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In the arid wild lands of the US-Mexico border, animals have adapted for eons, in large part, by moving freely throughout this isolated region. But now, an international wall threatens to block their passages to survival . . .

Continental DivideWildlife, People, and the Border Wall

Krista Schlyer Foreword by Jamie Rappaport Clark

The topic of the border wall between the United States and Mexico con-tinues to be broadly and hotly debated: on national news media, by local and state governments, and even in coffee shops and over the dinner table. By now, broad segments of the population have heard widely vary-ing opinions about the wall’s effect on illegal immigration, international politics, and the drug war.

But what about the wall’s effect on the Sonoran pronghorn antelope herds and the kit fox? On the Mexican gray wolf, the ocelot, the jaguar, and the bighorn sheep?

In unforgettable images and evocative text, Continental Divide: Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall helps readers understand all that is at stake.

As Krista Schlyer explains, the remoteness of this region from most US citizens’ lives, coupled with the news media’s focus on illegal immigration and drug vio-lence, has left many with an incomplete picture. As she reminds us, this largely isolated nat-ural area, stretching from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico, hosts a number of rare ecosystems: Arizona’s last free-flowing river, the San Pedro; the grasslands of New Mexico, some of the last undeveloped prairies on the continent; the single most diverse birding area in the US, located along the lower Rio Grande River in Texas; and habitat and migration corridors for some of both nations’ most imperiled species.

In documenting the changes to the ecosystems and human communities along the border while the wall was being built, Schlyer realized that the impacts of immigration policy on wildlife, on landowners, and on border towns were not fully understood by either policy makers or the general public. The wall not only has disrupted the ancestral routes of wildlife; it has also rerouted human traffic through the most pristine and sensitive of wildlands, caus-ing additional destruction, conflict, and death—without solving the original problem.

KRISTA SCHLYER is a writer and photographer based in the Washington, DC, area. Her work has ap-peared in National Parks, Defenders, High Country News, Ranger Rick, National Geographic News, Audubon, and Outdoor Photographer. She is a member of the International League of Conservation Photographers and the North American Nature Photographers Association.

“Krista Schlyer has lived the border problems. Hers is a narrative balanced with words and images. She’s tasted the arid land’s flavors and distilled the essential truth: that it’s madness to drive a wedge through our own heart in a misguided effort to keep our nation safe.”—Jack Dykinga, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer

“ . . .offers a taste of geology, biology, and history. We feel the searing tempera-tures of the desert. Above all, Schlyer examines the human hands that have shaped these landscapes, sometimes sustaining them but too often bringing destruction, even death, to man and beast.”—Lynn Scarlett, former deputy secretary, US Department of the Interior

“In these embattled times, every corner of the planet needs defenders. With Continental Divide, Krista Schlyer, wielding pen and camera with equal grace, takes her place as one of the staunchest advocates of the battered, contested, and sublimely beautiful territory we know as the US-Mexico borderlands.” —William deBuys, author, A Great Aridness: Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

Greg Lasley’s Texas Wildlife PortraitsGreg W. Lasley978-1-60344-057-8 cloth $30.00

Whooping CraneImages from the WildKlaus NiggeIntroduction by Krista Schlyer978-1-60344-209-1 cloth $45.00

Nesting Birds of a Tropical FrontierThe Lower Rio Grande Valley of TexasTimothy Brush978-1-58544-436-6 cloth $50.00s978-1-58544-490-8 paper $24.95

978-1-60344-743-0 flexbound $30.009x10. 192 pp. 173 color photos. Map. Bib. Index.Photography. Wildlife. Borderlands Studies. Octoberebook 978-1-60344-757-7

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From small-town Texas boy to Washington insider to champion of parks and public lands . . .

On Politics and Parks

George Bristol Foreword by Andrew Sansom

When George Bristol first saw the mountains surrounding East Glacier, Montana, in the early summer of 1961, he was, in his own words, awed to his depths. Thus began a love affair with nature and public parks that has endured for more than fifty years. This same love affair would lead Bristol to become a crusader for America’s national parks and, later, to be largely credited for the rescue of the ailing public park system in his home state.

In On Politics and Parks, Bristol tells his own story in lively prose that includes many intriguing peeks at behind-the-scenes events in Washington, Austin, and elsewhere. Be-ginning with his upbringing by a widowed young mother with a passion for music and literature, he narrates the converging of influences that led him to an influential politi-cal career, including active involvement in national campaigns for Lyndon B. Johnson, Hubert Humphrey, Lloyd Bentsen, and Jimmy Carter. After working for the Democratic National Committee and Bill Clinton’s 1992 presidential campaign, Bristol was asked to join President Clinton’s administration.

However, what he really wanted was a place on the board of the National Park Foundation (NPF). With decades-old images of Glacier still burning brightly in his memory, he helped spearhead efforts to elevate the image of the National Park Service and helped establish a highly successful fundraising strategy for the NPF, giving both organizations greater national awareness and stature.

Having acquired a well-earned reputation for fundraising and effective advocacy, Bristol soon began to do for his home state what he had done for the NPF: solidify support and funding for the Texas park system. Over ten years and five legislative sessions, Bristol, through the Texas Coalition for Conservation, the nonprofit organization he founded, fought for the full claim of Texas state parks to the sporting goods tax. Utilizing his many contacts, his well-honed political sense, and his dogged patience, he forged an alliance that would win the day for everyone who loves the state’s public lands. In 2007, in the last bill passed on the last day of the session, the Texas legislature nearly doubled the operat-ing budget for parks.

On Politics and Parks is at once a lesson in conservation history and a captivating per-sonal memoir that will inform, entertain, and inspire all those who share Bristol’s love for the unspoiled beauty of the outdoors and his commitment to preserve that beauty for future generations.

Conservation Leadership Series, sponsored by the River Systems Institute at Texas State University

GEORGE BRISTOL, of Austin, was a consultant on the Ken Burns/Dayton Duncan PBS series The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. The 2009 winner of the Pugsley Medal honoring champions of parks and conservation, he was also a writer-in-residence at the Thinking Like a Mountain Foundation in Fort Davis, Texas.

The Texas Legacy ProjectStories of Courage and ConservationEdited by David Todd and David Weisman978-1-60344-200-8 flexbound $30.00

Going to WindwardA Mosbacher Family MemoirRobert A. Mosbacher Sr. with James G. McGrath978-1-60344-221-3 cloth $30.00

John Hill for the State of TexasMy Years as Attorney GeneralJohn L. Hill Jr. and Ernie Stromberger978-1-60344-072-1 cloth $35.00

978-1-60344-762-1 cloth $30.006x9. 432 pp. 70 b&w photos. Index.Autobiography. Literary Nonfiction. Conservation. Texas Political History. Fundraising.Septemberebook 978-1-60344-777-5

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A seasoned professional shares proven principles of organizing and staging successful fundraising events to benefit any nonprofit organization or cause—from black-tie to backyard . . .

Money for the CauseA Complete Guide to Event Fundraising

Rudolph A. Rosen Illustrations by Katie Dobson Cundiff Foreword by Andrew Sansom

There has never been a greater need for raising the funds necessary to promote the causes that will help build a sustainable future. In Money for the Cause: A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising, veteran nonprofit executive director Rudolph A. Rosen lays out the field-tested approaches that have helped him and the teams of volunteers and professionals he has worked with raise more than $3 billion for environmental conservation.

As Rosen explains, fundraising events can range from elite, black-tie affairs in large cities to basement banquets and backyard barbeques in small-town Amer-ica. Money for the Cause runs the gamut, demonstrating methods adaptable to most situations and illustrating both basic and advanced techniques that can be duplicated by everyone from novice volunteers to experienced event planners.

Each chapter begins with a pertinent, real-life anecdote and focuses on major areas of event fundraising: business plans and budgets, raffles and auctions, tax and liability matters, contract negotiation, games and prizes, site selection, food service, entertainment, publicity, mission promotion, food and drink service, and effec-tive team building and use of volunteers. The author applies each topic to the widest pos-sible range of events, providing practical detail and giving multiple examples to cover the differences in types of organizations and their fundraising activities.

Whatever the funding objective may be, Money for the Cause: A Complete Guide to Event Fundraising is both a textbook and a practical reference that will be indispensable to any-one involved in mission-driven organizations, whether as a volunteer, a professional, a student, or an educator.

Conservation Leadership Series, sponsored by the River Systems Institute at Texas State University

RUDOLPH A. ROSEN is a professor at Texas State University’s River Systems Institute and in the biology department, where he also directs the Conservation Leadership Initiative, focusing on teaching and research for nonprofit conservation institutions. Rosen has previously served in executive and leadership positions for National Wildlife Federation, Ducks Unlimited, Safari Club International and its foundation, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Texas Parks and Wildlife.

“There are literally tens of millions of volunteers in organizations of all sizes who would benefit from this book. . . . [It] will help to avoid the ‘trial and error’ approach I see most organizations making as they attempt to raise funds through events . . . [this book] should be read by any professional fundraiser or by anyone who is in charge of their local charity fundraiser.”—Alan Wentz, former chief conservation officer, Ducks Unlimited

978-1-60344-693-8 hardcover $35.0081/2x11. 416 pp. 8 figs. 7 tables. Index.Conservation. Fundraising. Philanthropy.Octoberebook 978-1-60344-752-2

Conservation Leadership, sponsored by the River Systems Institute at Texas State University, Andrew Sansom, General Editor

Offering instructive and inspiring books to guide the next generation of leaders in the conservation of the earth’s resources.

Announcing the first two volumes in a new series


Calling us home to the Galveston that lives in our minds . . .

Born on the IslandThe Galveston We Remember

Art by Eugene Aubry Text by Stephen Fox Foreword by Lyda Ann Quinn Thomas

In sixty-seven exquisite watercolors and drawings, nationally famous ar-chitect Eugene Aubry captures on paper the sensibilities, the memories, and the grace that evokes Galveston, especially for those who are BOI (“born on the island”). Commissioned by the Galveston Historical Foun-dation, these works of art are intended to enhance the visual record of the buildings and the unique local architectural style that so many have appreciated over the years.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Ike, Galvestonians became more aware than ever of the treasure of the island’s historical architecture and the vulnerability of this heritage to forces beyond human control. Aubry’s art captures the almost palpable sense of past glories these buildings bring to mind. Aubry—himself BOI—has fashioned these pieces in a way that resonates with those who love the island’s ethos.

With a fine eye to the artist’s intent and a mastery of detail, architectural historian Stephen Fox expertly and eloquently introduces the work as a whole and, in discursive captions that accompany each image, informs the reader’s ap-preciation of Aubry’s art.

So much more than a tribute, Born on the Island: The Galveston We Remember stands as a loving homage to Galveston—one that will call its readers home to the island, even if they have never ventured there before.

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

After growing up in Galveston, EUGENE AUBRY studied architecture at the University of Houston. Be-ginning his career in Houston, Aubry designed many of the city’s greatest buildings as a partner in Mor-ris Aubry Architects and is especially known for designing the Wortham Theater Center. Since 1986, he has lived on Anna Maria Island, near Bradenton, Florida. STEPHEN FOX, a Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas, is the author of The Country Houses of John F. Staub (Texas A&M University Press, 2007), and several other books on historic Texas architecture. He teaches in the School of Architecture at Rice University.

“. . . addresses the history of the architect as a ‘Born on the Island’ artist, the unique history of Galveston, and the background to the preservation of its extraordinary collection of Victorian architecture . . . Fox and Aubry are each masters at what they do, and this book is a most fortunate collaboration. . . .” —David G. Woodcock, professor emeritus of architecture and director emeritus of the Center for Heritage Conservation at Texas A&M University

The Country Houses of John F. StaubStephen Fox978-1-58544-595-0 cloth $75.00

The Alleys and Back Buildings of GalvestonAn Architectural and Social HistoryEllen Beasley978-1-58544-582-0 cloth $39.95

Galveston Architecture GuidebookEllen Beasley and Stephen Fox978-0-89263-346-3 paper $17.95

978-1-60344-796-6 cloth $25.0010x11. 160 pp. 46 watercolors. 21 line art. Index.Architecture. Texana Gift Books. Octoberebook 978-1-60344-801-7

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Through extensive interviews with Ford and scores of others and using Ford’s diaries (1951–82), Mary Carolyn Hollers George has traced Ford’s life and work, as well as the cast of characters who peopled his world.

“The greatest value of George’s book is its copiously detailed look at his earliest years and formative influences. . . . George offers some spendid background material on the architect’s work with the new lift-slab technique developed by San Antonian Tom Slick; and the space-frame floor and hyperbolic paraboloid concrete canopy of the Texas Instruments semiconductor building in Dallas, engineered by Felix Candela.”—San Antonio Express-News

“. . . a masterpiece. . . an insightful, sympathetic, yet unsentimental account of the life of one of Texas’ best-known 20th-century archi-tects. George has paid Ford the highest tribute a subject can receive from a biographer: She reveals Ford in all his complexity. . . . George’s delineation of this long-term relationship [with San Antonio], and how larger changes in the politics of San Antonio affected it, elevate the book beyond the strict limits of biography to present a place and an era with an understanding that makes for compelling reading.”—Texas Architect

“O’Neil Ford enriched Texas architecture for 50 years, as much by force of personality as by the quality of his work. . . . George finally has got this magnetic and mercurial personality between hard covers. Her biography is meticulously researched and richly textured . . . a reveal-ing, evenhanded biography that belongs in the library of everyone in-terested in 20th-century Texas architecture.”—Dallas Morning News

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

MARY CAROLYN HOLLERS GEORGE is a Texas native and a cultural historian. She is married to architect W. Eugene George, FAIA, whose photographs appear in her books—collaborative efforts all. She taught art history at a community col-lege for a quarter century. Her published works include Alfred Giles : An English Architect in Texas and Mexico (Trinity University Press, 1972), Mary Bonner : Impressions of a Printmaker (Trinity University Press, 1982), The Architectural Legacy of Alfred Giles : Selected Restorations (Trinity University Press, 2006), and the lead chapter of Monterrey A Principios Del Siglo XX : La Architectura De Alfred Giles (Museo De Historia Mexicana, Monterrey, N.L. , 2003).

978-0-89096-433-0 cloth $60.0011x11. 290 pp. 25 color, 107 b&w photos. 17 line art. Appendices. Bib. Index.Architecture. Texas History. November

Aggies by the Sea tells the story of Texas A&M University at Galves-ton, an unusual educational institution that began operation in 1962 as a maritime academy with only twenty-three students and now en-rolls more than 1,600 undergraduates studying the sciences, technol-ogy, business, and cultural aspects of the sea.

The first class of students (all men, as Texas A&M required at the time) had no dormitories when class started in Galveston, so the students were bunked in the nurses’ dorms at the University of Texas Medical Branch. They borrowed their beds from the Univer-sity of Texas and their training ship from the New York Maritime Academy. By 1969, though, the school had opened a full campus on Pelican Island. By then, some 150 students were studying in the pro-gram and it had its own home ship, the Texas Clipper. In 1973, the campus admitted its first female student—believed to be the first woman maritime cadet in the country—and added maritime sci-ence to its degree programs.

Nearly one hundred photographs portray the growth of the Galves-ton school from its humble beginnings to what it is today; a full uni-versity, nationally prominent for its focus on the world’s oceans.

Filled with lively anecdotes, reminiscences, and biographical sidebars, this lavishly illustrated book presents history with a bounce.

“. . . provides an interesting window into Galveston’s past, consider-ing how many issues—from the political to the meteorological—have brushed and shaped the campus and the island city.” —The Galveston County Daily News

“Institutional histories generally make dull reading, but Aggies by the Sea: Texas A&M University at Galveston is a pleasant exception.” —Journal of Southern History

STEPHEN CURLEY is a Regents Professor of English at Texas A&M University at Galveston. He has taught at Texas A&M University at Galveston for more than thirty years and has personally witnessed most of the development he describes in this book.

978-1-60344-810-9 paper $27.507x10. 256 pp. 96 b&w photos. 3 line drawings. Appendix. Index.Aggie Books. Texas History. Navy. September

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Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857–1941

Kate Sayen Kirkland

Captain James A. Baker, Houston lawyer, banker, and businessman, received an alarm-ing telegram on September 23, 1900: his elderly millionaire client William Marsh Rice had died unexpectedly in New York City. Baker rushed to New York, where he unraveled a plot to murder Rice and plunder his estate. Working tirelessly with local authorities, Baker saved Rice’s fortune from more than one hundred claimants; he championed the wishes of his deceased client and founded Rice Institute for the Advancement of Litera-ture, Science and Art—today’s internationally acclaimed Rice University.

For fifty years Captain Baker nurtured Rice’s dream. He partnered with leading lawyers to create Houston’s first nationally recognized law firm: Baker, Botts, Lovett & Parker, now the worldwide legal practice of Baker Botts L.L.P. He chartered several Houston busi-nesses and utility companies, developed two major regional banks, promoted real estate projects, and led an active civic life. To expand the Institute’s endowment, Baker invested William Marsh Rice’s fortune with local entrepreneurs, who were building homes, of-fice towers, commercial enterprises, and institutions that transformed Houston from a small town in the nineteenth century to an international powerhouse in the twenty-first century.

Author Kate Sayen Kirkland explored the archival records of Baker and his family and firm and carefully mined the archives of Baker’s contemporaries. Published as part of Rice University’s centennial celebration, Captain James A. Baker of Houston, 1857–1941 weaves together the history of Houston and the story of an influential man who labored all his life to make Houston a world-class city.

KATE SAYEN KIRKLAND, a freelance writer and editor based in Houston, has previously written a book on the influential Hogg family, and her work has also appeared in the Southwestern Historical Quarterly. She holds a PhD from Rice University.

William Marsh Rice and His InstituteThe Centennial EditionEdited by Randal L. Hall978-1-60344-663-1 cloth $25.00

BuildersHerman and George R. BrownJoseph A. Pratt and Christopher J. Castaneda978-1-58544-266-9 paper $29.95s

Gus WorthamPortrait of a LeaderFran Dressman978-0-89096-580-1 cloth $29.95

978-1-60344-800-0 cloth $30.006x9. 480 pp. 70 b&w photos. Appendix. Bib. Index.Texas Urban History. Biography. Southern History. Octoberebook 978-1-60344-797-3

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A century of unconventional wisdom . . .

Rice UniversityOne Hundred Years in Pictures

Karen Hess Rogers, Lee Pecht, and Alan Harris Bath Introduction by John B. Boles

“From its founding, Rice University has been an institution devoted to making a strong impact on the world,” according to current president Da-vid Leebron. Nestled near Houston’s cultural heart, Rice University is char-acterized by seriousness of purpose as well as by such quirky traditions as the MOB (Marching Owl Band). In Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures, more than 300 photographs tell the story of a century of student life, a world-famous faculty, and news-making events.

Distinguished by its dignified architecture and stately grounds, respected for its intellectual depth and international reputation, and loved by its alumni for the community fostered by residential colleges, moderate size, and diverse campus organizations, Rice University celebrates its centen-nial in 2012. This collection of unique images, artfully supplemented by brief narrative, explanatory captions, and carefully chosen text sidebars, presents vignettes of significant episodes, characters, and events. A splen-did commemoration of one hundred years of distinguished academics, groundbreaking research, and the spirited students and faculty who have made this institution unique among American universities, Rice University: One Hundred Years in Pictures pays fitting tribute to an eminent citadel of learning and the people who have made it great.

KAREN HESS ROGERS (Rice ‘68) founded the Rice Historical Society in 1995 and has directed and spearheaded the Society’s book publishing program as well as that of its quarterly newsletter, The Cornerstone. LEE PECHT is Rice University archivist and director of the Woodson Research Center for special collections at Fondren Library. ALAN HARRIS BATH holds a PhD in history from Rice University. He is the author of Tracking the Axis Enemy (1998) and is a former book review editor for Naval Intel-ligence Professionals Quarterly.

HoustonThe Unknown City, 1836–1946Marguerite Johnston978-1-60344-523-8 paper $29.95

Unprecedented PowerJesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common GoodSteven Fenberg978-1-60344-434-7 cloth $35.00

The Birth of the Texas Medical CenterA Personal AccountFrederick C. Elliott Edited by William Henry Kellar978-1-58544-333-8 cloth $32.95

978-1-60344-105-6 cloth $50.0091/2x11. 256 pp. 145 color, 199 b&w photos. 7 line art. Bib. Index.Education History. Texas History. Octoberebook 978-1-60344-754-6

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Can Justice Department officials effectively investigate wrongdo-ing within their own administration without relying on an indepen-dent counsel? In Prosecution among Friends political scientist David Alistair Yalof explores the operation of due process as it is navigated within the office of the attorney general and its various subdivisions. The attorney general holds a politically appointed position within the administration and yet, as the nation’s highest ranking law enforce-ment officer, is still charged with holding colleagues and superiors legally accountable. That duty extends to allegations against those who had a hand in appointing the attorney general in the first place: Even the President of the United States may be enmeshed in a Justice Department investigation overseen by the attorney general and other department officials.

