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Stunning art from the world’s most famous ranch . . .

King Ranch

A Legacy in Art Noe Perez Edited by Bob Kinnan, William E. Reaves, and Linda J. Reaves

Covering 825,000 acres in the Coastal Plain and Brush Country of South Texas, King Ranch, established in 1853, looms large in Texas and American history. Founded by the visionary Richard King, it has captured for generations the essence of the American West. As Tom Lea asserted in his epic 1953 history, the spirit of the place “is alive in the land itself, in the far quietness of growing grass and grazing herds.”

In King Ranch: A Legacy in Art, editors Bob Kinnan, William E. Reaves, and Linda J. Reaves and a team of collaborators present a beautiful, informative account of the ranch and its place in the artistic heritage of the region. Pairing original paintings by artist Noe Perez with insightful essays from curators Bruce Shackelford and Ron Tyler, this book celebrates how “King Ranch culture” has enriched appreciation for the decorative, practical, and ne arts in Texas and the greater American West.

Opening with a foreword by Jamey Clement, chair of the board for King Ranch, Inc., and continuing with a brief introduction to the ranch’s history by Bob Kinnan, King Ranch: A Legacy in Art will heighten appreciation of the natural beauty and artistic in uence of this legendary place.

Number Twenty-four: Joe and Betty Moore Texas Art Series

BOB KINNAN previously served as manager of the Santa Gertrudis Heritage Society and King Ranch Archives and has been King Ranch Historian since 2016. WILLIAM E. REAVES is the author of Texas Art and a Wildca er’s Dream, coauthor for Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art, and coeditor of Sense of Home: e Art of Richard Stout. LINDA J. REAVES is coeditor of Sense of Home: e Art of Richard Stout and coauthor of A Book Maker’s Art: e Bond of Arts and Le ers at Texas A&M University Press.

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At Home on the Great Plains of Texas

e Paintings of Laura Lewis

Laura Lewis and Christina Mulkey

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Horses in the American West

Portrayals by Twenty-Four Artists

Heidi Brady and Sco White

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King Ranch A Legacy in Art

featuring the paintings of Noe Perez

“Noe Perez’s calm, vast, serene, humble, boundless, and picturesque landscapes defy the stereotype. Noe’s insight is in understanding that the land that others believe only to be a blistering wilderness is, ultimately, captivating and seductive. . . . It is a South Texas that he knows well. His art re ects his passion for and knowledge of place.” —Ron Tyler, from the book

A place where the romance of ca le drives lives on . . .

The Historic Fort Worth Stockyards

Carolyn Brown and J'Nell Pate

With breathtaking color photography and absorbing historical detail, Carolyn Brown and J’Nell Pate tell the story of the Fort Worth Stockyards, the place that earned the city the nickname “Cowtown.” From the rise of the stockyards as a vital railhead for the ranching industry through the postwar decline and rebirth as a National Historic District, rst-time visitors and long-time acquaintances will nd this chronicle engaging and enjoyable.

Brown and Pate accompany readers through the early days of se lement, the ca le drives that saw thousands of head of livestock going up the trail through what was then li le more than a frontier outpost, and the rising tide of industry that accompanied the arrival of the railroads. Continuing a er World War II when the changes in the livestock industry led to decline of their importance, the stockyards, once a bustling, vital part of the regional culture and economy, fell into slow decay.

In 1976, citizens banded together to create a National Historic District. Today, the Fort Worth Stockyards a ract thousands of visitors from all over the world with restaurants, entertainment venues, and the world’s only twice-daily longhorn ca le drive along East Exchange Avenue.

Brown’s lens captures the vibrancy of today’s stockyards while Pate’s research depicts the drama of the area’s rise, fall, and rebirth. e Historic Fort Worth Stockyards provides a visual and factual tour of an unforge able place where heritage is celebrated and preserved.

Nancy and Ted Paup Ranching Heritage Series

CAROLYN BROWN’s stunning photography also appeared in Caddo: Visions of a Southern Cypress Lake and Architecture at Speaks: S. C. P. Vosper and Ten Remarkable Buildings at Texas A&M. She resides in Dallas, Texas. J'NELL PATE, dean of Fort Worth historians, is also the author of North of the River: A Brief History of North Fort Worth, Livestock Legacy: e Fort Worth Stockyards, 1887–1987, and Arsenal of Defense: Fort Worth’s Military Legacy. She resides in Bedford, Texas.

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Caddo

Visions of a Southern Cypress Lake

ad Si on Photography by Carolyn Brown

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Livestock Legacy

e Fort Worth Stockyards, 1887–1987

J'Nell L. Pate

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Exploring the legacy of an artisanal tradition . . .

