-2 hardcover $125.00x

Nicolaes Witsen and Shipbuilding in the Dutch Golden Age 978-1-60344-286-2 hardcover $120.00x 81/2x11. 310 pp. 313 b&w images. 9 tables. App. Bib. Index.

Nautical Archaeology. World History. History of Technology.

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Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks J. Richard Steffy “ . . . a work that is both erudite and lively. Teeming with photographs and diagrams, Steffy’s book details exactly how ancient vessels were built (with much more skill and sophistication than was previously thought) and how archaeologists and ship enthusiasts have deduced their information. Steffy’s enthusiasm is infectious, as is his admiration for the shipbuilders of the past and the researchers of today.”—Islands “. . . should be on the bookshelf of any archaeologist who works on the maritime side of his discipline or who teaches courses in the practical aspects of archaeological work. . . . In all, this is a thorough textbook, and good reading.”—WoodenBoat “ . . . the format and clear style should appeal to anyone with an interest in wooden ships.”—Sea History “Steffy’s work on analysis of construction and techniques for documentation, from gridding a located wreck to working on a reconstruction, is first class. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice “. . . a quite remarkable and readable book on the subject of gleaning the maximum information from ancient wrecks. . . . Dick Steffy has created a book quite unlike any available.

It is accessible to readers from every level of attainment without ever being simplistic. The book combines clarity, warmth of style and authoritative writing to such a degree that it must become a major work of reference.” —International Journal of Nautical Archaeology “After decades of careful, diligent, single-minded devotion, during which he practically invented the field of scientific shipwreck reconstruction, Steffy has done what every academic pioneer should do (but most do not): he has set it all down in a book. . . . this book occupies a unique niche in the literature on wooden shipbuilding and ship archaeology.”—The American Neptune Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series

J. RICHARD STEFFY’s lifelong interest in ships and seafaring was directed toward nautical archaeology in the mid-1960s. Since then, he was involved in numerous shipwreck excavation projects in Europe, Asia, and North America. He was awarded a MacArthur Foundation fellowship in 1985 in recognition of his contributions to the field. He was the Sara W. and George O. Yamini Professor of Nautical Archaeology, Emeritus, at Texas A&M University and the Institute of Nautical Archaeology.

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The Development of the Rudder A Technological Tale Lawrence V. Mott 978-0-89096-723-2 paper $19.95

Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant Shelley Wachsmann 978-1-60344-080-6 paper $40.00s

The Art and Archaeology of Venetian Ships and Boats Lillian Ray Martin 978-1-58544-098-6 cloth $77.50s

Wooden Ship Building and the Interpretation of Shipwrecks 978-1-60344-520-7 paper $60.00s 81/2x11. 328 pp. 63 b&w photos. 219 line drawings.

6 tables. Gloss. 3 apps. Bib. Index.

Nautical Archaeology.

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Spanish Water, Anglo Water

Early Development in San Antonio Charles R. Porter Jr.

In 1718, the Spanish settled San Antonio, partly because of its prolific and breathtaking springs—at that time, one of the largest natural spring systems in the known world. The abundance of fresh water, coupled with the Spanish colonial legal concept that water was to be equitably shared by all settlers, led to the building of the system of acequias (canals or ditches) within the settlement. The system is one of the earliest and perhaps most extensive municipal water systems in North America.

This book offers a meticulous chronicling of the origins and oftencontentious development of water rights in San Antonio from its Spanish settlement through the beginning of the twentieth century.

Number 113: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University CHARLES R. PORTER JR. is a real estate and construction expert, Texas Real Estate Commission instructor, and adjunct professor of history at St. Edward’s University in Austin.

Together We Can

Pathways to Collective Leadership in Agriculture at Texas A&M Edward A. Hiler and Steven L. Bosserman

Together We Can recounts effective strategies for institutional change and focuses on collective leadership within the land-grant university system, with reflections on Hiler’s long and successful career in academic leadership, both at Texas A&M University and within the larger Texas A&M System.

Hiler draws on more than four decades of academic leadership experiences and personal anecdotes to recount the history of the land-grant system and Texas’ place in it. He also distills collective leadership “principlesin-action” that he believes should sustain such institutions, including Texas A&M, in the future, articulating an unwavering argument that the land-grant mission, through teaching, research, and outreach through extension, remains the single most powerful educational force within our society to equip citizens with the means to adapt to create meaningful opportunities, improve quality of life, and keep the world on a sustainable course amid uncertain times.

Bosserman then places Hiler’s reflections in the context of institutional change strategies and situational leadership styles to establish a “do-ityourself tool kit” that includes effective leadership, collaboration, and mentorship approaches and techniques for those who strive to make a positive impact in their organizations, regardless of their starting point.

AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series EDWARD A. HILER is the former dean and vice chancellor for Agriculture and Life Sciences at Texas A&M University and the Texas A&M System, as well as director of the agencies now known as Texas AgriLife Research and the Texas AgriLife Extension Service.

STEVEN L. BOSSERMAN is founder and president of Bosserman & Associates, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in strategic framing and organization design.

Spanish Water, Anglo Water 978-1-60344-468-2 paper $19.95 6x9. 196 pp. 14 b&w photos. 6 maps. 3 fig. Bib. Index.

Environmental History. Texas History. Water.

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Together We Can 978-1-60344-428-6 cloth $25.00s 6x9. 128 pp. Chart. Index Strategic Planning. Collective Leadership.

Education History. Agricultural History. Memoir.

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“Reconnecting with soul, bridge building, and realizing that we are all interconnected in a global village. . .”—from the Foreword

Connecting with South Africa

Cultural Communication and Understanding Astrid Berg Foreword by David H. Rosen Child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Astrid Berg states in her introduction that “South Africa is a microcosm.” It is a modern nation, yet many of its inhabitants follow ancient traditions. It is a nation with a colonial past marked by periods of violence, yet it has managed to make a largely peaceful transition to majority rule. It is a nation with eleven official languages embracing a great diversity of cultures and customs, and yet it is also a land where public debate is vigorous, free, and ongoing. In short, South Africa is a place where connections are being built and maintained—both those among people with long kinship and common culture, and those that reach across historical, racial, and class divides. “The western world is undeniably more advanced in certain areas of science and economic development,” Berg states, “but in other areas it seems to lag behind and could learn from” places like South Africa.

In her work with children and infants, Berg has become instrumental in building connections with and among her fellow South Africans of all ethnicities. Based upon Berg’s 2010 Fay Lectures in Analytical Psychology at Texas A&M University, Connecting with South Africa: Cultural Communication and Understanding is both a self-reflective, subjective account and a scientific discourse on human development and intercultural communication. This volume will be warmly welcomed not only by psychoanalysts and those interested in Jungian thought and practice but also by anyone seeking more effective ways to learn from other cultures. Connecting with South Africa provides sensitive direction for those wishing to find healing and connection in a fractured society.

Number Sixteen: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology

RELATED INTEREST ASTRID BERG, a Jungian analyst as well as a specialist in child and infant psychiatry, hosted the first conference on infant mental health in South Africa in 1995.

Instrumental in founding the C. G. Jung Centre of Cape Town, she has also served as president of the Southern African Association of Jungian Analysts.

Synchronicity Nature and Psyche in an Interconnected Universe Joseph Cambray 978-1-60344-143-8 cloth $23.95

Transformation Emergence of the Self Murray Stein 978-1-58544-449-6 paper $19.95

The Therapeutic Relationship Transference, Countertransference, and the Making of Meaning Jan Wiener 978-1-60344-147-6 cloth $23.95

Connecting with South Africa 978-1-60344-430-9 cloth $27.95 51/2x81/2. 136 pp. 4 photos. 1 line art. 12 charts.

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Analytical Psychology.

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Arsenal of Defense Fort Worth’s Miltary Legacy

J’Nell L. Pate Foreword by Kay Granger Named after a Mexican War general, William Jenkins Worth, Fort Worth began as a military post in 1849. More than a century and a half later, the defense industry remains Fort Worth’s major strength with Lockheed Martin’s F-35s and Bell Helicopter’s Ospreys flying the skies over the city. Arsenal of Defense: Fort Worth’s Military Legacy covers the entire military history of Fort Worth from the 1840s with tiny Bird’s Fort to the massive defense plants of the first decade of the twenty-first century.

Although the city is popularly known as “Cowtown” for its iconic cattle drives and stockyards, soldiers, pilots, and military installations have been just as important—and more enduring—in Fort Worth’s legacy. Although Bird’s Fort provided defense for early North Texas settlers in the mid nineteenth century, it was the major world conflicts of the twentieth century that developed Fort Worth’s military presence into what it is today.

America’s buildup for World War I brought three pilot training fields and the army post camp. During World War II, headquarters for the entire nation’s Army Air Forces Flying Training Command came to Fort Worth. The military history of Fort Worth has been largely an aviation story—one that went beyond pilot training to the construction of military aircraft. Beginning with Globe Aircraft in 1940, Consolidated in 1942, and Bell Helicopter in 1950, the city has produced many thousands of military aircraft for the defense of the nation. Lockheed Martin, the descendant of Consolidated, represents an assembly plant that has been in continuous existence for over seven decades. With Lockheed Martin the nation’s largest defense contractor, Bell the largest helicopter producer, and the Fort Worth Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Federal Medical Center Carswell the reservist’s training pattern for the nation, Fort Worth’s military defense legacy remains strong.

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

Fort Worth A Texas Original!

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

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

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

Arsenal of Defense 978-0-87611-249-6 cloth $39.95

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

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Texas Almanac 2012–2013 66th edition

Edited by Elizabeth Cruce Alvarez and Robert Plocheck First published in 1857, the Texas Almanac has a long history of chronicling the Lone Star State and its residents. The Almanac’s 66th edition is printed in full color and includes hundreds of photographs from every region of the state. Color maps of the state and each of its 254 counties show relief, major and minor roads, waterways, parks, and other attractions. Each county map is accompanied by a profile outlining that county’s history, physical features, recreation, population, and economy.

Special features in the 66th edition include: • An article on the birth of the Austin music scene and the influence on it by legendary musician Willie Nelson, written by Nelson biographer Joe Nick Patoski. The Austin music scene is recognized worldwide through Austin City Limits, the longest running music program on American television.

• A history of the Civil War in Texas to mark the 150th year since the beginning of that conflict. Composed by Texana writer Mike Cox, the article highlights the unique aspects of the war in Texas, such as the Great Hanging at Gainesville, the fight over Galveston, and the Battle of Palmito Ranch.

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• agriculture 8 MILES

ELIZABETH CRUCE ALVAREZ is a journalist and editor who has worked in both newspaper and textbook publishing. She lives in Southlake, Texas. She has served as Texas Almanac editor since 2002.

Journalist and editor ROBERT PLOCHECK is a native of Houston who was raised in Damon and now lives in Denton. He has worked as the Almanac’s associate editor since 1994.

Texas Almanac 2012–2013

978-0-87611-247-2 cloth $39.95 978-0-87611-248-9 flexbound $24.95 This photo of Union prisoners at Camp Ford near Tyler was taken sometime between 1863 and 1865. For the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, Texana writer Mike Cox tells about the conflict in Texas, including the Great Hanging at Gainesville, the occupation of Galveston, and the shelling of Corpus Christi. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress.

6x9. 736 pp. 340 color photos. 290 color maps.

1 foldout map and mileage chart. endpaper maps.

Texana. Geography. Popular Culture.

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Finish Forty and Home

The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific Phil Scearce Foreword by Col. Jesse E. Stay During the early years of World War II in the Pacific theatre, against overwhelming odds, young American airmen flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of the war.

They faced determined Japanese fighters without fighter escort, relentless anti-aircraft fire with no deviations from target, and thousands of miles of over-water flying with no alternative landing sites.

Finish Forty and Home, by Phil Scearce, is the true story of the men and missions of the 11th Bombardment Group as it fought alone and unheralded in the South Central Pacific, while America had its eyes on the war in Europe. The book opens with Sgt. Herman Scearce, the author’s father, lying about his age to join the Army Air Corps at 16.

The narrative follows Scearce through training and into combat with his new crewmates, including pilot Lt. Joe Deasy, whose last-minute transfer from training duty thrusts the new crew into the squadron commander’s role.

After bombing Nauru, the squadron moves on to bomb Wake Island, Tarawa, and finally Iwo Jima. These missions bring American forces closer and closer to the Japanese home islands and precede the critical American invasions of Tarawa and Iwo Jima. The 42nd Squadron’s losses through 1943 were staggering: 50 out of 110 airmen killed.

Phil Scearce explores the context of the war and sets the stage for these daring missions, revealing the motivations of the men who flew them: to finish forty combat missions and make it home again. He based his story upon substantial research at the Air Force Historical Research Agency and the National Archives, interviews with surviving airmen, and interviews and correspondence with the survivors of men who were lost. His is the first book to document America’s bomber offensive in the early days of the Pacific War. Number Five: Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series

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“Finish Forty and Home is a triumph of intimate history, following the author’s seventeen-yearold airman father as he goes to war in a forgotten but fiercely contested corner of World War II. Through meticulous research and lyrical prose, Scearce captures the grim grind of the Pacific war, life and death in a battered bomb squadron, and the tumultuous experiences of a B-24 radioman and his crew. Finish Forty and Home is a treasure: poignant, thrilling, and illuminating.”—Laura Hillenbrand, best-selling author of Unbroken and Seabiscuit

PHIL SCEARCE is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a 2009 graduate of the Middle Tennessee State University Writer’s Loft Program. He is a member of the Tennessee Writer’s Alliance. Phil resides in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

COLONEL JESSE E. STAY commanded the 42nd Squadron in the Pacific.