To assess this fundamental problem, Yalof examines numerous cases of executive branch corruption—real or alleged—that occurred over the course of four decades beginning with the Nixon administra-tion and extending up through the second Bush administration. All of these cases—Watergate, Whitewater, and others—were identified and reported to varying degrees in the press and elsewhere. Some garnered significant attention; others drew only limited interest at the time. In all such cases the attorney general and other officials within the executive branch were charged with initially assessing the matter and determining the proper road for moving forward. Only a hand-ful of the cases resulted in the appointment of a statutorily protected independent counsel.

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

DAVID ALISTAIR YALOF, associate professor of political science at the University of Connecticut, won the 1999 Richard E. Neustadt Award for the Best Book on the Presidency with his title, Pursuit of Justices: Presidential Politics and the Selection of Supreme Court Nominees (University of Chicago Press).

978-1-60344-744-7 cloth $50.00x978-1-60344-745-4 paper $27.95s6x9. 224 pp. 3 charts. 4 tables. Bib. Index.The American Presidency. Political Science. Septemberebook 978-1-60344-759-1

Between 1913 and 1920, the National Woman’s Party (NWP) waged a campaign to write women’s voting rights into the U.S. Constitution.

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 se-cured 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 ideo-logical forces of the period and examines how a relatively powerless group of women used rhetoric in order to constitute themselves as “national citizens.”

“Stillion Southard provides a new vision of National Woman’s Party strategies that is certain to energize suffrage movement scholarship . . . Her clear-eyed view of the “expedient racism” of suffragist policy, an aspect that reveals the dark side of mimetic strategy and one that cost the movement in the final drive toward ratification, is intrigu-ing. Stillion Southard has produced a well-argued study of depth and nuance that transforms our understanding of militancy, the National Woman’s Party, and the broader strategy of political mimesis.” —Cheryl Jorgensen-Earp, Professor of Communication Studies, Lynchburg College

Number Twenty-one: Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication

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

978-1-60344-282-4 paper $24.95s6x9. 320 pp. 10 b&w photos. Bib. Index.Political Science. Women’s Studies. Novemberebook 978-1-60344-679-2

Is it possible for the executive branch to guarantee “due process of law” when investigating and prosecut-ing misconduct within its own ranks?

Prosecution among FriendsPresidents, Attorneys General, and Executive Branch Wrongdoing

David Alistair Yalof

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

Belinda A. Stillion Southard



Blind over CubaThe Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis

David M. Barrett and Max Holland

In the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis, questions persisted about how the poten-tial cataclysm had been allowed to develop. A subsequent congressional investigation fo-cused on what came to be known as the “photo gap”: five weeks during which intelligence-gathering flights over Cuba had been attenuated.

In Blind over Cuba, David M. Barrett and Max Holland challenge the popular percep-tion of the Kennedy administration’s handling of the Soviet Union’s surreptitious de-ployment of missiles in the Western Hemisphere. Rather than epitomizing it as a mas-terpiece of crisis management by policy makers and the administration, Barrett and Holland make the case that the affair was, in fact, a close call stemming directly from decisions made in a climate of deep distrust between key administration officials and the intelligence community.

Because of White House and State Department fears of “another U-2 incident” (the infa-mous 1960 Soviet downing of an American U-2 spy plane), the CIA was not permitted to send surveillance aircraft on prolonged flights over Cuban airspace for many weeks, from late August through early October. Events proved that this was precisely the time when the Soviets were secretly deploying missiles in Cuba. When Director of Central Intelli-gence John McCone forcefully pointed out that this decision had led to a dangerous void in intelligence collection, the president authorized one U-2 flight directly over western Cuba—thereby averting disaster, as the surveillance detected the Soviet missiles shortly before they became operational.

The Kennedy administration recognized that their failure to gather intelligence was po-litically explosive, and their subsequent efforts to influence the perception of events form the focus for this study. Using recently declassified documents, secondary materials, and interviews with several key participants, Barrett and Holland weave a story of intra-agen-cy conflict, suspicion, and discord that undermined intelligence-gathering, adversely af-fected internal postmortems conducted after the crisis peaked, and resulted in keeping Congress and the public in the dark about what really happened.

Fifty years after the crisis that brought the superpowers to the brink, Blind over Cuba: The Photo Gap and the Missile Crisis offers a new chapter in our understanding of that pivotal event, the tensions inside the US government during the cold war, and the obstacles Con-gress faces when conducting an investigation of the executive branch.

Number Eleven: Foreign Relations and the Presidency

DAVID M. BARRETT, a professor of political science at Villanova University, is the editor of Lyndon B. Johnson’s Vietnam Papers: A Documentary Collection (Texas A&M University Press, 1997) and the author of The CIA and Congress: The Untold Story from Truman to Kennedy (University Press of Kansas, 2005). MAX HOLLAND is the editor of Washington Decoded, an independent, online monthly magazine. He also serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Intelligence and Coun-terIntelligence and is a contributing editor for Wilson Quarterly and The Nation. He previously served for five years as a research fellow at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs.

“Anyone interested in the Cold War, the Kennedy Administration, intelligence, or the Congress will want a copy of this fascinating book.”—Loch K. Johnson, editor, Intelligence and National Security, and author, National Security Intelligence (Polity, 2012)

Writing JFKPresidential Rhetoric and the Press in the Bay of Pigs CrisisThomas W. Benson978-1-58544-276-8 cloth $29.95s978-1-58544-281-2 paper $14.95

The Use of Force after the Cold WarEdited by H. W. Brands978-1-58544-303-1 paper $19.95s

Reagan on WarA Reappraisal of the Weinberger Doctrine, 1980–1984Gail E. S. Yoshitani978-1-60344-259-6 cloth $35.00

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Echoes of battle cries from long ago . . .

Faded GloryA Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now

Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley

Each of the wars fought by Texans spawned the creation of scores of military sites across the state, from the lonely frontier outpost at Adobe Walls to the once-bustling World War II shipyards of Orange. Today, although vestiges of the sites still exist, many are barely discernible, their once-proud martial trappings now faded by time, neglect, the elements and, most of all, public apathy.

In Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now, Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley revisit twenty-nine sites—many of them largely forgotten—associated with what was arguably the most tumultuous hundred-year period in a five-century span of Texas history.

Whether in the war with Mexico, the American Civil War, in clashes between Indians and the frontier army, or in two worldwide conflicts fought on foreign shores, Texas and Texans have often answered the call to arms. Beginning in 1845 and continuing through 1945, the Lone Star State and its people were fully involved in seven major conflicts.

In this thoroughly researched and absorbing guide, Alexander and Utley recount the full story of the sites from their days of fame to the present. Comparing historic sketches, paintings, and period photographs of the original installations with recent photographs, they illustrate how time has dealt with these important places. Providing maps to aid readers in locating each site, the authors close with a resounding call for preservation and interpretation for future generations.

The descriptions and images restore, at least in the mind’s eye, a touch of vitality and color to these forgotten and disappearing sites. Thanks to Faded Glory: A Century of Forgot-ten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now, both the traveler and the armchair tourist can recover a sense of these places and events that did so much to shape the military history of Texas.

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

THOMAS E. ALEXANDER, who served as an officer in the Strategic Air Command, is the author of four books on Texas military history. His work on Peyote Army Airfield was given the Rupert Richard-son Award as the best book on West Texas History in 2006. A retired executive vice president with Neiman Marcus, he is currently serving his second six-year term on the Texas Historical Commission. Alexander lives in Kerrville, Texas. DAN K. UTLEY, chief historian of the Center for Public History at Texas State University and a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, is a retired chief historian for the Texas Historical Commission, a past chairman of the National Register State Board of Review for Texas, and the past president of the Texas Oral History Association and the East Texas Historical Association.

“In this beautifully illustrated and well-crafted book, the military history of Texas comes alive and takes on new meaning. One can almost hear the thun-der of cavalry horses and the clatter of dragoon sabers at Rancho de Carricitos on the Rio Grande, the deadly crack of Billy Dixon’s rifle at Adobe Walls, or the fatigued sighs of the ill-fated Sibley Brigade arriving at a windswept Fort Bliss. There is also the deafening sound of Lt. Dick Dowling’s artillery at Sabine Pass, the debilitating and scorching heat in the desert at Camp Ruidosa in 1916, the hum of propellers as airplanes take flight at Marfa Army Airfield, and the whis-tle of a troop train in the night as Italian prisoners from North Africa arrive at Camp Hereford in the Panhandle. It is all here and it is all very exciting and very grand.”—Jerry D. Thompson, Regents Professor of Humanities, Texas A&M International University

Battles of the Red River WarArcheological Perspectives on the Indian Campaign of 1874J. Brett Cruse978-1-60344-027-1 cloth $29.95

History AheadStories beyond the Texas Roadside MarkersDan K. Utley and Cynthia J. Beeman978-1-60344-151-3 flexbound $23.00

Texans and WarNew Interpretations of the State’s Military HistoryAlexander Mendoza and Charles David Grear978-1-60344-583-2 cloth $55.00s978-1-60344-695-2 paper $35.00s

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Celebrating the musical diversity of the Lone Star State . . .

Everyday Music

Alan Govenar Online Teaching Resources by Paddy Bowman

Native American drumming and chant; Czech and German polka; country fiddling; African American spirituals, blues and jazz; cowboy songs; Mexican corridos; zydeco; and the sounds of a Cambodian New Year’s celebration — all are part of the amazing cultural patchwork of traditional music in Texas. In Everyday Music, author and researcher Alan Govenar brings readers face-to-face with the stories and memories of people who are as varied as the traditions they carry on.

In 1986, Alan Govenar traveled more than 35,000 miles around Texas, in-terviewing, recording, and photographing the vast cultural landscape of the state. In Everyday Music, he compares his experiences then with his attempts to reconnect with the people and traditions that he had originally documented.

Stopping at gas stations, restaurants, or street-corner groceries in small towns and inner-city neighborhoods, Govenar asked local residents about local music and musicians. What he found on his road trip around the state—and what he shares in the pages of this book — are the time-honored songs, tunes, and musical instruments that have been passed down from one genera-tion to the next. Govenar invites you to accompany him on his journey — one that will forever change the way you look at the traditional music that is such an important part of our everyday lives.

Everyday Music is accompanied by a special online resource (www.everydaymusiconline.org) with video clips, recorded interviews, and performances. The site also features spe-cial resources for teachers who want to bring this rich cultural experience into their class-rooms and for general readers who simply want to know more.

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

ALAN GOVENAR is a writer, folklorist, photographer, and filmmaker. He is the president of Documen-tary Arts, Inc., a Dallas-based nonprofit organization he founded in 1985 to present new perspectives on historical issues and diverse cultures. His books for young readers include Stompin’ at the Savoy: The Story of Norma Miller; Extraordinary Ordinary People: Five American Masters of Traditional Arts; and Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter (Orbis Pictus Honor Award, American Library Association Notable Book, and Hornbook Honor Award). PADDY BOWMAN, who wrote the accompanying online teaching guide, completed her MA in Folklore at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 1983. She is Director of Local Learning at the National Network for Folk Arts in Educa-tion in Washington, DC, where she also serves as adjunct professor at Lesley University, teaching a course titled “Art and Culture in Community.”

Texas BluesThe Rise of a Contemporary SoundAlan B. Govenar978-1-58544-605-6 cloth $40.00

The History of Texas MusicGary Hartman 978-1-60344-002-8 paper $19.95

The Roots of Texas MusicEdited by Lawrence Clayton and Joe W. Specht978-1-58544-492-2 paper $22.50

978-1-60344-528-3 hardcover $16.959x10. 148 pp. 134 color, 37 b&w photos. Appendix. Bib. Index.Texana. Texas Folklore. Ethnic Studies. Music. Septemberebook 978-1-60344-756-0

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A complete, paddle-friendly guide to the waterways in and near Houston . . .

Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways

Natalie H. Wiest Maps by Jerry Moulden Foreword by Andrew Sansom

Within about seventy-five miles of downtown Houston, some 1,500 miles of rivers, creeks, lakes, bayous, and bays await discovery. Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways, by longtime paddler Natalie Wiest, is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to experience Houston’s well-watered landscape from the seat of a kayak or canoe.

Before introducing readers to the quiet, green world that lies within and around the heart of the city, Wiest gives some pointers on water safety (including swimming and boating); on weather, flood stages, and legal access; and on an often unseen but always present paddling compan-ion—alligators. She also provides a gear checklist for a day trip, a brief guide to boats and paddles, and a “sampler” list of easy places to paddle for true beginners.

Presented in nine chapters, each organized around a river system or coastal basin and comprising a “suite” of paddling trips, the excursions described by Wiest offer a general description of the destination, direc-tions (both driving and paddling), and details about the paddling condi-tions and access sites, which are all publicly owned or managed. Each chapter lists mile-ages, USGS gauging station numbers, and GIS locations when applicable. Also including ninety color photos and more than thirty detailed maps, Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways offers both novice and experienced paddlers a helpful and enjoyable reference for experiencing nature at water level, in and around Houston.

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

NATALIE WIEST, head librarian at Texas A&M University–Galveston, is also founder and director of the Galveston Bay Information Center. She is a longtime member of the Houston Canoe Club. Kayaking the Texas Coast

John Whorff978-1-60344-225-1 flexbound $25.00

Houston Atlas of Biodiversity Houston Wilderness978-1-58544-618-6 paper $23.95

Neches River User GuideGina Donovan978-1-60344-138-4 paper $17.95

978-1-60344-764-5 flexbound $25.009x10. 176 pp. 90 color photos. 37 maps. References. Bib. Index.Sports. Water. Nature Travel. Novemberebook 978-1-60344-775-1

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“Texas today is the finest and best hunting and fishing ground in the United States . . .” —Field and Stream, 1893

A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl HuntingThe Decoys, Guides, Clubs, and Places, 1870s to 1970s

R. K. Sawyer Foreword by Matt Kaminski

The days are gone when seemingly limitless numbers of canvasbacks, mallards, and Canada geese filled the skies above the Texas coast. Gone too are the days when, in a single morning, hunters often harvested ducks, shorebirds, and other water-fowl by the hundreds. The hundred-year period from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries brought momentous changes in attitudes and game laws: changes initially prompted by sportsmen who witnessed the disappearance of both the birds and their spectacular habitat. These changes forever affected the state’s storied hunting culture.

Yet, as R. K. Sawyer discovered, the rich lore and reminiscences of the era’s hunters and guides who plied the marshy haunts from Beaumont to Brownsville, though fading, remain a colorful and essential part of the Texas outdoor heritage.

Gleaned from interviews with sportsmen and guides of decades past as well as meticulous research in news archives, Sawyer’s vivid documentation of Texas’ deep-rooted waterfowl hunting tradition is accompanied by a superb collection of historical and modern photographs. He showcases the hunting clubs, the de-coys, the duck and goose calls, the equipment, and the unique hunting practices of the period. By preserving this account of a way of life and a coastal environment that have both mostly vanished, A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting also pays tribute to the efforts of all those who fought to ensure that Texas’ waterfowl legacy would endure. This book will aid their efforts, along with those of coastal residents, birders, wildlife biologists, conservationists, and all who are interested in the state’s natural history and in championing the preservation of waterfowl and wetland resources for the benefit of future generations.

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

R. K. (ROB) SAWYER, a petroleum geologist in Houston, is also on the staff of the Thunderbird Hunt-ing Club in Matagorda County.

“I would recommend this book to waterfowlers anywhere and would tell any-one who has ever hunted or wanted to hunt Texas waterfowl that it is required reading . . . ”—Rudolph Rosen, former director of the western regional office of Ducks Unlimited

Fishing Yesterday’s Gulf CoastBarney Farley978-1-60344-046-2 paper $15.95

Glory of the Silver KingThe Golden Age of Tarpon FishingHart StilwellEdited and with an Introduction by Brandon Shuler978-1-60344-267-1 cloth $24.95

In the Sporting TraditionThe Art of Herb BoothHerb Booth Introductory text by Michael McIntosh978-0-89096-571-9 cloth $49.50

978-1-60344-763-8 cloth $35.0081/2x11. 288 pp. 26 color, 175 b&w photos. 13 maps. 32 figures. Index.Natural History.Septemberebook 978-1-60344-773-7

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A comprehensive guide to the best purchasing decisions for rural real estate buyers in Texas . . .

Buying Rural Land in Texas

Charles E. Gilliland

Whether the prospective buyer is a farmer or rancher looking to expand operations, a sportsman seeking to preserve habitat for wildlife, or a nature enthusiast trying to con-serve native flora and fauna, acquiring rural land can be a rollercoaster of exciting and stressful experiences. In Buying Rural Land in Texas, Charles E. Gilliland demonstrates that buyers can and should arm themselves with knowledge—of the land-buying process, of the potential problems involved, and of the resources available to them—to ensure a successful and satisfying outcome.

In this practical guide, Gilliland outlines four phases of buying rural land: identifying what you want, in terms of both land and property rights; locating a suitable property; valuing the property; and completing the transaction. He then covers everything the po-tential landowner should know while progressing through these steps: how to identify and manage risk, plan an “exit strategy,” interpret present and future land prices, find the “perfect spot,” evaluate the property’s physical attributes, gauge economic trends, under-stand legal rights and limitations, protect natural resources, and, finally, close the deal.

Incorporating real life examples from a career spent in land sales, Gilliland takes readers step-by-step through the process, also providing checklists, maps, professional tips, and information about how to tap additional sources of information and advice. With the knowledge gained from Buying Rural Land in Texas, new landowners will find themselves not at the end of a journey but at the beginning, as they learn to manage their land and to deliver it intact to future generations.

CHARLES E. GILLILAND is clinical professor of finance, research economist, and Helen and O. N. Mitchell Fellow at the Real Estate Center in the Mays School of Business at Texas A&M University. Specializing in property taxation, appraisal, and rural land markets, he also writes regularly for the Real Estate Center’s popular outreach magazine, Tierra Grande.

“The outstanding features are his clarity in style and the super statistical analy-ses, especially making the impact of the size of rural tracts on the price paid clear to the public.”—Charles Porter

Hill Country Landowner’s GuideJames P. Stanley978-1-60344-137-7 flexbound $19.95

Generations on the LandA Conservation LegacyJoe Nick Patoski978-1-60344-241-1 cloth $25.00

Texas WildscapesGardening for Wildlife, Texas A&M Nature Guides EditionKelly Conrad Bender978-1-60344-085-1 flexbound $24.95

978-1-60344-795-9 flexbound $25.006x9. 144 pp. 11 color photos. 4 maps. 12 figs. Bib. Index.Business Practices. Range Management. Conservation. Novemberebook 978-1-60344-822-2

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Having first visited the Big Bend in 1928, Kenneth B. Ragsdale has been digging around in and writing about the region for decades. In Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected, he takes a nostalgic ret-rospective journey through the times and places of this increasingly popular corner of West Texas to say goodbye to those who made the history, created the myths, and lived the legends.

Building his stories around themes of compassion, conflict, and com-promise, he profiles both famous and relatively unknown figures. He tells stories of curanderas (healers), charity workers, a woman who practiced medicine without a license, and another who started a pri-vate lending library in her store to encourage rural, poor children to read. In contrast to these stories, he chronicles blood feuds, shoot-outs, and the violence bred in wild, relatively lawless spaces.

Ragsdale’s stories cover a half-century, roughtly 1900 to 1955, from wagon trains to the filming of an epic movie, a time in which the face of the Big Bend changed: the quicksilver mines closed, a national park was established, isolation and cattle gave way to vacation ranchettes and tourists.

“Big Bend Country is a well-done and useful work and should be wel-comed by all lovers of that wonderful country.” —Dallas Morning News

“If you’ve never been to Big Bend, Ken Ragsdale’s new book will make you want to go there.”—Austin American-Statesman

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

Kenneth B. Ragsdale is an independent scholar, who has published two books on the Big Bend, including Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Com-pany, and the award-winning The Year America Discovered Texas: Centennial ‘36, both published by Texas A&M University Press. He lives in Austin.

978-1-60344-742-3 paper $24.956x9. 336 pp. 25 b&w photos. Line drawing.Folklore. Texas Folklore. Texas History. September

This third edition of James R. Dixon’s Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas: With Keys, Taxonomic Synopses, Bibliography, and Distri-bution Maps, completely redesigned throughout with color photo-graphs, revised taxonomic keys, and updated species descriptions, covers more than two hundred species of amphibians and reptiles. As in the previous editions, the book includes an extensive listing of the literature on Texas amphibians and reptiles that goes back to the historic writings of Berlandier, in the early nineteenth century, and is updated to reflect the most recent research.

Comprehensive distribution maps, updated references, and an ex-haustive bibliography round out this latest edition of what has come to be widely recognized as the standard scientific guide and reference for professional, academic, and amateur naturalists interested in the herpatofauna of Texas.