Artisans of Trabajo Rústico

The Legacy of Dionicio Rodríguez Patsy Pittman Light Photographs by Kent Rush

As documented in Patsy Pi man Light’s awardwinning book, Capturing Nature, Mexican artisan Dionicio Rodríguez arrived in San Antonio in the 1920s and created concrete bus stop shelters, park benches, footbridges, and other structures in the style known as faux bois, or trabajo rústico. Following on the success of that previous work, Light, with photographer and artist Kent Rush, presents a comprehensive look at the legacy of Rodríguez as re ected in the works of those whom he trained, mentored, or in uenced.

Rodríguez captured nature in his work, but he also continues to capture our imagination. Drawing these artistic creations out of the urban landscape, Artisans ofTrabajo Rústico makes the nearly invisible fully visible to the critic, the historian, and especially to the casual viewer. Light asserts that San Antonio has the largest concentration of this art form in the country and includes copious full-color photography of the work of Rodríguez and other artisans.

is handsomely illustrated and painstakingly documented work o ers the broadest possible panorama for the cra and endearing familiarity of this form. Inspired by nature, built by hand, and placed in the service of the public, these “rustic works” continue to provide enjoyment, convenience, and a touch of artistic elegance to public and private landscapes in San Antonio and beyond. Light and Rush’s work a ords a fresh and wide-ranging look at this important artisanal tradition.

Number Nineteen: Rio Grande/Río Bravo: Borderlands Culture and Traditions

PATSY PI MAN LIGHT is the author of Capturing Nature: e Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodríguez, winner of the Ron Tyler Award for Best Illustrated Book from the Texas Historical Commission. She lives in San Antonio. KENT RUSH is professor emeritus of art and art history at the University of Texas, San Antonio. A former Fulbright and NEA fellow, his work has been exhibited extensively across the United States and internationally.

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e Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodríguez

Patsy Pi man Light

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Outsider Art in Texas

Lone Stars

Jay Wehnert

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Essays, poetry, and ction that explore the meaning of life “in between” . . .

Nepantla Familias

An Anthology of Mexican American Literature on Families in between Worlds Edited by Sergio Troncoso

Nepantla Familias brings together Mexican American narratives that explore and negotiate the many permutations of living in between di erent worlds—how the authors or their characters create, or fail to create, a cohesive identity amid the contradictions in their lives. Nepantla—or living in the in-between space of the borderland—is the focus of this anthology. e essays, poems, and short stories explore the in-between moments in Mexican American life—the family dynamics of living between traditional and contemporary worlds, between Spanish and English, between cultures with traditional and shi ing identities. In times of change, family values are either adapted or discarded in the quest for self-discovery, part of the process of selecting and composing elements of a changing identity.

Edited by award-winning writer and scholar Sergio Troncoso, this anthology includes works from familiar and acclaimed voices such as David Dorado Romo, Sandra Cisneros, Alex Espinoza, Reyna Grande, and Francisco Cantú, as well as from important new voices, such as Stephanie Li, David Dominguez, and ire’ne lara silva. ese are writers who open and expose the in-between places: through or at borders; among the past, present, and future; from tradition to innovation; between languages; in gender; about the wounds of the past and the victories of the present; of life and death.

Nepantla Familias shows the quintessential American experience that revives important foundational values through immigrants and the children of immigrants. Here readers will nd a glimpse of contemporary Mexican American experience; here, also, readers will experience complexities of the geographic, linguistic, and cultural borders common to us all.

Wittliff Collections Literary Series

SERGIO TRONCOSO is the author of e Last Tortilla and Other Stories, A Peculiar Kind of Immigrant’s Son, and Crossing Borders: Personal Essays. He coedited Our Lost Border: Essays on Life amid the NarcoViolence, which won the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association and the International Latino Book Award for Best Latino-focused Non ction Book. A Fulbright scholar, Troncoso is a resident faculty member of the Yale Writers’ Workshop and president of the Texas Institute of Le ers.

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e Mexican Texans Phyllis McKenzie

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Telling Border Life Stories

Four Mexican American Women Writers

Donna M Kabalen de Bichara

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A cross-disciplinary examination of the US–Mexico border region . . .

Bridging Cultures

Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands Edited by Harriett Romo and William A. DuPont

Borderlands: they stretch across national boundaries, and they create a unique space that extends beyond the international boundary. ey extend north and south of what we think of as the actual “border,” encompassing even the urban areas of San Antonio, Texas, and Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico, a rming shared identities and a sense of belonging far away from the geographical boundary.

In Bridging Cultures: Re ections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, editors Harrie Romo and William Dupont focus speci cally on the lower reaches of the Rio Grande/Río Bravo as it exits the mountains and meanders across a coastal plain. Bringing together perspectives of architects, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, educators, political scientists, geographers, and creative writers who span and encompass the border, its four sections explore the historical and cultural background of the region; the built environment of the transnational border region and how border towns came to look as they do; shared systems of ideas, beliefs, values, knowledge, norms of behavior, and customs—the way of life we think of as Borderlands culture; and how border security, trade and militarization, and media depictions impact the inhabitants of the Borderlands.