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

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

Cataclysm General Hap Arnold and the Defeat of Japan Herman S. Wolk 978-1-57441-281-9 cloth $24.95

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Donut Dolly

An American Red Cross Girl’s War in Vietnam Joann Puffer Kotcher Donut Dolly puts you in the Vietnam War face down in the dirt under a sniper attack, inside a helicopter being struck by lightning, at dinner next to a commanding general, and slogging through the mud along a line of foxholes. You see the war through the eyes of one of the first women officially allowed in the combat zone.

When Joann Puffer Kotcher left for Vietnam in 1966, she was fresh out of the University of Michigan with a year of teaching, and a year as an American Red Cross Donut Dolly in Korea. All she wanted was to go someplace exciting. In Vietnam, she visited troops from the Central Highlands to the Mekong Delta, from the South China Sea to the Cambodian border. At four duty stations, she set up recreation centers and made mobile visits wherever commanders requested. That included Special Forces Teams in remote combat zone jungles. She brought reminders of home, thoughts of a sister or the girl next door. Officers asked her to take risks because they believed her visits to the front lines were important to the men. Every Vietnam veteran who meets her thinks of her as a brother-at-arms.

Donut Dolly is Kotcher’s personal view of the war, recorded in a journal kept during her tour, day by day as she experienced it. It is a faithful representation of the twists and turns of the turbulent, controversial time. While in Vietnam, Kotcher was once abducted; dodged an ambush in the Delta; talked with a true war hero in a hospital who had charged a machine gun; and had a conversation with a prostitute. A rare account of an American Red Cross volunteer in Vietnam, Donut Dolly will appeal to those interested in the Vietnam War, to those who have interest in the military, and to women aspiring to go beyond the ordinary.

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“Donut Dolly is an engaging and useful account of an almost totally ignored facet of the Vietnam War.”—G. L. Seligmann, co-editor of The Sweep of American History “Memoirs about women’s experiences in the Vietnam War are hard to come by. The day to day interactions that Kotcher had with servicemen certainly succeeded in warming their hearts and reminding them what they were fighting for.”—Meghan K. Winchell, author of Good Girls, Good Food, Good Fun

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After graduating from the University of Michigan, JOANN PUFFER KOTCHER was assigned to Korea and Vietnam as an American Red Cross volunteer from 1965 to 1967. She is featured in the film documentary Our Vietnam Generation (2011). Kotcher lives with her husband in Rochester Hills, Michigan.

Life and Death in the Central Highlands An American Sergeant in the Vietnam War, 1968–1970 James T. Gillam 978-1-57441-292-5 cloth $27.95

Rattler One-Seven A Vietnam Helicopter Pilot’s War Story Chuck Gross 978-1-57441-221-5 paper $14.95

More Than a Uniform A Navy Woman in a Navy Man’s World Winifred Quick Collins 978-1-57441-022-8 paper $16.95

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Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten Enforcing Law on the Texas Frontier Bob Alexander Ira Aten was the epitome of a frontier lawman. At age twenty he enrolled in Company D during the transition of the Rangers from Indian fighters to topnotch peace officers.

This unit—and Aten—would have a lively time making their mark in nineteenth-century Texas.

The preponderance of Texas Ranger treatments center on the outfit as an institution or spotlight the narratives of specific captains. Bob Alexander aptly demonstrated in Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874–1901 that there is merit in probing the lives of everyday working Rangers. Aten is an ideal example. The years Ira spent as a Ranger are jam-packed with adventure, border troubles, shoot-outs, solving major crimes—a quadruple homicide—and manhunts. Aten’s role in these and epochal Texas events such as the racially insensitive Jaybird/Woodpecker Feud and the bloody Fence Cutting Wars earned Ira’s spot in the Ranger Hall of Fame.

His law enforcing deeds transcend days with the Rangers. Ira served two counties as sheriff, terms spiked with excitement. Afterward, for ten years on the XIT, he was tasked with clearing the ranch’s Escarbada Division of cattle thieves. Aten’s story spins on an axis of spine-tingling Texas history. Moving to California, Ira was active in transforming the Imperial Valley from raw desert into an agricultural oasis. Unmistakably he was public spirited and committed to community betterment.

Relying on primary source documents to build a platform for this meticulously researched and comprehensive biography with 1,000 endnotes and 100 remarkable old-time photographs, Alexander gives us Ira Aten in the round—evenhandedly—the true story of a Ranger tough as rawhide.

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“Rawhide Ranger is an exceptional book by an exceptional historian and storyteller.”—David Johnson, author of John Ringo and The Mason County “Hoo Doo” War, 1874–1902 “Never shirking from any duty, any showdown, nor the trail of any fugitive, Ira Aten figured into literally dozens of stories—true stories— that shaped and molded the Texas Rangers in the late 1800s.”—Paul Spellman, author of Captain J. A. Brooks, Texas Ranger and Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger

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BOB ALEXANDER began a policing career in 1965 and retired as a special agent with the U.S. Treasury Department. He is the author of Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874–1901; Fearless Dave Allison, Border Lawman; Desert Desperadoes: The Banditti of Southwestern New Mexico; and Lawmen, Outlaws, and SOBs. He lives in Maypearl, Texas.

Winchester Warriors Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874–1901 Bob Alexander 978-1-57441-310-6 paper $19.95

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

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

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Vengeance Is Mine

The Scandalous Love Triangle That Triggered the Boyce-Sneed Feud Bill Neal The 1912 Boyce-Sneed feud in West Texas began with a torrid sex scandal at the core of a love triangle, featuring Lena Snyder Sneed, the high-spirited, headstrong wife; Al Boyce, Jr., Lena’s reckless, romantic lover; and John Beal Sneed, Lena’s arrogant, grim, and vindictive husband, who responded to Lena’s plea for a divorce by having her locked up in an insane asylum on grounds of “moral insanity.” The chase was on after Al rescued Lena from the asylum and the lovers fled to Canada. That’s when the killings began.

No one who knew the vengeful John Beal Sneed doubted for a moment that he would go after his wife’s lover with lethal intent. Frustrated by Al’s escape to Canada, Sneed assassinated Al’s aged and unarmed father, Colonel Albert Boyce, a wealthy Amarillo banker and former manager of the huge XIT Ranch in the Panhandle during the late nineteenth century, who had been defending his son against Sneed’s legal machinations.

Newspaper headlines predicted the upcoming murder trial would be the “greatest legal battle ever fought in Texas Courts.” Sneed’s well-paid legal team first earned him a mistrial. While awaiting his second trial, Sneed ambushed and killed Al Boyce, Jr., who had foolishly returned to Amarillo and was shot in the back, with witnesses present, while walking the main street. Sneed was acquitted in his second trial for killing the father, and later acquitted for the killing of son Al Boyce, Jr., as well—his legal team skillfully invoking the self-help justice of the unwritten law defending one’s marital home.

Bill Neal, attorney and writer, tells the full story of this sordid affair with special analysis of the trial tactics that were so carefully crafted to resonate with the jurors of this era and ensure Sneed’s acquittal.

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“Bill’s vast experience as an attorney brings this story of love and revenge and murder trials to a new level. Bill is a gifted storyteller, as he has proven in his three previous books, and he is at his best in Vengeance Is Mine.”—Bill O’Neal, author of The Johnson-Sims Feud “Vengeance Is Mine will attract a ‘true crime’ readership as well as an academic audience.

This has movie potential.”—Gordon Bakken, professor of history, California State University at Fullerton

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BILL NEAL practiced criminal law in West Texas for twenty years as a prosecutor and twenty as a defense attorney. He is the author of Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials, From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West, and Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style.

The Johnson-Sims Feud Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style Bill O’Neal 978-1-57441-290-1 cloth $24.95

The Sutton-Taylor Feud The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas Chuck Parsons 978-1-57441-257-4 cloth $24.95

The Mason County “Hoo Doo” War, 1874–1902 David Johnson 978-1-57441-262-8 paper $24.95s

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Written in Blood

The Big Thicket Guidebook

The History of Fort Worth’s Fallen Lawmen, Volume 2, 1910–1928

Exploring the Backroads and History of Southeast Texas

Richard F. Selcer and Kevin S. Foster

In 2010 Written in Blood: The History of Fort Worth’s Fallen Lawmen, Volume 1, told the stories of thirteen Fort Worth law officers who died in the line of duty between 1861 and 1909. Now Richard F. Selcer and Kevin S. Foster are back with Volume 2 covering another baker’s dozen line-of-duty deaths that occurred between 1910 and 1928. Not counting the two officers who died of natural causes, these are more tales of murder, mayhem, and dirty work from all branches of local law enforcement: police, sheriff’s deputies, constables, and special officers, just like in Volume 1.

This era was, if anything, bloodier than the preceding era of the first volume. Fort Worth experienced a race riot, two lynchings, and martial law imposed by the U.S. Army while Camp Bowie was operating.

Bushwhacking (such as happened to Peter Howard in 1915) and assassinations (such as happened to Jeff Couch in 1920) replaced blood feuds and old-fashioned shootouts as leading causes of death among lawmen.

Violence was not confined to the streets either; a Police Commissioner was gunned down in his city hall office in 1917. Even the new category of “vehicular homicide” claimed a lawman’s life.

“Written in Blood Volume 2, like its predecessor, will be a significant addition to the literature, both of Fort Worth history and the broader field of law enforcement history.”—Robert K. DeArment, author of Bat Masterson and Alias Frank Canton

Lorraine G. Bonney

Start your engines and follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled

by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates—all as diverse as the Big Thicket itself. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, you will meet some unusual characters who inhabited an exceptional region. The Big Thicket and its National Preserve contain plants and animals from deserts and swamps and ecosystems in between, all together in one amazing Biological Crossroad. The fifteen tours included with maps will take you through them all.

Visitors curious about a legendary area will find this book an essential companion in their cars. Libraries will use the book as a reference to locate information on ghost towns, historic events, and National Preserve features.

“A result of a prodigious amount of local research as well as a great deal of driving and tramping around, this book might end up as a classic.”— Thad Sitton, author of Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley “Lorraine Bonney is a really fine writer—clear, precise, and descriptive.”—F. E. Abernethy, author of Tales from the Big Thicket Number Six: Temple Big Thicket Series

RICHARD F. SELCER is the author of Fort Worth Characters and Hell’s Half-Acre: The Life and Legend of a Red-Light District. He resides in Fort Worth. KEVIN S. FOSTER was a Fort Worth police officer for 29 years and a sergeant for more than 22 years. He lives in Weatherford, Texas. Both authored Written in Blood, Volume 1.

Written in Blood

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6x9. 464 pp. 45 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index.

Western History. Biography.

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Born and educated in Canada, Lorraine G. Bonney married Houston attorney Orrin H. Bonney. Together they co-authored books on the Grand Tetons and Wyoming climbing. Since Orrin’s death, Lorraine has completed The Grand Controversy: History of Climbing in the Tetons to 1934, and Wyoming Mountain Ranges. She divides her time between Kelly, Wyoming, and Conroe, Texas, deep in the Big Thicket.

The Big Thicket Guidebook 978-1-57441-318-2 cloth $29.95

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Texas History. Texas Folklore.

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Winner of the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction

Now distributed by UNT Press

Be a Poet!

Out of Time

Nancy Bogen

Geoff Schmidt

A sweet slipstream stew, a call and response to Hemingway’s In Our Time, Geoff Schmidt’s debut collection Out of Time is a meditation on meaning and mortality, and the ways that story and the imagined life can sustain us. In these stories, vengeful infants destroy and rebuild the world, rivalrous siblings and their mother encounter witches and ghosts and the possessed, Barack Obama and Keith Richards smoke their last cigarettes, men and women with cancer variously don gorilla suits or experience all time simultaneously. Time is running out for all of the people in these stories, yet the power of language, the human ability to tell, to imagine and invent, is a redemptive force.

“The stories in Out of Time chase after the secrets and sorrows of families, revealing the lengths people will go, and the harm they will do, to keep their worlds together. These characters are not crazy, they are in love and afraid. Geoff Schmidt writes a lucid, new mythology in prose that’s limned with fear and awe. To read these stories is to feel the force and urgency of a new and vital literary voice.”—Ben Marcus, author of Age of Wire and String, and judge Number Ten: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction GEOFF SCHMIDT received degrees from Kenyon College and the University of Alabama and teaches at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. The author of a novel, Write Your Heart Out, Schmidt has won a Pushcart Prize Special Mention. His work has appeared in The Southern Review, Crab Orchard Review, New Orleans Review, and Black Warrior Review. He lives in Edwardsville, Illinois.

Originally published in 2007 by Twickenham Press, Be a Poet! is a friendly, accessible guidebook for beginning poets of all ages and situations, containing many exercises designed to expand their repertoire of rhythms and forms. Bogen uses examples from canonical poets like Carl Sandburg and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, as well as three contemporary poets whom she has interviewed personally about their writing habits and tricks. This handbook for the poetically inclined includes in-depth coverage of words and how to use them effectively, plus chapters on rhyming, rhythm, the iamb from blank verse to the various forms of the sonnet, and exotica like art songs, Pindaric and Horatian odes, and terza rima. Its concluding appendix listing addresses of writers’ organizations is especially useful.