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

JAMES R. DIXON is professor emeritus at Texas A&M University and curator emeritus of amphibians and reptiles at the Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection.

978-1-60344-734-8 flexbound $39.957x10. 544 pp. 294 color photos. 308 maps. 18 line art. Glossary. Bib. Index.Herpetology. Wildlife. Field Guides. Januaryebook 978-1-60344-750-8

New in paperback

Big Bend CountryLand of the Unexpected

Kenneth B. Ragsdale

A new, completely updated edi-tion of the authoritative guide to amphibians and reptiles in Texas, by one of the most respected herpetologists in the state . . .

Amphibians and Reptiles of TexasWith Keys, Taxonomic Synopses, Bibliography, and Distribution Maps

James R. Dixon Photographs by Toby J. Hibbitts


From hellion to hero and beyond: the extraordinary personal journey of Michael J. Daly . . .

A Cause Greater than SelfThe Journey of Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor Recipient

Stephen J. Ochs

A privileged, hell-raising youth who had greatly embarrassed his family—and especially his war-hero father—by being dismissed from West Point, Michael J. Daly would go on to display selfless courage and heroic leadership on the battlefields of Europe during World War II. Starting as an enlisted man and rising through the ranks to become a captain and company commander, Daly’s devotion to his men and his determination to live up to the ideals taught to him by his father led him to extraordinary acts of bravery on behalf of oth-ers, resulting in three Silver Stars, a Bronze Star with “V” attachment for valor, two Purple Hearts, and finally, the Medal of Honor.

Historian Stephen J. Ochs mined archives and special collections and conducted numer-ous personal interviews with Daly, his family and friends, and the men whom he com-manded and with whom he served. The result is a carefully constructed, in-depth portrait of a warrior-hero who found his life’s deepest purpose, both during and after the war, in selfless service to others. After a period of post-war drift, Daly finally escaped the “hero’s cage” and found renewed purpose through family and service. He became a board mem-ber at St. Vincent’s Hospital in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he again assumed the role of defender and guardian by championing the cause of the indigent poor and the termi-nally ill, earning the sobriquet, “conscience of the hospital.”

A Cause Greater than Self: The Journey of Captain Michael J. Daly, World War II Medal of Honor Recipient is at once a unique, father-son wartime saga, a coming-of-age narrative, and the tale of a heroic man’s struggle to forge a new and meaningful postwar life. Daly’s story also highlights the crucial role played by platoon and company infantry officers in winning both major battles like those on D-Day and in lesser-known campaigns such as those of the Colmar Pocket and in south-central Germany, further reinforcing the debt that Americans owe to them—especially those whose selfless courage merited the Medal of Honor.

STEPHEN J. OCHS is an instructor in the history department at Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda, Maryland, where he holds the Lawler Chair of History and has taught since 1977. He is the author of two previous books.

“This work is well up to the level of its counterparts in quality, and is useful as well for its emphasis on the war’s final months, often overlooked in gen-eral accounts that treat events after the Battle of the Bulge as an extended footnote.”—Dennis E. Showalter, professor of history, Colorado College

“I’m not aware of recent works that so well document events in small units, particularly those of the campaign in Southern France and Germany. The author’s superb source materials from the Daly family and veterans are what set this story apart.”—Edward G. Miller, author, A Dark and Bloody Ground

“. . . a remarkable portrait not only of a hero but of a flesh-and-blood mortal with fears and failings, as well as strengths and successes, in both war and peace.”—Robert Asahina, author, Just Americans: How Japanese Americans Won a War at Home and Abroad

A Dark and Bloody GroundThe Hürtgen Forest and the Roer River Dams, 1944–1945Edward G. Miller978-1-58544-258-4 paper $22.95

The Chaplain’s ConflictGood and Evil in a War Hospital, 1943–1945Tennant McWilliams978-1-60344-470-5 cloth $35.00s

Texas Aggie Medals of HonorSeven Heroes of World War IIJames R. Woodall978-1-60344-204-6 cloth $25.00

978-1-60344-783-6 cloth $42.50s6x9. 352 pp. 34 b&w photos. 9 maps. 6 figures. Appendix. Bib. Index.Biography. World War II. Military History. Septemberebook 978-1-60344-803-1

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Hundreds of novels have been written about young men coming of age in war. And millions of young men have, in fact, come of age in combat. This is the story of one of them, as told by his daughter, based on the daily letters he wrote to his family in 1944 and 1945.

After ten months of stateside training, nineteen-year-old Joe Ted (Bud) Miller shipped out from New York harbor in November 1944 and served with the 63rd Infantry in France and Germany. Although he fought with his unit at the Colmar Pocket and earned a Bronze Star for his role in pushing through the Siegfried Line, his letters focus less on the details of battle than on the many aspects of his life in the military: food, PX, movies, biographies of friends and platoon-mates, training activities, travelogues, and the behavior (good and bad) of officers. Bud’s journalistic skills show in his letters and fill his reports with a wealth of objective detail, as well as articulate reflections on his feelings about his experiences.

Katherine I. Miller, a communication scholar, brings to her father’s letters—which form the centerpiece of the book—her scholarly train-ing in analyzing issues such as the development of masculinity in his-torical context, the formation of adult identity, and the psychologi-cal effects of war. Further insights gained from additional personal and family archives, interviews with surviving family members, of-ficial paperwork, the unit history of the 63rd Infantry Division (254th Regiment), unit newspapers, pictorial histories, maps, and accounts by other unit members aided her in crafting this “interpretive biog-raphy.” The book also serves as a window onto more general ques-tions of how individuals navigate complicated turning points thrown at them by external events and internal struggles as they move from youth to adulthood.

Number 140: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series

KATHERINE I. MILLER is on the faculty of the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. Specializing in family, health, and or-ganizational communication, she is also the author of two textbooks and many articles in professional journals.

978-1-60344-770-6 cloth $49.95s

6x9. 282 pp. 16 b&w photos. Bib. Index.World War II. Memoir. Military History. Decemberebook 978-1-60344-774-4

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

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

“Grear argues that geography, more than anything, swayed the deci-sions that white Texans made about whether (and where) to fight for the Confederacy. His logic is simple yet compelling. Still, the central premise of Grear’s work rings true: understanding how white Texans chose between their competing attachments to Texas and other Con-federate states sheds light on their decisions and behavior during the war.”—Journal of Southern History

“Grear’s book will serve as the standard work on Texas Civil War soldiers; yet Civil War scholars beyond the Lone Star State can also benefit from this study and its arguments.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly

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

CHARLES DAVID GREAR is an assistant professor of history at Prairie View A&M University.

978-1-60344-809-3 paper $22.956x9. 256 pp. 27 b&w photos. 6 maps. Bib. Index.Texas History. Civil War. Texas Military History. Septemberebook 978-1-60344-305-0

A boy goes off to war . . . and a man returns home in his place . . .

War Makes Men of BoysA Soldier’s World War II

Katherine I. Miller

New in paperback

Why Texans Fought in the Civil War

Charles David Grear


Immigration across the US-Mexican border may currently be a hot topic, but it is hardly a new one. Labor issues and civil rights have been interwoven with the history of the region since at least the time of the Mexican-American War, and the twentieth century witnessed recur-rent political battles surrounding the status and rights of Mexican im-migrants. In Mexican Inclusion: The Origins of Anti-Discrimination Policy in Texas and the Southwest, political scientist Matthew Gritter traces the process by which people of Mexican origin were incorpo-rated in the United States’ first civil rights agency, the World War II–era President’s Committee on Fair Employment Practices (FEPC).

Incorporating the analytic lenses of transnationalism, institutional development, and identity formation, Gritter explores the activities and impact of the FEPC. He argues that transnational and interna-tional networks related to the US’s Good Neighbor Policy created an impetus for the federal government to combat discrimination against people of Mexican origin. The inclusion of Mexican American civil rights leaders as FEPC staff members combined with an increase in state capacity to afford the agency increased institutional effective-ness. The FEPC provided an opportunity for small-scale state building and policy innovation.

Gritter compares the outcomes of the agency’s anti-discrimination efforts with class-based labor organizing. Grounded in pragmatic ap-peals to citizenship, Mexican American civil rights leaders utilized leverage provided by the Good Neighbor Policy to create their own distinct place in an emerging civil rights bureaucracy.

Students and scholars of Mexican American issues, civil rights, and government policy will appreciate Mexican Inclusion for its fresh syn-thesis of analytic and historical processes. Likewise, those focused on immigration and borderlands studies will gain new insights from its inclusive context.

MATTHEW GRITTER is a visiting assistant professor of political science at Siena College (NY). He holds a PhD from the New School for Social Research.

978-1-60344-798-0 cloth $40.00s6x9. 176 pp. Bib. Index.Political Science. Ethnic Studies. Mexican American Studies. Septemberebook 978-1-60344-813-0

Although they are among the most important sources of the history of the American Southwest, the lives of ordinary immigrants from Mexico have rarely been recorded. Educated and hardworking, Luis G. Gómez came to Texas from Mexico as a young man in the mid-1880s. He made his way around much of South Texas, finding work on the railroad and in other businesses, observing the people and ways of the region and committing them to memory for later transcription.

Few of the 150,000 immigrants in the last half of the nineteenth cen-tury left written records of their experiences, but Gómez wrote his memoir and had it privately published in Spanish in 1935. Crossing the Rio Grande presents an English edition of that memoir, translated by the author’s grandson, Guadalupe Valdez Jr., with assistance from Javier Villarreal, a professor of Spanish at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. An introduction by Thomas H. Kreneck explains the book’s value to scholarship and describes what has been learned of the publication history of the original Spanish-language volume.

“Gómez says explicitly in the prologue to his memoirs that the pur-pose of recording the events of his life is to entertain; however, his memoirs accomplish much more than this as they fill a void in the history of the American Southwest of the late nineteenth century.”—Journal of the American Studies Association for Texas

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

LUIS GÓMEZ migrated to South Texas in the mid-1880s. He wrote his memoir and privately published it in Spanish in 1935. GUADALUPE VALDEZ JR., who translated the Spanish original, is the grandson of Luis Gómez. THOMAS H. KRENECK is the associate director for special collections and archives at the Mary and Jeff Bell Library and the Joe B. Frantz Lecturer in Public History at Texas A&M University—Corpus Christi. He is also the author of Del Pueblo: A History of Houston’s Hispanic Community and Mexican American Odyssey: Felix Tijerina, Entrepreneur and Civic Leader, 1905—1965, published by Texas A&M University Press.

978-1-60344-808-6 paper $15.9551/2x81/2. 120 pp. 7 b&w photos. Map. Index.Memoir. Borderlands Studies. Mexican American Studies, Texas. Septemberebook 978-1-60344-532-0

Mexican InclusionThe Origins of Anti-Discrimination Policy in Texas and the Southwest

Matthew Gritter

New in paperback

Crossing the Rio GrandeAn Immigrant’s Life in the 1880s

Luis G. Gómez Translated by Guadalupe Valdez Jr. Introduction by Thomas H. Kreneck



Then as now, anxious times along the border . . .

Militarizing the BorderWhen Mexicans Became the Enemy

Miguel Antonio Levario

As historian Miguel Antonio Levario explains in this timely book, current tensions and controversy over immigration and law enforcement issues centered on the US-Mexico border are only the latest evidence of a long-standing atmosphere of uncertainty and mis-trust plaguing this region. Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy, focusing on El Paso and its environs, examines the history of the relationship among law enforcement, military, civil, and political institutions, and local communities.

In the years between 1895 and 1940, West Texas experienced intense militarization ef-forts by local, state, and federal authorities responding to both local and international circumstances. El Paso’s “Mexicanization” in the early decades of the twentieth century contributed to strong racial tensions between the region’s Anglo population and newly arrived Mexicans. Anglos and Mexicans alike turned to violence in order to deal with a racial situation rapidly spinning out of control.

Highlighting a binational focus that sheds light on other US-Mexico border zones in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Militarizing the Border establishes histori-cal precedent for current border issues such as undocumented immigration, violence, and racial antagonism on both sides of the boundary line. This important evaluation of early US border militarization and its effect on racial and social relations among Anglos, Mexi-cans, and Mexican Americans will afford scholars, policymakers, and community leaders a better understanding of current policy . . . and its potential failure.

MIGUEL ANTONIO LEVARIO, an assistant professor of history at Texas Tech University, recently contributed a chapter to War along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities (edited by Arnoldo De León, Texas A&M University Press, 2011). He earned his PhD at the University of Texas.

War along the BorderThe Mexican Revolution and Tejano CommunitiesEdited by Arnoldo De León978-1-60344-524-5 unjacketed cloth $50.00x978-1-60344-525-2 paper $24.95s

Salt WarriorsInsurgency on the Rio GrandePaul Cool978-1-60344-016-5 cloth $24.95

Rise of the Mexican American Middle ClassSan Antonio, 1929–1941Richard A. Garcia978-1-58544-052-8 paper $27.95s

978-1-60344-758-4 cloth $38.95s6x9. 256 pp. 8 b&w photos. 3 appendixes. Bib. Index.Borderlands Studies. Mexican American Studies. Military History, Texas. Septemberebook 978-1-60344-779-9

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Columbus, New Mexico, Home Guard.

Photo courtesy of Archives of the Big Bend, Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, Texas.


In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers. This culture has been labeled the Toyah phase, characterized by a distinc-tive tool kit and a bone-tempered pottery tradition.

Spanish documents, some translated decades ago, offer glimpses of these mobile people. Archaeological excavations, some quite recent, offer other views of this culture, whose homeland covered much of Central and South Texas. For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together a number of perspectives and interpretations of these hunter-gatherers and how they interacted with each other, the pueblos in southeastern New Mexico, the mobile groups in northern Mexico, and newcomers from the northern plains such as the Apache and Comanche.

Assembling eight studies and interpretive essays to look at social boundaries from the perspective of migration, hunter-farmer interac-tions, subsistence, and other issues significant to anthropologists and archaeologists, The Toyah Phase of Central Texas: Late Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes demonstrates that these prehistoric so-cieties were never isolated from the world around them. Rather, these societies were keenly aware of changes happening on the plains to their north, among the Caddoan groups east of them, in the Puebloan groups in what is now New Mexico, and among their neighbors to the south in Mexico.

Number Sixteen: Texas A&M University Anthropology Series

NANCY A. KENMOTSU, of Yakima, Washington, is a project manager at Geo-Marine, Inc., and formerly directed the historical and archaeological program at the Texas Department of Transportation. DOUGLAS K. BOYD, a registered professional archaeologist, is vice president of Prewitt and Associates, Inc., a company providing cultural resource management services. Boyd resides in Austin.

978-1-60344-690-7 hardcover $45.00s6x9. 356 pp. 14 b&w photos. 41 maps. 2 line art. 13 figs. 13 tables. Bib. Index.Archaeology. Native American Studies. Septemberebook 978-1-60344-755-3

Paleoamerican Origins: Beyond Clovis presents twenty-three up-to-date syntheses of important topics surrounding the debate over the initial prehistoric colonization of the Americas.

The papers are written by some of the foremost authorities who are on the trail of the first Americans. The papers in this volume include a discussion of the archaeological evidence for Clovis and Pre-Clovis sites in North America (11 papers) and South America (2 papers). In addition, papers on the genetic evidence (2 papers) and skeletal evidence (4 papers) provide insights into the origins of the first Americans.

Additional papers include ideas on the changing perceptions of Pa-leoamerican prehistory, public policy and science, and a comprehen-sive concluding synthesis.

Peopling of the Americas Publications

ROBSON BONNICHSEN (deceased) was the director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans and a professor in the Department of Anthropol-ogy at Texas A&M University. BRADLEY T. LEPPER is a curator of Archaeology at the Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, Ohio. DENNIS STANFORD is the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Paleoindian/Paleoecology Program and curator of several archaeological collections at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. MICHAEL R. WATERS is the director of the Center for the Study of the First Americans and a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Texas A&M University.

978-1-60344-812-3 paper $45.00s81/2x11. 388 pp. 83 figures. 22 tables. 1 line drawing. Refs. Index.Anthropology. Archaeology. November

Reconsidering connections among indigenous North Ameri-can peoples at the beginnings of European settlement . . .

The Toyah Phase of Central TexasLate Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes

Edited by Nancy A. Kenmotsu and Douglas K. Boyd

New in paperback

Paleoamerican OriginsBeyond Clovis

Edited by Robson Bonnichsen, Bradley T. Lepper, Dennis Stanford, and Michael R. Waters



The Gurob Ship-Cart Model and Its Mediterranean Context

Shelley Wachsmann

When Shelley Wachsmann began his analysis of the small ship model excavated by assistants of famed Egyptologist W. M. F. Petrie in Gurob, Egypt, in 1920, he expected to produce a brief monograph that would shed light on the model and the ship type that it represented. Instead, Wachsmann discovered that the model held clues to the identities and cultures of the enigmatic Sea Peoples, to the religious practices of ancient Egypt and Greece, and to the oared ships used by the Bronze Age Mycenaean Greeks.

Although found in Egypt, the prototype of the Gurob model was clearly an Aege-an-style galley of a type used by both the Mycenaeans and the Sea Peoples. The model is the most detailed representation presently known of this vessel type, which played a major role in changing the course of world history. Contempora-neous textual evidence for Sherden—one of the Sea Peoples—settled in the region suggests that the model may be patterned after a galley of that culture. Bearing a typical Helladic bird-head decoration topping the stempost, with holes along the sheer strakes confirming the use of stanchions, the model was found with four wheels and other evidence for a wagon-like support structure, connecting it with European cultic prototypes.

The online resources that accompany the book illustrate Wachsmann’s research and analysis. They include 3D interactive models that allow readers to examine the Gurob model on their computers as if held in the hand, both in its present state and in two hypothetical reconstructions. The online component also contains high-resolution color photos of the model, maps and satellite photos of the site, and other related materials.

Offering a wide range of insights and evidence for linkages among ancient Mediterranean peoples and traditions, The Gurob Ship-Cart Model and Its Mediterranean Context pres-ents an invaluable asset for anyone interested in the complexities of cultural change in the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age.

Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series

The Meadows Associate Professor of Biblical Archeology at Texas A&M University, SHELLEY WACHS-MANN is also the author of Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant (Texas A&M University Press, 1998), which received the Irene Levi-Sala Book Prize in the Archaeology of Israel, and The Sea of Galilee Boat: An Extraordinary 2000-Year-Old Discovery (Texas A&M University Press, 2009), which won the Biblical Archeology Society’s Award for best popular book.

Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age LevantShelley Wachsmann978-1-60344-080-6 paper $40.00s

The Sea of Galilee BoatShelley Wachsmann978-1-60344-113-1 paper $23.00

From Egypt to MesopotamiaA Study of Predynastic Trade RoutesSamuel Mark978-1-58544-530-1 paper $19.95s

978-1-60344-429-3 cloth $75.00s81/2x11. 384 pp. 212 b&w photos. 65 Line drawings. 4 figs. 5 maps. 7 appendices. Glossary. Bib. Index.Nautical Archaeology. Ancient History. Religion. Online Interactive Resources.Decemberebook 978-1-60344-746-1

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Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast

Edited by Claude Chapdelaine

The Far Northeast, a peninsula incorporating the six New England states, New York east of the Hudson, Quebec south of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf of St. Lawrence, and the Maritime Provinces, provided the setting for a distinct chapter in the peopling of North America.

Late Pleistocene Archaeology and Ecology in the Far Northeast focuses on the Clo-vis pioneers and their eastward migration into this region, inhospitable before 13,500 years ago, especially in its northern latitudes.

Bringing together the last decade or so of research on the Paleoindian presence in the area, Claude Chapdelaine and the contributors to this volume discuss, among other topics, the style variations in the fluted points left behind by these migrating peoples, a broader disparity than previously thought. This book offers not only an opportunity to review new data and interpretations in most areas of the Far North-east, including a first glimpse at the Cliche-Rancourt Site, the only known fluted point site in Quebec, but also permits these new findings to shape revised inter-pretations of old sites. The accumulation of research findings in the Far Northeast has been steady, and this timely book presents some of the most interesting results, offering fresh perspectives on the prehistory of this important region.

Peopling of the Americas Publications

CLAUDE CHAPDELAINE, a professor of archaeology at the Université de Montréal, specializes in the prehistory of North America.