Romo and Dupont present the complexity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands culture and historical heritage, exploring the tangible and intangible aspects of border culture, the meaning and legacy of the Borderlands, its in uence on relationships and connections, and how to manage change in a region evolving dramatically over the past ve centuries and into the future.

Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series

HARRIE ROMO has recently published A Bilateral Perspective on Mexico–US Migration. Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Texas at San Antonio, she directed the university’s Mexico Center from 2006 until her retirement in 2019. WILLIAM A. DUPONT, the Conservation Society of San Antonio Endowed Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University of Texas at San Antonio, and a licensed professional architect, directs the university’s Center for Cultural Sustainability.

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Working Women into the Borderlands Sonia Hernández

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Lost Architecture of the Rio Grande Borderlands W. Eugene George

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A new look at “country music’s unsung hero” . . .

Live Forever

The Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver Courtney S. Lennon Foreword by Brian T. Atkinson Foreword by Bobby Bare

Billy Joe Shaver wrote ten of the eleven songs included on Waylon Jennings’s landmark album Honky Tonk Heroes and played a dominant role in the origins and development of the Outlaw Country movement of the 1970s. He has been named by Ray Wylie Hubbard, alongside Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, as a member of the “holy trinity” of Texas songwriters. He has exerted a Texas-sized in uence on Texas music and especially Texas singer-songwriters, and is cited as a chief inspiration by at least two generations of artists. But although his in uence has been profound, Shaver has the dubious honor of becoming, according to author Courtney S. Lennon, “country music’s unsung hero.”

In Live Forever: e Songwriting Legacy of Billy Joe Shaver, Lennon seeks to give Shaver the recognition his proli c output deserves. She unfolds for readers the complexity and the simplicity of the artist who wrote the songs that Brian T. Atkinson, in his foreword, calls “peaceful and pure, complex and convoluted, mad and merciful”—the musician who wrote “You Just Can’t Beat Jesus Christ” and “ at’s What She Said Last Night,” “Honky Tonk Heroes,” and “Get ee Behind Me Satan.” Based on in-depth interviews with Shaver and a host of notable singer-songwriters, this book reveals and celebrates the saint and the sinner, the earthy intellectual and the hard-drinking commoner, the poet and the cowboy.

John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University

COURTNEY S. LENNON is the founder and editor of Turnstyled Junkpiled, an online roots music magazine, and has contributed to No Depression, Lone Star Music Magazine, and Texas Music Magazine. She resides in Bu alo, New York.

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e Songwriting Legacy of Ray Wylie Hubbard

Brian T. Atkinson

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Without Ge ing Killed or Caught

e Life and Music of Guy Clark

Tamara Saviano

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Singing her way from a church choir in Texas to concerts with the King of Swing . . .

Texas Jazz Singer

Louise Tobin in the Golden Age of Swing and Beyond Kevin Edward Mooney

At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large family that played music together. She once said that she fell out of the cradle singing and all she ever wanted to do was to sing. And sing she did. She sang with Benny Goodman and also performed vocals for such notables as Will Bradley, Bobby Hacke , Harry James (her rst husband), Johnny Mercer, Lionel Hampton, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, Peanuts Hucko (her second husband), and Fletcher Henderson.

Based on extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Texas Jazz Singer recalls both the glamour and the challenges of life on the road and onstage during the golden age of swing and beyond. As it traces American music through the twentieth century, Louise Tobin’s story provides insight into the challenges musicians faced to sustain their careers during the cultural revolution and ever-changing styles and tastes in music.

In this absorbing biography, music historian Kevin Edward Mooney o ers readers a view of a remarkable life in music, told from the vantage point of the woman who lived it. Rather than simply making Tobin an emblem for women in jazz of the big band era, Mooney concentrates instead on Tobin’s life, her struggles and successes, and in doing so captures the particular sense of grace that resonates throughout each phase of Tobin’s notable career.

Number Twenty-five: Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University–Commerce

Music historian KEVIN EDWARD MOONEY has performed as a guitarist with jazz greats Dizzy Gillespie and David Amram. A member of the musicology faculty at Texas State University–San Marcos, he has contributed to AmeriGrove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Journal of Texas Music History, and others.

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I've Been Out ere

On the Road with Legends of Rock 'n' Roll

Grady Gaines

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e History of Texas Music Gary Hartman

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e surprising history of Texas’ original art colony . . .

The Story of the Rockport-Fulton Art Colony

How a Coastal Texas Town Became an Art Enclave Kay Kronke Betz and Vickie Moon Merchant Foreword by William E. Reaves and Linda J. Reaves Foreword by Robert E. Harrist Jr.

