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The Texas State HistoricalAssociation

109th Annual Meeting

March 3–5, 2005

Radisson Plaza Hotel

Fort Worth

Book ExhibitorsBest of East Texas PublishersCenter for Big Bend StudiesChiricahua Book CompanyClements Center for Southwest

Studies and DeGolyer Library,Southern Methodist University

Cypress Book CompanyHarlan Davidson, Inc.Lawrence T. JonesJudy Bond Interior, Inc.McLaren Books

Michael D. Heaston Rare Books andMaps

Omnibooks by MailRoger SynottTexas A & M University PressTexas Archeological SocietyTexas Star BooksTexas State Historical AssociationUniversity of Oklahoma PressUniversity of Texas PressWright Collection

Hotel DirectoryRegistration Promenade, 2nd Floor Thursday 8:00 a.m.

Friday 8:00 a.m.Saturday 8:00 a.m.

Book Exhibitors Crystal Ballroom ABC, Thursday 10:00–5:302nd Floor Friday 8:00–5:30

Saturday 8:00–12:00

Sessions Citizens ABC, Continental, Metropolitan,Texas Ballroom A–D (3rd Floor), Scott/VanZandt (15th Floor)

Auctions: Silent Auction Thursday 10:00–5:30Crystal Ballroom ABC, Friday 8:00–6:002nd Floor

Silent Auction Crystal Ballroom ABC, Saturday 9:00–11:00 a.m.Checkout 2nd Floor

Annual Meeting Coordinator: Jim Gray.The annual meeting is presented incooperation with the Center for Studies in Texas History at the University ofTexas at Austin.

Refund/Cancellation Policy: Requests for refunds must be made in writing andpostmarked by February 21, 2005. No refunds will be made after February 21,2005.A $10.00 service charge will be applied to all refunds.

Cover: This view of downtown Fort Worth was provided courtesy of the Fort WorthConvention and Visitors Bureau web site: http://www.fortworth.com.The historic photo-graphs that illustrate this program are just a few of the illustrations that appear in the newTSHA publication Fort Worth: A Texas Original! by Richard F. Selcer.

Welcome to the 109th Annual Meeting

The Texas State Historical Association is pleased to bring its 2005 AnnualMeeting to Fort Worth. No matter what you call it—“the city where theWest begins,”“Cowtown,” or “Panther City”—Fort Worth is the quin-

tessential Texas city, lying at the nexus of east and west, cowboys and culture, andmyth and reality.According to historian Richard F. Selcer, whose Fort Worth:ATexas Original the Association recently published, Fort Worth was built on cattleand oil industries, but today it “has become nationally known as a ‘destinationcity’ thanks to the Historic Stockyards District, the Texas Motor Speedway, theBass Performance Hall, Six Flags, the Ballpark at Arlington, and the Cultural Dis-trict.”As far as we are concerned, it is a perfect destination for the members ofthe Association and all those interested in discussing and learning more about allfacets of Texas history.

U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison will headline the Association’s 109thAnnual Meeting at the Radisson Plaza Hotel in Fort Worth in March 3–5. Hertopic will be “American Heroines,” the subject of a new book that she has writ-ten. Other speakers include James Ward Lee of the TCU Press, who will speak atthe Thursday Luncheon on the subject of “Reading will Ruin You,” and JerryThompson, who will speak at the Saturday Breakfast on the subject of the newTSHA publication that he coauthored with Lawrence T. Jones III, Civil War andRevolution on the Rio Grande Frontier:A Narrative and Photographic History.

A special treat on Saturday afternoon will be a tour to historic Thurber andthe W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas, conducted by museumdirector T. Lindsay Baker and historian Harwood P. Hinton. Of course, there willbe the silent auction organized by bookseller Michael Heaston and his commit-tee, presenting a superb collection of books, maps, and historical material for thecollector.We are especially grateful to the Amon Carter Museum Board ofTrustees for hosting this year’s Presidential Reception. Special thanks also goes tothe members of the 2005 Annual Meeting Program Committee, who haveworked hard throughout the last year to put together a program that, like theTrinity River, is both wide and deep and that offers something for everyone.

Attendees will also have a chance to visit the Cultural District and the Stock-yards and to enjoy downtown Fort Worth, a success story few cities can boast.Please make plans to begin your celebration of Texas History Month by attend-ing the Association’s Annual Meeting.

John CrainTSHA President 2004–2005

Meeting at a Glance

Thursday, March 3

9:00a 1 Home Front to the Battlefield during the Civil War Citizens A-B2 Politics of the New Deal in Texas Continental3 Archeology of Military Sites Texas Ballroom C-D4 Texas Baptists and World Issues Texas Ballroom A-B

10:30a 5 Texas Weather Citizens A-B6 Progressive Women and Reform Metropolitan7 Archeology at Terán’s Forts Continental8 Texans in World War II and the Cold War Texas Ballroom C-D9 Women in Rodeo, Past and Present Texas Ballroom A-B

Handbook of Texas Workshop Citizens C

12:00 Awards Luncheon Crystal Ballroom D

2:30p 10 Sanctuaries in the Borderlands Citizens A-B11 I’m Only a Woman Cancelled12 Texas Reconstruction and Beyond Texas Ballroom A-B13 The Law Works in Mysterious Ways Texas Ballroom C-D14 The Politics of Education Reform Metropolitan

4:00p 15 The Texas Literary Scene Citizens A-B16 Interpreting Spanish Expedition Diaries Continental17 You Just Can’t Get Good Help These Days Texas Ballroom C-D18 From Lynching to the Death Penalty Metropolitan19 Government and Community Texas Ballroom A-B