“The region Chapdelaine calls the Far Northeast was still cloaked with glacial ice when early bands of humans were already well established elsewhere on the North American continent. How they subsequently expanded northward and adapted to this bleak landscape once the ice melted is the subject of this fasci-nating volume. Leading scholars in the region have made the most of the latest finds to understand human adaptation in this corner of a long lost world. It is archaeological science at its best.”—Dean R. Snow, professor, Department of Anthropology, Pennsylvania State University

From the Yenisei to the YukonInterpreting Lithic Assemblage Variability in Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene BeringiaEdited by Ted Goebel and Ian Buvit978-1-60344-321-0 hardcover $80.00s

Clovis Lithic TechnologyInvestigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, TexasMichael R. Waters, Charlotte D. Pevny, and David L. Carlson978-1-60344-278-7 hardcover $45.00s

Arch Lake WomanPhysical Anthropology and GeoarchaeologyDouglas W. Owsley, et al.978-1-60344-208-4 hardcover $30.00

978-1-60344-790-4 hardcover $68.00s81/2x11. 352 pp. 92 b&w photos. 34 line art. References. Index.Archaeology. Prehistoric America.Novemberebook 978-1-60344-805-5

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From the Pleistocene to the HoloceneHuman Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America

Edited by C. Britt Bousman and Bradley J. Vierra

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mo-bility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event—which mani-fested in ways and at times much more varied than often supposed—set the stage for the unique developments of behavioral complexity that distinguish later Native American prehistoric societies.

Using localized studies and broad regional syntheses, the contributors to this vol-ume demonstrate the diversity of adaptations to the dynamic and changing en-vironmental and cultural landscapes that occurred between the Pleistocene and early portion of the Holocene. The authors’ research areas range from Northern Mexico to Alaska and across the continent to the American Northeast, synthesiz-ing the copious available evidence from well-known and recent excavations.With its methodologically and geographically diverse approach, From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America provides an overview of the present state of knowledge regarding this crucial transformative period in Native North America. It offers a large-scale synthesis of human adaptation, reflects the range of ideas and concepts in current ar-chaeological theoretical approaches, and acts as a springboard for future explanations and models of prehistoric change.

Number Seventeen: Texas A&M University Anthropology Series

As associate professor of anthropology at Texas State University–San Marcos and a GAES honorary research fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand, C. BRITT BOUSMAN has conducted archaeo-logical research in the Southern Plains and peripheral areas since 1972. His contributions include coauthoring “Paleoindian Archeology in Texas” in The Prehistory of Texas (Texas A&M University Press, 2004). BRADLEY J. VIERRA of Los Alamos, New Mexico, is a principal investigator at Statistical Research Inc. He has researched and written extensively on hunter-gatherer archaeology, stone tool technology, and origins of agriculture, with a special focus on the American Southwest.

The Proto-Neolithic Cemetery in Shanidar CaveRalph S. Solecki, Rose L. Solecki, and Anagnostis P. Agelarakis978-1-58544-272-0 cloth $50.00s

The Historical Archaeology of Military SitesMethod and TopicEdited by Clarence R. Geier, et al978-1-60344-207-7 hardcover $50.00s

The Anatomy and Biology of the Human SkeletonD. Gentry Steele and Claud A. Bramblett978-0-89096-326-5 paper $34.95x

978-1-60344-760-7 hardcover $70.00s81/2x11. 448 pp. 1 color, 13 b&w photos. 22 maps. 13 line art. 51 figs. 55 tables. Bib. Index.Archaeology. Anthropology.Novemberebook 978-1-60344-778-2

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Drawings courtesy Claire Chatters and Washington State University

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Old RedPioneering Medical Education in Texas

Heather Green Wooten

Tucked away in a corner of the University of Texas Medical Branch campus stands a ma-jestic relic of an era long past. Constructed of red pressed brick, sandstone and ruddy Texas granite, the Ashbel Smith Building, fondly known as Old Red, represents a fascinat-ing page in Galveston and Texas history.

It has been more than a century since Old Red welcomed the first group of visionary faculty and students inside its halls. For decades, the medical school building existed at the heart of UTMB campus life, even through periods of dramatic growth and change. In time, however, the building lost much of its original function to larger, more contempo-rary facilities. Today, as the oldest medical school building west of the Mississippi River, the intricately ornate Old Red sits in sharp contrast to its sleeker neighbors.

Old Red: Pioneering Medical Education in Texas examines the life and legacy of the Ash-bel Smith Building from its beginnings through modern-day efforts to preserve it. Chap-ters explore the nascence of medical education in Texas; the supreme talent and genius of Old Red architect Nicholas J. Clayton; and the lives of faculty and students as they labored and learned in the midst of budget crises, classroom and fraternity antics, death-rendering storms, and threats of closure.

The education of the state’s first professional female and minority physicians and the na-tionally acclaimed work of physician-scientists and researchers are also highlighted. Most of all, the reader is invited to step inside Old Red and mingle with ghosts of the past—to ascend the magnificent cedar staircase, wander the long, paneled hallways, and take a seat in the tiered amphitheater as pigeons fly in and out of windows overhead.

Number Twenty-two: Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series

HEATHER GREEN WOOTEN of League City is a historian and award-winning author of The Polio Years in Texas: Battling a Terrifying Unknown (Texas A&M University Press, 2009). She is also an educator and associate for the Houston-based history consulting firm, W. H. Kellar Consulting, LLC. Galveston

A History and a GuideDavid McComb978-0-87611-178-9 paper $9.95

A History of Ashton VillaKenneth Hafertepe978-0-87611-112-3 paper $9.95

Ima HoggThe Governor’s DaughterVirginia Bernhard978-0-87611-245-8 paper $15.95

978-0-87611-254-0 paper $15.95s51/2x81/2. 70 pp. 15 photos.Texas History. Texana Gift Books. Southern History. November

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Postcard from the early 1900s.

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With more than 150 images, many never before published, historian Jerry Thompson tells the story of what Pulitzer Prize–winning histo-rian William H. Goetzmann has called a “wild and vivid land.”

From the Coahuiltecan Indians and the Spanish colonizers who clustered along the banks of the Rio Grande, to the cattlemen and oil wildcatters who conquered the brush country, Thompson details six centuries of exciting and entertaining history in a thoroughly re-searched and comprehensive text, lavishly illustrated by the work of artists Lino Sánchez y Tapia, Theodore Gentilz, and Frederic Rem-ington, photographers Robert Runyon, E. O. Goldbeck, and Russell Lee, and many others.

The exciting history presented here is distinguished by scrupulous scholarship and by the author’s clear enthusiasm and love for South Texas. This book of remarkable pictures and stories is the kind of book one returns to again and again, that causes one to muse and dream on the past. The South Texas border becomes vivid in the mind—a sin-gular and an unforgettable encounter.

JERRY THOMPSON, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas A&M International University in Laredo, is among the best and most prolific histori-ans of the Civil War in the Southwest and is an authority on the Texas-Mexico border. He is the author of numerous books and articles.

978-0-87611-167-3 limited edition $95.00x978-0-87611-256-4 paper $29.9581/2x11. 216 pp. 156 b&w photos.Borderlands Studies. Texas History. July

In what may have been the single largest outbreak of vigilante vio-lence in American history, forty suspected Unionists were hanged at Gainesville, Texas, in October 1862. Civil War tensions had been running high.

The Cooke County community located just across the Red River from Indian Territory was split between natives of the Deep South who often supported the Confederacy and natives of the Upper South and Midwest who were sometimes indifferent or hostile to it. When ac-tive resistance to conscription into the Confederate army combined with long-running rumors of an invasion of North Texas by Kansas Jayhawkers and their Indian allies, many of the former decided action must be taken.

More than 150 suspected Unionists were arrested and put before a “citizen’s court” of twelve jurors. The trial was marked by acrimony and violence, which included the lynching of fourteen men by an angry mob. Minister Thomas C. Barrett served on that jury and at-tempted to mitigate the vengeful rage of his neighbors. He had some success in the matter, but after two high-profile assassinations, the hangings continued. His 1885 memoir of the trial and the hangings is collected in this volume. Also collected here is the account based on records of the citizen’s court completed in 1876 by George Washington Diamond, whose brother, James J. Diamond, helped organize the trial. Placed together in one volume, these writings offer important insight into the tensions that tore apart American communities during the Civil War era.

Renowned Civil War historian Richard B. McCaslin provides an in-troduction, while L. D. Clark, a descendant of one of the men hanged, reveals the extent to which tensions remain in Gainesville even gen-erations later.

RICHARD B. McCASLIN, of Denton, Texas, has written numerous books on Civil War and Texas history, including Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, 1862 (LSU Press). L. D. CLARK is a widely published novel-ist and literary scholar. His books include A Bright Tragic Thing: a Tale of Civil War Texas (Cinco Puntos Press). He lives in Gainesville, Texas.

978-0-87611-255-7 cloth $34.95s6x9. 150 pp. 3 b&w illus.Texas History. Southern History. Civil War/Reconstruction. September

A Wild and Vivid LandAn Illustrated History of the South Texas Border

Jerry Thompson

The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862The Accounts of Thomas Barrett and George Washington Diamond

Introduction by Richard B. McCaslin Afterword by L. D. Clark

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Fair Park DecoArt and Architecture of the Texas Centennial Exposition

Jim Parsons and David Bush

Fair Park Deco is a fascinating tour of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposi-tion. Like every American exposition in the 1930s, it began in economic depression. Although its economy had been buoyed by major oil discov-eries in the early ’30s, Texas agriculture was hard hit by the Great De-pression. By the middle of the decade, state officials had set their sights on a great centennial celebration to help stimulate the economy and at-tract tourist dollars.

“If during the next six months the people of the state could become filled with the idea of holding a big celebration on the one hundredth anni-versary of the establishment of Texas independence,” the state’s centen-nial commission speculated in July, 1934, “it would have the effect of creating a general forward-looking spirit through the state. It would be more stimulating than anything we can think of, and this effect would be immediate.”

This book focuses specifically on the Art Deco art and architecture of Fair Park—the public spaces, buildings, sculptures, and murals that were designed for the 1936 exposition. Most of the chapters in the book represent different areas of Fair Park, with buildings and artwork effectively arranged in the same order that a visitor to the Texas Centennial Exposition might have seen them. The art and architecture are featured in original photography by Jim Parsons and David Bush as well as in historic photographs.

Fair Park is one of the finest collections of Deco architecture in the country, but it is so much more: the embodiment of Texan swagger, it is a testament to the Texanic task of creating a dazzling spectacle in the darkest days of the Depression.

JIM PARSONS is the director of special projects and walking tours chair for Preservation Houston. He also works as a freelance writer, editor, and photographer. DAVID BUSH, of Houston, developed his lifelong interest in historic architecture while growing up in New Orleans. He has worked professionally in preservation since 1990, primarily at Galveston Historical Foundation and Preservation Houston. David Bush and Jim Parsons have coauthored three books together, most recently Hill Country Deco: Modernistic Architecture of Central Texas published by TCU Press in 2010.

“This isn’t really a history book. There’s history in it, but our intent was to give readers a sense of what it’s like to visit Fair Park today and what it was like during the Texas Centennial Exposition. It’s got odd little stories about people like Mademoiselle Corinne the Apple Dancer and the architects and artists who created the buildings and the murals and sculpture. We don’t just talk about the major artists; we’ve got information on the assistants whose stories aren’t usually told.”—Jim Parsons and David Bush

Literary DallasEdited by Frances Brannen Vick978-0-87565-382-2 cloth $29.50

Hill Country DecoModernistic Architecture of Central TexasDavid Bush and Jim Parsons 978-0-87565-413-3 cloth $35.00

Fort Worth’s Legendary LandmarksCarol RoarkPhotographs by Byrd Williams978-0-87565-143-9 cloth $42.50

978-0-87565-501-7 cloth $40.0010x10. 224 pp. 300 color photos.Architecture. Art.September

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The StreetA Journey into Homelessness

B. J. Lacasse

How many times have you walked by homeless people and pretended not to notice them?

B. J. Lacasse, photographer and author of The Street, decided to stop “not noticing” and photograph the homeless of Fort Worth to help the rest of us perceive those we usually try to ignore. In addition to photographing the homeless living in and around the city, she took the time to get to know them as well, keeping a journal of their stories and her observations. The Street is the end product of her journey into the lives of the homeless. These photos are poignant, heartbreaking, and at times difficult to look at, but in them there is also an air of hope.

With a foreword by former Fort Worth mayor Mike Moncrief, The Street starts with a note about change that confronts us with the face of homelessness, opening our eyes to the world that we’ve blatantly ignored.

In The Street, you will meet B. J.’s friend Johnny, follow the success story of Wild Bill, root for Brenda and Anna, and mourn for Mary Ann. You’ll get to see them in every aspect of their lives, both positive and negative. The ending of the book is positive, with pictures that show the impact housing can have on people who—perhaps for the first time in their lives—have a home of their own.

The photographs and stories in this book will not just open your eyes—they will spur you to action.

Fort Worth’s B. J. LACASSE is a national award-winning photographer, graphic artist, and volunteer extraordinaire. She has worked with non-profits, small start-up companies, and Fortune 500 com-panies. Her culinary photography was most recently featured in chef Jon Bonnell’s cookbooks and received rave reviews.

“As we rush about our busy lives, we sometimes pretend that we did not see that man sleeping on the sidewalk or the frightened woman on the corner with two kids and all her worldly possessions. We turn away, rationalize, sometimes blame, and go on about our lives. Denial takes the pressure off our hearts, but it does not change the facts we encounter on the street. . . The extraordinary feature of this book is that the images and reflections it contains invite and encourage us to engage people who are homeless rather than turn away. This book is going to introduce you to some extraordinary people: your neighbors. And it just might change your life.”—Mayor Michael J. Moncrief

Fort Worth Then and NowCarol Roark Photographs by Rodger Mallison978-0-87565-245-0 cloth $45.00

Fort WorthA Personal ViewPhotographs by Phil Vinson978-0-87565-370-9 cloth $29.95

Calvin LittlejohnPortrait of a Community in Black and WhiteBob Ray Sanders978-0-87565-381-5 cloth $29.95

978-0-87565-500-0 cloth $30.0081/2x11. 160 pp. Social Science. Photoessays.October

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Inspired by his parents’ love for the written word, former Speaker of the House Jim Wright developed a passion for books and writing at a young age. During his thirty-four years as a US Congressman and two years as Speaker of the House, written communication continued to play an integral role in Wright’s life as he developed an increased understanding of the power of words.

Through a sampling of some of Wright’s finest work, The Wright Stuff follows the major elements in Wright’s political career, ideological de-velopment, and philosophical thought. A prolific and accomplished writer, Wright possesses the keen ability to properly contextualize historic events while providing enduring lessons in governance and life.

In addition to offering a unique perspective on Wright’s contempo-raries and the leaders of today, this compilation of speeches, essays, and excerpts from his previous work addresses many of the major national and international events of the twentieth century. Addition-ally, this book chronicles a more personal narrative through Wright’s reflection on the most important influence of his young life—his parents—and shares some of the key lessons he learned during his service with the US Air Corps during World War II.

Generously illustrated with photographs, The Wright Stuff allows readers to celebrate the many accomplishments of Speaker Wright, and, through his eyes, to gain a greater understanding of many of the signature events of the twentieth century.

ANTHONY CHAMPAGNE is a professor of political science at the University of Texas at Dallas where he has taught since 1979. JAMES W. RIDDLESPERGER JR. is a professor of political science at Texas Christian University, where he teaches American politics with interests in Congress, the presidency, and Texas politics. DAN WILLIAMS is a professor of English at Texas Christian University and director of the TCU Press.

978-0-87565-506-2 cloth $32.507x10. 192 pp. Political Science. Biography.November

An exhibition of recent photography organized by Frances Colpitt, “Color Pictures” examines color as a subject matter in works by John Baldessari, Sarah Charlesworth, William Eggleston, Russell Lee, Thomas Ruff, Stephen Shore, Allison V. Smith, and Ann Stautberg. The exhibition charts the merger of art and photography from the 1970s to the present. During this period, both the photo world and the art world were transformed by the conflict between photography’s high technical and aesthetic standards and the intentionally amateur and nonchalant approach to the camera by conceptually-oriented art-ists who used the camera to document their often ephemeral materi-als and elusive ideas. Their rocky fusion led not only to the acceptance of the photographic medium as a legitimate tool for art making, but also to unparalleled growth in the number of artists using the camera in the 1980s and 1990s.

Both the exhibit and the catalogue offer a variety of insights into the meaningful role of color in visual art and in the visible world. The catalogue includes essays and color plates from the exhibition, as well as an introductory essay by Colpitt that outlines the issues at stake in the use of color in recent photography. Commentaries on individual artists were written by graduate students in TCU’s School of Art who participated in a graduate art history seminar, Photography In/As/Not As Art, spring 2012.

FRANCES COLPITT holds the Deedie Potter Rose Chair in Art History at TCU. Her extensive publications include the books Minimal Art: The Critical Per-spective and Abstract Art in the Late Twentieth Century. She is a correspond-ing editor for Art in America.

978-0-9801617-2-4 paper $14.9510x8. 28 pp. 10 color photos.Art. Photography.April

The Wright Stuff

Anthony Champagne, James W. Riddlesperger Jr., and Dan Williams

Color Pictures

Frances Colpitt


Tom Rowden has been riding away from the Pecos River for twenty years, plagued by the haunting image of his wife, Sarah, the second before he killed her. Now, he is dead-set on returning to her unmarked grave above the river to make one final atonement. His journey is in-terrupted when a group of Mexican bandits burn down the 7L’s ranch house, kill the ranch boss, and rape and abduct his daughter, Liz Anne. The 7L’s greenhorn wagon boss, Jess Graham, desperately begs for Tom’s help in rescuing Liz Anne, the girl Jess loves. Tom obliges and sets out with Jess and his posse of ranch hands through a hellish desert landscape toward the Pecos River. For Jess, it is his first journey through the desert; Tom hopes it is his last.

The journey slowly wears down the group of cowboys, who must face deadly foes, choking dust clouds, and rabid wolf attacks. To stay alive, they also must fight against personal desires and a growing sense of hopelessness, but the most deadly enemy remains the scorching des-ert, threatening to erase life at any second.

Liz Anne, meanwhile, must also fight on through the desert, holding on to what dignity she has left, trying to slow down her captors long enough for her rescue party to catch up. Her captors reach the pools hidden in a canyon just a few miles away from the Pecos River and set an ambush for the rescuers. Will the posse be killed by the am-bush? Will Jess ever get back his precious Liz Anne? Will Tom be able to make it the last few miles to the Pecos River and find absolution? Discover all the answers in Patrick Dearen’s exciting new tale, To Hell or the Pecos.

A recognized authority on the lower Pecos River country, PATRICK DEAREN has authored eighteen books. He grew up in Sterling City, Texas, and earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. A back-packing enthusiast and ragtime pianist, he makes his home in Midland, Texas, with his wife Mary and son Wesley.

978-0-87565-505-5 paper $22.956x9. 192 pp. Western Fiction. September

Set primarily during the early 1940s, A Texas Jubilee is a collection of short stories about life in fictional Bodark Springs, Texas. Through these stories, author Jim Lee paints a humorous picture of the poli-tics, friendships, and secrets that are part of day-to-day life in this eccentric little Texas town.

Stories like “Rock-ola” and “Pink-Petticoat” reveal secrets and raise questions about many of the town’s more colorful characters. Will Gra-dy Dell reunite with his lost love, Eva? Is there a connection between Edna Earle Morris’s murder and her mysterious visit from Jesus?

Other stories like “Navy, Blue, and Gold” highlight the ways that World War II is causing life to change for everyone in the town. Young Tommy Earl Dell and Fred Hallmark now spend their after-noons staring at the pictures of boys from Eastis County on the Gold Star shelf in the power company’s window, dreaming of the day when they will be old enough to join the army. Townspeople now hold their breaths any time John Ed Hallmark, the town’s official messenger, drives his “Chariot of Death” up the street to deliver the news to one of his neighbors that a brother, son, or husband is not coming home from war.

Although the pace of life in this small town is slow, there is never a dull moment in A Texas Jubilee. From the first to last page, readers will be constantly entertained by the exotic and unexpected in this imaginative collection of tales. A Texas Jubilee includes a preface by Jeff Guinn.

JAMES WARD LEE is emeritus professor of English at the University of North Texas. He is author of many essays, reviews, and stories. He wrote Texas, My Texas, Adventures with a Texas Humanist, and Classics of Texas Fiction. Lee is a member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the Texas Literary Hall of Fame.

978-0-87565-513-0 paper $22.956x9. 160 pp. Short Fiction.

To Hell or the Pecos, a novel

Patrick Dearen

A Texas JubileeTwelve Stories from the Lone Star State

James Ward Lee


Howdy, folks! Come join Peaches, a feline resident of Fort Worth’s Log Cabin Village, as she meanders through this “village from a long time ago.” Illustrated with original artwork and photos of the village and cabins, Log Cabin Kitty provides a glimpse of life during pioneer days.

Did you know that pioneers often built secret stairways and ladders in their cabins to help them hide from unwanted intruders? As you follow Peaches through the village, you will learn about the dangers, challenges, and joys of pioneer life while exploring the homes of the families who once lived in these cabins.

Don’t forget to keep an eye out for Cat Track Facts! These fun facts help young readers imagine what life was like for children growing up during the 1800s, and instructions for pioneer recipes and crafts help them experience pioneer life for themselves.

Journey with Log Cabin Kitty as she explores this exciting time in American history through a tour of the Log Cabin Village.