When Coastal Living Magazine listed Rockport, Texas, among its “Top 10 Coastal Artists’ Colonies” beside well-known art communities such as Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and Monhegan Island, Maine, some may have been surprised. But Rockport’s inclusion represented an emerging Texas Gulf Coast aesthetic and regional school of landscape art that many art historians and collectors had discovered. e area’s unique ecosystem, abundance of wildlife, and quaint architecture made it a haven for creativity, beginning in the late forties.

Over the years, Rockport was home to in uential artists, including the colony founder, Simon Michael, his most famous student, Dalhart Windberg, Jack Cowan, Al Barnes, Herb Booth, and Jesus Moroles. Other prominent artists also came for inspiration, including Buck Schiwetz, Harold Phenix, and Kent Ullberg. Many of them were active in early environmental organizations like the Coastal Conservation Association and Ducks Unlimited. Steve Russell, a Rockport native, has become a quintessential artist of the colony, inspiring generations of newcomers.

In e Story of the Rockport-Fulton Art Colony: How a Coastal Texas Town Became an Art Enclave, Kay Kronke Betz and Vickie Moon Merchant chronicle how this small Texas town became a major regional center for the visual arts. Generously illustrated throughout with full-color images of boats, bays, and other hallmarks of this artistically rich community, this book is a visual and narrative treat for art lovers, conservationists, and historians alike.

Y KRONKE BETZ, a long-standing volunteer for Aransas County history, art, and cultural organizations, is the former director of training and organizational development at the University of Texas at Austin. She lives in Wimberley, Texas. VICKIE MOON MERCHANT served as the coordinator of the Teacher Induction Program at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. A former public school teacher and longtime board member, volunteer, and president of the Friends of the History Center for Aransas County, she resides in New Braunfels, Texas.

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Of Texas Rivers and Texas Art Edited by Andrew Sansom and William E. Reaves Jr.

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Buck Schiwetz’ Memories E. M. “Buck” Schiwetz Introduction by Leon Hale

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Sounds and voices from both sides of the river . . .

Across the Border and Back

Music in the Big Bend Marcia Hatfield Daudistel Photographs by Bill Wright

In the vast, sparsely populated area of West Texas known as the Big Bend, life takes place on a di erent scale. e nearest neighbor can be forty miles away, perhaps located not just in another town but another country, the border historically less obvious than it is today. In the small-town, bicultural atmosphere of the Big Bend, musicians from both sides of the Rio Grande come together, creating music that spans genre, culture, and international borders.

From Ojinaga, Mexico, to Alpine, Texas, and most points in between, writer Marcia Hat eld Daudistel and photographer Bill Wright have gathered, through hours of interviews, a trove of anecdotes, images, and personal recollections that explore what makes music—and musicians—in the Big Bend slightly di erent from anything found elsewhere. Playing big band music one night for a dance at Marfa Army Air Field and border polkas the next evening at a quinceañera; playing a traditional norteño and conjunto but throwing in the saxophone to change the dynamic; making a living with their music or keeping their day jobs and playing when they can: these are the stories that demonstrate the cultural and musical versatility required for musicians in the Big Bend.

From the porch at Terlingua’s Starlight eatre to the jukebox at Lajitas, Across the Border and Back: Music in the Big Bend features the people, the history, the local color, the venues, and, above all, the distinctive a itude that have de ned music-making in this place, at once one of the most remote and most unique in the country.

The Texas Experience, books made possible by Sarah ’84 and Mark ’77 Philpy

MARCIA HATFIELD DAUDISTEL is coauthor of Authentic Texas: People of the Big Bend and e Women of Smeltertown, and she was inducted into the El Paso Commission for Women Hall of Fame. She resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico. BILL WRIGHT, award-winning photographer, is author of several books, including e Whole Damn Cheese: Maggie Smith, Border Legend and e Texas Outback: Ranching on the Last Frontier. His photographs have been exhibited internationally. He resides in Abilene, Texas.

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Ranching on the Last Frontier

Text by Bill Wright Photography by June Redford Van Cleef

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Everyday Music Alan B. Govenar

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A groundbreaking new study of one of America’s most important metropolitan networks . . .