6:00p Buses leave for Presidential Reception

6:30p Presidential Reception Amon Carter Museum

Friday, March 4

7:30a Graduate Student Breakfast Citizens C

7:30a Book Lovers’ Breakfast Crystal Ballroom D

8:00a Spanish Borderlands Meeting Citizens A-BSilent Auction Viewing and Bidding Crystal Ballroom ABC

9:00a 20 Teaching the Spanish Borderlands through Maps Citizens A-B21 Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century Texas Metropolitan22 Black Populists and Texas Suffragettes Continental23 Indigenous Catholic Ritual and Iconography Texas Ballroom C-D24 Modern Texas GOP Texas Ballroom A-B

Meeting at a Glance

10:30a 25 Music and Words in the Spanish Borderlands Continental26 Exploring Texas History through Photographs Texas Ballroom C-D27 Route 66 across the Texas Panhandle Texas Ballroom A-B28 Barbara Jordan: Her Life and Influence Citizens A-B 29 The Legal Rhetoric of Texas Secession Metropolitan

12:00 Women in Texas History Luncheon Crystal Ballroom D

1:30p Business Meeting Crystal Ballroom D

2:30p 30 Battling Lynching and Racism Efforts in Texas Continental31 Politics, Soldiering, and Race Citizens A-B32 Whose Revolution Was It,Anyway? Texas Ballroom A-B33 Homenaje to Félix D.Almaráz Jr. Texas Ballroom C-D34 The Branch Davidian “Massacre”: Narratives Metropolitan

4:00p 35 Texas Routes to the Goldfields Citizens A-B36 Manifestations of Jim Crow in Twentieth-Century

Texas Metropolitan37 African-Americans in Twentieth-Century Texas Texas Ballroom A-B38 Fort Worth History and Preservation Texas Ballroom C-D39 Historia de la Comunidad Mexicana del Norte

de Tejas ContinentalPublications Workshop Citizens CWebb Historical Society Annual Meeting Scott/Vanzandt

6:00p Silent Auction Bidding Closes Crystal Ballroom ABC

7:00p Presidential Banquet Petroleum Club

Saturday, March 5

7:30a Breakfast Crystal D

Silent Auction Checkout through 11:00a Crystal Ballroom ABC

9:00a 40 Sex and Saddle Leather Citizens A-B41 The Impact of the Second World War on Texans Continental42 Motivations of Texas Soldiers during the Civil War Texas Ballroom C-D43 Conservation History Texas Ballroom A-B44 History in Action: The College Classroom in 2005 Metropolitan

10:30a 45 The Newspaper Reporter’s View of Texas History Texas Ballroom A-B46 Mining in Twentieth Century Texas Texas Ballroom C-D47 The New Historians of the Border & Laredo Citizens A-B48 Caldwell Memorial Awards & Webb Society Meeting Metropolitan49 Phi Alpha Theta Continental

Thursday, March 3

Session 19:00 A.M.Citizens A-B

From the Home Front to the Battlefield during the Civil War, Steven E.Wood-worth presiding,Texas Christian University

Why Texans Fought East of the Mississippi:The Effects of Local Attachments on TexasSoldiers, Charles David Grear,Texas Christian University

My Dearest Amanda:The Civil War Letters of J.C. Morris to His Wife, Eddie Weller,San Jacinto College

Commentator: Glen Sample Ely, Fort Worth

Session 29:00 A.M.Continental

Politics of the New Deal in Texas, Patrick Cox presiding,The University of Texasat Austin

John Nance Garner:The New Deal, Anthony Champagne, University of Texas atDallas

The Civilian Conservation Corps and Racial Politics, Keith Joseph Volanto, BlinnCommunity College

Commentator: Patrick Cox, Center for American History,The University of Texasat Austin

Session 39:00 A.M.Texas Ballroom C-DJoint Session with the Texas Archeological Society

Archeology of Military Sites, Pam Wheat presiding,Texas Archeological SocietyConcrete Fokker in Tarrant County,Alan Skinner,Archeological Resources Consultants

Developing Fort Chadbourne as an Archeological/Historic Site, Doug Boyd, Prewittand Associates

Commentator: Pam Wheat,Texas Archeological Society

Session 49:00 A.M.Texas Ballroom A-BJoint Session with the Texas Baptist Historical Society

Dancing on the Global Stage:Texas Baptists and World Issues,Alan Lefever pre-siding,Texas Baptist Historical Society

An Advocate for Peace: S. P. Brooks and the Peace Society Movement, Ellen KuniyukiBrown, Baylor University

Baptists beyond Borders:Truett,Texas, Baptists and the Creation of the Baptist WorldAlliance, Stephen M. Stookey, Fort Worth

Commentator: Karen Bullock, Dallas Baptist University

10:30 A.M.Citizens C

Handbook of Texas Workshop, Douglas Barnett presiding, Texas State HistoricalAssociation

Meet with the Handbook editors to view the latest additions to the Handbook ofTexas Online, discuss ideas for articles, and learn about new projects.