DONNA RUBIN, a fifth-generation Texan and former first-grade teacher, now resides in Michigan with her husband. Log Cabin Kitty, Rubin’s first book, is inspired by nineteen years of field trips to Fort Worth’s Log Cabin Village with her students. Rubin dedicates this book to the pioneer spirit and to her loving family for their endless support. SUSAN J. HALBOWER has a degree in art from Kenyon College, but she learned to watercolor making books for her three young nephews. She is the owner of a line of cards and stationery, bow wow CARDS. Halbower previously illustrated Smurglets Are Everywhere for TCU Press.

978-0-87565-503-1 paper $20.0081/2x81/2. 48 pp. 48 color illustrations.Texas History. Young Readers.September

The newest entry into the Texas Small Books series, Capitol Tales: Legend and Lore from the Texas State House, is a must-read for all Texans. Author Mike Cox shares a variety of stories about the Capi-tol, from the fire that gutted the old limestone building to the debate over having a statue of a lady or a pig crowning the state house. Cox relates these tales with a witty and engaging style that is sure to keep readers entertained from the table of contents through the conclud-ing story.

This book is not intended to be a comprehensive history of the Capi-tol building, but rather a collection of the most interesting stories surrounding it. Some may be more well known than others—while readers are likely aware that the Capitol building burned down in the late 1800s, they may not know that the legislature realized, just before its formal dedication, that they had forgotten to deal with the con-struction mess that still surrounded the new building. Check out the seventh chapter, “Oops . . . What about the Grounds?” for the rest of that story.

Cox does not shy away from adding personal details to the stories; indeed, members of his family helped build the new red granite struc-ture dedicated in 1888. Their remembrances only serve to enhance the stories Cox tells by adding a personal touch to old legends.

Texas Small Books

MIKE COX has authored twenty-one nonfiction books over a forty-year writing career. His best-selling work is a two-volume history of the Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso and Time of the Rangers. He lives in Austin with his wife Linda and daughter Hallie and works as a spokesman for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.

978-0-87565-507-9 hardcover $9.9541/2x61/2. 96 pp. 20 photos.Texana, Texas History. Gift Books.October

Log Cabin Kitty

Donna Rubin Illustrations by Susan J. Halbower

Capitol TalesLegend and Lore from the Texas State House

Mike Cox


For years Jan Seale’s carefully crafted poetry has captivated audiences with its wit, sharp diction, and seamlessness. This eighth volume of the Texas Poet Laureate series discovers the eternal in the transient—coupling the mythological with the present, the spiritual with the sen-sual, the joyful with the sorrowful.

This riveting collection of work, both new and old, celebrates her broad achievements as a poet. Designated the 2012 Texas Poet Laure-ate, Seale reveres poetry as “the most elegant and most historic of our verbal arts.”

Seale’s lifelong love of poetry (she began writing at the age of six) is apparent in this volume. Her work has been described as whittled and sharp, witty and serious. Her precise diction and visual imagery probe themes that range from spiritual faith to women, family, aging, and nature itself. This collection of work is a testament to Seale’s skill, craft, and dedication to the art of poetry.

TCU Texas Poets Laureate Series

JAN SEALE, of McAllen, Texas, is the author of seven volumes of poetry. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts creative writing fellowship in poetry, and her poetry has received awards from the Poetry Society of Texas. A former creative writing professor, Seale now teaches workshops and gives readings across the Southwest.

978-0-87565-398-3 cloth $15.956x9. 96 pp. Poetry.October

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 gradu-ation, 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 rec-ognize.

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 mar-ries 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.

C. W. SMITH was a Dedman Family Distinguished Professor at Southern Meth-odist University. He belongs to PEN American Center, The Author’s Guild, and the Texas Institute of Letters. He was a Dobie-Paisano Fellow at The University of Texas and has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2011, Smith received the Lon Tinkle Award for lifetme achievement from the Texas Institute of Letters.

978-0-87565-508-6 paper $22.956x9. 272 pp. Literary Novel. July

Jan SealeNew and Selected Poems

Jan Seale

New in paperback

Steplings

C. W. Smith

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He Rode with Butch and SundanceThe Story of Harvey “Kid Curry” Logan

Mark T. Smokov

Pinned down by a posse, the wounded outlaw’s companions urged him to escape through the gulch. “Don’t wait for me,” he replied, “I’m all in and might as well end it right here.” Placing his revolver to his right temple, he pulled the trigger for the last time, thus ending the life of the notorious “Kid Curry” of the Wild Bunch.

It is long past time for the publication of a well-researched, definitive biography of the infamous western outlaw Harvey Alexander Logan, better known by his alias Kid Curry. In Wyoming he became involved in rustling and eventually graduated to bank and train robbing as a member—and soon leader—of the Wild Bunch. The core members of the gang came to be Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, George “Flatnose” Currie, Elzy Lay, Ben “the Tall Texan” Kilpatrick, Will Carver, and Kid Curry.

Kid Curry has been portrayed as a cold-blooded killer, without any compassion or con-science and possessed of limited intelligence. Curry indeed was a dangerous man with a violent temperament, which was aggravated by alcoholic drink. However, Mark T. Smokov shows that Curry’s record of kills is highly exaggerated, and that he was not the bloodthirsty killer that many have claimed.

Smokov has researched extensively in areas significant to Curry’s story and corrects the many false statements that have been written about him in the past. Curry was a cunning outlaw who planned and executed robberies on par with anything Butch Cassidy is re-ported to have pulled off. Smokov contends that Curry was the actual train robbing leader of the Wild Bunch—there is no concrete evidence that Cassidy ever robbed a train. He also presents new evidence that is virtually conclusive in resolving whether or not Curry was the “unknown bandit” who was killed after robbing a train near Parachute, Colorado, in 1904.

Number Thirteen: A.C. Greene Series

MARK T. SMOKOV is the author of several articles on Kid Curry and other western outlaws. He has written for the NOLA Quarterly, the WOLA Journal, Wild West magazine, and the Tombstone Epitaph. He is a life-long resident of Seattle, Washington, and a graduate of the University of Washington.

“Mark Smokov’s new book on Harvey Logan is a significant contribution to Wild Bunch history. I highly recommend it to those who are interested in both a good read and good research.”—Donna B. Ernst, author, The Sundance Kid

“Smokov’s biography is well organized and displays an admirable command of the literature. His treatment of the controversy over whether Logan died after an unsuccessful train holdup in Colorado in 1904 is excellent—I agree with his conclusion.”—Daniel Buck, Wild Bunch historian

Vengeance Is MineThe Scandalous Love Triangle That Triggered the Boyce-Sneed FeudBill Neal978-1-57441-317-5 cloth $24.95

Bloody Bill LongleyThe Mythology of a Gunfighter, Second EditionRick Miller978-1-57441-305-2 cloth $29.95

Murder on the White SandsThe Disappearance of Albert and Henry FountainCorey Recko978-1-57441-254-3 paper $12.95

978-1-57441-470-7 cloth $29.956x9. 464 pp. 50 b&w photos. Map. Notes. Bib. Index.Western History. Biography. Criminal Justice. Augustebook 978-1-57441-476-9

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Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874–1881

Rick Miller

In 1874, the Texas legislature created the Frontier Battalion, the first formal, budgeted organization as an arm of state government of what historically had been periodic groups loosely referred to as Texas Rangers. Initially created to combat the menace of repeated raids of Indians from the north and from Mexico into frontier counties, the Battalion was led by an unusual choice: a frail, humorless Confederate veteran from Navarro County, John B. Jones.

Under Jones’s leadership, the Battalion grew in sophistication, moving from Indian fight-ing to capturing Texas’s bad men, such as John Wesley Hardin and Sam Bass. Established during the unsettled time of Reconstruction, the Rangers effectively filled a local law en-forcement void until competency was returned to local sheriffs’ and marshals’ offices.

Numerous books cover individual Texas Rangers of note, but only a few have dealt with the overall history of the Rangers, and, strangely, none about Jones specifically. For the first time, author Rick Miller presents the story of the Frontier Battalion as seen through the eyes of its commander, John B. Jones, during his administration from 1874 to 1881, relating its history—both good and bad—chronologically, in depth, and in context.

Highlighted are repeated budget and funding problems, developing standards of conduct, personalities and their interaction, mission focus and strategies against Indian war parties and outlaws, and coping with politics and bureaucracy. Miller covers all the major activi-ties of the Battalion in the field that created and ultimately enhanced the legend of the Texas Rangers. Jones’s personal life is revealed, as well as his role in shaping the policies and activities of the Frontier Battalion.

Based largely on primary documents, this book is a major contribution to understanding the early development and growth of what became the institution celebrated in legend today.

Number Nine: Frances B. Vick Series

RICK MILLER is the author of Bloody Bill Longley (UNT Press) as well as biographies of Sam Bass (Sam Bass & Gang), Jack Duncan (Bounty Hunter), and Eugene Bunch (The Train Robbing Bunch). He served as chief of police in both Killeen and Denton, Texas. Currently, he is the elected County At-torney of Bell County, Texas. He lives in Harker Heights, Texas.

“This is a major contribution to Ranger history. The coverage is complete in every respect, with attention to details gleaned from every conceivable primary source. Miller’s research has been prodigious.”—Robert DeArment, author, Bat Masterson and the Deadly Dozen series

“Rick Miller’s work on John B. Jones should stand as the definitive biogra-phy of this key figure in Texas Ranger history. Without the reputation Jones helped to build, the Rangers might not have survived the turn of the twentieth century.”—Mike Cox, author, Wearing the Cinco Peso: The Texas Rangers 1821–1900 and Time of the Rangers: The Texas Rangers 1900–Present

Rawhide Ranger, Ira AtenEnforcing Law on the Texas FrontierBob Alexander978-1-57441-315-1 cloth $32.95

Captain John R. Hughes, Lone Star RangerChuck Parsons978-1-57441-304-5 cloth $29.95

Winchester WarriorsTexas Rangers of Company D, 1874–1901Bob Alexander978-1-57441-310-6 paper $19.95

978-1-57441-467-7 cloth $29.956x9. 432 pp. 38 b&w photos. Notes. Bib. Index.Texas History. Western History. Biography. Augustebook 978-1-57441-478-3

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Tracking the Texas RangersThe Nineteenth Century

Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Harold J. Weiss, Jr.

Tracking the Texas Rangers is an anthology of sixteen previously published articles and chapter excerpts, arranged in chronological history, covering key topics of the intrepid and sometimes controversial law officers named the Texas Rangers.

Determining the role of the Rangers as the state evolved and what they actually accom-plished for the benefit of the state is a difficult challenge—the actions of the Rangers fit no easy description. There is a dark side to the story of the Rangers; during the war with Mexico, for example, some murdered, pillaged, and raped. Yet these same Rangers eased the resultant United States victory. Even their beginning and the first use of the term “Texas Ranger” have mixed and complex origins.

Tracking the Texas Rangers covers topics such as their early years, the great Comanche Raid of 1840, and the effective use of Colt revolvers. Article authors discuss Los Diablos Tejanos, Rip Ford, the Cortina War, the use of Hispanic Rangers and Rangers in labor disputes, and the recapture of Cynthia Ann Parker and the capture of John Wesley Har-din. The selections cover critical aspects of those experiences—organization, leadership, cultural implications, rural and urban life, and violence.

In their introduction, editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Harold J. Weiss, Jr., discuss various themes and controversies surrounding the 19th-century Rangers and their treatment by historians over the years. They also have added annotations to the essays to explain where new research has shed additional light on an event to update or correct the origi-nal article text.

Number Ten: Frances B. Vick Series

BRUCE A. GLASRUD is Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, East Bay; and retired dean in the School of Arts and Sciences at Sul Ross State University. He has published nine-teen books including Buffalo Soldiers in the West and Brothers to the Buffalo Soldiers. He resides in Seguin, Texas. HAROLD J. WEISS, Jr., is Professor Emeritus of History at Jamestown Community College in New York, and the author of Yours to Command: The Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald.

“The editors of this anthology, prominent Ranger historians in their own right, have assembled a distinguished list of authors for an anthology that traces the history of the Texas Rangers during the decades when Texas was still the Wild West. It will endure as a fair and balanced chronicle, both in narrative and interpretation, of arguably the foremost law-enforcement agency in American history.”—Robert M. Utley, author, Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers

Yours to CommandThe Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonaldHarold J. Weiss Jr.978-1-57441-260-4 cloth $27.95

Captain J. A. Brooks, Texas RangerPaul N. Spellman978-1-57441-227-7 cloth $24.95

Captain John H. Rogers, Texas RangerPaul N. Spellman978-1-57441-248-2 paper $16.95

978-1-57441-465-3 cloth $29.956x9. 384 pp. 9 b&w photos. Map. Notes. Bib. Index.Texas Rangers. Western History. Septemberebook 978-1-57441-479-0

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Women and the Texas Revolution

Edited by Mary L. Scheer

While there is wide scholarship on the Texas Revolution, there is no comparable volume on the role of women during that conflict. Most of the many works on the Texas Revolu-tion include women briefly in the narrative, such as Emily Austin, Suzanna Dickinson, and Emily Morgan West (the Yellow Rose), but not as principal participants. Women and the Texas Revolution explores these women in much more depth, in addition to covering the women and children who fled Santa Anna’s troops in the Runaway Scrape, and examining the roles and issues facing Native American, black, and Hispanic women of the time.

Like the American Revolution, women’s experiences in the Texas Revolution varied tre-mendously by class, religion, race, and region. While the majority of immigrants into Tex-as in the 1820s and 1830s were men, many were women who accompanied their husbands and families or, in some instances, braved the dangers and the hardships of the frontier alone. Black, Hispanic, and Native American women were also present in Mexican Texas. Whether Mexican loyalist or Texas patriot, elite planter or subsistence farm wife, slave-holder or slave, Anglo or black, women helped settle the Texas frontier and experienced the uncertainty, hardships, successes, and sorrows of the Texas Revolution.

By placing women at the center of the Texas Revolution, this volume reframes the his-torical narrative and asks different questions: What were the social relations between the sexes at the time of the Texas Revolution? Did women participate in the war effort? Did the events of 1836 affect Anglo, black, Hispanic, and Native American women differently? What changes occurred in women’s lives as a result of the revolution? Did the revolution liberate women to any degree from their traditional domestic sphere and threaten the established patriarchy? In brief, was the Texas Revolution “revolutionary” for women?

MARY L. SCHEER is an associate professor and chair of the history department at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. She is also a former Fulbright Scholar to Germany. Scheer has authored The Foun-dations of Texan Philanthropy and co-edited with John Storey Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History (UNT Press).

“A fresh and valuable addition to works on the Revolution and on women in nineteenth-century Texas.”—Paula Marks, author, Hands to the Spindle and Precious Dust

“The gathering of scholars in this book is formidable. They have produced a well-done series of well documented vignettes of women in the revolutionary period, whether defined by ethnicity, as in African-American, or by fate (as in Alamo survivors, or participants in the Runaway Scrape).”—James L. Haley, author, Sam Houston and Passionate Nation

The Seventh Star of the ConfederacyTexas during the Civil WarEdited by Kenneth W. Howell978-1-57441-259-8 cloth $34.95978-1-57441-312-0 paper $18.95

Still the Arena of Civil WarViolence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865–1874Edited by Kenneth W. Howell978-1-57441-449-3 cloth $34.95

Twentieth-Century TexasA Social and Cultural HistoryEdited by John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley978-1-57441-245-1 cloth $39.95s978-1-57441-246-8 paper $18.95s

978-1-57441-469-1 cloth $24.956x9. 256 pp. 15 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index.Texas Women’s History. Women’s Studies. Septemberebook 978-1-57441-459-2

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Winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction

Venus in the Afternoon

Tehila Lieberman

The short stories in this rich debut collection embody in their complexity Alice Mun-ro’s description of the short story as “a world seen in a quick, glancing light.” In chiseled and elegant prose, Lieberman conjures wildly disparate worlds. A middle aged window washer, mourning his wife and an estranged daughter, begins to grow attached to a young woman he sees through the glass; a writer, against his better judgment, pursues a new relationship with a femme fatale who years ago broke his heart; and the daughter of a Holocaust survivor struggles with the delicate decision of whether to finally ask her aging mother how it was that she survived. It is all here—the exigencies of love, of lust, the raw, unlit terrain of grief.

Whether plumbing the darker depths or casting a humorous eye on a doomed relation-ship, these stories never force a choice between tragedy and redemption, but rather invite us into the private moments and crucibles of lives as hungry and flawed as our own.

Number Eleven: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction

TEHILA LIEBERMAN has won the Stanley Elkin Memorial Prize and the Rick Dimarinis Short Fiction Prize and her fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including Nimrod, the Colorado Review, Salamander, and Cutthroat. Her nonfiction has been published in Salon.com and in Travelers’ Tales Guides anthologies, including Best Women’s Travel Writing 2007. She lives in Cambridge, Massachu-setts.

“Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassion-ate heart. She inhabits her characters, young or old, men or women, honestly, but without judgment, until they rise off the page and stand before us breathing and alive. New York, the Atacama desert, Amsterdam or Cuzco in Peru, the set-tings in Venus in the Afternoon are just as varied as the lives which they contain. A wonderful collection, one that will stay in your mind long after you have bid it goodbye.” —Miroslav Penkov, author, East of the West and judge

“Having taught college students many contemporary short stories, I can attest to the power of this collection: Tehila Lieberman’s extraordinary use of lan-guage I get lost in, her words that stir my senses . . . ‘the smell of honeysuckle in the untended gardens that offer up flowers, voluptuous, bursting, grass that reaches, snake-like, upward, weaving quietly between people’s quarrels and midday naps.’ (‘Into the Atacama’). These stories are to be read with pleasure, with awe.”—Carol Dine, author, Van Gogh in Poems

Last Known PositionJames Mathews978-1-57441-252-9 paper $12.95

Irish GirlTim Johnston978-1-57441-271-0 paper $12.95

A Bright Soothing NoisePeter Brown978-1-57441-291-8 paper $14.95

978-1-57441-466-0 paper $14.9551/2x81/2. 192 pp. Collection of Short Fiction. Novemberebook 978-1-57441-477-6

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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. This fifth volume opens at Fort Wingate as Bourke prepares to visit the Navajos. Next, at the Pine River Agency, he is witness to the Sun Dance, where despite his discomfort at what he saw, he noted that during the Sun Dance piles of food and clothing were contributed by the Indians themselves, to relieve the poor among their people. Bourke continued his trav-els among the Zunis, the Rio Grande pueblos, and finally, with the Hopis to attend the Hopi Snake dance. The volume concludes at Fort Apache, Arizona, which is stirring with excitement over the ac-tivities of the Apache medicine man, Nakai’-dokli’ni, which Bourke spelled Na Kay do Klinni. This would erupt into bloodshed less than a week later.

Volume Five is especially important because it deals almost exclu-sively with Bourke’s ethnological research. Bourke’s account of the Sun Dance is particularly significant because it was the last one held by the Oglalas. The volume is extensively annotated and contains a biographical appendix on Indians, civilians, and military personnel named.

“This is an enormous contribution to our understanding of the Amer-ican West.”—Robert Wooster, author, The Military and United States Indian Policy 1865–1903

“Bourke’s writings are keenly insightful, filled with color, and replete with a Who’s Who of the American West and Old Army.”—Paul L. Hedren, author, Fort Laramie and the Great Sioux War

CHARLES M. ROBINSON III, a fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, is a history instructor at South Texas College. He has written more than fifteen books, including Bad Hand: A Biography of General Ranald S. Mackenzie (T.R. Fehrenbach Award) and The Court Martial of Lieutenant Henry Flipper (Spur Award finalist). He lives in San Benito, Texas.

978-1-57441-468-4 cloth $55.00s6x9. 560 pp. 71 b&w illus. 4 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.Western History. Native American History. Military History. Octoberebook 978-1-57441-481-3

In the early 1900s, two ranching families in West Texas united in a marriage of fourteen-year-old Gladys Johnson to twenty-one-year-old Ed Sims. But Gladys was headstrong and willful, and Ed drank too much, and both sought affection outside their marriage.

After a nasty divorce, Gladys soon fell in love with famed Texas Rang-er Frank Hamer. When Ed tried to take his daughters for a prear-ranged Christmas visit in 1916, Gladys and her brother Sid shot him dead on the Snyder square teeming with shoppers. Gladys and Sid were both acquitted, however, and so the Sims family sought revenge, ambushing Frank Hamer and Gladys—by now Mrs. Hamer—and shotgunning the lawyer who won the acquittal. The last traditional Texas feud was on.