The Texas Triangle

An Emerging Power in the Global Economy Henry Cisneros, David Hendricks, J. H. Cullum Clark, and William Fulton

is important new study examines the intricately linked phenomena of interwoven population growth, economic power, quality education, business leadership, and scal signi cance as exempli ed in the “Texas Triangle,” a network of metropolitan complexes that are reshaping the destiny of Texas and adding a strong pinnacle in the global system of economic mega-centers.

e Texas Triangle consists of three metropolitan complexes: Dallas–Fort Worth at the northern tip, Houston-Galveston at the southeastern point, and Austin–San Antonio at the southwestern edge. It consists of four US Census–designated metropolitan statistical areas and includes 35 urban counties that comprise those areas. e Texas Triangle soon will include four of the ten most populous cities in the United States. Together these metro areas represent the eenth largest economy in the world.

e authors describe the trajectories of each of the Texas Triangle metros in which they live and work and integrate them into a larger dynamic of functioning cohesion and e ective collaboration. e Texas Triangle o ers community leaders, elected o cials, policy makers, and others a more nuanced understanding of an important moment in America’s continuing urban development. With broader perspectives for how community-building advances the public interest, this book lays important foundations for matching the path of economic prosperity to an informed sense of what is possible.

Number Twenty-seven: Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History

HENRY CISNEROS, formerly mayor of San Antonio, served as the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the Clinton administration, 1993–97. DAVID HENDRICKS recently retired as the business editor for the San Antonio Express-News a er more than forty years with the newspaper. J. H. CULLUM CLARK directs the Bush Institute–SMU Economic Growth Initiative at Southern Methodist University, where he also serves as an adjunct professor of economics. WILLIAM FULTON serves as director of the Kinder Institute for Urban Research at Rice University. e former mayor of Ventura and director of planning and economic development for the City of San Diego, he is also the author of Guide to California Planning.

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Changing Texas

Implications of Addressing or Ignoring the Texas Challenge Steve H. Murdock, et al. 978-1-62349-159-8 paperback $24.95 978-1-62349-166-6 ebook

Texas at the Crossroads

People, Politics, Policy Edited by Anthony Champagne and Edward J. Harpham 978-0-89096-317-3 paper

“Her entire life was a dialogue with the world, whether the world knew it or not.”

The Shimmering Is All There Is

On Nature, God, Science, and More Heather Catto Kohout Edited by Martin Donell Kohout

e Shimmering Is All ere Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More is a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Ca o Kohout. A native of San Antonio, Heather was a disciplined and original thinker and writer. Her education, experience, and temperament—as a loving wife, mother, and daughter; a proud Texan; a teacher and scholar with graduate degrees in English literature and religion; and the founder of a residency program for environmental writers and artists at a ranch in the Texas Hill Country—permeate every word she wrote. She had a unique combination of empathetic imagination, profound spirituality, cosmic sensibility, and an ability to laugh—gently—at her fellow creatures and, especially, herself.

Heather Kohout’s essays and poems are thoughtful, profound, and generous, shi ing constantly between the speci c and the universal and carrying throughout a message of stewardship. She was an environmentalist at heart, but her writing explores so much more: nature, art, theology, science, food, and family. She wrote about Mexican teenagers who dress as angels in an a empt to halt drug-related violence; the perils of industrial agriculture; the pleasure of le ing the chickens out of their coop in the morning; and the ba le to save the Georgetown salamander. Always, she wrote about what it means to try to live an ethical life and to be fully human as a part of, not in opposition to, nature. ese essays and poems exemplify the best of Texas womanhood: stubborn independence, erce conviction, good humor, and instinctive generosity and kindness.

Women in Texas History Series, sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation

A native of San Antonio, HEATHER CA O KOHOUT (1959–2014) was a dedicated rower, a published poet, a freelance theology teacher, and the mother of three children. She cofounded Madroño Ranch: A Center for Writing, Art, and the Environment in Medina, Texas. MARTIN DONELL KOHOUT is the author of Hal Chase: e De ant Life and Turbulent Times of Baseball’s Biggest Crook, cofounder of Madroño Ranch, and president of the Madroño Foundation. He lives in Williamstown, Massachuse s.

HEATHER CATTO KOHOUT

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When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild

Being a Woman Outdoors in America

Lilace Mellin Guignard

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Painting the Woods

Nature, Memory, and Metaphor

Deborah Paris

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A ranch established; a ranch divided . . .

The Rise and Fall of the Lazy S Ranch

David J. Murrah

e Lazy S Ranch, one of the last major ranches to be established in Texas, came into being at a time when most of the other great ranches were disappearing. Founded in 1898 by Dallas banker and rancher Colonel Christopher Columbus Slaughter, the Lazy S grew to comprise nearly 250,000 acres of the western High Plains in Cochran and Hockley counties, much of which lay in a single contiguous pasture of more than 180,000 acres.