Texas Weather, David Finfrock presiding, KXAS NBC 5

How Thick Are The Shucks? Texas Weather Lore, Kenneth W. Davis,Texas Tech Uni-versity

Some Facts about Texas Weather, George W. Bomar,Texas Department of Licensingand Regulation

Commentator: Ken Hendrickson, Midwestern State University

Thursday, March 3

Session 610:30 A.M.Metropolitan

Progressive Women and Reform, Elizabeth Alexander presiding,Texas WesleyanUniversity

To Whom Could She Turn? Community, Kinship, and Divorcing Women, in Nineteenth-Century Texas, Francelle Pruitt, Rice University

Connecticut to Texas:The Ministry of Mary Billings, First Ordained Woman Universalistin the Southwest, Barbara Coeyman, Unitarian Universalist Church

The Waco Community’s Response to its Legal Red Light District,Amy S. Balderach,Waco

Thursday, March 3

Main Street in old Fort Worth, after the first streetcar line was installed (1876) but before it waspaved a decade later.The stone courthouse dimly visible in the background was the county’s secondcourthouse. Courtesy of Brian A. Perkins.


Archeology at Terán’s Forts, Nancy Kenmotsu presiding,Texas Department ofTransportation

Fort Lipantitlán:Terán’s Sentinel on the Nueces, Margaret Howard,Texas Parks &Wildlife Department; Luis Alvarado,Texas Parks & Wildlife Department

Architecture and Archeology of Fort Anahuac, Rachel Feit, Hicks & Company

Commentator:Al McGraw,Texas Department of Transportation–Environmental

Session 810:30 A.M.Texas Ballroom C-D

Texans in World War II and the Cold War, Christopher Koontz presiding, UnitedStates Army Center of Military History

Unquestioned Actions:World War II Experiences of an American Patriot, Brigadier Gen-eral Edward N. Backus, Carlyn E. Kahl, McMurry University & McWhiney Foun-dation Press

Lone Star under the Rising Sun:Texan POWs and Building of the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, Kelly E. Crager, University of North Texas

Blue Collars under Red Banners: Fort Worth Labor Unions Response to the Cold War,Mary Lynn Fehler,Texas Christian University

Session 910:30 A.M.Texas Ballroom A-BJoint Session with the Texas Folklore Society

“Please, Fence Me In”:Women in Rodeo, Past and Present, Larry O’Neill presiding, San Antonio

Who Left The Gate Open? Tex Austin’s 1924 European Rodeo Tour, Jennifer E.Nielsen, El Paso Museum of Art

Thursday, March 3

Riding on the Edge: Mitzi Lucas Riley’s Life as a Trick and Fancy Rider, Mitzi Riley,Aledo

Open Range: Rodeo Cowgirls Take Their Sport to College, Sylvia Gann Mahoney,Ver-non College

Luncheon12:00 NOON

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Awards Luncheon, John Crain presiding, Summerlee Foundation

Reading Will Ruin You, James Ward Lee,Texas Christian University

Presentation of the:H. Bailey Carroll AwardKate Broocks Bates AwardCoral H.Tullis Memorial AwardMary Jon and J. P. Bryan Leadership in Education AwardCecilia Steinfeldt Fellowship for Research in the Arts and Material CultureFred White Jr. Research Fellowship in Texas HistoryJohn H. Jenkins Research Fellowship in Texas HistoryLawrence T. Jones III Research Fellowship in Civil War Texas HistoryMary M. Hughes Research FellowshipStephen F.Austin’s Old Three Hundred Research Fellowship in Texas History

Induction of new Fellows of the Texas State Historical Association

Session 102:30 P.M.Citizens A-B

Sanctuaries in the Borderlands, Donald E. Chipman presiding, University ofNorth Texas

Charco Escondido:Tejano Haven from Rangers and Racists, 1870-1930, Carolina Castil-lo Crimm, Sam Houston State University

Turning Apaches into Spaniards:The Forgotten Indian Reservations of the West TexasFrontier, Matthew Babcock, Southern Methodist University

Apples, Coriander and Watermelons: Spanish Plantways to Texas,William W.Dunmire, University of New Mexico

Thursday, March 3

Session 122:30 P.M.Texas Ballroom A-B

Texas Reconstruction and Beyond, Kelly McMichael presiding, University ofNorth Texas

The Confederate Pension System and Confederate Pensioners in Texas, Mary L.Wilson,University of North Texas

Two Degrees of Rebellion:Amnesty and Texans after the Civil War, Brad Clampitt,University of North Texas

Commentator: Marty Kuhlman,West Texas A&M University

Session 132:30 P.M.Texas Ballroom C-D

The Law Works in Mysterious Ways Its Wonders to Perform, Robert Utley presid-ing, Georgetown

The 1918 Assassination of Judge Cullen Higgins, Bill O’Neal, Panola College

Justice Comes to the Redlands: Ranger Dan Hines and the 1935 Clean Up of SanAugustine, Jody Ginn, Hays County District Attorney’s Office

Texas Rangers Rein in Galveston Gambling, Robert Nieman,Texas Ranger Hall ofFame

Session 142:30 P.M.Metropolitan

The Politics of Education Reform in Texas,A. M.“Bob”Aikin presiding,Commerce

World War II and the Policies of School Reform in Texas, Gene B. Preuss, Universityof Houston–Downtown

The Myth of Local Control in Texas Schools, Eric L. Grover,Texas A&M Univer-sity–Commerce

Commentator: Jack Hightower,Austin

Thursday, March 3


The Texas Literary Scene in the Late Twentieth Century, Steven L. Davis presiding,Texas State University–San Marcos

Whatever Became of J. Frank Dobie? Paul C. Stone, University of Minnesota

Who Took His Place? Mark Busby,Texas State University

Commentator: Don Graham,The University of Texas at Austin

Session 164:00 P.M.Continental

Beyond Chronology: Interpreting Spanish Expedition Diaries with EmergingMethodologies,Adán Benavides presiding,The University of Texas at Austin