“Be a Poet! is comprehensive in scope, covering just about every kind of poem in the English language—and highly readable. In this fairly dense book on the history and craft of poetry, it is this informal tone that sets it apart from the rest.”—Patricia Lee Lewis, Director, Patchwork Farm Writing Retreat “A foundational guide. Though she concentrates on . . . poetic forms, rhyme types, meter etc.: her approach is informal. . . . The book has value as a compact manual of the poet’s tools.”—Library Journal NANCY BOGEN is a CUNY professor emeritus and head of The Lark Ascending, a New York-based performance group. Her writing credits include three novels of ideas: Klytaimnestra Who Stayed at Home, Bobe Mayse: A Tale of Washington Square, and Bagatelle•Guinevere by Felice Rothman. She is married and lives in New York City.

Out of Time

Be a Poet!

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Collection of Short Fiction.

November

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New in paperback

Stan Kenton

Constables, Marshals, and More

This Is an Orchestra!

Forgotten Offices in Texas Law Enforcement

Michael Sparke

Lorie Rubenser and Gloria Priddy

Stan Kenton (1911–1979) formed his first full orchestra in 1940 and soon drew record-breaking 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.

“Michael Sparke’s book, the first general history of the Kenton Orchestra, is the best evaluation yet of Kenton’s 40-year musical development.”—The Wall Street Journal “Packed with fascinating anecdotes and exhaustive research this book will be welcomed not only by Stan Kenton devotees but by all aficionados of the big band era.”—Jazz Journal “This detailed and fascinating look at Kenton’s long career is the best book on this musician and impresario since Carol Easton’s Straight Ahead: The Story of Stan Kenton (1973). Recommended for all readers with an interest in Americana, jazz, or music generally.”—Library Journal

Most students of criminal justice, and the general public as well, think of policing along the three basic types of municipal, sheriff, and state police.

Little is known about other avenues of police work, such as the constable.

In policing textbooks, when a position such as constable is mentioned, only a line or two is presented, hardly enough to indicate it is of any importance. And yet constables and numerous other alternative policing positions are of vital importance to law enforcement in Texas and in other states.

Constables, Marshals, and More seeks to remedy that imbalance in the literature on policing by starting with the state of Texas, home of more than 68,000 registered peace officers. Lorie Rubenser and Gloria Priddy first lay the groundwork for how to become a peace officer. A guest chapter by Raymond Kessler discusses legal issues in alternative police work. Rubenser and Priddy then examine the oft-overlooked offices of constable, railroad police, racing commission, cattle brand inspector, university police, fire marshal, city marshal, Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, bailiff, game warden, and district/county attorney investigators.

This book will be useful for any general policing courses at both the undergraduate and the graduate levels. It will provide more in-depth analysis of these lesser known law enforcement positions and will spur student interest in employment in these areas.

Number Five: North Texas Lives of Musician Series Number Seven: North Texas Crime and Criminal Justice Series MICHAEL SPARKE 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. He is retired from teaching and lives in London, England.

Stan Kenton

LORIE RUBENSER is associate professor of criminal justice at Sul Ross State University and the author of several articles and chapters on policing and special units. GLORIA PRIDDY has taught criminal justice courses at Angelo State University and currently teaches online at Sul Ross State University. She has published on Texas Rangers and constables.

Constables, Marshals, and More

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Biography. Music.

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Criminal Justice. Social Sciences. Texas History.

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New in paperback

Hide, Horn, Fish, and Fowl

Nassau Plantation The Evolution of a Texas German Slave Plantation

Texas Hunting and Fishing Lore

James C. Kearney

Edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt

What would cause someone to withstand freezing temperatures in a cramped wooden box for hours on end, or stand in waist-high rushing waters, flicking a pole back and forth over and over—in many cases with nothing whatsoever to show for his efforts? Why is it that, into the twenty-first century, with the convenience of practically any type of red meat or fish available at the local supermarket, we continue to hunt game and fish on open waters? The answer is that no matter how sophisticated we think we are, no matter how technologically advanced we become, there is still something deep within us that beckons us to “the hunt.”

This desire creates the customs, beliefs, and rituals related to hunting—for deer, hogs, and other four-legged critters, as well as fish and snakes, and other things that perhaps aren’t physically alive, but capture our interest as much as the prey mentioned above. These rituals and customs lead to some of our most treasured stories, legends, and practices. This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society includes serious, introspective articles on hunting and fishing, as well as humorous tall tales and “windies” about the big ones that got away—all lore that reminds us of that drive that calls us to become predators again.

Number Sixty-seven: Publication of the Texas Folklore Society KENNETH L. UNTIEDT is the Secretary-Editor of the Texas Folklore Society and teaches English at Stephen F. Austin State University. He earned bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Texas Tech University. He and his wife Tierney have four children and live in Nacogdoches, Texas.

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 anti-slavery 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 JAMES C. KEARNEY received his Ph.D. in German and history from the University of Texas. He taught German at Katy High School and has been a featured speaker at numerous conventions and symposia on Texas-German subjects.

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“Read All About It!” Newspapers throughout the nation track the story of the Alamo.

An Altar for Their Sons

The Alamo and the Texas Revolution in Contemporary Newspaper Accounts Gary S. Zaboly An Altar For Their Sons: The Alamo and the Texas Revolution in Contemporary Newspaper Accounts is a collection of rare documentary materials, the great majority of them not seen or referenced since their dates of original publication.

This book has been designed to serve several audiences, among them the scholar, serious student, casual buff, and general reader, all of whom will find much that is “new” here in terms of the history of the Alamo siege and battle, of the Texas Revolution in general, and of the lives of the people involved, not to mention the events that both preceded and followed that conflict.

Aside from the book’s primary focus, the battle of the Alamo, this collection includes on-the-spot accounts of most of the other engagements, skirmishes and massacres, descriptions of the forts, towns, and geography, and information concerning the armies, weapons and clothing involved. There are also word sketches of the appearances of such important figures as David Crockett, James Bowie, and Santa Anna that have apparently eluded modern biographers. Included, too, are many anecdotes of their lives, both in and out of Texas, and descriptions of pieces of their personal property handed down in the postwar years. Newspaper accounts from later decades present interviews with survivors, or their obituaries, and descriptions of the Alamo itself as it evolved from a weed-choked ruin into an iconic shrine.

The book contains several dozen original illustrations by the author, each one explained in-depth with a footnoted, essay-long “caption”. There is also a newly created pictorial representation of the entire Alamo compound as it looked in February and March 1836, accompanied by a lengthy analysis of the fortifications based on a re-examination of the old evidence and a dissection of newly found information.

Included are photographs of selected Alamo and Texas Revolution related relics from the extraordinary collection of singer Phil Collins.

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

“Zaboly’s painstaking efforts to amass so many newspaper accounts about the Alamo is nothing short of breathtaking.”—Donald S. Frazier “Zaboly’s book will shed new light on how the Alamo looked in 1836; and his collection of newspaper articles from the period, will entertain and enlighten. It will prove to be an important book shedding new light on the Alamo siege and its heroes.”—Phil Collins

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The Illustrated Alamo 1836 A Photographic Journey Mark Lemon 978-1-933337-18-0 cloth $49.95

“Zaboly has uncovered articles which are speculative, confusing, and all too often, flat wrong. Nevertheless, they were the means through which most Americans first learned of the Alamo and the Texas Revolution. This book fills a void”—Stephen L. Hardin

Women and Children of the Alamo Crystal Sasse Ragsdale 978-1-880510-12-4 paper $14.95

GARY S. ZABOLY is a historical illustrator and writer.

He is the author of A True Ranger; The American Colonial Ranger; co-author and illustrator of The Annotated and Illustrated Journals of Major Robert Rogers; illustration and written contributions to Blood of Noble Men; and is the author of numerous articles on various aspects of American military history.

An Altar for Their Sons 978-1-933337-46-3 cloth $89.95

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Texas History. Revolution/Republic.

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North and South collided in Missouri, causing a state conflict that was also the second major battle of the Civil War.

Campaign for Wilson’s Creek The Fight for Missouri Begins Jeffrey L. Patrick In early 1861, most Missourians hoped they could remain neutral in the upcoming conflict between North and South. In fact, a popularly elected state convention voted in March of that year that “no adequate cause” existed to compel Missouri to leave the Union. Instead, Missourians saw themselves as ideologically centered between the radical notions of abolition and secession.

By that summer, however, the situation had deteriorated dramatically. Because of the actions of politicians and soldiers such as Missouri Governor Claiborne Jackson and Union General Nathaniel Lyon, Missourians found themselves forced to take sides.

Campaign for Wilson’s Creek is a fascinating story of high-stakes military gambles, aggressive leadership, and lost opportunities. It is also a tale of unique military units, untried but determined commanders, colorful volunteers, and professional soldiers. The first major campaign of the Civil War west of the Mississippi River guaranteed that Missourians would be engaged in a long, cruel civil war within the larger, national struggle.

Number Twenty-eight: Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series

“Patrick provides an excellent overview of the campaign and battle of Wilson’s Creek, the second major Confederate victory of the Civil War. Patrick’s extensive research, use of lively quotations, and strong narrative combine for a compelling story.”—William Garrett Piston “This manuscript’s greatest strength, is the richness of its first-hand accounts and its multitude of quotes by participants themselves.”

—John C. Waugh RELATED INTEREST

“This is an excellent manuscript to be included in the Campaigns & Commanders series.”

—Steven E. Woodworth JEFFREY L. PATRICK is the National Park Service librarian at Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield. He is the author of numerous articles on various aspects of American military history, and is the editor/coeditor of two Civil War diaries and a World War I period memoir.

He lives in Republic, Missouri.

Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians John C. Waugh 978-1-886661-03-5 paper $11.95

War in the West Pea Ridge and Prairie Grove William L. Shea 978-1-886661-14-1 paper $12.95

Vicksburg Fall of the Confederate Gibraltar Terrence J. Winschel 978-1-893114-00-5 paper $12.95

Campaign for Wilson’s Creek 978-1-893114-55-5 paper $24.95

6x9. 224 pp. 30 b&w photos. 25 biographical sketches.

6 maps. Notes. App.. Index.

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World War II brought radical change to Abilene, and it grew from a country town to a modern city.

A People, A Place

The Story of Abilene Volume 2: The Modern City, 1940–2010 Robert W. Sledge Early biographers of Abilene, the present author included, laid heavy emphasis on “the people,” the human element in the establishment and continuing life of the city. But the geographical characteristics of “the place” is also important in its creation, its history, and its future. The intertwining of these two themes dictated much of the story of the town called Abilene, Texas.

The Texas Pacific Railroad gave birth to Abilene in 1881. Among several dozen sister communities established along the T&P, the company designated the one at Milepost 407 to be “the future great city of West Texas.” The original settlers of the town, alone among all the other railroad towns, received the right to pick their own name, and they chose “Abilene” after the raucous trailhead town in Kansas. Abilene, Texas, like its namesake, was a frontier town, less than a decade removed from Indian raids, buffalo hunts, and the open range. But on the day of the first sale of town lots, the population already stood at over 3,000—instant community.

In its first century, the city grew by fits and starts, alternating decades of rapid growth with decades of relative stability. Its economy was based originally on trade in sheep, cattle, and buffalo bones. Over the years, farming became important to commerce, finance, education, and the military, medicine, and light industries.

A People, A Place is a tale of industrious, ambitious people trying to prosper in a place with challenging climate and terrain.

“A very thorough and highly readable history of Abilene from 1940 to the present day.”

—Glenn Dromgoole “This book is a good companion to the first volume.”—Robert C. Fink

RELATED INTEREST ROBERT W. SLEDGE is professor emeritus of history, McMurry University, and historian-in-residence for the Grady McWhiney Research Foundation. He has written several pieces on the history of Abilene, a place he has called home for the past forty-five years.

A People, A Place The Story of Abilene Volume I; The Future Great City 1881-1940 Robert W. Sledge 978-1-933337-31-9 paper $24.95

Abilene Landmarks: An Illustrated Tour The Story of Abilene as told through 100 of its most historic buildings Donald S. Frazier and Robert F. Pace 978-1-933337-30-2 cloth $49.95

A Small Town in Texas Reflections on Growing Up in the ‘50s and ‘60s Glenn Dromgoolel 978-1-880510-86-5 cloth $17.95

A People, A Place 978-1-933337-45-6 paper $29.99

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Grace & Gumption The Women of El Paso Edited by Marcia Hatfield Daudistel In Grace & Gumption: The Women of El Paso, thirteen contributors trace the history of El Paso from the distaff side. The women who settled El Paso faced an unusual reality. In 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo changed the border, and people who were previously citizens of Mexico—living in their native country, speaking their native language— were suddenly citizens of the United States, forced to speak a foreign language.

Editor Marcia Hatfield Daudistel gathers together authoritative voices who examine the bicultural identity of this city through the various roles the women assumed: artist and muse, philanthropist, healer, writer, historian, nun, suffragette, and businesswoman. The result is a new look at this city nestled between rivers, mountains, a military base, and Mexico.

The women in this volume are just a few who left a legacy in El Paso. Their stories are kept alive through the memories of their families, the oral history of the Comadres, and in the history books. Their accomplishments were hard-won and required courage, persistence, inspiration, and especially grace and gumption.

Contributors include Adair Margo, Mimi R. Gladstein, Yolanda Leyva, Nancy Miller Hamilton, Irasema Coronado, Lois Marchino, Deane Mansfield-Kelley, Meredith Abarca, Susan Goodman Novick, Lucy Fischer-West, Brenda Risch, Evelyn Posey, and Daudistel.

RELATED INTEREST MARCIA HATFIELD DAUDISTEL is the editor, most recently of Literary El Paso, published by TCU Press in 2009. As the former associate director of Texas Western Press, she helped publish over seventy books and established the bilingual imprint Frontera Books.