Even with careful investment and management, C. C. Slaughter faced many challenges pu ing together an extensive ranch amid the development of the farmers’ frontier on the high plains. Within a decade, he cra ed the Lazy S to become a showplace for well-bred ca le, e ective range management, and e cient utilization of limited water resources. He created a working ranch that would serve as a long-lasting legacy for his wife and nine children, to remain “undivided and indivisible.” But shortly a er his death in 1919, the family drained its resources, drove it into debt, then divided the land ten ways. In the 1930s, good fortune returned to some of the Slaughter heirs with the discovery of oil on the family lands.

ough the Lazy S Ranch was soon forgo en, the breakup of the ranch spurred a new era for the western Llano Estacado and led to the establishment of a county, growth of four new towns, and a railroad across the heart of the ranch, fostered for the most part by the land development projects of Slaughter’s descendants. Here, David J. Murrah covers the entire, fascinating history in e Rise and Fall of the Lazy S Ranch.

Nancy and Ted Paup Ranching Heritage Series

DAVID J. MUR H is a Texas historian and native of Gruver, in the Texas Panhandle. He is the author of several books, including C. C. Slaughter: Rancher, Banker, Baptist and Lubbock and the South Plains: An Illustrated History. He resides in Rockport, Texas.

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e Hawkins Ranch in Texas

From Plantation Times to the Present

Margaret Lewis Furse

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Texas Women on the Ca le Trails Edited by Sara R. Massey

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e history of a small but important West Texas ranch . . .

Henry C. “Hank” Smith and the Cross B Ranch

The First Stock Operation on the South Plains M. Scott Sosebee

When people think of legendary Texas ca le ranches the images that rst come to mind are iconic, open-range operations like King Ranch of South Texas. In Henry C. “Hank” Smith and the Cross B Ranch, historian M. Sco Sosebee tells the story of one pioneer se ler’s small but signi cant ranch in West Texas. e Cross B Ranch of Blanco Canyon struggled but endured to become quite successful, even while surrounded by big ranching empires. Founder Hank Smith went on to become one of the region’s most prominent, civic-minded citizens.

Born in Bavaria, Smith le Germany in 1851 at the age of fourteen and traveled to Ohio to live with a sister. Less than two years later, he le Ohio to seek be er opportunities in the American West. In the course of his westering life he worked as a teamster on the Santa Fe Trail, searched for gold in Arizona and New Mexico, served in both the Confederate and Union armies during the Civil War, operated a freighting business, owned a hotel, and eventually moved to Blanco Canyon and became a stock raiser. Although he did raise ca le, for most of his life as a stockman he raised twice as many sheep as he did cows, yet was one of the rst in West Texas to upgrade his ca le stock with purebred bloodlines.

In Henry C. “Hank” Smith and the Cross B Ranch, M. Sco Sosebee enriches our understanding of western heritage and ranching in America through a compelling and lively biography set on the small stage of an unassuming but important ranch.

Nancy and Ted Paup Ranching Heritage Series

M. SCO SOSEBEE is professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University, executive director of the East Texas Historical Association, editor of the East Texas Historical Journal, and coeditor of Lone Star Suburbs: Life on the Texas Metropolitan Frontier. He resides in Nacogdoches, Texas.

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e Old Chisholm Trail

From Cow Path to Tourist Stop

Wayne Ludwig

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Texas Women and Ranching

On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in eir Communities

Edited by Deborah M. Liles and Cecilia Gutierrez Venable

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e de nitive history of the Union League in Texas . . .

The Union League and Biracial Politics in Reconstruction Texas

Carl H. Moneyhon

e Republican Union League of America played a major role in the Southern Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War. A secret organization introduced into Texas in 1867 to mobilize newly enfranchised black voters, it was the rst political body that a empted to secure power by forming a biracial coalition. Originally intended by white Unionists simply to marshal black voters to their support, it evolved into an organization that allowed blacks to pursue their own political goals. It was abandoned by the state’s Republican Party following the 1871 state elections.

From the beginning the use of the league by the Republican party proved controversial. While its opponents charged that its white leadership simply manipulated ignorant blacks to achieve power for themselves, ultimately encouraging racial con ict, the League not only educated blacks in their new political rights but also protected them in the exercise of those rights. It gave blacks a voice in supporting the legislative program of Gov. Edmund J. Davis, helping him to push through laws aimed at the maintenance of law and order, securing basic civil rights for blacks, and the creation of public schools.

Ultimately, its success and its secrecy provoked hostile a acks from political opponents, leading the party to stop using it. Nonetheless, the Union League created a legacy of black activism that lasted throughout the nineteenth century and pushed Texas toward a remarkably di erent world from the segregated and racist one that developed a er the league disappeared.

Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series

CARL H. MONEYHON is professor emeritus of history at the University of Arkansas at Li le Rock. He is a Fellow of the Texas Historical Association and is the author of several books, including Texas a er the Civil War: e Struggle of Reconstruction, Edmund J. Davis: Civil War General, Republican Leader, Reconstruction Governor, and George T. Ruby: Champion of Equal Rights in Reconstruction Texas.