Texts and Mentalités: Reading the Mendoza-López Expedition Diaries, Mariah FátimaWade,The University of Texas at Austin

Texts and More Texts: Reading Mendoza-López in Light of Secondary Sources, BrianImhoff,Texas A&M University

Commentator:Adán Benavides,The University of Texas at Austin


You Just Can’t Get Good Help These Days, Gwendolyn McMillan Lawepresiding,A. C. McMillan African American Museum

Louis T.Wigfall Represents the Moore Sisters: Slaves Sue for Wages in Harrison County,Linda S. Hudson, East Texas Baptist University

Martin Dies and the Marshall Housewives Rebellion, Gail Beil, Marshall

Commentator: James M. Smallwood, Oklahoma State University—Emeritus

Thursday, March 3


From Lynching to the Death Penalty in Texas,William Carrigan presiding, RowanUniversity

Paradigm Shifts in the Traditional Understandings of Lynching in America:A TexasExample, Pervis L. Brown, University of Michigan

Folk Stories:The Historical Underpinnings of Contemporary Narratives of the DeathPenalty in Texas, Melynda Janea Price, University of Michigan

Commentator:William Carrigan, Rowan University

Thursday, March 3

Fort Worth Medical College, opening in 1893 as just the third medical school in Texas. It representeda great advancement for both higher education and medical care in Fort Worth. Here it is shownpost-1905 at its second location (Fifth and Calhoun) prior to shutting down in 1918. Courtesy ofRick Selcer.

Session 194:00 P.M.Texas Ballroom A-BJoint Session with the Texas Oral History Association

Government and Community:The Good, the Bad, and the Scary, Lesley W.Brunet presiding, University of Texas M. D.Anderson Cancer Center

Voices from the Earth and Moon:The Community of Moonwalkers, Rebecca Wright,Johnson Space Center

Enlisting the Grassroots to Keep the Community Green: U.S.D.A.Adaptation to Subur-banization and the Master Gardener’s Program, Diane L.Ware, Baylor College ofMedicine

Selling West Texas Water Resources:Water Mining or Water Rustling? Joann Pospisil,Baylor College of Medicine

6:30 P.M.Amon Carter Museum

Presidential Reception honoring Incoming President Robert Wooster, hosted by theAmon Carter MuseumThe Amon Carter Museum is located at 3501 Camp Bowie Boulevard. Buseswill be provided for those who wish to reserve a seat through their advance reg-istration.The buses will begin boarding at 6:00 p.m. There is no charge for thereception, but those wishing to attend must preregister.

Breakfast7:30 A.M.Crystal D

Book Lovers’ Breakfast,Al Lowman, San Marcos, presiding

Breakfast7:30 A.M.Citizens CGraduate Student Breakfast,Watson Arnold,TSHA Board of Directors, presiding

Thursday, March 3

8:00 A.M.Crystal Ballroom ABCSilent auction items will be on display and available for bidding until 6:00 p.m.All bidding will close at 6:00 p.m.

8:00 A.M.Citizens A-B

Spanish Borderlands MeetingAn informal meeting for those persons interested in the history of the SpanishBorderlands and the northern frontier of New Spain.


Teaching the Spanish Borderlands through Maps, David J.Weber presiding,Southern Methodist University

Teaching Borderlands through Service-Learning & GIS Mapping Technology, Carla Mendiola, San Antonio College

Understanding Landscape Dynamics:An Exercise with Maps,William E. Doolittle,The University of Texas at Austin

Mexico Then and Now: Internet Mapping for the Humanities Project, Nora McMillan,San Antonio College


Getting By: Material Culture in Nineteenth-Century Texas, Cynthia Brandi-marte presiding,Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

Gibbs Brothers Mercantile and Early Texas Commerce, Mac Woodward, Sam HoustonMemorial Museum

Made In Texas, Jane Karotkin, Friends of the Governor’s Mansion

Commentator: Cynthia Brandimarte,Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

Friday, March 4


Struggle for Rights: Black Populists and Texas Suffragettes, Gregg Cantrell presid-ing,Texas Christian University

The People’s Court:Texas Populists and Black Jury Service, Robert H. Butts,TexasChristian University

Fighting on the Home Front, James B. Seymour, Cy-Fair College

Commentator: Benjamin H. Johnson, Southern Methodist University

Session 239:00 A.M.Texas Ballroom C-DJoint Session with the Texas Catholic Historical Society

Indigenous Catholic Ritual and Iconography: Material Culture in Mexico andTexas,Anthony Quiroz presiding,Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi

A Grave Affair: Celebrating the Days of the Dead in Oaxaca, Paula Biedenharn,Carey Rote, Barbra Riley, Pamela S. Meyer,Texas A&M University–CorpusChristi

Restored to Glory:The Colonial-Style Retablos and the Restoration of San Fernando Colonial Church of 1783, John C.Watson, Jr.,Texas A&M University–CorpusChristi

Commentator:Anthony Quiroz,Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi

Session 249:00 A.M.Texas Ballroom A-B

Modern Texas GOP: Rhetoric and Activism,Thomas R. Phillips presiding,TexasSupreme Court

Foreshadows of the “Gipper”: Campaign Culture,Anti-Liberalism, and the ChangingNature of Texas Politics in the 1960s, Sean Cunningham, University of Florida

Friday, March 4

William P. Clements, Jr. and the Modern Texas Republican Party, Charles R. Schultz,Texas A&M University

Commentator: Ricky Dobbs,Texas A&M University–Commerce


Music and Words in the Spanish Borderlands, Julianna Barr presiding, Universityof Florida

Borderlands Latino Balladeer Alejandro Escovedo: Social Consciousness, Metaphor, and a Musical Gotcha, Paul Smith, Pittsburg State University

Writing the Border: Eagle Pass, the Rio Grande News & the Discourse of Mexicans,1906-08, Roberto Calderón, University of North Texas

Revising the Captivity Narrative,Andrea Tinnemeyer, Utah State University

Friday, March 4

The Woman’s Wednesday Club (forerunner of the Fort Worth Woman’s Club) in its weekly lunch-eon meeting at the Metropolitan Hotel, January 31, 1918. Then, as now, the ladies dressed elegantlyfor their get-togethers. Courtesy of Dalton Hoffman.