Daudistel is the recently appointed West Texas/Trans Pecos editor of Texas Books in Review.

Grace & Gumption Stories of Fort Worth Women Edited by Katie Sherrod 978-0-87565-352-5 cloth $32.50

Grace & Gumption The Cookbook Edited by Katie Sherrod 978-0-87565-401-0 paper $19.95

Literary El Paso Edited by Marcia Hatfield Daudistel 978-0-87565-387-7 cloth $29.50

Grace & Gumption 978-0-87565-430-0 cloth $35.00

8x11. 224 pp. 140 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

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Steplings A Novel

C. W. Smith Nineteen-year-old Jason is lost. The rush of graduation parties has subsided, the ubiquitous discussion of college departures dimmed to a dull roar. His former classmates have made elaborate plans, but the only date on Jason’s calendar is a court appearance next Monday. Jason, who dropped out of high school just two months shy of graduation, finds himself stuck in the well-worn grooves of his hometown. But when his over-achieving girlfriend Lisa departs for UT Austin to study medicine, Jason finds Mesquite a place he can hardly recognize.

Jason’s family can offer him little direction. After his mother Sue’s unexpected death a few years back, his father Burl, fifteen years sober, slipped into old drinking habits. Jason watched the once clockwork-perfect routine of his family life descend into chaos. When Burl marries Lily, a high-strung, high-powered attorney, she brings a daughter into the house: Emily, eleven years old and a self-described know-it-all whose very existence is enough to irritate Jason.

Three days before Jason must appear in court, he receives a “Dear John” letter from Lisa.

Heartbroken and determined to convince Lisa of his worth, Jason decides to hitchhike to Lisa’s dorm in Austin—but Emily, desperate to return to her father, a UT professor, overhears Jason’s plans and demands to accompany him. When Burl and Lily return home to find their children missing, Lily puts out an Amber Alert for Emily, accusing Jason of abducting her daughter. The frantic search effort that ensues threatens to destroy the tentative household that Burl and Lily have just begun to establish.

Smith’s gift for creating three-dimensional characters, abundantly demonstrated in his previous TCU Press titles including Understanding Women and Purple Hearts, lends this coming-of-age tale an unexpected quality of honesty and sophisticated narrative rarely seen in contemporary young adult fiction.

Both teen and adult readers will see themselves in this multifaceted narrative of selfdiscovery.

Kate Lehrer observed that Smith also “draws subtle distinctions among social classes” in how he invokes tension between Jason’s no-frills lifestyle and Lisa’s country-club upbringing, and paints a widening gulf between Burl’s small-town mannerisms and Lily’s cosmopolitan tastes.

Mary Powell, author of the TCU Press books Auslander and Galveston Rose, describes Smith’s prose in Steplings as “rich and sophisticated, yet accessible, and the dialogue is right on.”

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C. W. SMITH is a Dedman Family Distinguished Professor at Southern Methodist University. He belongs to PEN American Center, The Author’s Guild, and the Texas Institute of Letters. He was a DobiePaisano Fellow at The University of Texas and has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Hunter’s Trap C. W. Smith 978-0-87565-162-0 cloth $22.50 978-0-87565-177-4 paper $14.95

Understanding Women C. W. Smith 978-0-87565-189-7 cloth $24.50

Purple Hearts C. W. Smith 978-0-87565-362-4 cloth $27.50

Steplings 978-0-87565-437-9 cloth $32.95

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A Joint Project of Brite Divinity School and TCU Press

Institutional Change in Theological Education

Slow Moving Dreams Tom Hardy

A History of Brite Divinity School Edited by Mark G. Toulouse, Jeffrey Williams, and Dyan M. Dietz

This book contains the story of faculties, deans, presidents, and chancellors, and the struggle among them to define either the goals of theological education or the quality of a university and the role of religion within it.

The struggle takes place in the midst of the changing nature of both theological education and higher education in general, whether private or public. It involves the evolution of a school’s identity through both the halcyon days (the 1950s) and the cultural disestablishment and, as some would define it, the downright demise (from the 1960s) of mainstream Protestantism in the United States.

Ultimately, the book analyzes the transformation of the school itself: from one located in a rural outpost just outside of Waco, Texas, to one found in the heart of a major city; from educating mostly white Disciples of Christ men for ministry to educating quite a diverse crop of women and men, representing a variety of ethnic and international identifications, both gay and straight, for the ministry of at least thirty different denominations, and educating still others, including Christians, Jews, and other nonChristians, for vocations in social service agencies, academic contexts, and a variety of jobs involving public leadership.

MARK G. TOULOUSE is principal and professor of the history of Christianity at Emmanuel College of Victoria University in the University of Toronto. JEFFREY WILLIAMS is associate dean for academic affairs and assistant professor of American religious history at Brite Divinity School. DYAN M. DIETZ is a PhD student in biblical interpretation at Brite Divinity School. She is currently serving an appointment as associate pastor at Lake Cities United Methodist Church in Lake Dallas, Texas.

Institutional Change in Theological Education 978-0-87565-406-5 cloth $35.00

6x9. 224 pp. 20 b&w and color photos.

Religion, Texas. Southwestern History. Religion.

November

Tom Hardy’s new novel, Slow Moving Dreams, tells the story of Tom Carter, a city man who is forced by the death of a cousin to return to his rural roots in West Texas. Hardy takes his readers along two journeys in this novel: the first is the physical journey that Tom takes as he drives to the funeral in Alpine, and the second is an exploration of Tom’s life as a child growing up in the country that the adult Tom is now passing through. But not all of those memories are happy ones, as Tom and his cousins soon find out. The funeral starts to unravel a dark secret that could change everything Tom thought he knew about his family.

Hardy breathes life into all of his characters with his witty dialogue and nostalgic memory sequences. Slow Moving Dreams is a story of homecoming and family bonds that, in this age of consumerism and technology, is a refreshing change of pace. For those familiar with the lifestyle of the modern cowboy, the life Tom Carter remembers is a reminder of the old days, when nature provided everything one could ever need. But all readers, new to the cowboy’s world or not, are in for a fun, heart-warming tale as they follow Tom’s exploration of his past and realizations about his future.

TOM HARDY is a native Texan, the son of a father who left home at thirteen to become a working cowboy and a mother of Cherokee lineage. He wrote his first novel, Unsportsmanlike Conduct in 1983 and is working on his third novel. He lives in Jacksonville, Florida.

Slow Moving Dreams 978-0-87565-424-9 paper $22.95

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Newest in the Texas Small Book Series.

Texas at Sea

Home Truths

A Deep East Texas Memory

Mark Lardas

Gerald Duff

Novelist Gerald Duff grew up both in Polk County, in Deep East Texas, and in Nederland, near the Gulf Coast, two drastically different areas in terms of social and economic status, and the way they interact. These communities shaped the way Duff thought and lived, causing him to build up certain false personae to fit in with the crowd. These changes and more are described within the pages of Duff’s new memoir, Home Truths: A Deep East Texas Memory.

From dealing with intrusive family members to judgmental classmates to marital bliss and misery, Duff’s memoir describes situations familiar to anyone who has ever lived in a small town. Experiences unfamiliar to the youths of today include growing up during World War II and the descriptions of propaganda tactics, hunting for your own meals, and dealing with the social mores of the 1950s and 1960s. Other occurrences however, such as working a summer job and the awkwardness of first dates, speak to people of every generation, young and old.

Early in life Duff learned to tell lies as a survival mechanism against his meddling family and occasionally cruel classmates. He describes the ordeal of hiding both his domestic situation and his talent for the written word.

Duff’s talents for lies and half-truths helped him not only to discover a hidden talent within himself, but also a future career.

In addition to writing fiction, poetry, and scholarly works, GERALD DUFF has taught literature and writing at Vanderbilt University, Kenyon College, Rhodes College, and Johns Hopkins University. He has published eleven books, including Indian Giver—finalist for the Great Lakes Colleges Association First Novel Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Jesse Jones Award for the 2007 Best Book of Fiction—and Fire Ants.

Perhaps your average fourth grader can recite the pivotal stories of Texas’ fight for independence on land—we all remember the Alamo, of course— but how many of us can recall battles waged over the sea? In Texas at Sea, the latest in TCU Press’ popular Texas Small Books series, Mark Lardas illuminates a little known dimension of Texas history.

All too often, we “forget that the history of the United States is a story told from the sea,” Gene Smith, director of The Center for Texas Studies, observed, and Texas is no exception. “When people think of Texas they think of cattle, cotton, and oil,” he explained. And with its vast terrain ranging from desert to grasslands to thick forests, it’s no wonder Texas’ coastline is often overlooked.

With in-depth military history and well-researched maritime data, Texas at Sea will capture the interest of local history aficionados, military enthusiasts, and readers who love to settle down with a good Texan tall tale. Lardas has peppered the storyline with little known maritime facts sure to impress even the most knowledgeable history buffs. He also pays tribute to the unsung heroes of the Texas Navy, along with prominent military men and women such as Chester Nimitz.

Although Texas at Sea packs a wealth of information that could fill a small encyclopedia, you’ll want to devour this Texas Small Book in one sitting.

An engaging maritime adventure, Texas at Sea challenges preconceived notions about Texas and introduces us to the cowboys who went to sea.

Texas Small Books™ MARK LARDAS, an engineer, freelance writer, amateur historian, and model-maker, lives in League City, Texas. His interest in maritime history dates to his childhood, when he listened to his grandfather’s stories about growing up on a family-owned commercial sailing ship in the 1890s. Lardas is the author of eight books on military and naval history and several hundred articles, many of which are focused on history and model-making.

Home Truths

Texas at Sea

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978-0-87565-420-1 hardcover $9.95

6x9. 160 pp.

Memoir.

September

41/2x61/2. 96 pp. 34 color photos.

Texas History. Military History.

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New in paperback

Literary Houston Edited by David Theis The fifth in the “Literary Cities” series, Literary Houston gathers together historical and contemporary writing about this Texas city that everyone loves to hate. Rather than organize the pieces chronologically, Editor David Theis has assembled works according to themes such as biography and memoir, visitors, the city itself, events, poetry, and fiction.

From Cabeza de Vaca’s early experiences to the Enron debacle, Theis presents Houston in a new, critical light.

After the Battle of San Jacinto, perhaps no one but the Allen brothers, land speculators from New York, could have imagined a city growing on the forlorn banks of Buffalo Bayou. But in what was the city’s first, but certainly not last, work of fiction, they sold their vision of a great city growing in a place that “nature appears to have Designated . . . for the future government. It is handsome and beautifully elevated, salubrious and well watered.” Well, Houston is well watered. Undeterred by the mosquitoes and the general swampiness of the land, Houston grew immediately and attracted such pen-in-hand nineteenth-century visitors as Frederick Law Olmstead and Andrew Sweet. The city has been the subject of sometimes appalled, sometimes thrilled commentary by passsersthrough ever since; such vistors as H.L. Mencken, Jan Morris, Stanley Crouch, Norman Mailer, Ada Louise Huxtable, and even Simone de Beauvoir have reported on what they found.

But it’s in the stories of Houstonians themselves (even the temporary Houstonians) that the city’s reason for being best comes into focus. It’s been a city of driven, ambitious people who often made an early mark here and moved on: Howard Hughes; Barbara Jordan; Walter Cronkite; the two Albert Guerards, father and son; and musicians like Lightnin’ Hopkins, Willie Nelson, and Townes Van Zandt, to name a few.

Important writers have grown up here: Donald Barthelme, Vassar Miller, Rick Bass. Other authors, like prose writers Larry McMurtry, Antonya Nelson, Mary Gaitskill, Phillip

DAVID THEIS moved to Houston in 1984 to study in the creative writing program at the University of Houston.

He then began publishing journalism in Houston City Magazine, Houstonian, Texas Observer, Texas Monthly, and numerous other publications. In 1989, Theis became a staff writer for the Houston Press where he wrote news, features, and film reviews. In 2002, his novel Rio Ganges was published by Winedale Press. He is currently at work on a second novel.

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Literary Fort Worth Edited by Judy Alter and James Ward Lee 978-0-87565-253-5 paper $17.95

Literary Austin Edited by Don Graham 978-0-87565-342-6 cloth $29.50

Lopate, Rosellen Brown, and Max Apple, and poets Tony Hoagland, Edward Hirsch, and Mark Doty came here to study, teach, and write. The city has fostered a burgeoning writing community outside the university. Lorenzo Thomas, Rich Levy, Daniel Rifenburgh, and numerous others have left their marks on a city that defies easy description.

Literary Dallas Edited by Frances Brannen Vick 978-0-87565-382-2 cloth $29.50

Literary Houston 978-0-87565-440-9 paper $24.95

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Literary Studies. Texas Urban History.

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“. . . an American Dunciad for the 21st century.”—Steven G. Kellman

Against the Workshop

Provocations, Polemics, Controversies Anis Shivani Against the Workshop is the first sustained critique of twenty-first century literary production in America under the MFA/creative writing program infrastructure. Since earlier critics like John Aldridge wrote on the subject, the creative writing regime has become vastly more institutionalized. Publishing has changed, but what does it mean for the quality of fiction and poetry? This book brings the subject completely up-to-date, by focusing on fiction and poetry generated during the last decade. The book contrasts the vast amount of sludge with the rare gems, to argue that the creative writing product is a debased one that will not stand the test of time.