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Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas Carl H. Moneyhon

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“Red Tom” Hickey

e Uncrowned King of Texas Socialism

Peter Buckingham

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e Lone Star State and its people in World War II, from the home front to the front lines . . .

Texans in World War II

The Home Front Edited by Christopher B. Bean

Texans in World War II o ers an informative look at the challenges and changes faced by Texans on the home front during the Second World War. is collection of essays by leading scholars of Texas history covers topics from the African American and Tejano experience to organized labor, from the expanding opportunities for women to the importance of oil and agriculture. Texans in World War II makes local the frequently studied social history of wartime, bringing it home to Texas.

An eye-opening read for Texans eager to learn more about this de ning era in their state’s history, this book will also prove deeply informative for scholars, students, and general readers seeking detailed, de nitive information about World War II and its implications for daily life, economic growth, and social and political change in the Lone Star State.

Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series

CHRISTOPHER B. BEAN is chair of the history department at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, and the author of Too Great a Burden to Bear: e Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Texas.

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Hell under the Rising Sun

Texan POWs and the Building of the Burma- ailand Death Railway

Kelly E. Crager

978-1-62349-788-0 paper $24.95 978-1-60344-416-3 ebook

Ta ooed on My Soul

Texas Veterans Remember World War II

Edited by Stephen M. Sloan, Lois E. Myers, and Michelle Holland

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Between traditionalism and progressivism . . .

Presidential Leadership at the Crossroads

William Howard Taft and the Modern Presidency Michael J. Korzi

In Presidential Leadership at the Crossroads: William Howard Ta and the Modern Presidency, Michael J. Korzi examines Ta ’s presidency against the backdrop of early twentieth century politics, placing particular emphasis on Ta ’s theory of presidential leadership. ough Ta ’s legacy is o en overshadowed by those of eodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, his predecessor and successor, respectively, Ta ’s model of presidential leadership was complex and nuanced, forged in a time of changing expectations, at the crossroads between traditional and modern views of what the role of a president should be. is focus on Ta ’s leadership adds new dimension to our understandings of the Progressive era and presidential leadership in general.

Ultimately, Ta ’s leadership represented a middle-ground position, one that faced serious challenges from both conservative as well as radical forces, particularly the la er. While embodying some features of the modern presidency, Ta ’s model also represented a partial challenge to, and critique of, modern presidential leadership. Korzi reveals that Ta was considerably more modern in his leadership aspirations than previously thought and that his shi to traditionalism, or conservativism, only emerged with the threat of a third Roosevelt term on the horizon.

Presidential Leadership at the Crossroads makes an important contribution to our understanding of presidents and their leadership. Ta ’s model is particularly relevant today, given the prominence of the modern presidency and its values and expectations. Ta ’s moderate, middle-way position provides a foundation for critiquing the excesses of the modern presidency, while o ering a vision for strong, if disciplined, presidential leadership.

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

MICHAEL J. KORZI is professor and chair of political science at Towson University in Maryland. He is also the author of A Seat of Popular Leadership: e Presidency, Political Parties, and Democratic Government and Presidential Term Limits in American History: Power, Principles, & Politics, winner of the 2012 Richard E. Neustadt Book Award by the American Political Science Association. Michael J. Korzi

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Presidential Term Limits in American History

Power, Principles, and Politics

Michael J. Korzi

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Woodrow Wilson, the Great War, and the Fourth Estate James Star

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Prehistoric hunting architecture and its implications for ancient societies and technologies . . .

The Architecture of Hunting

The Built Environment of Hunter-Gatherers and Its Impact on Mobility, Property, Leadership, and Labor Ashley Lemke

As one of the most signi cant economic innovations in prehistory, hunting architecture radically altered life and society for hunter-gatherers. e development of these structures indicates that foragers designed their environments, had a deep knowledge of animal behavior, and interacted with each other in complex ways that reach beyond previous assumptions.

Combining underwater archaeology, terrestrial archaeology, and ethnographic and historical research, e Architecture of Hunting investigates the creation and use of hunting architecture by hunter-gatherers. Hunting architecture— including blinds, drive lanes, and shing weirs—is a global phenomenon found across a broad spectrum of cultures, time, geography, and environments. Relying on similar behaviors in species such as caribou, bison, guanacos, antelope, and gazelles, cultures as diverse as Sami reindeer herders, the Inka, and ancient bison hunters on the North American plains have employed such structures, combined with strategically situated landforms, to ensure adequate food supplies while maintaining a nomadic way of life.

Using examples of hunting architecture from across the globe and how they in uence forager mobility, territoriality, property, leadership, and labor aggregation, Ashley Lemke explores this architecture as a form of human niche construction and considers the myriad ways such built structures a ect hunter-gatherer lifeways. Bringing together diverse sources under the single category of “hunting architecture,” e Architecture of Hunting serves as the new standard guide for anyone interested in huntergatherers and their built environment.

