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Shipwrecked in Paradise Cleopatra’s Barge in Hawai‘i Paul F. Johnston
Shipwrecked in Paradise Cleopatra’s Barge in Hawai‘i
P A U L F. J O H N S T O N
The first oceangoing yacht ever built in America, Cleopatra’s Barge, endured many incarnations over her eight-year life, from Mediterranean pleasure cruiser to a Hawaiian king’s personal yacht. The famed ship, at times also a Christian missionary transport, pirate ship, getaway vehicle, instrument of diplomacy, and racing yacht, wrecked on a reef in Hanalei Bay on April 6, 1824. Obtaining the first underwater archaeological permits ever issued by the state of Hawai‘i, a team of divers from the Smithsonian Institution located, surveyed, and excavated the wrecked ship from 1995 to 2000. The 1,250 lots of artifacts from the shipwreck represent the only known material culture from the reign of King Kamehameha II (Liholiho), shedding light on the littledocumented transitional period from Old Hawai‘i to foreign influence and culture. Although Liholiho ruled Hawai‘i for only a few short years, his abolition of taboos and admission of the Boston Christian missionaries into his kingdom planted the seeds for profound changes in Hawaiian culture. Richly illustrated, Shipwrecked in Paradise tells the story of the ship’s life in Hawai‘i, from her 1820 sale to Liholiho to her discovery and excavation. Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series
PAUL F. JOHNSTON is curator of Maritime History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History and is secretary for the Council of American Maritime Museums.
978-1-62349-283-0 hardcover $39.95 978-1-62349-284-7 ebook 81�2x11. 256 pp. 210 color, 4 b&w photos. 3 maps. 27 line drawings. Bib. Index. Nautical Archaeology. American History. Western History. October
RELATED INTEREST The Ship That Held Up Wall Street Warren C. Riess with Sheli O. Smith 978-1-62349-188-8 hardcover $29.00 978-1-62349-226-7 ebook
From a Watery Grave The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle's Shipwreck, La Belle James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner 978-1-58544-347-5 cloth $39.95 978-1-58544-431-1 paper $24.95 978-1-60344-869-7 ebook
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The untold story of the South's secret weapons program . . .
Confederate Saboteurs
Building the Hunley and Other Secret Weapons of the Civil War Mark K. Ragan
Facing an insurmountable deficit in resources compared to the Union navy, the Confederacy resorted to unorthodox forms of warfare to combat enemy forces.
Confederate Saboteurs
Building the Hunley and Other Secret Weapons of the Civil War Mark K.Ragan
Perhaps the most energetic and effective torpedo corps and secret service company organized during the American Civil War, the Singer Secret Service Corps, led by Texan inventor and entrepreneur Edgar Collins Singer, developed and deployed submarines, underwater weaponry, and explosive devices. The group’s main government-financed activity, which eventually led to other destructive inventions such as the Hunley submarine and behind-enemy-line railroad sabotage, was the manufacture and deployment of an underwater contact mine. During the two years the Singer group operated, several Union gunboats, troop transports, supply trains, and even the famous ironclad monitor Tecumseh fell prey to its inventions. In Confederate Saboteurs: Building the Hunley and Other Secret Weapons of the Civil War, submarine expert and nautical historian Mark K. Ragan presents the untold story of the Singer corps. Poring through previously unpublished archival documents, Ragan also examines the complex personalities and relationships behind the Confederacy’s use of torpedoes and submarines. Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series
MARK K. RAGAN served as project historian during the recovery and excavation of the history-making Civil War submarine, the Hunley, as well as consultant for the 1999 Turner Network Television movie about the vessel. He lives in Edgewater, Maryland.