“This book is a driving, spirited, and articulate attack on what American poetry has become as ‘creative writing’ in the university degree programs.”—Clayton Eshleman “Not for nothing is Anis Shivani’s Against the Workshop subtitled Provocations, Polemics, Controversies: there’s something here for everyone to disagree with and be provoked by. Brace yourself. You will be implicated—as I am—in more than one of the charges Shivani levels, but also challenged to recall, in the face of the cynical reputation machine, the reasons why literature has mattered, might matter, does matter.”

—H. L. Hix “No contemporary literary critic has called to question the artifice of a publicity-driven book industry or taken to task the artistry of today’s literary darlings as provocatively as Anis Shivani. He has single-handedly fueled conversations that were once polite coffee house chatter into passionate debates about what’s worth reading and what should be pulped post-haste. Privileging integrity over popularity, Shivani stings when he writes, but his are the wake-up calls we’ve been waiting for!”—Rigoberto González

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Say It Hot Essays on American Writers Living, Dying, and Dead Eric Williamson 978-1-933896-38-0 paper $24.95

Going to See the Elephant Pieces of a Writing Life George Garrett 978-1-881515-42-5 paper $18.95

Oakland, Jack London, and Me Eric Williamson 978-1-933896-11-3 paper $24.95

ANIS SHIVANI is the author of the story collection, Anatolia and Other Stories, which was longlisted for the Frank O’Connor short story award. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle, and frequently reviews books for newspapers and magazines. His work appears in Georgia Review, Southwest Review, Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Texas Review, Threepenny Review, Boston Review, and elsewhere. He has just finished a novel, and is putting together a book of his interviews with leading literary authors.

He studied at Harvard College, and lives in Houston, Texas.

Against the Workshop 978-1-933896-72-4 Paper with flaps $24.95

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Literary Nonfiction.

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New essays from the author of Fight Scenes . . .

Swallowing the Past

Scenes from the Postmodern South Greg Bottoms Swallowing the Past is a prose collection about ordinary lives in the ever-changing, postmodern South. A teenage killer ends up a smiling adult bridesmaid. A conservative Christian couple tells the story of a hate crime. A parable about a stolen bike illuminates how lying can be a survival technique. Meeting an old friend at an ATM turns into a meditation on how some people should die. The book closes with “Grace Street,” a dream-like, genre-defying novella about the author’s encounters with the locals on a poor city block in Richmond, Virginia, which becomes an eye-opening look at the old wounds of class, race, religious intolerance, and our particularly American brand of alienation.

“Bottoms writes like a poet, he writes as if he were on fire.”—Esquire “Bottoms’ prose is sparse and direct, imbued with a passion to write honestly and with sympathy for a people who might not otherwise have a voice in contemporary fiction.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Bottoms’ prose is sparse and direct, imbued with a passion to write honestly and with sympathy for a people who might not otherwise have a voice in contemporary fiction.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Bottoms writes like a poet, creating characters who make his readers feel compelled to read more just so they can be a part of this dark intimacy.”—Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

RELATED INTEREST GREG BOTTOMS is the author of four books, including the critically acclaimed collections Sentimental, Heartbroken Rednecks: Stories from the New South and Fight Scenes. His essays, memoirs, and stories have appeared in Esquire, Oxford American, Agni, Creative Nonfiction, North American Review, Texas Review, Witness, and elsewhere. He is a professor of English at the University of Vermont.

Journeys Sam Pickering 978-1-933896-49-6 paper $22.95

Dowsing and Science: Essays J. D. Smith 978-1-933896-59-5 paper $21.95 978-1-933896-58-8 cloth $26.95

This the Matter Is The Selected Poetry and Prose of Robert Holland Robert Holland 978-1-881515-60-9 cloth $20.00

Swallowing the Past 978-1-933896-60-1 paper $22.95

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In the mold of Elmer Kelton . . . .

Buff Tea Edward M. Erdelac In 1874 a boy leaves a comfortable life in Chicago and heads west to work on the burgeoning railroad, quickly finding the labor not to his liking. He joins a disparate group of itinerant buffalo hunters led by a tough old ex-Indian fighter named War Bag Tyler and they pass into Texas to participate in the great slaughter. The season draws to a close and death strikes the outfit. War Bag swears a Cheyenne Dog Soldier from his past is responsible. As War Bag plots a new hunt, a hunt for the Cheyenne, the boy must choose between life and death.

“Erdelac’s story is told using pieces of actual history. This exciting first novel perfectly captures the legendary essence of Ft. Griffin and its buffalo hunters.”—Betsy Black Parsons, Director of the Fort Griffin Fandangle, Albany, Texas.

“Edward M. Erdelac is one of the best of the new Western writers. His perfect balance of period research, authentic characters, and mythic storytelling practically guarantees a terrific read every time.”

—Craig Clarke, co-editor, Living After Midnight: Hard and Heavy Stories

“Ed Erdelac is a gifted storyteller. In the mold of Elmer Kelton, his Buff Tea tells a universal story, a journey of personal discovery through the moral ambiguities that confront us all. It breathes life into a West we know, weaving historical places and events into a tale that is as enjoyable as it will be memorable.”

—Ty Cashion, author of A Texas Frontier: The Clearfork Country & Fort Griffin, 1849–1887

RELATED INTEREST EDWARD MICHAEL ERDELAC is an independent filmmaker, award-winning screenwriter, and novelist.

He was born in Indiana, educated in Chicago, and continues to be tempered in the Los Angeles area, where he lives with his family.

SPLINTERVILLE Cliff Hudder 978-1-933896-13-7 paper $14.95

Degenerate George Williams 978-1-933896-34-2 paper $14.95 978-1-933896-41-0 cloth $24.95

Argument Against the Good-Looking Corpse Charles Alcorn 978-1-933896-52-6 paper $18.95 978-1-933896-53-3 cloth $26.95

Buff Tea 978-1-933896-62-5 paper $26.95

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Literary Novel.

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A history of the oldest university system in Texas . . . .

Winner, X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize.

The View From Jackass Hill

A Texas State of Mind The Texas State University System Story Still Going Strong After a Hundred Years

George Drew

Edited by Fernando C. Gomez

To our students, that they know upon whose shoulders they stand; To our faculty, that they may see the lives they have shaped; To our alumni, that they may remember fondly and smile; To our employees and donors, for their many valued contributions;

The View From Jackass Hill is a book in which the poems both eulogize and celebrate. They weep and sing. They sing of and mourn for family, friends and poets: Keats, Wyler, Shinder, Carruth, and others. Geographically, the book is rooted in the east—New York, New Hampshire, Maine—and travels west, to Colorado. Thematically, it is a delineation of loss, both personal and national: the death of loved ones, the death in war. It is, in short, a lament for the erosion of the American Dream. Yet it is a book that insists on “Making Up with Milton.”

To our host communities, long-time partners in a noble enterprise; To the people of Texas, that they may value their Great Legacy!

This book about Texas and its oldest university system is set in communities traversing the state from the Sabine River, to the Piney Woods, to the Hill Country, to the Rio Grande. It is a story of colleges established with a limited mission—to train white teachers—that, in the course of a century, produced a president, world renowned journalists, entertainers, poets, musicians, writers, and alumni representing the ethnic and cultural diversity of Texas. The story is told by some of the best writers in the state and chronicled by one of the most celebrated artistic photographers in the country.

“Here is a poet with a real voice, brave and original. He also rhetorically asks questions that hurt. The Jack poems are a triumph, and the use of film imagery and Visa cards attests to his post-Modernism. This is a collection of friendship and vodka, and I can only say, Enjoy!”—Robert Phillips, Series Judge

GEORGE DREW was born in Mississippi and raised there and in New York State, where he currently lives. He is the author of five other collections of poetry. Drew has published widely, with poems appearing recently or upcoming in journals around the country.

Born in Gallup, New Mexico, FERNANDO C. GOMEZ earned degrees from the University of New Mexico (B.A. cum laude) and the University of Michigan (J.D. and Ph.D., American Culture). He attained tenure at Michigan State University before serving as assistant attorney general in Michigan and in Texas and as California State University System general counsel. He has served as Texas State University System vice chancellor and general counsel for twenty years (1986–1990 and 1994–present). He has authored books on educational law; published short stories and poetry; and lectured throughout the United States and overseas, including Cuba and Yemen.

A Texas State of Mind

The View From Jackass Hill

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Texas History.

August

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Poetry.

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New poems from acclaimed novelist Ben Greer . . .

A disabled physician’s experiences in medicine. . .

The Bright House

Poems from Both Sides of the Fence

Ben Greer

Beryl Lawn

The Bright House opens with memories of Greer’s life with George and Susan Garrett at their home in Maine. The ambiance of this collection is the mind of a boy trying to make sense of his troubled childhood and tormented parents. Other poems address such subjects as an evening spent with Richard Eberhart, Conrad Aiken’s deathbed quip, and a question to Bernard Malamud regarding the nature of God. “Ben Greer’s poems have a good bit of darkness in them, but they also have the high morale of articulate honesty. In any case, they are admirably made. This book is a worthy tribute to George Garrett and to another advisor and advocate of his work, William Jay Smith. A list of the successful poems in The Bright House would be almost as long as the table of contents. Let me mention only ‘Fugitive,’ a perfect little poem that addresses the guilt, fear, and feigning of every reader, yet gives him the release that bold truth can give. The book ends, as grateful readers would have it do, with a wedding anniversary poem full of the ‘round, floating notes’ of joy.”—Richard Wilbur “The best of these poems—and there are many—are scenes of inner struggle, uncompromising arguments with the self conducted with heart and wit. Ben Greer’s readers should feel privileged to be brought into such intimate contact with his search for an honest place to stand.”—Billy Collins BEN GREER is a novelist and poet who teaches at the University of South Carolina.

“On August 27, 1967, one week before I was supposed to start medical school, an intruder broke into our apartment while my husband was at work. In the ensuing struggle, I fell from the third floor fire ladder I was using to escape, into the brick alley below. As I learned later, my back was immediately broken; I had become a paraplegic. I did not start medical school until September 1968, having spent most of the preceding year in the hospital and in rehabilitation. I was now ‘independent at a wheelchair level,’ including driving my own (specially-equipped) car. I was also able to walk short distances using braces and crutches. These poems describe events from my medical student, resident and attending physician days.

They describe experiences of both being a doctor and being a patient.

They also touch on the response of others to a physician with an obvious disability. They encompass my careers in both internal medicine and in psychiatry.”—from the book

Role Confusion As I was concluding the admission physical with a rectal exam, the somewhat confused older patient rolled over, looked at me, looked at my wheelchair, and asked, “And what room are you in, dear?”

BERYL LAWN, born in Cleveland, Ohio, spent her early childhood in College Station, Texas. When she was nine, her father joined the foreign service, and until she began college (at the University of Pennsylvania) she lived outside the United States. Prior to starting Temple Medical School she was involved in a crime-related incident, sustained a spinal-cord injury, and became a paraplegic. Her subsequent life (medical school, postgraduate training, medical practice, marriage) has been spent in a wheelchair.

The Bright House

Poems from Both Sides of the Fence

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51/2x81/2. 72 pp.

Poetry.

April

51/2x81/2. 96 pp.

Poetry. Poetry.

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A fresh poetic voice from Mississippi . . .

Tales from a Texas ice house . . . .

Ice House Sketches

Sometimes The World Is Too Beautiful

Robert Phillips

Swep Lovitt

Sometimes The World Is Too Beautiful combines poems selected from A Boy’s Face With Swan Wings with recent poems. Set in the South, with references to Tennessee, the Gulf, Memphis, and Mississippi, the result is a book that reads as a book, not as a miscellany, offering section by section poems of nature, family, art, and marriage, and then, with the new poems, the painful dissolution of the marriage, a multi-faceted self-portrait, and finally, the elegiac “Grace” about the death of Lovitt’s mother.

“Sometimes The World Is Too Beautiful is a beautifully organized book, the first half made up of selected poems from A Boy’s Face With Swan Wings, 2004, poems of nature, family, art, and marriage, and the second half comprised of recent poems, 2005–2010. The division between the two is almost seamless. Sometimes The World Is Too Beautiful is a volume I watched, sometimes impatiently, carefully take shape across the years.

It was worth the wait.”—D. C. Berry, author of Saigon Cemetery, Divorce Boxing, Vietnam Ecclesiastes, Hamlet Off Stage, and A Week on the Chunky and Chickasawhay SWEP LOVITT was raised in Mississippi and after thirty years abroad, Memphis, TN., has returned to live in Brookhaven. Swep’s publications include a volume, A Boy’s Face With Swan Wings, UKA Press, 2004, and 70 poems in 35 mags/lit journals including Texas Review, Mississippi Review, Poem, and Visions-International. Swep has two grown sons and a daughter, all with poems of their own.

“A number of the pieces in Ice House Sketches originally were cast as poems. However, ultimately I thought the subject matter and mood more appropriate for prose. I hope some of the poetry still shows through.

I call them sketches—like the little sketches Hemingway interspersed between his fully developed short stories in his collected volume. They have no beginning, middle, or end, and no conflict or resolution. They simply are. These are pieces of fiction. Characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

Any reference to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales, is entirely coincidental.”—Robert Phillips

THE POET (Again) The Poet hands a white bar napkin to Slugger. The words as usual are in black felt tip pen: A poem about how glad We are you’re back.

You look fine, finer than Carolina in the morning, brighter than that Carolina sun.

Keep smiling, keep slugging, Slugger.

ROBERT PHILLIPS is Professor Emeritus at the University of Houston, where for years he was director of the creative writing program. He is the author of over thirty books of poetry, fiction, and criticism. He has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Sometimes The World Is Too Beautiful

Ice House Sketches

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51/2x81/2. 72 pp.