Peopling of the Americas Publications

ASHLEY LEMKE, an assistant professor of anthropology at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the editor of Foraging in the Past: Archaeological Studies of Hunter-Gatherer Diversity and coeditor of Caribou Hunting in the Upper Great Lakes: Archaeological, Ethnographic, and Paleoenvironmental Perspectives. She resides in Fort Worth, Texas.

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Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast Edited by Claude Chapdelaine

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Clovis Mammoth Butchery

e Lange/Ferguson Site and Associated Bone Tool Technology

L. Adrien Hannus

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Doug Welsh’s Texas Garden Almanac

Doug Welsh Illustrated by Aletha St. Romain ink 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 20,000 copies sold and now in its third printing, this book provides everything you need to know about owers 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! “ . . . a must for all Texas gardeners.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram “ is month-by-month guide provides a wealth of practical advice.”—Publishers Weekly Available again

A Photographic Guide to the Vegetation of the South Texas Sand Sheet

Dexter Peacock and

Forrest S. Smith

Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series

DOUG WELSH, a professor emeritus 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 also hosted a gardening call-in radio show and provided gardening tips on television each week in the Brazos Valley. He is the author of a book on xeriscaping and was coeditor of the Texas Master Gardener Handbook. Welsh also served as project coordinator for the new Gardens at Texas A&M University.

978-1-60344-478-1 exbound $29.95 978-1-60344-279-4 ebook 7x10. 512 pp. 231 color illus. 66 b&w drawings. 8 color maps. Index. Gardening. Natural History. Plants/Botany. March e South Texas Sand Sheet, also known as the Coastal Sand Plains and the Llano Mesteño, is a vast region covering more than two million acres at the southern tip of the state, just north of the Lower Rio Grande Valley.

Organized with the nonbotanist or beginninglevel botanist in mind, A Photographic Guide to the Vegetation of the South Texas Sand Sheet includes 200 of the most common grasses, owering plants, vines, cacti, and woody plants of the South Texas Sand Sheet, 56 of which are species endemic to Texas and 15 of which can only be found in this region. Species are grouped by physical appearance, allowing budding naturalists, landowners, and students to nd a speci c plant without needing to rst understand how families and species are grouped scienti cally. Each plant entry includes a representative sampling of photos for that species, showing how it might look from a distance, up close, and at di erent stages of its life cycle.

DEXTER PEACOCK is a retired lawyer, photographer, ca le rancher, and Sand Sheet landowner. FORREST S. SMITH is the Dan L. Duncan Endowed Director of South Texas Natives and Texas Native Seeds Projects at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute.

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The Texas Hill Country

A Photographic Adventure Michael H. Marvins Contributions by Joe Holley and Roy Flukinger

Traveling the back roads of the Texas Hill Country, cameras always poised for action, Michael H. Marvins has captured the excitement of small-town rodeos, savored the mesquite-smoked atmosphere of local eateries, observed the daily lives of people on the land, and admired the scenic beauty of the landscape and its natural denizens. Most important, he has captured his impressions with the skilled eye of a master photographer.

His lens embraces the people, the land, and the culture that keep so many Texans—and would-be Texans— coming back to the Hill Country again and again.

e author’s proceeds om the sale of this book will bene t the Texas Parks and Wildlife Foundation.

Charles and Elizabeth Prothro Texas Photography Series

MICHAEL H. MARVINS is a Houston-based photographer whose work is included in the permanent collections of many museums nationally and internationally. He is also the author of Texas’ Big Bend: A Photographic Adventure om the Pecos to the Rio Grande.

978-1-62349-677-7 cloth $38.00 978-1-62349-678-4 ebook 10x10. 281 color photos. Line art. Index. Photography. Texana. Art. March Distributed for Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

A Diverse History

Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest before 1900 Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

At the seventh biennial David B. Warren Symposium, seven scholars examined varied cultures in Texas, the Lower South, and the Southwest before 1900 and their national and international context. e resulting papers explore how diverse peoples interacted with material culture across the American South and Southwest and at the nexus of international trade networks.

In this volume, Marion Oe inger explicates the biographies of six Texans of the 1700s. Evelyn Montgomery explores the transformation of Texas log cabins to homes re ecting a “domestic” architectural aesthetic. Donna Pierce delves into the domestic furnishings of homes in Spanish Colonial New Mexico. Harry J. Shafer considers the material culture of early Native peoples in what is now Texas. Mark A. Goldberg analyzes the ways in which Native dress was understood and employed in Spanish and Mexican Texas. e publication concludes with an essay by Marjorie Denise Brown and eresa Jach on the complex visual iconography of a silver inkwell with international connections.

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