Worth a Thousand Words: Exploring Texas History through Photographs, Shelly Henley Kelly presiding, University of Houston–Clear Lake

Texan Photographers and Photographic Processes of the Nineteenth Century, GerrianneSchaad, University of Texas at San Antonio

Transparent Media Meets Digital Access:A Twenty-First Century Romance, LindaPeterson,The University of Texas at Austin

You Are There: Using Photographs as Primary Resources, Carol Roark, Dallas PublicLibrary


Route 66 across the Texas Panhandle, Joyce Roach presiding, Keller

The Texas Route 66 Historic Site Survey Project, Greg Smith,Texas Historical Commission

Grass Roots Historic Preservation along Route 66 in Texas, Delbert Trew,Alanreed

Eating Up Route 66: Foodways of Motorists Crossing the Texas Panhandle, 1920-1965,T. Lindsay Baker,Tarleton State University


Barbara Jordan: Her Life and Influence, P. J. Pierce presiding,Austin,Texas

Max Sherman, LBJ School of Public AffairsMary Beth Rogers, DallasTom Freeman, Houston

Friday, March 4

Session 2910:30 A.M.MetropolitanJoint Session with the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society

The Legal Rhetoric of Texas Secession,Thomas R. Phillips presiding, South TexasCollege of Law

Judges as Political Orators:The 1860 Secession Debate between Justices O. M. Robertsand James H. Bell,William J. Chriss,Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi

A “Brief Discussion” on “the Transcendent Issue before the Country”: Senator/Chief Justice John Hemphill’s Secession Speech in the U.S. Senate, Jim Paulsen, South TexasCollege of Law

Commentator:Thomas R. Phillips, South Texas College of Law

Luncheon12:00 NOON

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Women in Texas History Luncheon

American Heroines, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison

1:30 P.M.Crystal DBusiness Meeting of the Texas State Historical Association, John Crain presiding


Battling Lynching and Racism Reform Efforts in Texas:What Worked? WhatDidn’t Work? Patricia Bernstein presiding, Bellaire

The Waco Horror:The Town, the Lynching, the Investigator, and the NAACP, PatriciaBernstein, Bellaire

Friday, March 4

Conceptualizing a Negro Renaissance in Texas, 1916-1936,Amilcar Shabazz, Universityof Alabama

What to Wear to a Lynching:The Language of Recreation in Anti-Lynching Commen-taries,Terry Schulte, University of Chicago


The United States–Mexican Borderlands: Politics, Soldiering, and Race on theMid-Nineteenth-Century Frontier, Samuel Watson presiding, United States Mili-tary Academy,West Point

“We Ought To Mingle Races”: Edward Ashley Bowen Phelps, Miscegenation, and the “Glorious Combination,” Ricardo A. Herrera, Mount Union College

Expediency, Humanity, and Revenge:The Foundation of Prisoner of War Policy duringthe Mexican War, Paul J. Springer,Texas A&M University

Men Are Dying Fast: Black Soldiers on the Postwar Mexican Frontier, Richard M.Reid, University of Guelph, Ontario


Whose Revolution Was It,Anyway? James L. Haley presiding,Austin

Concerns of Ordinary People Caught Up in the Runaway Scrape, H.W. Brands,TheUniversity of Texas

Land Speculators and Their Role in Causing the Revolution, Jack Jackson,Austin

Hispanic/Tejano Considerations in the Texas Revolution:Texas in Larger Context ofMexican Civil War, Guadalupe Barrera,Texas Parks and Wildlife

The Unanimous Declaration of What? James L. Haley,Austin

Friday, March 4


Homenaje to Félix D.Almaráz Jr.:Texas Scholar,Teacher, and Gentleman,Arnoldo De León presiding,Angelo State University

Félix D.Almaráz and Hispanic Scholarship in Texas, Gilberto M. Hinojosa, Univer-sity of Incarnate Word

“Once My Student Always My Student”: Don Félix the Professor, David Urbano,Victoria Independent School District

Félix D.Almaráz Jr.:The Man and His Times, Gilbert Cruz, Glendale CommunityCollege & Arizona State University West


The Branch Davidian “Massacre”: Narratives, Roger M. Olien presiding,University of Texas–Permian Basin

The Davidian Seventh-day Adventists: 1929-2005, Kenneth G. C. Newport,Liverpool Hope University College

The Stories of Waco, David Tabb Stewart, Southwestern University

Autobiographies of Three Surviving Branch Davidians:An Initial Report, CatherineWessinger, Loyola University


Texas Routes to the Goldfields, Mike Cox presiding,Austin

North Texas Argonauts, E. I.“Jack”Wiesman, Southlake

The South Texas Argonauts: Cholera and Other Inconveniences, Charles M. Robinson,South Texas Community College

Commentator: Paula Marks, St. Edwards University

Friday, March 4


Manifestations of Jim Crow in Twentieth-Century Texas, John Britt presiding, LeeCollege