“A violent, sordid, and utterly fascinating true account, carefully re-searched and presented with excitement and flair as well as meticu-lous accuracy.”—Midwest Book Review

“The author reconstructs the homicide, the events leading to it and its aftermath, in considerable detail, largely through extensive interviews with family members from both sides.”—Journal of the West

“[O’Neal’s] meticulous research adds depth to the history of the peo-ple and places of West Texas. His descriptions are aided by the exten-sive illustrations included in the book. . . . Overall, the work provides both a readable guide to anyone interested in the lives of early West Texas cattle ranchers and an absorbing tale of passion, violence, and retribution.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Number Nine: A.C. Greene Series

BILL O’NEAL is the author of more than thirty books, including The Johnson County War (2005 NOLA Book of the Year), The Regulator-Moderator War, Historic Ranches of the Old West, Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters, and Cheyenne, 1867–1903. He is retired from teaching at Panola College in Carthage, Texas.

978-1-57441-290-1 cloth $24.95978-1-57441-475-2 paper $14.956x9. 224 pp. 60 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index.Texas History. Western History. Southern History. Julyebook 978-1-57441-348-9

The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke, Volume 5May 23, 1881–August 26, 1881

Edited and annotated by Charles M. Robinson III

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The Johnson-Sims FeudRomeo and Juliet, West Texas Style

Bill O’Neal


Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the na-tion’s largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy chronicle the development of policing in the Bayou City from its days as a grimy trading post in the 1830s to its current status as the nation’s fourth largest city.

Prominent historical figures who have brushed shoulders with Hous-ton’s Finest over the past 175 years include Houdini, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, O. Henry, former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, hatchet wielding temperance leader Carrie Nation, the Hilton Sia-mese Twins, blues musician Leadbelly, oilman Silver Dollar Jim West, and many others.

The Houston Police Department was one of the first departments in the South to adopt fingerprinting as an identification system and use the polygraph test, and under the leadership of its first African Ameri-can police chief, Lee Brown, put the theory of neighborhood oriented policing into practice in the 1980s.

The force has been embroiled in controversy and high profile criminal cases as well. Among the cases chronicled in the book are the Dean Corll, Dr. John Hill, and Sanford Radinsky murders; controversial cas-es involving the department’s crime lab; the killings of Randy Webster and Joe Campos Torres; and the Camp Logan, Texas Southern Uni-versity, and Moody Park Riots.

MITCHEL P. ROTH is professor of criminal justice at Sam Houston State Univer-sity in Huntsville, Texas, and the author of Crime and Punishment: A History of the Criminal Justice System. TOM KENNEDY spent twenty-five years with the late Houston Post as a columnist and member of the Editorial Board. A Baylor University journalism graduate, he resides in Houston.

978-1-57441-472-1 cloth $29.957x10. 496 pp. 50 b&w photos. Notes. Bib. Index.Texas History. Criminal Justice. Novemberebook 978-1-57441-482-0

In the late nineteenth century, Tom Ketchum and his brother Sam formed the Ketchum Gang—with Will Carver and Dave Atkins—and became successful train robbers. Eventually Tom Ketchum was caught and sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train. He became the first individual—and the last—ever to be ex-ecuted for a crime of this sort. He was hanged in 1901, his head torn away by the rope as he fell from the gallows.

Jeffrey Burton has been researching the story of the Ketchum Gang for more than forty years. He sorts fact from fiction to provide the definitive truth about Ketchum and numerous other outlaws, includ-ing Ben Kilpatrick and Butch Cassidy.

“This is the best work ever done on the New Mexico outlaws at the turn of the twentieth century.”—Robert K. DeArment, author, Bat Masterson

“A monster read on everything you ever wanted to know about the Ketchums. Like all good history books, it makes me want to go visit all the sites.”—Bob Boze Bell, True West

“The book is a first-rate study of the numerous outlaws associated with the Ketchum and Wild Bunch gangs.”—Wild West History Association Journal

“Exceptional history. . . . [M]ay well be the definitive account of one of the West’s most feared gangs.”—New Mexico Magazine

Number Eight: A.C. Greene Series

JEFFREY BURTON is an independent scholar living in England. He is the author of Indian Territory and the United States, 1866–1906 and Western Story.

978-1-57441-474-5 paper $24.956x9. 560 pp. 59 b&w illus. 6 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.Western History. Texas History. Criminal Justice. Julyebook 978-1-57441-356-4

Houston BlueThe Story of the Houston Police Department

Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy Foreword by Ray Hunt

New in paperback

The Deadliest OutlawsThe Ketchum Gang and the Wild Bunch, Second Edition

Jeffrey Burton


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

Arnold agreed that politically the atomic bomb shocked the Japanese to capitulation, but as the architect of the bombing offensive, he em-phasized that Japan already was defeated in the summer of 1945 by the bombing and blockade, and that it was not militarily necessary to drop the atomic bomb.

“Wolk’s book includes more detail and depth on Pacific air campaign grand strategy than any other available.”—Dik A. Daso, author, Hap Arnold and the Evolution of American Airpower

“Cataclysm is a fine book. It deals with a subject that is central to the conduct of the always controversial last act of the Pacific War and in-directly with the creation of the USAAF.”—Eric M. Bergerud, author, Fire in the Sky: The Air War in the South Pacific

“By delving deeply in his sources and asking original questions, Wolk has produced a volume with which students of the U.S. Air Force and World War II must reckon.”—Military History of the West

“The author does an outstanding job of identifying the critical issues and events, helping us understand combat leadership. . . . That the author could draw upon earlier interviews he conducted with Gener-als LeMay, Hansell, and Ira Eaker enhances this study.”—Journal of America’s Military Past

HERMAN S. WOLK was senior historian with the US Air Force and the author of Strategic Bombing: The American Experience; Planning and Organizing the Postwar Air Force, 1943–1947; The Struggle for Air Force Independence, 1943–1947; Fulcrum of Power: Essays on the Air Force and National Secu-rity; and Reflections on Air Force Independence.

978-1-57441-281-9 cloth $24.95978-1-57441-473-8 paper $19.956x9. 344 pp. 27 b&w illus. Glossary. Notes. Bib. Index.World War II. Aviation. Army Air Corps. Septemberebook 978-1-57441-344-1

Perhaps no other industrial technology changed the course of Mexi-can history in the United States—and Mexico—than did the coming of the railroads. Tens of thousands of Mexicans worked for the rail-roads in the United States, especially in the Southwest and Midwest. Extensive Mexican American settlements appeared throughout the lower and upper Midwest as the result of the railroad. Only agricul-tural work surpassed railroad work in terms of employment of Mexi-cans.

In Traqueros, Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo mined numerous archives and other sources to provide the first and only comprehensive history of Mexican railroad workers across the United States, with particular attention to the Midwest. He first explores the origins and process of Mexican labor recruitment and immigration and then describes the areas of work performed. He reconstructs the workers’ daily lives and explores not only what the workers did on the job but also what they did at home and how they accommodated and/or resisted American-ization. Boxcar communities, strike organizations, and “traquero cul-ture” finally receive historical acknowledgment. Integral to his study is the importance of family settlement in shaping working class com-munities and consciousness throughout the Midwest.

“Traqueros is a significant contribution to the scholarly literature of United States labor history, Chicano social history, and ethnic labor history.”—Juan Gómez-Quiñones, author, Chicano Politics

“Traqueros is particularly important because of the originality of the research from numerous archives. Several interviews further enrich the work. Highly recommended.”—Dionicio Valdés, author, Barrios Norteños

Number Six: Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series

JEFFREY MARCOS GARCíLAZO received his doctorate from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine, before his untimely death in 2001. VICKI L. RUIZ is professor of history and Chicano/Latino studies at the University of California, Irvine.

978-1-57441-464-6 cloth $49.95s6x9. 256 pp. Map. Notes. Bib. Index.Mexican American Studies. Labor History. Western History. Decemberebook 978-1-57441-480-6

New in paperback

CataclysmGeneral Hap Arnold and the Defeat of Japan

Herman S. Wolk

TraquerosMexican Railroad Workers in the United States, 1870–1930

Jeffrey Marcos Garcílazo Foreword by Vicki L. Ruiz


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“The Texas Folklore Society has been alive and kicking for over one hundred years now, and I don’t really think there’s any mystery as to what keeps the organization going strong. The secret to our longevity is simply the constant replenishment of our body of contributors. We are especially fortunate in recent years to have had papers given at our annual meetings by new members—young members, many of whom are college or even high school students.

“These presentations are oftentimes given during sessions right along-side some of our oldest members. We’ve also had long-time members who’ve been around for years but had never yet given papers; thank-fully, they finally took the opportunity to present their research, ful-filling the mission of the TFS: to collect, preserve, and present the lore of Texas and the Southwest.

“You’ll find in this book some of the best articles from those presen-tations. The first fruits of our youngest or newest members include Acayla Haile on the folklore of plants. Familiar and well-respected names like J. Rhett Rushing and Kenneth W. Davis discuss folklore about monsters and the classic ‘widow’s revenge’ tale. These works—and the people who produced them—represent the secret behind the history of the Texas Folklore Society, as well as its future.” —Kenneth L. Untiedt

Number Sixty-eight: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society

KENNETH L. UNTIEDT is the Secretary-Editor of the Texas Folklore Society. He earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Texas Tech Univer-sity, and is now an associate professor of English at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.

978-1-57441-471-4 cloth $41.95s6x9. 400 pp. 90 b&w illus. Notes. Index.Texas Folklore. Texana. Decemberebook 978-1-57441-483-7

Theoria is an annual peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of the history of music theory. It includes critical articles representing the current stage of research, and editions of newly discovered or mostly unknown theoretical texts with translation and commentary. Analytical articles on recent or unknown repertory and methods are also published, as well as review articles on recent secondary literature and textbooks. Back issues are available from Texas A&M University Press.

Theoria Vol. 19 (2012) includes articles by Daniel Arthurs on “Re-considering Marchetto’s Division of the Whole Tone”; Kyle Adams’s “Mode Is Real: A Re-examination of Polyphonic Modality”; Jeffrey De Thorne on “Hugo Riemann and the Monochromatic Klang of Orches-tration”; and Part I of Charlotte Cross’ examination of “The Second Manuscript T37.08 at the Arnold Schoenberg Center,” on “Problems of Identity and Dating.”

ISSN: 1554-1312 paper $22.0071/2x91/4. 196 pp. Music. October

First Timers and Old Timers

Edited by Kenneth L. Untiedt

Theoria, Vol. 19

Edited by Frank Heidlberger

A Deeper Blue The Life and Music of Townes Van ZandtRobert Earl Hardy978-1-57441-285-7 paper $14.95

Stan KentonThis Is an Orchestra!Michael Sparke978-1-57441-325-0 paper $14.95

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An “average bloke’s” journey from rock god to Alamo scholar . . .

The Alamo and BeyondA Collector’s Journey

Phil Collins Essays by Donald S. Frazier, Stephen L. Hardin, and Richard Bruce Winders

When Phil Collins was a kid growing up in a London suburb, he would often watch an amazing show on his family television. There, in black and white, was Fess Parker as Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. As he matured, Collins not only acted out the exploits of his new hero, but he often refought the Battle of the Alamo with his toy soldiers. Even though music came to dominate his life, it was this love of history—and Davy Crockett and the Alamo in particular—that was always near by. On one musical tour, Collins encoun-tered his first David Crockett autograph—for sale at a store called the Gallery of History.

“I didn’t know this stuff was out there, that you could own it,” the rock-n-roll legend said. It had never oc-curred to him.

Later, he received a birthday present that would change his life: a receipt for a saddle signed by an Alamo defender. From that point forward, the drummer began building his impres-sive Alamo and Texas Revolution collection.

Here, for the first time in history, are the artifacts, relics, and documents that compose the Phil Collins collection, available in a beautifully designed color book shot-through with stun-ning photography and crisply rendered illustrations. Collins’s prose takes the reader through the joys of being a collector as he lovingly describes what each piece in this impressive assemblage means to him.

Photographer Ben Powell of Austin brought these items to vivid relief, and artist Gary Zaboly’s masterful pen-and-ink drawings breath life into the items. Essays by Texas histo-rians Bruce Winders, Don Frazier, and Stephen Hardin provide the historical background to the collection and help make this into a work of art that also serves handily as a serious research tool.

PHIL COLLINS, drummer, actor, singer, producer, and now author, has been constantly active in all manner of contradictory and unlikely projects. His history with Genesis is well documented from their art-house beginnings to multiplatinum status as the band grew up. Collins launched his solo career twenty-nine years ago, picking up numerous awards that include eight Grammys, three Oscar® nomi-nations, and two Golden Globes. An avid student of the battle of the Alamo since his boyhood, Collins has now turned his gifted pen to writing history. His first book, The Alamo and Beyond: A Collector’s Journey, takes this passion and tells the story of the Texas Revolution through artifacts and docu-ments from his private collection.

“Fans of Texas will find much to love in this book. I was enthralled.” —Jake Silverstein, editor, Texas Monthly

“Collins has elevated himself from merely an interested history buff to some-one who is a serious contributor to our knowledge of the Alamo and its participants.”—Richard Bruce Winders, curator and historian, The Alamo

Sacrificed at the AlamoTragedy and Triumph in the Texas RevolutionRichard Bruce Winders978-1-880510-80-3 cloth $24.95

Women and Children of the AlamoCrystal Sasse Ragsdale978-1-880510-12-4 paper $14.95

The Illustrated Alamo 1836A Photographic JourneyMark Lemon978-1-933337-18-0 cloth $49.95

978-1-933337-50-0 cloth $120.0011x81/2. 416 pp. 150 Artifacts. 150 Documents. 25 Illustrations. 2 Maps. 10 Photos. Bib. Index.Texas History. Revolution/Republic. Military History. Photography. August

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Winner, 2011 George Garrett Fiction Prize

Purple Church

Starner Jones

Purple Church tells the story of Brother Jimmy Russell, a vulnerable and lonely Baptist minister who has everything going for him until his life falls apart after leukemia claims the life of his devoted bride.

Brother Jimmy is then tempted by the young and beautiful Ashley White, who was abused by her father as a child and then raped by her fiance’s father when she was in college. Ashley’s tragic past leaves her empty and starved for attention, a perfect combination that leads her to skid row on a lofted stage in a popular Memphis strip club.

The tale is one of redemption and spiritual consequence for both the handsome preacher and the lovely coed, whose salvation is Brother Jimmy’s only reason for living.

STARNER JONES, an emergency medicine physician living in Memphis, was born and raised in northeast Mississippi and educated at the University of the South, Saint George’s University School of Medicine, and the University of Mississippi Medical Center. A seventh-generation Mississippian, Jones enjoys world travel, hunting, fishing, and golf. Purple Church is his debut novel.

“Starner Jones’ impressive first novel, Purple Church, is a sharply written nar-rative of sin and redemption that carries the reader quickly and surely through a fast-paced plot with many unexpected turns and reversals. The surprise end-ing, which involves the antagonist and protagonist, who have been changed forever in the course of the action, reminds one of O. Henry.”—George Core, editor, Sewanee Review

“Grippingly graphic. Both sordid and sad. A spectacular story of wanton grace left wanting for more. Metaphorically magnificent. Tales that a preacher can handily relate, yet hardly reference.”–Robert Norris, The Royal Poinciana Chapel (Palm Beach, FL)

“The author takes us on a disturbing trip from the God-fearing small town of his youth to a seamy Gomorrah less than two hours to the north. A graphic story of temptation, actions, and consequences as inexplicable, yet believable, as the Fall itself.”—US Senator Roger Wicker (Mississippi)

“Starner Jones has debuted brilliantly with this award-winning novel about one man’s spiritual death spiral in a morass of loss, lust, and shame in the contem-porary South. With humor, insight, and tangible angst, we are led through this gritty depiction of an epic moral struggle told by one of the freshest voices I have read in years.”—Governor Haley Barbour, Mississippi

The Pugilist’s WifeDavid Armand978-1-933896-67-0 paper $22.95

Two-UpEric MIles Williamson978-1-881515-74-6 cloth $25.95978-1-881515-75-3 paper $16.95

“The Death of Bonnie and Clyde” and Other StoriesMichael Gills978-1-933896-70-0 paper $18.95

978-1-933896-92-2 cloth $22.95978-1-933896-89-2 paper $15.9551/2x81/2. 160 pp. Fiction. August

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A novel of medical politics . . .

Never Surrender—Never RetreatA Novel of Medical Politics in Texas

Michael Lieberman

Bill Morgan had everything—or at least he did until, as chair of the board of Travis Col-lege of Medicine, he severed a seventy-year relationship between the College and its prin-ciple teaching hospital and touched off a blood feud between them. He and Dean Dan Maffit provoke a struggle with the hospital’s board chair, Jimmie Rutherford, and its CEO and ex-Israeli operative, Sandy Wechsler, in which the two institutions vie for prestige and dominance and for the physicians who serve them.

We follow Morgan’s fate in the ensuing conflict as his ambitions bring him face to face with his inner demons and insecurities. In the wake of the turmoil the lives of physicians, administrators and board members spin out of control.

This novel of medical politics asks us to consider how not-for-profit institutions make decisions and how these decisions unmoor people’s lives in unpredictable ways and run the risk of violating the public trust.

MICHAEL LIBERMAN is a research physician and poet who lives in Houston with his wife Susan. He has published five collections of poems and won the 2011 PEN-Texas Award for Fiction. Never Surrender—Never Retreat is his first novel.

“The plot of Never Surrender—Never Retreat becomes a microcosm of our current worldwide struggle between free capitalism and socialist theology. Lieberman is writing from many years’ experience in the largest medical com-plex in the world, Houston’s Texas Medical Center. Through it all, the prose is crisp, germane, and readable. This is a haunting and memorable novel, a tour de force in the exploration of our modern dilemma.”—Robert Winship, author, The Brushlanders, Flannery’s Crossing, and Every Man Also

“What Michael Lieberman does in Never Surrender, Never Retreat is a minor mir-acle. He takes a story that, on the surface, might seem bureaucratic at best—the “divorce” of a medical school and its affiliated major hospital—and reveals the intricate and human inner workings that are always at the core of such events. I feel I am in the company of a compassionate, witty writer who delib-erately and carefully—scientifically, even—unveils for us the hubris, ambition, self-deception, foolishness, clarity, and even a little lust that drive this complex and evolving matter. I couldn’t put it down: the unfurling of incident through the shifting viewpoints of a motley and vivid cast of characters has the pacing of a fine mystery story. You know the murder takes place, almost from the first page. Now the question is: how and why did it happen? The answer, this book, is a delicious pleasure.”—Rich Levy Executive Director, Inprint, Houston

A History of the Sweetness of the WorldMichael Lieberman978-1-881515-06-7 cloth $16.00978-1-881515-07-4 paper $8.00

Far-From-Equilibrium ConditionsMichael Lieberman978-1-933896-12-0 paper $12.95

The Doctors’ DoctorsBaylor College of Medicine, Department of Pathology, 1943—2003Amy Storrow978-1-881515-57-9 cloth $24.95

978-1-933896-81-6 paper $22.9551/2x81/2. 248 pp. Literary Novel. September

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Legitimizing trash and gentrifying icky . . .

Resurrecting Trash: Dan Phillips and the Phoenix Commotion

Edited by Don R. Bates, et al

The Phoenix Commotion is a local building initiative created to prove that constructing homes with recycled and salvaged materials has a viable place in the building industry. This pro-cess uses only apprentice labor and teaches marketable skills to anyone with a work ethic who is willing to swing a hammer. By keeping labor costs low and using donated or found mate-rials, the homes created are truly affordable. (www.phoenix-commotion.com)

This book is an examination of the history of Phoenix Com-motion and the philosopy of Dan Phillips, the prime mover of the enterprise. Here readers will be introduced to the major projects of Phillips and Phoenix Commotion: the story be-hind them and the specifics of these unique structures, com-plete with black-and-white and color plates.

The editors of this book—DONALD R. BATES, AMANDA DELLETT, CHRISTINA FERNANDEZ, JAKE GEBHARDT, DOUG HAINES, ANNA R. JENNINGS, DUSTIN LEVIEN, LAUREN MCAULIFFE, MARGARET MILLER SELLERS—were all members of Paul Ruffin’s 2011 Editing/Publishing Practicum at Sam Houston State University. They researched, designed, and wrote all the copy for this book.