Poetry.

July

51/2x81/2. 88 pp.

Collection of Short Fiction.

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Defining East Texas architecture. . .

Diedrich Rulfs

Designing Modern Nacogdoches Jere Langdon Jackson Diedrich Anton Wilhelm Rulfs, the German-born architect who immigrated to Nacogdoches, Texas in 1880, transformed the historic, frontier town into a modern city. The life and work of Rulfs and his interaction with his contemporaries is the story of Nacogdoches in the crucial years at the turn of the 20th century. The substantial visual legacy of Rulfs to the history of a pioneering town can be enjoyed today. Over fifty architectural creations are extant and form the core for the city’s extensive National Registry Districts. Rulfs incorporated the motifs of his homeland along with elements from current trends in American architecture into Nacogdoches projects. He comfortably used classical and Palladian features, romantic (Gothic), flamboyant (Queen Ann), and eclectic (Mediterranean) styles. Rulfs proved himself a master at servicing many architectural needs: modest domestic structures, commercial buildings, city blocks, hotels, elaborately fashionable mansions, churches for all denominations, and public schools. While few towns the size of Nacogdoches had, or could have supported, a talented resident architect, Rulfs returned the admiration by working flawlessly with the community. His success resided in his professionalism, his intimate knowledge of his clients, and his willingness to accomodate his designs to the needs and budgets of his patrons. Rulfs, as the architect and builder of choice in Nacogdoches between 1880 to the mid-1920s, left an incorporable architectural legacy.

In a special edition of the Nacogdoches Chronicle, dated September 30, 1897, editor R. W. Haltom wrote the verdict on Rulfs’ impact only seventeen years after his arrival in the city: “There is, perhaps, no man in Nacogdoches to whom the city is more indebted for the beauty and splendor of her scores of elegant residences, and the stateliness of her business houses. . . . From a little village of sleepy looking, old-fashioned cottages and wooden stores, the town has developed into a city of magnificent dwellings and imposing brick stores. And to the architecture and mechanical skill of D. Rulfs is justly due the credit for this pleasing transformation . . . his skill is displayed in more than three-fourths of the magnificent buildings that have gone up since he came here, and as a builder his workmanship is manifest in scores of the most substantial and imposing structures of the city.”

JERE LANGDON JACKSON is a Regents Professor of History at SFASU for East Texas Studies. He has received the Texas Governor’s Special Service Award in the Field of Historic Preservation.

Diedrich Rulfs 978-1-936205-17-2 cloth $50.00x

9x12. 368 pp. 150 color, 150 b&w photos. 10 maps.

10 architectural drawings.

Architecture. Biography. Texas Urban History.

Texas History. Photography. Cultural Studies.

Southwestern History.

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A best of collection from the Great Plains poet. . .

An important addition to Southern Literature . . .

Conditions of Grace

Sherburne

New and Selected Poems

R. T. Smith

Mark Sanders

Mark Sanders’ Conditions of Grace: New and Selected Poems brings together the best work from a thirty-year career. These selections include powerful lyrics and narratives, metaphorical and fearless observations of the landscapes of region and heart, and a music that is both subtle and alluring.

“Mark Sanders writes, he says, in ‘plain speech for a plain people.’ But the complexities of his social and familial involvements, his awareness of self and others, mean that the lives rendered here are anything but plain. They are ornery, funny, bedeviled, passionate, private, and performative—I mean, the people and Sanders’ poems. This poet is of the same important tribe as Ted Kooser and Jo McDougall, Dave Etter and Jim Barnes, in tune with a type of Midwestern and democratic rhetoric—’plain’ but dramatic, public but precise.”—David Baker, editor of Kenyon Review “Mark Sanders is a keen observer, a careful translator of experience and an archivist of the actual. He can ‘turn sharp on a country thought’ or channel Wallace Stevens, and his Conditions of Grace displays and utters a vital world of hawks, horses, and humane humans either wrestling with sorrow or ‘downing shots of Comfort.’ His poems are deft and significant, and I’m betting most readers who find their way to this book will not be eager to find their way out. Instead, they’ll want to join Sanders as, ‘We stand our furious ground.’”—R. T. Smith, editor of Shenandoah

R. T. Smith’s Sherburne chronicles the title family’s encounters with ruthlessness over several generations. The patriarch discovers himself when he encounters Sherman’s horse soldiers in 1864 Georgia, and his son, working in law enforcement in the Virginia Blue Ridge, finds himself struggling with moral issues in a harsh landscape. As practitioners and victims of violence, the Sherburne family makes an apt portrait of Smith’s conviction that even those who resort to force on behalf of their community must bear the responsibility and carry the scars.

“Ranging through time from the Civil War to the present, this intricate and exquisitely written collection further confirms that R. T. Smith is one of America’s best writers. Sherburne is a magnificant acheivement.”—Ron Rash R. T. SMITH is writer-in-residence at Washington and Lee University, where he edits Shenandoah. His stories have appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology, and five volumes of New Stories from the South. His most recent book of poetry, Outlaw Style, received the Library of Virginia Book of the Year Award in 2008.

MARK SANDERS is the author of more than a dozen poetry chapbooks and the full-length collections Before We Lost Our Ways and Here in the Big Empty. He is currently Chair and Professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he and his wife run a small horse farm.

Conditions of Grace

Sherburne

978-1-936205-16-5 cloth $24.95

978-1-936205-44-8 paper $17.95

6x9. 228 pp.

Poetry.

June

6x9. 220 pp.

Collection of Short Fiction.

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A collaboration of art and science. . .

The Edge of Life Forest Pathology • Art

Dave Kulhavy Designed and Edited by Michelle Rozic The concept behind The Edge of Life began with a simple observation by Dr. David Kulhavy, who perceived the delight artists experienced when they were introduced to the Forest Pathology lab in the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture at SFASU. They were intrigued not only by the forms of the pathogens, but also how the pathogens affect their hosts and are influenced by their environment. When Dr. Kulhavy shared his observations with the university’s art faculty, and in particular with Michelle Rozic, whose recent work incorporates ecological ideas, the concept of a collaborative art and science, Edge of Life took root.

The arts and sciences are linked in a long, interdependent tradition. Art delves into humanity’s internal questions about our understanding of our place within nature. Science delves into the external mechanics of nature in search of similar knowledge and understanding of these problems. Art imaginatively makes visible intangible ideas by placing abstract concepts into concrete form. Forest pathology makes evident forest diseases through identifying signs and symptoms of forest pathogens. The Edge of Life pairs art work and specimen and provides the catalyst for discussion regarding how pathogens and invasive species affect the health of our forests, and how artists communicate concerns about contemporary ecological issues, translating their ideas through their media. Pathogens and invasive species have an inherent allure. The forms can be beautiful and repulsive, elegant in simplicity and complexity. Awareness of pathogens leads to understanding their mechanics, which develops cognizance on how our actions affect global, natural health. Forest pathologists study the unseen microscopic diseases through the visible symptoms—such as shelf fungi, known as conks or sporophores—learning to read the health of a forest ecosystem through the health of individual trees. The disease triangle illustrates the intrinsically linked co-dependency of HostPathogen-Environment. Pathogens transfer between and depend on host/s for survival and reproduction. Environment enables rapid spread of pathogens. Transference of pathogens is fertile ground for lessons of human behavior through artistically illuminated metaphor.

MICHELLE ROZIC has exhibited her artwork throughout the US and abroad. DAVID KULHAVY received the Distinguished Teaching Award in Entomology from the Entomological Society of America in 1993 and has been awarded the regional National Association of Interpretation award for his interpretations of Dr. Dave’s Bugs.

RELATED INTEREST

A Forest Insect Alphabet Charles D. Jones 978-1-936205-26-4 Limited Edition $500.00x

John Heliker: Drawing the New Deal David Lewis 978-1-936205-32-5 cloth $36.95

Documentation of Associated and Unassociated Caddo Funerary Objects Timothy K Perttula 978-1-936205-02-8 paper $34.95

The Edge of Life 978-1-936205-31-8 cloth $35.95

10x7. 108 pp. 64 color images.

Agriculture. Photography. Art. Forests.

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Documentation of Native American Graves Protection . . .

Documentation of Associated and Unassociated Caddo Funerary Objects Timothy K. Perttula

What difference does a hundred years make on a small town in East Texas?

Nacogdoches Now and Then Photography by Christopher Talbot Introduction by David Lewis Nacogdoches Now and Then documents a project taken on by Christopher Talbot and his photography class from Stephen F. Austin State University.

The project involved researching historic photographs of Nacogdoches and revisiting the precise locations. The project had two objectives: 1) make art out of history, and 2) bring history alive through art. Using source photographs dating from 1882 to the mid-20th Century, Talbot and his students had to become researchers and explorers in order to realize their objectives. Readers of this book are treated to a blending of Nacogdoches’ past with present, and, using it as a model, may continue the tradition by juxtaposing their own photographic documents against time’s transformation.

CHRISTOPHER TALBOT is an assistant professor of art at Stephen F. Austin State University. He holds a BFA degree in photography from Brigham Young University and a MFA in photography and digital media from the University of Houston. DAVID A. LEWIS holds a BA in art and philosophy (Cum Laude) from the University of Southern Indiana, and both MA and PhD degrees in art history from Indiana University, Bloomington. He is an associate professor of art history at Stephen F. Austin State University.

Nacogdoches Now and Then

978-1-936205-04-2 cloth $29.95 978-1-936205-03-5 paper $19.95

10x7. 96 pp. 58 color, 23 b&w photos. Maps.

Architecture. Photography. Texas History. Photography, Texas. Texas Urban History. Gift Books.

April

Documentation of Associated and Unassociated Caddo Funerary Objects

by Timothy K. Pertulla, et al., presents the documentation and study of Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) funerary objects from prehistoric sites in the collections at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. The study arose from the 2006 concern that SFA was going to lose its anthropology program and its archeological repository. This concern brought Texas archeologists together to determine what might be done to keep the programs viable and to preserve Caddo articles in SFA’s collection. The result, ultimately, was a continuing partnership between archeologists, the Caddo Nation, the university, and permanent faculty hired to maintain and study the Caddo collection. Documentation is the record of the completed NAGPRA inventories of funerary objects in the SFA collection, which were discovered at five known and recorded sites in northeastern and East Texas. The book documents and describes a number of ceramic vessels in the collection and characterizes vessel type and decoration as found at the burial sites. Among the book’s features are maps of burial mound sites and illustrations of funerary objects found there. More than 100 colored photographs of funerary objects and artifacts illustrate the text; accompanying tables and appendixes detail these items.

TIMOTHY K. PERTTULA is the manager of Archeological & Environmental Consultants, LLC (Austin, Texas), a cultural resources management firm. He has a PhD from the University of Washington (1989) and has pursued research on Caddo archaeology and ethnohistory for more than 30 years.

Documentation of Associated and Unassociated Caddo Funerary Objects 978-1-936205-02-8 paper $34.95

81/2x11. 210 pp. 100+ color photos Native American Studies. Texas History. Archaeology.

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FINE PRESS BOOKS • FINE PRES The LaNana Creek Press (LCP) was founded in 1998 as the fine arts press of Stephen F. Austin State University, with Charles D. Jones as director and printer and David A. Lewis as editor. Using alternative and traditional printing and binding methods, LCP produces limited edition books in the fine press tradition. Each year, the Press publishes one or two major books and produces a number of less ambitious publications. LCP provides SFA faculty and students rare opportunities to work together on collaborative projects. LCP has quickly established a reputation for innovation and quality. Its books may be found in such important rare book collections as the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University. The first major LCP book, Shakespeare’s Pound: Illuminated Cantos, was originally distributed by Ashgate Publishing in London.

The Knight’s Tale

Interpretation, summary, and analysis by Dr. Marc Guidry Geoffrey Chaucer Design and images by Charles D. Jones Written in Middle English, this contemporary version of Chaucer’s classic tale is 112 pages with 28 original images by Charles Jones. The edition of fifty was designed and printed by Charles Jones with Terri Goggans assisting. It was printed on Hahnemuhle Guttenberg paper and set in Goudy Thirty and Gill Sans types. The book is quarter bound on boards using Hartaman leather and silk book cloth with an accompanying slipcase.

Each edition contains a music cd performed by Miki, Charles, and David Kulhavy.

A Forest Insect Alphabet David Kulhavy Design and images by Charles D. Jones A Forest Insect Alphabet features 51 original woodcuts drawn and cut by Charles Jones. Twenty-six images are color woodcuts, forest insects chosen to represent each letter of the alphabet and accompanied by 23 black and white wood engravings. A descriptive poetic quatrain printed from handset type is below each color print. The wood engravings offer a detailed study of the insects and are accompanied by scientific text. Printed by hand on a Vandercook III letterpress, the book features insects important for their beauty, impact on the forest environment, and intricate ecology.

The colors used for each woodcut are based on the named insect. The book is 113/x113/4 inches and housed in a clam-shell box in Canapetta bookcloth with a gold stamped leather inset on the spine.

CHARLES D. JONES is the director of Lanana Creek Press and has taught printing and bookmaking for over thirty years. DAVID KULHAVY has been awarded the regional National Association of Interpretation award for his interpretations of Dr. Dave’s Bugs.

CHARLES D. JONES, Regents Professor of Art, is the director and master printer of the LaNana Creek Press at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas and has taught printmaking since 1971. MARC GUIDRY received his PhD from Louisiana State University. He has published essays on Chaucer in The Chaucer Review and Medieval Rhetoric, a Routledge casebook.