Courts, Confrontation, and Compliance: Desegregation in the Crosby Independent SchoolDistrict, Ronald D.Traylor, University of Houston

Recollections:The Beaumont Race Riot of 1943, Pam A. Lippold, Baytown

Commentator: Cary D.Wintz,Texas Southern University


Strategies for Strength:African-Americans in Twentieth-Century Texas, RobertFairbanks presiding, University of Texas at Arlington

Community Pride, the “New Negro,” and Black College Football in Texas in the 1920s,Rob Fink,Texas Tech University

Regression in a Progressive City: Shades of Segregation in Austin,Texas, 1919-1929,Robert H. Duke,Western Michigan University

Fighting for Access: Race Relations in Dallas, 1960 to the Present,W. Marvin Dulaney,College of Charleston


Fort Worth History and Preservation,Watson Arnold presiding, Cook Children’sHospital

John Peter Smith: Pioneer Philanthropist, David Murph,Texas Christian University

Preservation of Historic Architecture in Fort Worth, Jerre Tracey, Historic Fort Worth

Friday, March 4

Commentator: Judy Cohen, Fort Worth


Historia Mínima de la Comunidad Mexicana del Norte de Tejas, Claudia Torres-cano presiding, Dallas

Carlos García de Alba Zepeda, Consulado General de MéxicoAndrea Boardman, Southern Methodist UniversityRodolfo Hernández Guerrero, University of Texas at DallasManuel García y Griego, University of Texas at Arlington

4:00 P.M.Scott/VanzandtWalter Prescott Webb Historical Society Annual Meeting and Chapter Reports,Mary Kelley presiding, Lamar University

Friday, March 4

African American drover Chester Stidham brings the “Fort Worth Herd” of longhorns through theStockyards in 2000, heading west on Exchange Avenue. Courtesy of Shirley Priddy Stidham.

4:00 P.M.Citizens CTSHA Publications WorkshopMeet the editors and discuss potential book and journal manuscript submissions.J. Kent Calder, director of publications, Holly Z.Taylor, editor.

6:00 P.M.Crystal Ballroom ABCSilent auction bidding closes. Final bids must be placed by 6:00 p.m.

Dinner7:00 P.M.Petroleum Club

Robert Wooster presiding, President,Texas State Historical Association

Isaac Watts Burton: Eleven Glorious Years in Texas, 1832 to 1843, John Crain,Summerlee Foundation

Breakfast7:30 A.M.Crystal D

Larry McNeill,Vice President, presiding,Texas State Historical Association

Civil War Photography on the Rio Grande Frontier, Jerry Thompson,Texas A&MInternational University


Sex and Saddle Leather:Another Aspect of Life on the Trail,Al Lowman presiding,San Marcos

Friday, March 4

Saturday, March 5

Public Order and Private Virtue: Some Highlights and Red Lights from San Antonio’sGaudy Past,Terry Thomas,Austin Community College

Riding the Petticoat Trail, Lael Morgan, University of Texas at Arlington

The Law West of the Trinity, or The Saloon and the City, Rick Selcer, Cedar ValleyCollege & Tarrant County College


Crisis in the Lone Star State:The Impact of the Second World War on Texans,Keith J.Volanto presiding, Blinn College

A University at War: How the Second World War Impacted Baylor University, Kevin M.Brady,Texas Christian University

From the Factory to the Front:The Twelfth Armored Division’s Harvester Battalion,Robert P.Wettemann, Jr., McMurry University

Coming In On a Wing and a Prayer: Music of World War II,Archie McDonald,Stephen F.Austin State University


Motivations of Texas Soldiers during the Civil War, Stephen Maizlish presiding,University of Texas at Arlington

Texans Can Never Be Slaves:The War Between Texas Troops and Black Federals, JefferyS. Prushankin, Pennsylvania State University,Abington

To Defend the Sacred Soil of Texas:Tom Green and the Texas Cavalry in the Red RiverCampaign, Gary D. Joiner, Louisiana State University at Shreveport

Doing the Only Honorable Thing: Motivation for Service in Hood’s Texas Brigade,Susannah U. Bruce, Sam Houston State University

Saturday, March 5


Conservation History—Video,Andrew Sansom presiding,Texas State University

Over the River and through the Woods:A Trip through the Conservation History ofTexas,Andrew Sansom,Texas State University

David Todd, Conservation History Association of Texas


History in Action:The College Classroom in 2005, Stephen S. Cure presiding,Texas State Historical Association

The Songs of a Troubled Soul: Making It in Hell,Alisa M.William, Lee College

The Menil Collection: Originality of Art, Christine Kowrach, University of Hous-ton–Downtown

Viva Gonzales:A Personal Encounter with the Mexican Revolution, John Britt, LeeCollege


The Newspaper Reporter’s View of Texas History, David Dary presiding, Norman,Oklahoma

Jim Harris, Hobbs, New Mexico;Art Chapman, Fort Worth Star Telegram; RossMcSwain, San Angelo Standard-Times;Amy Dorsett, San Antonio Express-News;Henry Wolff, Jr., Victoria Advocate; Billy Porterfield, formerly of Austin American-Statesman; Bill Walraven, Corpus Christi Caller-Times (Retired)

Saturday, March 5


There’s Coal in Them Thar’ Hills: Mining in Twentieth-Century Texas, LeAnnaS. Biles presiding,W. K. Gordon Center

Thurber,Texas: Geologic Anomaly, Mineral Riches, Stephen S. Hart, Colorado Schoolof Mines

Beyond Thurber:W. K. Gordon’s Search for Coal in Trans-Pecos Texas, Richard Fran-caviglia, University of Texas at Arlington

From Smokestacks to Oil Derricks:The Social Impact of Industrialization in Bridgeport,Texas, 1900-1920, Lisa Berry, University of Texas at Arlington

Saturday, March 5

When it opened in 1962, with its aerialtram, riverboat ride, and frontier section,Six Flags over Texas was a Lone-Star-State version of Disneyland. In a fewyears the Six Flags franchise wouldhave its own national identity. Courtesyof Barbara Logan.