“I have watched Dan Phillips at work for nearly forty years, and I must say that he constantly surprises me with his ability to create something magnificent out of “trash” others have consigned to the city dump or left at the curb to be hauled off. License plates, shattered tiles, bottle caps, wine corks, gnarled bois d’ark limbs, sawed-off ends of timber—in the hands of this master craftsman all become the finest of building materials. He is a magician in the world of home construction. In this book you will learn all about Dan and be introduced to some of his remarkable projects.”—Paul Ruffin, Director, Texas Review Press

“Dan Phillips combines the passion of an artist with the wisdom of a philoso-pher to create inimitable living spaces that are as full of life and personality as the people who inhabit them. Harnessing the power of apprentice labor provid-ed by an army of willing novices, Dan fashions structures from salvaged mate-rials that become affordable yet aesthetically unique homes for artists, single parents, and families with low incomes. This book will open your eyes to the uplifting spirit of Dan Phillips, who chooses to see the possibilities rather than the limitations in both the buildings and the builders as he quietly goes about the business of improving the planet, one project at a time.”—Don R. Bates, for the editors

That Rough Beast, Its Hour Come Round at LastA History of Hurricane KatrinaEdited by Heather Andrews, et al978-1-933896-00-7 paper $18.95

Upon this Chessboard of Nights and DaysVoices from Texas Death RowEdited by Dana Allen, et al978-1-933896-36-6 paper $26.95

Texas Death RowReflections of a Different WorldEdited by Jennifer Gauntt, et al978-1-933896-51-9 paper $18.95

978-1-933896-86-1 paper with flaps $24.9511x81/2. 160 pp. 32 color, 120 b&w photos.Architecture. December

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Winner, 2011 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize

Delphine

Bruce Douglas Reeves

Because of her dark-haired beauty, Delphine Roberts became a reluctant success, first as a model, then as an actress. Her work with a great French director brought her interna-tional movie stardom. A film with a famous Italian director gave her a daughter. However, none of this satisfied her.

Searching for something else in her life, Delphine and her little girl explored the world to-gether, traveling from London to Vietnam, from Paris to Istanbul, and beyond. Fascinated by the Middle East, she explored and lived in many parts of that ancient world, including Palestine.

Deeply affected when she sees the massive wall severing Palestinian lands from Israeli territory, Delphine is determined to learn the facts and see first-hand the hardships faced by ordinary Palestinian citizens. Eventually, she raises the money to produce and star in a movie about the Palestinian territories. Although working conditions are brutal, she is determined to finish the movie, even if it’s the last she ever makes.

BRUCE DOUGLAS REEVES has published three novels—The Night Action, Man on Fire, and Street Smarts—and his short fiction has appeared in dozens of magazines and literary journals. He lives with his wife, Sherrill, in Berkeley, California.

“The allure of this narrative is deceptive in that it offers a cunning misdirection. Apparently, it is about a young, beautiful, talented, intelligent, self-sufficient, self-confident woman, who dictates terms for life herself and to hell with everyone else, but almost before it’s realized, the reader is drawn into a much more compassionate and caring story of involvement, commitment, and even love, not for a person but for a people. By the end, one cannot help but to have fallen in love with her, as well, and to feel how deeply she feels her need to give herself and her talent in an attempt to make a better world.”–Clay Reynolds, series judge

In the Time of the Feast of FlowersTina Egnoski978-1-933896-69-4 paper $18.95

Across the RiverWilliam Orem978-1-933896-35-9 paper $16.95

Palms Are Not Trees After AllTara Deal978-1-933896-17-5 paper $12.95

978-1-933896-90-8 paper $14.9551/2x81/2. 160 pp. Novellas. November

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Insightful essays from a scholar and a hunter . . .

Wedding the Wild Particular

Robert Benson

“I taught undergraduates for forty-five years (the last thirty at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee), and for most of those years I spent as much time as possible outside. I hunted as much as I could, and I fished some. I also spent time in the woods of Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi just walking around looking at things that caught my eye and trying to understand.

Outdoor life and academic life for me have been intimately connected, and this collection of essays explores that connection. The essays in Wedding the Wild Particular make plain the sheer delight I have taken in the primary world and the degree to which that delight has enriched my academic vocation. They make what I believe is a coherent argument for the importance of natural literacy in the intellectual life.”—Robert Benson

ROBERT BENSON taught undergraduates for forty-five years and recently retired from the University of the South. He divides his time between Sewanee and the Alabama Gulf Coast.

“Robert Benson’s essays, personal but tough-minded, draw the reader into a sensibility that feels and understands the landscape (particularly of the Gulf Coast), hunting, English letters, friendship, and the faith so ancient and so new.”—D. E. Richardson

“The personal essays in Wedding the Wild Particular examine with sensitivity and poignancy the thought processes of people who hunt, and Benson recognizes that the entire exercise and those who participate in it are living on borrowed time.”—Tom Kelly, author, The Tenth Legion

“Robert Benson is a scholar, a teacher, a poet, and—not least—a hunter, who not only delights in the wild particulars of the natural world but finds them essential for his writing and teaching.”—John Shelton Reed

Blood and MemoryRobert Benson978-1-881515-90-6 cloth $24.95978-1-881515-91-3 paper $18.95

A Week on the Chunky and ChickasawhayD. C. Berry978-1-933896-26-7 paper $24.95

Dowsing and Science: EssaysJ. D. Smith978-1-933896-59-5 cloth $26.95978-1-933896-58-8 paper $18.95

978-1-933896-85-4 paper with flaps $20.9551/2x81/2. 224 pp. Literary Nonfiction. June

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We Are the Bus travels the world in 42 poems—from Hat Island in Puget Sound to Oaxaca’s zocalo to the steps of St. Peter’s Basilica. In language simple, precise, and musical, the poems revisit the com-plexities of growing up and moving on.

We Are the Bus tells stories full of people—telescope makers and fish-erman, neighbors, travelers and family, high divers and tired pilgrims, Norwegian horseshoe players and American mothers-in-law. Vivid details and surprising events give authority to the language as each poem moves from memory and observation toward clarity and song.

“We Are the Bus is full of the hubbub of the real world. In a deeply compelling voice, unflinching and compassionate, James McLean ex-plores in the complexities of time and relationships the painful mys-teries of personal identity. This is a strong book that examines in the considered moment the possibility of meaning in our lives.”—David Bottoms, final judge

“These poems are palpable pleasure. I love the way Jim McKean sees and sings the lives of so many people. ‘There’s singing in the wind’ and in these pages, as they pull you in.”—Naomi Shihab Nye

JAMES McKEAN, born in Seattle, completed an M.F.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Iowa. His publications include two books of poems, Headlong and Tree of Heaven, and a book of essays: Home Stand Growing up In Sports. McKean now teaches for the Queens University Low Residency M.F.A. program in Charlotte, North Carolina.

978-1-933896-84-7 paper $10.9551/2x81/2. 72 pp. Poetry. October

The poems in Isn’t It Romantic? are set primarily in and around the Connecticut River Valley of central Connecticut, where the speaker wanders, trying to do his best Wordsworth impression without much success.

He sees redemption in Franciscan acts of kindness (even as he does violence out of ignorance, by accident, or in the name of practical-ity), considers how people come to or are driven to certain cross-roads, wonders what is waiting on the other side of this existence, and supposes that the individual, if not humanity collectively, still has a chance to take it easy on the earth.

“Isn’t It Romantic? fulfills with irony the lulls of wonder the poet wit-nesses in his daily existence. Much of the pleasure and wit found in the readings of these finely honed poems is the juxtaposition of the classical and literary references of an erudite mind making reckonings of even the smallest episodes of his life; like when he makes mythical his own aging dog by connecting him to faithful Argus of the Iliad, or referencing the ancient Sumerian’s discovery of beer in a poem expe-riencing a modern Dive Bar. Popielaski’s poems consistently entertain and inform, allowing us inside his unique insights.”—Dave Parsons, 2011 Texas State Poet Laureate

JOHN POPIELASKI was born in Port Jefferson Station, New York, and attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook and American University. He is the author of A Brief Eureka for the Alchemists of Peace (Antrim House) and O, Captain, which won the 2006 Ledge Press Poetry Chapbook Award. He lives in Portland, Connecticut, and spends time at his camp in Maine.


Winner, 2011 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize

We Are the Bus

James McKean

Winner, 2011 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Award

Isn’t It Romantic?

John Popielaski


“Here, in words which seem refracted through the stained-glass win-dow made up of common earth and laced always with the transcen-dent, Sarah Cortez offers us insight into those who have shaped her, as well as into the complexities of coming into her own multifaceted selfhood. Here is her world, illuminated by the light of faith and the rich tradition of her Tejano heritage.”—Paul Mariani

“In this mixed-genre memoir, Cortez invites us to sit by her side as she shares the seminal, poignant memories of the early years of her life. She segues from one genre to another so artfully and seamlessly that the skillfully executed poems appear a natural, intensified extension of the luminous prose.”—Larry D. Thomas

This ground-breaking, mixed genre memoir journeys from the soil of Texas farmland near Floresville to the shrimpers’ nets of the Gulf Coast, near Matagorda. Three generations of hispanic families are viewed through the faith-filled lens of the miraculous and the poi-gnancy of dreams never realized. The journey continues to mid-twentieth century Houston, where what is done is as powerful as that which never happened.

SARAH CORTEZ is the author of How to Undress a Cop. She has edited Windows into My World: Latino Youth Write Their Lives (2007); Hit List:The Best of Latino Mystery (2009); Indian Country Noir (2010); and You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens (2011). She lives and works in Houston, Texas.

978-1-933896-83-0 paper $10.9551/2x81/2. 80 pp. Poetry. July

Susan Palwick, novelist and Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, volunteers four hours a week as a lay chaplain in the emergency room of a local hospital. In Brief Visits: Sonnets from a Volunteer Chaplain, a single volunteer shift unfolds in forty-five sonnets, short poems allowing us to hear the many voices—the patients’, the staff’s, the chaplain’s—of the ER. These stories, snip-pets of much larger ones, capture both the chaos and the beauty of the dramas unfolding every day in every hospital, where the human search for meaning is driven by stark reminders of mortality.

“Susan Palwick’s poems remind me what I most love about hospital ministry—in her words, ‘story understood / as sac-rament.’ Here are the small mercies and outsized emotions of a night in the E.D., the infinity of human stories unfold-ing. ‘These small rooms bestow / huge gifts,’ she writes, ‘God’s strangeness shining from each tale[.]’”—Rabbi Rachel Barenblat, author of 70 faces and chaplainbook

“Susan’s collection, Brief Visits: Sonnets From a Volunteer Chaplain, captures well the mood and the feeling of the Emergency Room. I know those rooms. I know those patients. I know those feelings.”—Marshall Scott, M.Div, Board Certified Chaplain, Past President of the Assembly of Episcopal Healthcare Chaplains.

“Susan Palwick brings us readers through the rings of a pur-gatory awaiting us all. In spare, delicate, yet sturdy language, Palwick takes us by the hand, tenderly, to introduce us to human catastrophe, medical drama, simple losses, deep deep sorrows. This is a poetic voice of power and force and, as well, a soul of depth and charge.”—Rita Charon, Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University

SUSAN PALWICK is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, and Clinical Associate Professor of Medical Education at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, where she teaches Narrative Medicine. She has published three novels and a short-story collection. She is a licensed lay preacher in the Episcopal Diocese of Nevada.


New poetry from a Houston policewoman . . .

Walking HomeGrowing Up Hispanic in Houston

Sarah Cortez

Sonnets by a hospital chaplain . . .

Brief VisitsSonnets from a Volunteer Chaplain

Susan Palwick

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A collaboration between LaNana Creek Fine Press and SFA Press . . .

Chopper Blues

Charles D. Jones

Chopper Blues is the apex of a unique evolution: it grows from the script of a mixed media introduction performed live for a body of viscerally intense wood-cuts, drawings and paintings first exhibited in East Texas at the Tyler Museum of Art and last honored at the Marine Corps Museum in San Diego, California.

Musician, painter, printer, sculptor, and maturing poet, Jones sustained the ex-perience which made both these images and this text necessary during the three years he served in the Marine Corps, almost all of it as Platoon Commander, Company C, 1st Battalion, 7th Marines, this enlistment culminating in his ’65–’66 Vietnam duty tour and his combat decoration, the Silver Star.

These poems and prose were originally written to accompany the “Vietnam Suite,” 40- 38 inch x 50 inch multimedia works on paper and an accompanying performance piece entitled “Chopper Blues.” However, this limited print edition has been expanded to include drawings from Jones’ sketchbook from his time in country, Vietnam, 1965—1966, as well as images from the “Vietnam Suite” and woodcuts from a recent publication, The Bear Went Over the Mountain, co-written with a Vietnamese Artist from Hanoi, Dinh Viet Luc.

Also included in this spectacular collection are never before published photo-graphs of Jones’s tour in Vietnam, photographs of villages and schools that van-ished immediately after the camera’s flash. Finally, this limited printing contains a CD of the performance piece, featuring a reading of the poems and songs from the book with original and traditional music performed by the artist and friends.

CHARLES D. JONES is the director and master printer of LaNana Creek Press and Regents Professor of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. He has taught printmaking since 1971.

War CutsDon R. Schol978-1-936205-13-4 cloth $35.00

Timon of AthensWilliam Shakespeare Illustrated by Wyndham Lewis Commentary by David A. Lewis978-1-936205-20-2 limited edition $495.00

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a BlackbirdWallace Stevens Illustrated by Corrine Jones978-1-936205-82-0 limited edition $1200.00

978-1-936205-69-1 cloth $40.009x12. 140 pp. 20 woodcuts. 10 color, 15 b&w photos.Art. Vietnam War. Poetry. November

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Forest Insect Alphabet

David Kulhavy Illustrated by Charles D. Jones

A Forest Insect Alphabet features fifty-one original woodcuts drawn and cut by Master Printer Charles Jones. Twenty-six of the images are color woodcuts of forest insects chosen to represent each letter of the alphabet and accompanied by twenty-three black and white wood engravings.

Jones designed and cut capital letters for each insect name, making them an in-tegral part of the compositions. The colors used for each woodcut are based on those of the named insect. A descriptive poetic quatrain, written by Entomolgist David Kulhavy, is printed below each color print.

The wood engravings also offer a detailed study of the insects and are accom-panied by scientific text. Printed on 157 gsm. stock, the book features insects important for their beauty, impact on the forest environment, and their intricate ecology. The colors used for each woodcut are based on the named insect. The book is 10 inches x 10 inches and comes with an accompanying CD featuring songs about forest insects.

DAVID KULHAVY, Regents Professor in the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agricul-ture at Stephen F. Austin State University, has been awarded the regional National Associa-tion of Interpretation award for his interpretations of Dr. Dave’s Bugs. CHARLES D. JONES is the director of LaNana Creek Press and has taught printing and bookmaking for more than thirty years.

The Edge of LifeForest Pathology ArtDavid KulhavyDesigned and edited byMichelle Rozic978-1-936205-31-8 cloth $35.95

Dark PearlsLarry D. ThomasIllustrated by Corinne Jones Designed by Charles D. Jones978-1-936205-24-0 limited edition $395.00x

A Forest Insect AlphabetCharles D. Jones978-1-936205-26-4 limited edition $500.00x

978-1-936205-70-7 cloth $35.0010x10. 100 pp. 51 woodcuts. CD.Poetry. Art. Young Readers. November

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Author of more than twenty books of poems, among them For My Brother, Of China and Of Greece, Good News, McKeever Bridge, The Buffalo Shoot, A Day in the World, and Village Journal, Greg Kuzma has penned Robert Frost: Six Essays in Appreciation, the culmination of a life-long, affectionate study of the Modern American poet, Rob-ert Frost.

Kuzma, who recently retired from the English and creative writing faculty at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, provides 21st Century readers both a reintroduction to and a sensitive and enduring com-mentary of Frost’s poetic craft and music. Kuzma offers new points of observation toward reading Frost, and his critical expertise teaches us well—as he taught Frost to his students over the years—why the poet still persists, why his poetry remains necessary.

Robert Frost: Six Essays in Appreciation is a significant contribution to an ongoing dialogue on Frost and on American poetics.

GREG KUZMA has been an important figure in American poetry for over three decades, with poetry and critical essays published in Poetry, Shenandoah, Po-etry Northwest, Crazy Horse, Prairie Schooner, and, literally, hundreds more. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.

978-1-936205-71-4 paper $25.0051/2x81/2. 200 pp. Literary Criticism. October

In the introduction to Mark Sanders’s Riddled with Light: Metaphor in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats, critic and poet Stephen C. Behrendt writes, “Sanders shows us Yeats anew, laboring on his visionary engine to produce a profoundly metaphoric poetry and a poetics that enfran-chises and empowers his audience by making that audience both a respondent and, more importantly, an active co-creator whose role in both the making and the performing of Yeats’ art has for too long been insufficiently understood and appreciated. In setting this matter straight, Sanders does a service for us no less than for Yeats, and in the process he reminds us of the sheer, sweeping dynamism of Yeats’ unfailingly energetic and confrontational art.”

In his critical works, Sanders has written extensively about Wallace Stevens, Langston Hughes, Karl Shapiro, regional poets from the Great Plains and—a writer loyal to locale, as well—William Butler Yeats.

Indeed, in the seven essays that comprise Riddled with Light, Sanders explores the development of Yeats’ metaphorical concepts through-out the poet’s career, analyzing the types of metaphors Yeats used while tracing the impact of specific metaphors on a poem’s language, rhythm, metrical and grammatical structures, and form. Individual chapters are devoted to the conceptual metaphors that unify Yeats’ work and provide readers with an overreaching arc to make a com-prehensive reading of the poet’s work as well as a thorough under-standing of his poetics.

MARK SANDERS is a widely published poet, with recent appearances in Shenandoah, Prairie Schooner, The Midwest Quarterly, and numerous other journals. Sanders’s books include The Suicide, Before We Lost Our Ways, Here in the Big Empty, and Landscapes, with Horses. His most recent book, Conditions of Grace: New and Selected Poems, was published by SFA Press in 2011.

978-1-936205-72-1 cloth $40.0051/2x81/2. 250 pp. Literary Criticism. October

Robert FrostSix Essays in Appreciation

Greg Kuzma

Riddled with LightMetaphor in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats

Mark Sanders


The gnomes in this collection are reminiscent of ancient Chinese poetry, their brevity armed with occidental twists of language and experience that only someone immersed and baptized in the spirit of the local can wield. Welch’s poems are pendants of beaded water, their careful silences speaking loudly through our din.

The senior poet of Nebraska and the Great Plains, Don Welch explores the Plains’ interiors and, by writing about them, becomes the protector of the earth’s treasures.

DON WELCH is a Nebraska native and the author of many collections of poetry. In 1980, Welch won the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry. He retired as Reynolds Poetry Professor at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, but he has recently been re-appointed to that post as Interim Reynolds Poetry Professor for 2012-2013.

Kirk Nesset’s Saint X chronicles the muted joy and despair of a millennial age, charting love’s ills and the grind of mortality. His figures are bizarre but familiar: people born under punches, shaken awake by rattles and flares, latter-day pilgrims who stare at the statue that stares at America; people for whom disobedience is still a first duty, and death but a question of style.

KIRK NESSET is author of two books of short stories, a book of translations, and a nonfiction study. He teaches creative writing and literature at Allegheny College, and is writer in residence at Black Forest Writing Seminars (Freiburg, Germany).

978-1-936205-66-0 paper $15.0041/4x7. 80 pp. Poetry. September

978-1-936205-76-9 paper $15.956x9. 80 pp. Poetry. June

New from Nebraska poet Don Welch. . .

Gnomes

Don Welch

The magic of poetry comes alive.

Saint X

Kirk Nesset

“I couldn’t let these two go.”—Kim Addonizio

Jimmy & Rita

Kim Addonizio

“One of the wonderful things about Jimmy & Rita is that Kim Ad-donizio never imposes herself in any way, so the poems sing them-selves into us. We experience the victories and defeats of Jimmy and Rita as they struggle through the boundless claustrophobia of their world. I think of them and there is a sense of sadness within me. Yet I think of what Addonizio has accomplished and I feel joy.”—Hubert Selby, Jr

“Kim Addonizio’s work is distinguished by two of the rarest quali-ties in American poetry: a sense of dramatic life on the page and a sense of class consciousness. Both are evident in Jimmy & Rita, a book that streams with the fragmented unity, pace, and visceral immediacy of a film”—Stuart Dybeck

KIM ADDONIZIO lives in Oakland, CA. She is the author of five books of poetry, including Tell Me (BOA Editions), which was a National Book Award finalist. Her most recent collection is Lucifer at the Starlite (W.W. Norton). She has two books on writing, also from Norton: The Poet’s Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (with Dorianne Laux) and Ordinary Genius: A Guide for the Poet Within. A collection of selected poems, Two Losers Stand on a Corner, was published in Arabic by Kalima Press. In the Box Called Pleasure, a short story collection, was published by FC2. Ad-donizio has also authored two novels, Little Beauties and My Dreams Out in the Street (Simon & Schuster). Visit her online at www.kimaddonizio.com.

978-1-936205-68-4 paper $14.956x9. 89 pp. Poetry. August


“Sounds The Living Make is a deeply satisfying collection of poems. D. James Smith combines the narrator’s art with a lyric poet’s intense and highly charged sense of setting and language. Whether exploring the labyrinth of memory or the mystery of ‘the other,’ here are poems that have the edge and authority of fiercely honed truths.”—Peter Everwine

“D. James Smith’s poems derive, or rather arrive, from the physical world—breaths and glimmers that we will recognize, but with images and language that will transport the reader elsewhere. These poems are intensely felt and beautifully written with surprising layers of complexity that are incantatory and in touch with the sacred.”—Gary Short

D. JAMES SMITH, a recipient of an National Endowment for the Arts fellowship grant in poetry, lives in California, where he studied with Philip Levine.