The Knight’s Tale

A Forest Insect Alphabet

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978-1-936205-26-4 Limited Edition $500.00x

14x10. 112 pp. 28 woodcut images.

Art. Poetry.

September

111/2x12. 68 pp. 50 woodcut images.

Art. Insects/Entomology. Gift Books. Wildlife.

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SS BOOKS • FINE PRESS BOOKS Printed by Lanana Creek Press in an edition of 50 copies . . .

Candide

This 46-page book features 23 poems by Larry D. Thomas, 2008 Texas Poet Laureate.

The Porfolio

Dark Pearls

Voltaire Etchings by William Arscott Designed by Charles Jones

Larry D. Thomas Illustrated by Corrine Jones Designed by Charles D. Jones

Candide by Voltaire was created by Charles Jones and William Arscott at the LaNana Creek Press in an edition of 50 copies. It was set in Lutetia Roman, 16pt for the English translation and Lutetia Italic, 16pt type for the original French Text. It is printed on Magnani Pescia cream paper. The images are original etchings by William Arscott and were printed from the original copper plates. The individual signatures are hand stitched and housed in a clamshell box covered with Chinese red silk book cloth over boards.

Featuring 23 poems by Larry D. Thomas, 2008 Texas Poet Laureate, the seventeen images in this book are from original drawings by Corrine Jones, translated into wood cuts and photopolymer relief plates by Charles Jones. This edition of twenty copies was printed on Somerset Book Wove White. The text is Bell MT type and printed from polymer plates. Volumes are quarter bound with tan Harmatan leather and printed brown book cloth over boards with printed Bugra end papers.

CHARLES JONES, Regents Professor of Art, has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Universidad de las Americas, Mexico, DF in printmaking and a master’s degree from New Mexico Highlands University. He is the director and master printer of the LaNana Creek Press at Stephen F. Austin State University.

LARRY D. THOMAS, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, has published eleven collections of poetry. His poetry has appeared in numerous journals, including the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, The Austin Chronicle, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review, Boston Literary Magazine, The Chattahoochee Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Concho River Review, Cottonwood, Green Hills Literary Lantern, International Poetry Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Louisiana Literature, The Midwest Quarterly, Poet Lore, Poetry Depth Quarterly, Poppyseed Kolache, Puerto del Sol, Rattle, Red Rock Review, Relief, Rosebud Magazine, San Pedro River Review, Southwest Review, Southwestern American Literature, Spoon River Poetry Review, Sulphur River Literary Review, The Texas Observer, The Texas Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, and Windhover. On April 19, 2007, he was appointed by the Texas Legislature as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate.

Candide

Dark Pearls

978-1-936205-21-9 Limited Edition $495.00x

978-1-936205-24-0 Limited Edition $395.00x

153/4x113/4. 84 pp. 28 woodcut images.

Art. Cultural Studies. Gift Books. Literary Studies.

September

91/2x13. 46 pp. 17 woodcut images.

Art. Poetry.

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Contains CD of works selected to be presented at the 2011 ISCM World New Music Days in Zagreb, Croatia. . .

Contemporary Art Music in Texas Edited by Stephen Lias

Fine press books Forty copies were printed and bound by hand at the LaNana Creek Press.

The Bear Went Over the Mountain Dinh Viet Luc and Charles Jones This work is a collaboration by two artists who were enemy combatants during the Vietnam/American war. Charles Jones was a young Marine Platoon Commander and Dinh Viet Luc was in the North Vietnamese Army. Each artist created ten woodcut or linoleum plates and wrote of their experiences. It is 13 by 9 1/2 inches and numbers 86 pages of text with twenty original print-images on Zerkell Book and handmade Vietnamese Bamboo papers. It was printed and quarter bound with Hartaman leather and Japanese silk book cloth over boards, and is housed in a Japanese silk cloth covered clam shell box.

With a population of close to 25 million and a size greater than many independent countries, Texas is home to an incredible variety of vibrant musical communities. Contemporary art music flourishes in disciplines ranging from experimentalism to concert music to film-scoring. While cataloguing the full extent of composing and performing in this diverse landscape would be a near-impossible task, it is our hope that this volume (and others that will follow) will begin to fill the conspicuous gap in the materials currently available.

Our decision to focus this first edition on thirty representative composers, along with some organizations and academic degree programs, was simply a result of needing a practical and achievable place to start. Texas is home to world-class symphonies, opera and ballet companies, performing venues, and countless other performers and ensembles that regularly feature new works. We hope that future editions will allow us to expand to include these things, as well as additional information such as recordings available and competitions within the state.

STEPHEN LIAS’s works have been performed widely in the US and abroad, including Sydney, Moscow, and New York’s Weill Recital Hall. He is published by Conners Publications, ALRY Publications, Brassworks 4, Cimarron Music Press, and Southern Music, and his song cycle Songs of a Sourdough is available on Centaur Records.

CHARLES JONES, Regents Professor of Art, has a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Universidad de las Americas, Mexico, DF in printmaking and a master’s degree from New Mexico Highlands University. He is the director and master printer of the LaNana Creek Press at Stephen F. Austin State University.

The bear Went Over the Mountain

Contemporary Art Music in Texas

978-1-936205-25-7 Limited Edition $525.00x

978-1-936205-15-8 paper $19.95

13x91/2. 86 pp. 20 print images.

Art. Military History. Gift Books. Philosophy.

September

63/4x101/4. 60 pp. 15 color, 10 b&w photos.

Performance CD. Music.

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New from Dr. Archie McDonald and SFA Press. . .

Back Then Again

Simple Pleasures and Everyday Heroes Archie P. McDonald 978-1-936205-06-6 paper $13.95

6x9. 116 pp. 17 b&w photos.

Memoir.

September Red River Radio, an affiliate of National Public Radio, headquartered in Shreveport, Louisiana, supplements their broadcast of the Morning Edition for five minutes each Friday at 7:35 a.m. for “the comments of our own Dr. Archie McDonald.” Broadcast to large portions of Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and East Texas, McDonald’s comments are memories of growing up in the South of the 1940s and 1950s, his collegiate and grad school activities during the 1960s, and other miscellaneous adventures that have ushered him into the 21st Century. But, a broadcast takes a few minutes and then disappears.

The printed page—McDonald’s natural habitat—lasts longer. So here we are with a bit of permanence, Back Then Again: More Simple Pleasures and Everyday Heroes.

ARCHIE P. MCDONALD is the author or editor of more than forty books and monographs. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas, where he is a Regent’s Professor of History and community liaison at Stephen F. Austin State University, and a weekly commentator on Red River Radio.

First Texas Woman of Letters Reclaimed!

Dreamers on Horseback Karle Wison Baker

978-1-936205-10-3 cloth $21.95

51/2x8. 256 pp.

Poetry. Women’s Studies.

June Dreamers on Horseback collects the body of Baker’s poetry into a single volume; introduced and annotated by Baker biographer Sarah Ragland Jackson, the book reintroduces Baker to a 21st Century audience. During Baker’s lifetime, the poet—despite her residence in East Texas—published her work widely in some of the top journals of the country, then and now, including The Yale Review, Poetry, and Harper’s. She was the first woman to be inducted into the Texas Institute of Letters, and, for nearly five decades, she was Texas’s most widely published and regarded poet. Dreamers on Horseback, first published by the now defunct Southwest Press of Texas in 1931, garnered Baker a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Seventy years after its publication, Dreamers is once again available.

KARLE WILSON BAKER (b. 1878) was a long-time resident of Nacogdoches and the East Texas Piney Woods. She was the author of numerous books of poetry and children’s literature (most published by Yale University Press), including Blue Smoke, Burning Bush, and The Garden of the Plynck. She died in 1960.

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John Heliker Drawing on the New Deal David A. Lewis Foreword

by Jed Perl Designed by Michael T. Ricker

John Heliker: Drawing on the New Deal marks the rediscovery of a remarkable and largely unknown body of early work by an eminent American artist. Heliker (1909-2000) developed a highly personal and expressive approach to drawing during the WPA years. His early drawings compare to his Social Realist contemporaries Ben Shahn and Philip Evergood.

Heliker shared in their political activism and produced many anti-fascist cartoons for The New Masses, some represented here. During WWII and the immediate Postwar years, Heliker earned critical acclaim for his bold experimentations with biomorphic and architectonic abstractions. By the late 1950s and in subsequent decades, his style became more muted, and he achieved a tonalist manner of great poignancy. Heliker developed a nuanced, impressionistic painting style in response to abstract expressionism—an approach that characterized his mature style.

Heliker earned the Prix de Rome, a Guggenheim fellowship, and three Ford Foundation purchase prizes, among other honors, including a full scale retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1968). He was connected with the abstract expressionist Philip Guston, who became a life-long friend. Heliker taught at Columbia University (1947-74) and later at the Art Students League of New York (1975-78). He co-founded the New York Studio School in 1965 (with fellow artists Philip Guston, Leland Bell and Mercedes Matter). Heliker was also associated with the composers: Carl Ruggles, John Cage, and Lou Harrison. He also created mask design for the dancer and choreographer, Merce Cunningham.

DAVID A. LEWIS specializes in modern art and has written about Dorothy Shakespear Pound, Leonard Baskin, and Michael (Corinne) West. JED PERL is the art critic for The New Republic. Among his books are Eyewitness, New Art City, and Antoine’s Alphabet. He is currently working on the first full-length biography of Alexander Calder.

John Heliker: Drawing the New Deal

978-1-936205-32-5 cloth $36.95 9x12. 96 pp. 78 illustrations. 2 b&w photos.

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An important overview of Postmodern American poetry . . .

After the Tsunami is an extraordinary work . . .

The Dialects of the Tribe

After the Tsunami

Post Modern American Poets and Poetry Lewis Turco

Annam Manthiram

978-1-936205-30-1 paper $29.95s

6x9. 220 pp.

Literary Criticism.

October Lewis Turco’s The Dialects of the Tribe: Postmodern American Poets and Poetry defines what distinguishes American verse from English. Although American poetry and poets have long been influenced and confined by English poetics, Turco suggests that American poetry becomes “American” following the Second World War. His new critical book identifies the poetic movements and the movers of the Postmodern era and includes overviews of such writers as Robert Bly, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Creely, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Mezey, Karl Shapiro, Dana Gioia, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, Weldon Kees, Sylvia Plath, and numerous others. He critiques such movements as the Black Mountain poets, the Beats, the Academics, the Surrealists, the Neoformalists, the Plainstylists, and provides readers with a long overdue summation of the 20th Century’s most important—and complexly diverse—poetic second half.

LEWIS TURCO is the author of The Book of Forms: A Handbook of Poetics. Emeritus Professor of English from the State University of New York College at Oswego, among his recent volumes are Fearful Pleasures: The Complete Poems, 1959-2007 and Satan’s Scourge: A Narrative of the Age of Witchcraft in England and New England 1580-1697.

Winner of the 2010 SFA Press Poetry Prize.

The History of Permanence Gary Fincke

978-1-936205-19-6 paper $16.95

6x9. 92 pp.

Poetry.

September Gary Fincke’s poetry is rich, deeply layered, complex, yet his narratives and lyrics are absolutely approachable. Fincke makes significant connections to his readers by virtue of both his keen observation of subject matters—the close, personal contact he makes on behalf of us—and how masterfully and eloquently he brings these to our consciousness. Fincke is a poet who binds us to the past, the present, and the future experience, and makes even the most ordinary of matters seem extraordinary. Echoing poet Michael Waters’s appraisal of Fincke’s 2008 collection, The Fire Landscape, this newest volume “is an eloquent addition to a masterful body of work by one of our best multi-genre writers.” Indeed, The History of Permanence assures Fincke’s important and essential place in American poetry.

GARY FINCKE directs the Writers Institute and is a professor of English and creative writing at Susquehanna University.

In Manthiram’s After the Tsunami, Siddhartha, an Indian man, appears to have it all: a successful career as a schoolteacher in the United States, a perceptive wife, and a son and daughter who respect him as much as they adore him.

However, Siddhartha’s past haunts him as he cannot help but relive the brutal and fearful events he faced as a child in an Indian orphanage. Despite his achievement and the physical distance he has put between himself and the harrowing events of his youth, those events persist and impose themselves upon his life.

At the age of nine, Siddhartha loses his family to a tsunami and is taken in by a boys’ home, run entirely by “Mothers” who are physically and emotionally abusive. Siddhartha alternates between describing the traumatic conditions of his confinement as a child and his seemingly carefree life in America. Only when his daughter, engaged to an Indian man, asks Siddhartha to return to his homeland is he driven to confront his childhood. Siddhartha knows that he must visit the orphanage one last time. He must return to the place of his youth’s destruction to let go of his past or be lost in self-torture forever.

Cutting in its clarity and profoundly insightful, After the Tsunami constructs an astute landscape of friendship despite depravity, compassion amidst horror, resiliency above misfortune. This is a powerful first novel of survival and redemption. After the Tsunami will haunt and move readers everywhere.

ANNAM MANTHIRAM is also the author of Dysfunction: Stories, which was a Finalist in the 2010 Elixir Press Fiction Award Annam’s work has been published in over twenty literary journals, including Cream City Review, Sierra Nevada Review, and Monkeybicycle. A graduate of the MA writing program at the University of Southern California, Manthiram resides in New Mexico.

After the Tsunami

978-1-936205-43-1 paper $18.95 6x9. 280 pp.

Literary Novel.

September

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Walpert’s musical language turns experience into art.