Culture, Politics, & Gender:The New Historians of the Border & Laredo, Diana G. Rodriguez presiding, Lewisville

Journeying through Laredo:A Century of Mexican Travelers, 1830-1930,Armando Villarreal y Talamantes, University of Texas at Arlington

Two Flags Entwined:Transborder Activists and the Politics of Race, Ethnicity, Class, andGender in South Texas, 1900–1950, Gabriela González, University of Texas at SanAntonio

Tracking Tequileros:The Bloody Origins of a Border Ballad, George T. Díaz, SouthernMethodist University


Presentation of the Annual C. M. Caldwell Memorial Awards and General Business Meeting of the Walter Prescott Webb Historical Society, Clifton Caldwellpresiding,Albany


Phi Alpha Theta, Richard B. McCaslin presiding, University of North Texas

Panther City:The Unsung Hero’s of the Fort Worth Volunteer Fire Department 1870-1890, Jeff R.Tucker,Texas Christian University

The Fall of Santa Fe, Michael Fairbanks, Midwestern State University

Commentator: Mark Barringer, Stephen F.Austin State University

Saturday, March 5

1:00 P.M.

TOUR OF HISTORIC THURBER AND THE W. K. GORDON CENTER FOR

INDUSTRIAL HISTORY OF TEXAS.

Join historians Harwood Hinton, professor emeritus at Arizona University, and T. LindsayBaker, associate professor at Tarleton State University and director of the W. K. GordonCenter for the Industrial History of Texas, for a tour of the former industrial town Thurberand the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas.The tour will focus on theindustrial history of what was once the most important mine site in Texas and one of thefirst towns in the state to be totally electrified and unionized.The Gordon Center is dedi-cated to the preservation of the history of Thurber and industrial development in Texas andthe American Southwest. For more information about Thurber and the Gordon Center,visit the following web site: http://www.tarleton.edu/~gordoncenter/index.html

Buses will leave the hotel at 1:00 P.M. Dinner will be served at the Smokestack Restau-rant located in the Mercantile historic building and will return to the hotel by 7:00 P.M.

Saturday, March 5

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Cure, Stephen S., 44Dary, David, 45Davis, Kenneth W., 5Davis, Steve, 15De León,Arnoldo, 33Díaz, George T., 47Dobbs, Ricky, 24Doolittle,William E., 20Dorsett,Amy, 45Duke, Robert H., 37Dulaney,W. Marvin, 37Dunmire,William W., 10Ely, Glen Sample, 1Fairbanks, Michael, 49Fairbanks, Robert, 37Fehler, Mary Lynn, 8Feit, Rachel, 7Finfrock, David, 5Fink, Rob, 37Francaviglia, Richard, 46Freeman,Tom, 28García de Alba Zepeda, Carlos, 39García y Griego, Manuel, 39Ginn, Jody, 13González, Gabriela, 47Graham, Don, 15Grear, Charles David, 1Grover, Eric L., 14Guerrero, Rodolfo Hernández, 39Haley, James L., 32Harris, Jim, 45Hart, Stephen S., 46Hendrickson, Ken, 5Herrera, Ricardo A., 31Hightower, Jack, 14Hinojosa, Gilberto M., 33Howard, Margaret, 7Hudson, Linda S., 17Hutchison, Kay Bailey, *Imhoff, Brian, 16Jackson, Jack, 32Johnson, Benjamin H., 22Joiner, Gary D., 42Kahl, Carlyn E., 8Karotkin, Jane, 21Kelly, Shelly Henley, 26Kelley, Mary *

ParticipantsNumber indicates session, * luncheon or dinner session

Kenmotsu, Nancy, 7Koontz, Christopher, 8Kowrach, Christine, 44Kuhlman, Marty, 12Lawe, Gwendolyn McMillan, 17Lee, James Ward, *Lefever,Alan, 4Lippold, Pam A., 36Lowman,Al, 40Mahoney, Sylvia Gann, 9Maizlish, Stephen, 42Marks, Paula, 35McCaslin, Richard B., 49McDonald,Archie, 41McGraw,Al, 7McMichael, Kelly, 12McMillan, Nora, 20McSwain, Ross, 45Mendiola, Carla, 20Meyer, Pamela S., 23Morgan, Lael, 40Murph, David, 38Newport, Kenneth G. C., 34Nielsen, Jennifer E., 9Nieman, Robert, 13Olien, Roger M., 34O’Neal, Bill, 13O’Neill, Larry, 9Paulsen, Jim, 29Peterson, Linda, 26Phillips,Thomas R., 24, 29Pierce, P. J., 28Porterfield, Billy, 45Pospisil, Jo Ann, 19Preuss, Gene B., 14Price, Melynda Janea, 18Pruitt, Francelle, 6Prushankin, Jeffery S., 42Quiroz,Anthony, 23Reid, Richard M., 31Riley, Barbra, 23Riley, Mitzi, 9Roach, Joyce, 27Roark, Carol, 26Robinson, Charles M., 35Rodriguez, Diana G., 47Rogers, Mary Beth, 28Rote, Carey, 23