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. . . a comprehensive look at the Singer Corps and their activities. It provides a new context for the submarines and torpedoes . . . . Ragan adds a new perspective to Texas’ role in the Confederacy.”—James P. Delgado, author of Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine: Iron, Guns, and Pearls
978-1-62349-278-6 cloth $35.00 978-1-62349-279-3 ebook 6x9. 398 pp. 51 b&w photos. Bib. Index. Civil War. Military History. Nautical Archaeology. September
RELATED INTEREST USS Monitor A Historic Ship Completes Its Final Voyage John D. Broadwater 978-1-60344-473-6 cloth $39.95 978-1-60344-474-3 paper $24.95 978-1-60344-749-2 ebook Misadventures of a Civil War Submarine Iron, Guns, and Pearls James P. Delgado 978-1-60344-472-9 cloth $34.95 978-1-60344-381-4 ebook
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The Archaeology of Engagement Conflict and Revolution in the United States
Edited by Dana L. Pertermann and Holly K. Norton When a historic battlefield site is discovered and studied, the focus is often on the “hardware”: remnants of weaponry, ammunition, supplies, and equipment that archaeologists carefully unearth, analyze, conserve, and frequently place on display in museums.
The Archaeolo“ of Engagement Conflict and Revolution in the United States edited by da na l. perterma n n a n d holly kathryn n orton
But what about the “software”? What can archaeology teach us about the humans involved in the conflict: their social mores and cultural assumptions; their use and understanding of power? In The Archaeology of Engagement: Conflict and Revolution in the United States, Dana L. Pertermann and Holly K. Norton have assembled a collection of studies that includes sites of conflicts between groups of widely divergent cultures, such as Robert E. Lee's mid-1850s campaign along the Concho River and the battles of the River Raisin during the War of 1812. Notably, the second half of the book applies the editors’ principles of conflict event theory to the San Jacinto Battlefield in Texas, forming a case study of one of America's most storied—and heavily trafficked—battle sites.
978-1-62349-294-6 hardcover $50.00s 978-1-62349-295-3 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 11 color, 1 b&w photos. 31 maps. 8 line art. 14 figs. 2 tables. Bib. Index. Archaeology. Texas Military History. November
RELATED INTEREST DANA L. PERTERMANN is associate professor of anthropology and geology at Western Wyoming Community College in Rock Springs. HOLLY K. NORTON is a compliance manager for the Colorado Office of Archaeology and Historic Preservation in Denver.
The Historical Archaeology of Military Sites Method and Topic Edited by Clarence R. Geier, Lawrence E. Babits, and Douglas D. Scott, et. al. 978-1-60344-207-7 hardcover $50.00s 978-1-60344-310-4 ebook Lone Star Stalag German Prisoners of War at Camp Hearne Michael R. Waters 978-1-58544-545-5 paper $22.95 978-1-60344-553-5 ebook
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The history of an iconic windmill manufacturer. . .
Still Turning
A History of Aermotor Windmills
Christopher C. Gillis Foreword by T. Lindsay Baker
STILL TURNING A HISTORY OF AERMOTOR WINDMILLS
The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation’s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines. The company’s imprint on rural America, particularly across the West, is still visible today in the tens of thousands of its windmills that bring water to the earth’s surface. Still Turning is the first book to explore the rise of the American windmill through the experience of this important company. CHRISTOPHER C. GILLIS
Aermotor founder La Verne Noyes and engineer Thomas Perry developed and perfected the all-metal wind pump in the 1880s. Within a decade, the “mathematical windmill” began to dominate the market. Aermotor continued to expand and innovate. The ruggedness and simplicity of the American mechanical windmill has allowed it to outlast many newer water-pumping technologies over the years with minimal maintenance and oversight. Christopher C. Gillis traces this story and more, from the early days of the company to Aermotor’s present-day relevance as it continues to produce its iconic windmills. Still Turning is a significant contribution not only to the history of wind power but also to the history of American enterprise. Number Twenty-seven: Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities
CHRISTOPHER C. GILLIS is the editor of American Shipper and The Windmiller’s Gazette. He lives in Frederick, Maryland.