Dragonfly, Walking Stick examines the difficult and inspiring introduction of Algonquin Indian tribes to the English colonists. Weaving the spiritual worlds of Native Americans and English Christians, the novel celebrates the creation of fertile hybridity as it confronts the difficulty of such rich mixtures finding acceptance in the seventeenth-century Colonial world.

JUDY R. SMITH is a professor of American literature at Kenyon College. Her first novel, Yellowbird (Lewis-Clark Press, 2007) won the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas Award. Her work interrogates the complicated relationships among and between Northeastern Indian tribes and Colonists and the reverberations that continue to echo in America.

Sounds the Living Make 978-1-936205-77-6 paper $15.956x9. 90 pp. Poetry. June

978-1-936205-75-2 paper $18.956x9. 180 pp. Literary Novel. August

New from D. James Smith. . .

Sounds the Living Make

D. James Smith

One of America’s finest writers. . .

Dragonfly, Walking Stick

Judy R. Smith

An outstanding work from the Intermountain West. . .

Nurses who Love English

Paula Marie Coomer

In Nurses Who Love English, Paula Marie Coomer chronicles the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to the emergence of war and a life wobbling under the impact of world events: the loss of livelihood, a year of unemployment, record gasoline prices and mega-inflation, and a return to hospital nursing after having been a contracted univer-sity instructor, with its accompanying strain on a 50-year-old body. In the shadows, events that should have been celebrations become emotional struggles—the empty nest, children marrying and be-coming parents themselves, finding late-life love.

Lyrical, emotional, and, in the words of award-winning poet Pais-ley Rekdal, “at once carefully wrought and yet full of spontaneity . . . both tough-minded yet fragile,” the poems in this collection are powerful, graceful, and reveal the conflicting perspectives of a poet of Midwest upbringing who hails from a Kentucky mountain heritage, independent-minded yet vulnerable, a woman struggling to survive a difficult time in history alone in the rural Intermoun-tain West.

PAULA COOMER’s fiction, poetry, and non-fiction have appeared in many journals, anthologies, and publications, including Gargoyle, Knock, and the acclaimed Northwest Edge series from Portland’s Chiasmus Press. Coomer has been a nominee twice for the Pushcart Prize, as well as writer-in-residence for Fishtrap, Oregon’s advocacy program for writing and literature in the American West. Her books include the novel Dove Creek (2010), Summer of Government Cheese (2007, 2nd ed. 2011), Devil at the Cross-roads (2006), and Road, a single-poem chapbook (2006). Dove Creek was a featured title at the 2011 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Fall Tradeshow. An instructor in the English department at Washington State University, Coomer is also a long-time visiting scholar for the Idaho Commis-sion on Libraries.

n u r s e swho love

Pa u l a C o o m e r

e n g l i s h 978-1-936205-73-8 paper $15.9551/2x81/2. 90 pp. Poetry. September


The Blue Hour before Sunrise

Kimberly D. Verhines

Kimberly Verhines’s The Blue Hour Before Sunrise is a brave work of literary nonfiction. Unflinchingly, Verhines explores the events that lead to the loss of her 19-year-old son and the harrowing territories of grief and hard-won resolution that followed in the long aftermath of his death.

Few answers exist to explain the facts of his dependence on illegal steroids, how such dependence skewed his image of self and self-worth, or how he determined suicide was an appropriate choice, to end his own pain and, perhaps he thought, the pain he brought to those who loved him.

Verhines confronts the facts, fearfully but imperatively needful. Doubtless, the subject matter of The Blue Hour Before Sunrise is difficult. A mother’s journey after a child’s death is wrought with agony, anxiety, and a pervading loneliness too populated by psychologi-cal ghosts.

Maintaining the delicate balance between courage and collapse, Verhines tackles her and her son’s story in terms that are poignant and indispensible, marked by a beauty com-prised of the most remarkable of lyrical prose. Verhines is not just an accomplished prose writer—she is innately a poet of the finest timbre. Her power of observation—fresh and startling, the haunting skill of her language, and her unforgiving push against sentimen-talism cause The Blue Hour Before Sunrise to be a work readers will not leave.

The effect of her ability is at once arresting and heartbreaking as she compels us through the darkness and the horrific universality of sorrow, much the way Dante leads us through his abyss. On the other side, though, we resurrect into the thin light that can only be hope, only be a promise of life renewed.

KIMBERLY D. VERHINES received her MA in English and Women’s Studies from the University of Houston-Clear Lake and MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Idaho. She lives in Nacogdo-ches, Texas.

The windows on the back of Harold’s house are open. Pots and pans clank. Every so often, Harold’s wife peeks out. She is afraid of horses. “Comet,” Harold shouts. The mare eyes us and snorts. “Moody and mean,” Harold says again.

We stop shy of the corral, my shoes soaked with dew. Harold strokes the bill of his cap, looks at the ground, toes the thick fall grass with his boot. He explains. His daughter attends the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and rarely comes home. He works all the time and sees Comet as one of his failures. He’d want-ed to imprint the mare when she was born, but her mother wouldn’t let him close. “It was her first,” he says. “Sometimes new mothers are too protective.”

I gaze at the mare and don’t tell Harold that my oldest son, Cory, has been dead for 78 days, that this is my first winter without him. “She’s perfect. Reminds me of the horse I rode as a kid.”

Harold chuckles, perhaps at my ignorance, perhaps at my bravery. More likely, he laughs because he is going to have $250 in his pocket, and the crazy mare will be someone else’s problem. The bargain will not include a handshake. No papers to fill out. However, if I buy the hay, the mare can stay on his land. He’ll feed her. “When the roads turn icy you might not make it out,” he says.

“Oh, I’ll make it.” I am not afraid of blizzards or icy roads or careening my car into a tree. In point of fact, I buy the mare because I believe she will kill me.

—from the book

Bonnie and Clyde and MarieA Sister’s Perspective on the Notorious Barrow GangJonathan Davis978-1-936205-12-7 cloth $24.95

Jimmy & RitaKim Addonizio978-1-936205-68-4 paper $14.95

Fever and GutsA SymphonyJerry D. Mathes978-1-936205-85-1 paper $16.95

978-1-936205-74-5 paper $16.9551/2x81/2. 280 pp. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. November

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Just Between UsStories and Memories from the Texas Pines

Milton S. Jordan and Dan K. Utley

East Texas is a distinct cultural and geographical region roughly the size of the state of Indiana. It is bounded on the east by the Sabine River and the state line, on the north by the Red River, and on the south by the Gulf of Mexico. The location of the remaining boundary line is open to conjec-ture but is generally considered to represent the dispersed western limits of the Southern Pine Best.

Those who have lived and worked in East Texas share a common sense of place that has provided some of the state’s more colorful characters and most enduring landmarks, as well as a richly-layered cultural history. The region has also produced a large number of historians and storytellers who have successfully drawn upon their diverse and unique heritage to chronicle the past.

Just Between Us will be at one level the inside story of a large community, where all residents comfortably share somewhat familiar stories about home. It is also, however, a regional record for others to enjoy, analyze, and celebrate. The stories are firsthand accounts by those who know the region best, and they serve as glimpses onto life in the Pine Belt that to this point have not been recorded or widely shared. They are, for the most part, small stories that might not be found in general histories but that nevertheless collectively make a profound statement about the unique character of an important region.

MILTON S. JORDAN is a native Texan, born in Waco and reared in East Texas and Houston. He gradu-ated from Southwestern University with a BA in history and received a Master of Divinity degree from Southern Methodist University. He is author of a chapbook of poetry, Better Things To Do (Bottom Dog Press), and numerous reviews and essays in literary and historical journals. A past president of the East Texas Historical Association, he is retired and lives in Georgetown. DAN K. UTLEY, a native of Lufkin who grew up in Woodville, served for many years on the staff of the Texas Historical Commis-sion. Now an adjunct professor and the chief historian of the Center for Texas Public History at Texas State University-San Marcos, he is the co-author of several books on Texas topics, including History Ahead: Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers (with Cynthia J. Beeman). A fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, he is a past president of the East Texas Historical Association.

Bonnie and Clyde and MarieA Sister’s Perspective on the Notorious Barrow GangJonathan Davis978-1-936205-12-7 cloth $24.95

Back Then AgainSimple Pleasures and Everyday HeroesArchie P. McDonald978-1-936205-06-6 paper $13.95

Thin Slice of LifeMiles Arceneaux978-1-936205-84-4 paper $18.95

978-1-936205-78-3 cloth $35.0081/2x11. 200 pp. 30 current and historic photos. 5 maps. Index.Texas Folklore. Texas History. Memoir. October

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A comic novel of suspense set on the Gulf Coast of Texas. . .

Thin Slice of Life

Miles Arceneaux

Charlie Sweetwater is cajoled by his older brother Johnny into taking a hiatus from his beach-bum life in Mexico to visit him in the Texas coastal town of Fulton, where both grew up. Charlie arrives to find his brother is a no-show, and that Fulton Harbor, where his family has docked their shrimp boats for generations, has changed—and not for the better. Hard-working Vietnamese fishermen have resettled there and taken over most of the shrimping industry, but they are under the thumb of Col. Nguyen Ngoc Bao, an exiled gangster with ties to both the CIA and the Viet Cong. Bao aims to recreate his criminal enterprise in a New World setting, and he is ruthless in his ambition.

When a political aide is assassinated at a fancy seaside party for a corrupt state politician, it sets into motion a chain of events that brings together a disparate cast of characters and thrusts them into threatening—and even mortal—circumstances.

Charlie Sweetwater is joined by a mismatched group to confront Bao and his thugs—a fast-and-loose Cajun hustler, a salty cast of “Third Coast” barroom regulars, a handful of courageous Vietnamese émigrés, a menacing ex-convict, and a misplaced Texas Ranger who discovers a slice of the Lone Star State that the cowboy movies of his boyhood never prepared him for. Along the way, Charlie is befriended by a teenage boy from Mexico (who adopts the Sweetwater clan as if it were his own), and finds himself falling for his brother’s girlfriend, whose zealous desire to see justice served tests his own limits for loyalty and commitment.

Unlikely heroes arise from improbable circumstances, and the denizens of the small sea-side community find their fortunes and fates ebbing and flowing like the tidal flux of the ocean itself.

MILES ARCENEAUX is the storytelling alter ego of Austin, Texas-based writers BRENT DOUGLASS, JOHN T. DAVIS, and JAMES DENNIS. The inspiration for the story comes from roots that run deep on the Texas Coast, and from the characters, stories, and experiences absorbed there along the way. This is Miles Arceneaux’s first novel.

“When Charlie finally reached the Fulton city limits he felt like a month of Judgment Days. But he recovered a little as he turned onto the familiar two-lane road that followed the edge of Aransas Bay. He was greeted by huddled stands of live oaks that bent in an arthritic pose away from the relentless gulf winds, and by the pungent odor of decaying seaweed and dead fish that fla-vored the fresh sea air. Rickety wooden fishing piers, many still unrepaired since the last hurricane, jutted out from bait shacks that perched over the water (FRESH BAIT, LIVE AND DEAD said the hand-made signs).

Texas was a blue-collar working coast, full of refineries, commercial fish-ing outfits and beer joints—a long way removed from the postcard vistas of Monterrey or South Florida. Many folks, try as they might, just couldn’t conjure up an appreciation for the Texas coast’s raffish, low-rent appeal, but Charlie recognized that the geography was woven into his DNA. Fulton had seen better days but as far as hometowns went, Charlie had no complaints.”

—from the book

SherburneR.T. Smith978-1-936205-44-8 paper $17.95

PrecisBill Mesce Jr.978-1-936205-55-4 paper $15.95

Decoration DayAnd Other StoriesGerald Duff978-1-936205-56-1 paper $18.95

978-1-936205-84-4 paper $18.956x9. 300 pp. Fiction. October

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For the past forty years, Bobby H. Johnson has recorded hundreds of oral history interviews with New Londoners and East Texans and filed mental notes as he heard conversations about things that happened on that day when infancy protected his awareness of the horror in New London.

As an insider, Johnson was prepared for his role as the future New London dramatist by studies in history and journalism, leading to a PhD degree at the University of Oklahoma and the beginning of his career teaching history at Stephen F. Austin University, where he re-tired as a Regents Professor of History. He enrolled in a playwriting course taught at SFA by Jack Heffner, a Corsicana native and author of “Vanities,” the most frequently performed American play of the 1970s.

From the course on crafting a play, Johnson mastered the final ele-ments he needed to complete A Texas Tragedy: The New London School Explosion: characterization, themes, and staging. From his ap-preciation of American literature, he understood how the stage man-ager in Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” orchestrated the themes and how poet Edgar Lee Masters handled ordinary people struggling with life in Spoon River Anthology. With a stage set of several acting ar-eas anchored by a porch reminiscent of his parents’ home, the acting area also accommodates a circle of truth platform where the preacher holds forth and witnesses enact a variety of personal encounters with the disaster. Hymn-singing groups set the tone for a grief-stricken community whose strong faith seeks resilience.

Audiences attending a performance of A Texas Tragedy will encoun-ter an intensely moving tribute to the community robbed of a youth-ful generation, leaving scarred survivors overwhelmed by loss and questioning why it all happened.

BOBBY H. JOHNSON holds an MA (University of Oklahoma School of Journal-ism, 1962) and a PhD in history from the University of Oklahoma (1967). He taught history at Stephen F. Austin State University from 1966 to 2005.

978-1-936205-67-7 paper $13.956x9. 140 pp. 16 b&w photosTheater. Texas History. August

Jerry D. Mathes’s Fever and Guts is hard-hitting literary nonfic-tion. Reminiscent of the exacting sharpness found in Hemingway’s bullfighting stories and as deeply reflective as Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Mathes takes his readers to the fringes of American so-ciety, a subculture where war stories are handed down from fathers to sons and then are lived by those sons; where fathers brace against the weather of daughters’ illnesses; where language and speech is music, poetry, and violence.

Mathes journeys us to the mountains of Idaho, the deserts of the Southwest and of Desert Storm, the icy plains of Antarctica, and into the dark, gloomy backrooms of bars and hotels. Amidst storms and forests ablaze, he makes us feel the thunder’s rumble, the smoke set-tled in our lungs.

Although Mathes puts us into proximity of things most of us have been lucky to escape, he makes such existences seem amazingly and beautifully normal, makes it seem as if we have missed out.

In this manner, Mathes turns his personal histories into works of mad, provocative art, so skillfully and innovatively turned that the reader will not let the stories go and, in the aftermath of reading, not turn them loose from memory. This is nonfiction of the best sort, real and ballsy as a life lived real and with bravado.

JERRY D. MATHES is the author of the chapbook Fall in the Borderland and the poetry collection, The Journal West. His firefighting memoirs will be re-leased from Claxton Press in 2012. Mathes has worked at South Pole Station, Antarctica, as a cargo specialist, and taught the southernmost poetry workshop in the world. He lives in Boise, Idaho.

978-1-936205-85-1 paper $16.9551/2x81/2. 180 pp. Literary Nonfiction. September

Full of factual details and emo-tional insights. . .

A Texas Tragedy: The New London School Explosion

Bobby H. Johnson

One of the west’s finest writers. . .

Fever and GutsA Symphony

Jerry D. Mathes


Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird is a double accordian style book built into a clam shell box constructed with mahogany, black walnut, Japanese silk over boards with a bas relief copper sculpture forming the top cover of the box.

This book is 12 inches x 14 inches x 1 3/4 inches and unfolds from the center with six sheets moving to the left and seven sheets to the right and may be displayed closed, partially unfolded, or completely on a shelf or table.

The images are printed from relief plates based on drawings by Corinne Jones made with black chalk over full color renderings in di-rect response to each of the poems.

This limited edition book was printed on Rives BFK cover weight pa-per using 16 and 24 pt Lutetia types by hand on a Vandercook Univer-sal III press and bound at the LaNana Creek Press in Nacogdoches, Texas.

WALLACE STEVENS was born in Reading, Pennsylvania on October 2, 1879, and died at the age of 76 in Hartford, Connecticut on August 2, 1955. He at-tended Harvard as a special student from 1897 to 1900 but did not graduate; he graduated from New York Law School in 1903 and was admitted to the New York Bar in 1904. CORRINE JONES earned her Bachelor of Fine Art Degree, with an emphasis on painting from Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee; and a Master of Art Degree along with a Master of Fine Art Degree, both with an emphasis on painting, from Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacagdoches, Texas. Her work has been exhibited all over the world, including France, Italy, and Russia. She lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.

978-1-936205-82-0 limited edition $1200.0012x14. 26 pp. 13 woodcut images.Art. Poetry.August

Timon of Athens is a modern illustrated adaptation of Shakespeare’s seldom performed and probably incomplete play, the title character of which becomes misanthropic when the community fails to appre-ciate his generosity. Wyndam Lewis’s original cubo-futurist designs form the basis for the style that came to be known as Vorticism.

Designed and printed by Charles D. Jones on Johannot paper by d’Arches, it is 13 inches x 9 1/2 inches and has printed end sheets of blue Bugra Hahnemuhle paper. It was printed by hand from polymer plates with six color plates and over thirty black and white plates from original designs by Wyndham Lewis created circa. 1912 for use in a proposed edition of Timon that ultimately was produced as a portfo-lio of plates without the text by the Cube Press in 1912.

“Working with Omar Pound, an expert on Lewis and controller of rights to his estate, and using my own understanding of Lewis’s work, I have attempted to create the work that he would have done. It is bound on boards with a clamshell box covered with Italian linen book cloth.”—Charles D. Jones

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE was baptized April 26, 1564 and died April 23, 1616. PERCY WYNDHAM LEWIS (November 18, 1882 – March 7, 1957) was an English painter and author (he dropped the name ‘Percy’, which he disliked). He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists. CHARLES D. JONES is the director of LaNana Creek Press and has taught printing and bookmaking for more than thirty years. DAVID A. LEWIS specializes in Modern art and has written about Dorothy Shakespear Pound, Leonard Baskin, Michael (Corinne) West, and most recently John Heliker. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.

978-1-936205-20-2 limited edition $495.0013x91/2. 108 pp. 6 color, 30 b&w images.Art. Theater. Cultural Studies. August

New from LaNana Creek Press . . .

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Wallace Stevens Illustrated by Corrine Jones

A collaborative effort of Omar Pound and Charles D. Jones. . .

Timon of Athens

William Shakespeare Illustrated by Wyndham Lewis Commentary by David A. Lewis

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Fifty copies of the book were printed on 160gms Arches cover white paper using 16pt Lutetia Roman and Italic types. The book is 13 x 7 inches and numbers 12 pages using a tri-fold structure.

One each of the seven poems written about major artists of the 1930’s (Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Georges Braque, Jacques Villon, Juan Gris, Pablo Picasso, and Joan Miro) was given to selected artists who cre-ated an image based on the poem.

The images were printed for the book using relief and silkscreen in-corporating the poems in English and French and printed letterpress. Color and design work together to move the reader through the pages, accentuating the time-based aspect of the work. It is bound on boards with an Italian linen spine and tan book cloth with an accompanying slipcase.

PAUL ELUARD (December 14, 1895 – November 18, 1952), was a French poet and one of the founders of the surrealist movement. FRANCIS POULENC (Jan-uary 7, 1899 – January 30, 1963) was a French composer known for his solo piano music, chamber music, oratorio, choral music, opera, ballet music, and orchestral music. CHARLES D. JONES, Regents Professor of Art at Stephen F. Austin State University, 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.

978-1-936205-27-1 limited edition $475.0013x7. 36 pp. 14 original prints.Art. Poetry. Music. August

Poems: Inside and Out provides a selection of works by the poet Omar S. Pound, son of Ezra Pound and Dorothy Shakespear Pound. The late Omar Pound was a gifted translator, an authority on Persian poetry, and a gifted poet in his own right. About 125 copies were hand set in Cloister Old Style type and printed on Somerset and su-perfine papers. The covers are printed blue book cloth over boards. The images are linoleum cuts by John Daniel and were printed from the original blocks.

Author OMAR SHAKESPEAR POUND (September 10, 1926 – March 2, 2010) was an Anglo-American writer, lecturer, and translator. He taught at the Roxbury Latin School in Boston, The American School of Tangier, the Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, and Princeton University. Illustrator JOHN DAN-IEL is an artist and retired professor of art from Stephen F. Austin State Univer-sity where he taught sculpture and drawing.

978-1-936205-22-6 limited edition $150.0091/2x61/2. 106 pp. Poetry. Art. Humanities. August

Special limited edition

Work of the PainterLe Travail Du Peintre

Paul Eluard Edited by Francis Poulenc Illustrated by Various Contemporary Artists Designed by Charles D. Jones

Poems: Inside and Out

Omar Pound Illustrated by John Daniel

FINE PRESS BOOKS • FINE PRESS BOOKS • FINE PRESS BOOKSThe 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 alterna-tive 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.

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