Sansom,Andrew, 43Schaad, Gerrianne, 26Schulte,Terry, 30Schultz, Charles R., 24Selcer, Rick, 40Seymour, James B., 22Shabazz,Amilcar, 30Sherman, Max, 28Skinner,Alan, 3Smallwood, James M., 17Smith, Greg, 27Smith, Paul, 25Springer, Paul J., 31Stewart, David Tabb, 34Stone, Paul C., 15Stookey, Stephen M., 4Thomas,Terry, 40Thompson, Jerry, 50Tinnemeyer,Andrea, 25Todd, David, 43Torrescano, Claudia ,39Tracey, Jerre, 38Traylor, Ronald D., 36Trew, Delbert, 27Tucker, Jeff R., 61Urbano, David, 33Utley, Robert, 13Villarreal y Talamantes,Armando, 47Volanto, Keith J.,2, 41Walraven, Bill, 45Ware, Diane L., 19Watson, Jr., John C., 23Watson, Samuel, 31Weber, David J., 20Weller, Eddie, 1Wessinger, Catherine 34Wettemann, Jr., Robert P., 41Wheat, Pam, 3Wiesman, E.I., 35William,Alisa, 44Wilson, Mary L., 12Wintz, Cary D., 36Wintz, Cary D., 36Wolff, Jr., Henry 45Woodward, Mac 21Woodworth, Steven E., 1Wooster, Robert, ,*Wright, Rebecca 19

Air Travel

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Car Rental

Avis Rent-A-Car provides special rates with unlimited mileage one week before toone week after the annual meeting. To reserve a car, contact Avis at 1-800-331-1600and use your Avis Worldwide Discount (AWD) number D087995. Or reserve onlineat http://www.avis.com/AvisWeb/html/meetings/go.html?3057 and have yourAWD number automatically included in your reservation.

Shared Van Service

SuperShuttle provides shared-ride van service between Dallas/Fort Worth Interna-tional Airport or Dallas Love Field Airport and the Radisson Plaza Hotel. The spe-cial rate is $13 per person per direction from Dallas/Fort Worth and $26 per personper direction from Dallas Love Field. To make a reservation, call 1-800-BLUEVANor go to www.supershuttle.com and use the online discount code hukbs to receivean additional $2.00 discount for a roundtrip reservation. After arriving at DFW,please collect your baggage and dial 006 on a white courtesy phone to notify Super-Shuttle of your baggage claim and terminal location. Although reservations are notrequired for DFW, Dallas Love Field is not as fully serviced as DFW, so reservationsare required and wait times may be longer.

THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICALASSOCIATION

1897—The Oldest Learned Society in Texas—1897

Jenkins Garrett, Honorary Life Board MemberJohn Crain, Honorary Life Board Member

OFFICERS

John W. Crain PresidentRobert A. Wooster First Vice-PresidentLarry McNeill Second Vice-PresidentJo Ann Stiles Secretary

INTERIM DIRECTOR

J. C. Martin

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

(In addition to the officers named above)

George N. Green Former PresidentShirley W. Caldwell Former PresidentJanice Woods Windle (2005)John C. Britt (2005)Fred W. Rathjen (2005)Jane Clements Monday (2006)Frances Vick (2006)José Roberto Juárez (2006)Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson (2007)James C. Crain (2007)Paul H. Carlson (2007)Watson C.Arnold, M.D. (2007)

2005 Program CommitteeAl Lowman (chair), Linda Hudson,Adán Benavides Jr., Cynthia Brandimarte,Ramona Houston,Ann Bailey, Ricky Dobbs, Donald R.Walker, James Haley,Gerald Saxon, Douglas Harmon, Jean Stuntz

Texas State Historical AssociationUniversity of Texas at Austin1 University Station D0901Austin,Texas 78712-0332

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PA I DAustin,Texas

Permit No. 855

THE TEXAS STATE HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION

University of Texas at Austin • Texas State Historical Association1 University Station D0901 • Austin, Texas 78712

800/687-8132 • 512/471-1525 • fax: 512/471-1551Orders may also be placed through Texas A&M University Press

Spring 2005 BooksS. Seymour Thomas, 1868–1956: A Texas Genius

andTejano Epic: Essays in Honor of Félix D. Almaráz, Jr.

In Seymour Thomas, author Cecilia Steinfeldt tellsthe story of a young boy from Texas who grew up to

achieve artistic fame as far away as Europe.Thomas, who was a leading international artist in

his day, studied with Theodore Gentilz in San Anto-nio as a teenager, and later at the Art Students

League in New York and at the Académie Julian inParis. This beautifully illustrated biography is a lov-ing work by an eminent art historian. It draws heav-

ily from family letters and diaries and is illustratedwith 262 reproductions of Thomas’s paintings, fam-ily photographs, and sketchbook drawings. Seymour

Thomas is published by the TSHA for the WitteMuseum, and will sell for $49.95.

Tejano Epic is a tribute to Félix D. Almaráz Jr. of theUniversity of Texas at San Antonio and a longtimemember of the TSHA. Over the course of a careerthat spans more than four decades, don Félix hasstamped his name on Texas history as an author ofaward-winning books and essays and as the recipientof many honors, many of them from historical andlearned societies abroad. Tejano Epic was compiled inrecognition of Félix’s outstanding service in behalf ofTexas history and, in particular, the state’s Hispanicpast. All the contributors are well-known scholars inTejano history, and the essays are excellent for class-room use. The book will sell for $19.95.

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