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Christopher Gillis has written the first-ever full history of the Aermotor windmill, one of the bestknown visual symbols of the American West. Any readers interested in the region will find the book to be a ‘must read’ choice.”—T. Lindsay Baker, author, A Field Guide to American Windmills
Foreword by T. Lindsay Baker
978-1-62349-335-6 cloth $35.00 978-1-62349-336-3 ebook 81�2x11. 256 pp. 120 b&w photos. Bib. Index. Business History. Energy. Western History. October
RELATED INTEREST Electric City General Electric in Schenectady Julia Kirk Blackwelder 978-1-62349-186-4 cloth $35.00s 978-1-62349-221-2 ebook
Oilfield Revolutionary The Career of Everette Lee DeGolyer Houston Faust Mount II 978-1-62349-182-6 cloth $32.95 978-1-62349-224-3 ebook
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The Untold Story of the Lower Colorado River Authority John Williams Foreword by Andrew Sansom
Arguably, no other institution has transformed the heart of Texas like the Lower Colorado River Authority. Born in the Great Depression of the 1930s, LCRA built a chain of dams and brought predictability to the cycles of extreme droughts and floods that had long plagued Austin and other communities. It also brought hydroelectric power—and with that, modern-day civilization—to the hard-scrabble regions of Central and South Texas. With those achievements, and the support of powerful political leaders like Lyndon Johnson, LCRA for years was touted as one of the state’s major success stories. But LCRA has never been a stranger to controversy, and while it continues to provide much of the energy and water that fuels the economic engine of Austin and beyond, most people know very little about LCRA . In this book, readers will learn about the forces of nature and politics that combined to create LCRA ; the colorful personalities who operated, supported, or fought with the agency; its spectacular successes, periodic blunders, and occasional failures; and its evolution into one of the largest public power organizations in Texas. River Books, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
JOHN WILLIAMS, of Austin, is a writer, editor, and historian whose career with LCRA spanned nearly four decades.
978-1-62349-341-7 cloth $36.00 978-1-62349-346-2 ebook 81�2x11. 320 pp. 83 color, 155 b&w illus. 2 line art. 4 maps. Bib. Index. Water. Rivers. Texas Urban History. December
RELATED INTEREST River of Contrasts The Texas Colorado Margie Crisp 978-1-60344-466-8 flexbound $29.95 978-1-60344-747-8 ebook
Flash Floods in Texas Jonathan Burnett 978-1-58544-590-5 hardcover $35.00 978-1-60344-393-7 ebook
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“Perhaps the way one feels about fog, upon awakening to it, is that the day ahead is a present; that a gift awaits, one which in due time will be revealed.”—from the essay by Rick Bass
Fog at Hillingdon
David K. Langford Introduction by Rick Bass Foreword by Andrew Sansom While fog does not come easily or frequently to Central Texas, when it does, it inspires moments of quiet and reflection. David K. Langford captures those moments here in stirring images of the comings and goings of fog on Hillingdon Ranch, family land that has benefited from the stewardship of six generations. These photographs in turn inspired an essay by writer Rick Bass that takes him back to his own memories of fog—in the Texas Hill Country and elsewhere. Fog at Hillingdon includes a personal note by Langford on his techniques and camera equipment. Apt historic or contemporary quotations selected by Myrna Langford accompany many of the photographs and reflect the moods and sentiments fog often evokes. Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. Books on Conservation Leadership, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
DAVID K. LANGFORD owns and operates Western Photography Company. He is the coauthor of Hillingdon Ranch: Four Seasons, Six Generation and lives on his family ranch near Comfort, Texas.