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A History of Glass Bryan Walpert

978-1-936205-41-7 paper $15.95

51/2x81/2. 80 pp.

Poetry.

October “So many poems articulate either certainty or its opposite, nihilism. What I love . . . is that the speaker takes the time to change his or her mind; this is a poem that thinks. . . . And what thoughts: goats, lutes, and shot glasses abound, as do intelligence and sly humor.”—David Kirby, judge, James Wright Poetry Award “I imagine it was a matter of the sheer control, the precision of the descriptive language, the beautiful cadences. We are participants . . . standing at the shoulder of the poet in the deeper darkness before dawn as description gives way to meditation and thence to the more personal conversation we overhear. It is a beautifully measured poem which deepens even as the day lightens.”—James Norcliffe, judge, New Zealand Poetry Society International Poetry Competition BRYAN WALPERT’s work has been published widely in such journals as AGNI, Crab Orchard Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Poet Lore, and Tar River Poetry. He has received a number of awards, including the James Wright Poetry Award. He teaches creative writing at Massey University in Palmerston North, New Zealand.

Shearin combines the mystical with the prosaic, linking animals and motherhood, aging and money.

Moving the Piano Faith Shearin

978-1-936205-40-0 paper $16.95

6x9. 100 pp.

Poetry.

September In the title poem of Shearin’s Moving The Piano, a piano hangs above a city street, bundled and displaced, awkward when it should be elegant, similar to her childhood of damaged Christmas trees, misunderstood pets, and untended lawns. The collection pays notice to foxes and jellyfish, to the places where she can hear the ocean; it ponders aging and money and motherhood. Shearin says of the piano: “We cannot/ turn away from its startling/ moment of freedom, its perilous fling/ before it returns to the burdens of this earth.” Her poems capture that perilous fling.

FAITH SHEARIN’s previous books of poetry are The Owl Question (2002) and The Empty House (2008). She has received the May Swenson Award and awards from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. Recent work appears in Ploughshares, Poetry East, and North American Review. Her poems have also been read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac.

The Knight’s Tale

Interpretation, summary, and analysis

by Marc Guidry Geoffrey Chaucer Design and images by Charles D. Jones Geoffrey Chaucer’s ‘Knight’s Tale’ is a collaboration between Chaucer scholar Marc Guidry and artist/fine press artisan Charles Jones. Jones drew and cut 22 woodblocks to illustrate the text under the guidance of Guidry’s close reading of Chaucer’s original “Knight’s Tale.” Jones’s images reference Ancient Greece, where the tale is set, rather than Medieval Europe, as had been the example in previous, “gothic” versions of Chaucer’s work. While most illustrated editions of the “Knight’s Tale,” historically, tend to romanticize the work’s chivalric content, Guidry and Jones’s vision of the tale is both new and controversial. Guidry’s textual commentary analyzes how the “Knight’s Tale” presents a complex view of chivalric love and warfare that refuses to glorify these subjects. Jones’s images unflinchingly reveal the brutality of war, particularly the hardship it brings to women. As such, this new edition is truer to Chaucer’s original vision for his tale as opposed to how it has most often been interpreted. The Stephen F. Austin State University Press edition is a tradereplica of the LaNana Creek fine-press volume. Also included with this edition is a CD of dramatic readings produced

by Guidry; the CD features the “Knight’s Tale” read in Chaucer’s Middle English dialect.

CHARLES D. JONES, Regents Professor of Art, is the director and master printer of the LaNana Creek Press at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas and has taught printmaking since 1971. MARC GUIDRY received his PhD from Louisiana State University. He has published essays on Chaucer in The Chaucer Review and Medieval Rhetoric, a Routledge casebook.

The Knight’s Tale

978-1-936205-23-3 cloth $35.00x 9x12. 140 pp. 37 woodcut images. CD. Art. Poetry.

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A knockout collection from SFA Press . . .

Glass sharp details, images, and conversation . . .

The Widows and Orphans Fund

So There!

Alan Elyshevitz

Nicole Reid 978-1-936205-46-2 paper $16.95

6x9. 228 pp.

Collection of Short Fiction.

September

The Widows and Orphans Fund is a collection of stories that differ superficially but share a common theme: isolation and the struggle to embrace or reject the need for connection. In “Father Figure,” isolation and connection is explored in the context of family. In “Tribes,” the phenomenon of friendship is considered, while “Bad Credit” and “If You Lived Here You’d Be Home by Now” examine workplace interactions. Regardless, all characters face a dilemma: whether or not—and how it may or may not be possible—to cultivate a genuine relationship with another.

With the graceful lyricism of a musician’s ear, the stories of So There! inhabit the quiet spaces of heartache and the loud spaces of rage. Their landscapes harken back to the South of Reid’s first novel, In the Breeze of Passing Things, and form their own kind of topography, the human heart, and its many urges. Within the world of this collection, girls and women sidle the precipice of new lives and new selves.

ALAN ELYSHEVITZ is a short story writer and poet who lives in East Norriton, PA. His fiction has received awards from Antietam Review, The Cream City Review, Pebble Lake Review, Briar Cliff Review, and Yemassee. He is a two-time recipient of a fellowship in fiction writing from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

In “If You Must Know,” a young woman serves as host to a cicada and tries to recreate the bliss of her first sexual experience, the very moment when the insect chose to burrow into her. “Pearl in a Pocket” is the story of young teen Vyla— one of thirteen sisters, some living, more miscarried—who discovers how powerless love can be. In “So There,” a 15-year old girl recalls the rhythm of nights her father swung her around the Black Diamond Lounge while her mother stole dances with anyone and everyone else.

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As Good As Mango PO EM

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As Good As Mango Anand Prahlad

978-1-936205-35-6 paper $15.95

51/4x8. 92 pp.

Poetry. African American Studies.

June

As Good as Mango is a journey told in the sensual language of blues and jazz. It moves from the landscape of colonial Africa into the colonial American South, and into the present. The hauntings of the past come alive with echoes of unclaimed history.

The poems in this collection simultaneously affirm and inspect black identity—and identity in general. These are the poems of the bittersweet taste on the tongues of exiles searching for home.

Recipient of the 2010 William T. Kemper Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, ANAND PRAHLAD is the author of Hear My Story and Other Poems. He has published critical studies on black folklore, including Reggae Wisdom: Proverbs in Jamaican Music. He teaches folklore, film, and poetry at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

The girls and women of these stories stand at the edge of rebirth undeniably aware that who they are—their shape, their class, their family, their brand of love or crazy—makes them far more complicated than the world will allow. They are brave and terrified, isolated and enveloped; they are dead and bleed to live. And all seem to stand with hands on hips, defiant in that knowledge, even perhaps eating it up.

NICOLE LOUISE REID is the author of the novel In the Breeze of Passing Things. Her award-winning short stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Other Voices, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, and Meridian. A recipient of the Willamette Award in Fiction, she teaches creative writing at the University of Southern Indiana.

She lives in Newburgh, Indiana.

So There!

978-1-936205-45-5 paper $16.95 6x9. 176 pp.

Collection of Short Fiction.

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A Last Resort for Desperate People

A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness

Stories and a Novella Jeremy Griffin

George Looney 978-1-936205-48-6 paper $16.95

6x9. 192 pp.

Collection of Short Fiction.

January A middle-schooler attempts to bring a mix tape to a girl he has a crush on, a girl whose star-athlete brother has recently died. A father joins forces with his ex-wife and a renowned intervention specialist to rescue his daughter from a UFO cult. The eight stories that make up Jeremy Griffin’s debut are tender glimpses into the sorts of lives most of us know best: lives of wonder dashed with occasional clumsiness, lives lived by people ultimately out to do the very best they can. This is a book of prose so natural and crafted it reads like overheard thoughts. A Last Resort for Desperate People marks the debut of a powerful writer with a distinct, endlessly engaging voice and vision of the world.

JEREMY GRIFFIN received his MFA in creative writing at Virginia Tech. His stories and essays have appeared in a number of publications. He teaches at Virginia Tech and the Virginia Military Institute.

Those Like Us Christopher Lowe 978-1-936205-38-7 paper $21.95

6x9. 346 pp.

Fiction.

July

Those Like Us presents characters struggling against the weight of memory. The collection opens with the story of a teenager who connects with his dying father through the football rivalry that has always divided their family. In “Dunn’s River Falls,” a young veteran is thrust back into a world of chaos when his wife suffers a terrible accident on their honeymoon. “Variations on a Line from Joe Namath” centers on a high school football coach trying to carve out an identity for himself as he struggles with the legacy of his father and his own past as an athlete. Coaches and linemen, bartenders and drunks, tour guides and EMTs, the characters in these stories are obsessed and adrift.

CHRISTOPHER LOWE’S stories have appeared in Third Coast, Bellevue Literary Review, Fiction Weekly, and in other literary journals and magazines. Originally from Jackson, Mississippi, he now lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana, with his wife and daughter.

In verse and in prose, GEORGE LOONEY’s fifth book of poetry, A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness, delves into the worlds of birds and animals, fish and insects, looking for ways to describe and maybe even understand the various madnesses that love brings to us and leads us to. In the lives of the beasts these poems find much hard evidence of loss and despair, but these fables and parables offer, along the way, absolution and, yes, even salvation, of a sort. Looney’s work creates a realm where myth and history come together to form a natural world, one that allows for the possibility of finding, carved in rock, “a figure that could be divine.”

There, in the mundane habits of fish and fowl and animal and insect, he finds, inscribed, an elegant language that pronounces the passions we need to claim as ours in order to remain human.

“Looney’s A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness is a beautiful and wondrous book chock full of fantastic poems—poems of crocodiles, ghosts, sea robins and angels. Here the magic of the familiar, the mystery of the unseen is seamlessly and lyrically celebrated. This is an inspired and original book.”— Malena Mörling “George Looney’s poetry resonates at the level of myth and history, evoking a kind of ancient music alongside the details of our contemporary lives—the way weather and the human psyche join to make a dream. This is an important and impressive new collection by one of our most interesting poets.”—Laura Kasischke George Looney is the author of Attendant Ghosts, Animals Housed in the Pleasure of Flesh, and Open Between Us. His book of fiction is Hymn of Ash. He chairs the BFA in creative writing program at Penn State Erie, edits Lake Effect, and is translation editor of Mid-American Review and co-director of the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival.

A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness

978-1-936205-34-9 paper $16.95 6x9. 80 pp.

Poetry.

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Winner of the SFA Press 2010 Fiction Competition

Women Who Sleep With Animals Lisa Norris

extraordinary events (e.g., a bear charging the biologists who study her, a woman finding herself in the company of her husband’s lover at a sex toy party) lead to moments of revelation. In the final story, a woman negotiating a shocking sexual offer finds comfort, as do many of the characters, in the “mammalian familiar.

Eight of the nine stories have been published in literary magazines including Notre Dame Review, South Dakota Review, Rambler, Toad, Terrain.org, Ascent, and Blueline.

The nine stories in Women Who Sleep With Animals offer realistic, dark, sometimes humorous tales of ordinary women living as animals and with animals, human and otherwise. In settings that range from small college towns to suburbs in both the Eastern and Western US, Norris offers characters who negotiate sex, marriage, infidelity, racism, cancer, war, aging and loss with the companionship of each other and non-human animals.

The protagonists are biologists, retail salespeople, artists, professors, wives, mothers, and lovers. They have the problems of ordinary people, but

LISA NORRIS’s first book of stories, Toy Guns, won the 1999 Willa Cather Fiction Prize and was published by Helicon Nine Press.

Perhaps not surprisingly, she earned a BS in Fisheries and Wildlife as an undergraduate. She is an assistant professor at Central Washington University.

Women who sleep with animals 978-1-936205-18-9 paper $18.95

6x9. 160 pp.

Fiction.

September

Poetry at its best. . .

Keeping Even

Field Theory

Sheila Sanderson

Meredith Trede

978-1-936205-42-4 paper $15.95

978-1-936205-37-0 paper $15.95

6x9. 92 pp.

Poetry.

October

6x9. 80 pp.

Poetry.

September

“Sheila Sanderson writes a mature and committed poetry—a poetry that cuts to the bone, a poetry committed to cherishing the elemental wonders surrounding her life. Sanderson pays close attention to nature and her appreciation is specific, fresh, and hard-won, for Sanderson is a poet who, through hands-on observation, realizes the ironies and inequities of experience. And so her vision is subtle, wry, and realistic. The experience of a Sanderson poem is always essential. Her voice is uniquely her own, and a reader will hear Biblical overlays at the edges, in her poetry’s fierce music, in its gravity and concern. Sanderson commands a consistent and sophisticated syntax, and her voice, her style, support and include the contradictions of hope—which is where her poems brilliantly lead.”— Christopher Buckley SHEILA SANDERSON lives in the high desert mountains of Prescott, Arizona and teaches the arts & letters program at Prescott College.

She serves as a poetry and creative nonfiction editor for Alligator Juniper.

Meredith Trede’s Field Theory is thick with lives; when the reader opens the book it’s as if he or she has walked into a crowded room. She makes portraits with great musicality and tenderness, invites readers into her story, and encourages them to recall their own parallel stories and to draw their own conclusions.

“Field Theory is a book of grown up poems written by and for grown ups: unflinching, tender, original, and deeply skilled. It’s a terrific book.”

—Thomas Lux Meredith Trede is a founding publisher of Toadlily Press. Her chapbook, Out of the Book, was published in Desire Path, and she has received residency fellowships from Ragdale, Constance Saltonstall Foundation, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia and France.

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