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As I began enumerating them, I realized that there are at least six types of fog. I hope David Langford never encounters Los Angeles smog or Arctic sea smoke on Hillingdon Ranch. His photographs are beautiful examples of this often fleeting visual wonder in nature. What a joy it must have been to take these pictures.”—Gerald R. North, Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Sciences and Oceanography, Texas A&M University
978-1-62349-332-5 cloth $35.00 978-1-62349-345-5 ebook 10x101�2. 128 pp. 118 color photos. Bib. Photography. Nature Writing. Nature Photography. October
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RELATED INTEREST Hillingdon Ranch Four Seasons, Six Generations David K. Langford and Lorie Woodward Cantu 978-1-62349-012-6 cloth $35.00 978-1-62349-024-9 ebook The Deer Pasture Rick Bass Illustrations by Elizabeth Hughes 978-0-89096-228-2 cloth $19.95
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Pedaling the Sacrifice Zone
Teaching, Writing, and Living above the Marcellus Shale Jimmy Guignard Photographs by Steven Rubin Foreword by M. Jimmie Killingsworth
Before the dust settles, as many as 100,000 natural gas wells may be drilled into the Marcellus Shale on more than 20,000 well pads in Pennsylvania. Living on seven acres above the shale, Jimmy Guignard tells his story as an English professor grappling with the meaning of place and the power of words as he watches the rural landscape his family calls home be transformed into an industrial sacrifice zone. From the vantage point of an avid and experienced cyclist, Guignard tracks the takeover, chalking up thousands of miles pedaling through Tioga and surrounding counties. Encountering increased truck traďŹƒc on the roads, crossing pipeline construction on the trails, and passing a growing number of flaring gas wells, the author’s rides begin to shape his academic work in ways he found surprising and sobering. Juggling his roles as disinterested professor, anxious father and citizen, and reluctant activist, he reveals how the rhetoric of industry, politicians, and locals reshaped his understanding of teaching and his faith in the force of language. The Seventh Generation: Survival, Sustainability, Sustenance in a New Nature A Wardlaw Book
JIMMY GUIGNARD is associate professor at Mansfield University, Pennsylvania, where he teaches students to write and ride mountain bikes. He blogs at https://pipelineroad7.wordpress.com/. The Seventh Generation Survival, Sustainability, Sustenance in a New Nature According to a Native American concept of sustainability, everyone alive is the seventh generation. All decisions should respect the memory of the previous three generations and account for the well being of the next three. We stand in the middle, thinking of how our actions and attitudes can both reflect ancestral values and shape our legacy for the future. In an age of global climate change, habitat loss, urbanization, and energy crises, Texas A&M University Press and general editor M. Jimmie Killingsworth invite authors from a variety of disciplines to set aside their narrow specializations and speak to a wide audience in their own voices on what it means to make a lasting and positive contribution in the new nature.
978-1-62349-351-6 paper $24.95 978-1-62349-352-3 ebook 5x8. 228 pp. 10 b&w photos. 3 maps. Line art. Bib. Index. Literary Nonfiction. Energy. Memoir. Nature. October
RELATED INTEREST Facing It Epiphany and Apocalypse in the New Nature M. Jimmie Killingsworth 978-1-62349-145-1 paper with flaps $30.00 978-1-62349-177-2 ebook
River Music An Atchafalaya Story Ann McCutchan With CD, Atchafalaya Soundscapes, by Earl Robicheaux 978-1-60344-289-3 cloth $24.95 978-1-60344-322-7 ebook
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Vertical Reefs
Life on Oil and Gas Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico Mary Katherine Wicksten
On a clear night, the bright lights of oil platforms sparkle in the Gulf of Mexico. Thousands of these platforms off the coasts of Texas and Louisiana play an important role in the lives of underwater species who find food, shelter, and permanent homes in the ecosystem created by these big, three-dimensional structures standing on the flat sea floor. They may also play lesserknown roles “above the waves” in the migration of birds and even insects. Tapping into years of diving experience, marine biologist Mary Wicksten looks at the inhabitants and visitors of these “vertical reefs”, explaining how life arrives on the platforms, what species settle and stay (like barnacles), and which ones visit then disappear (like silky sharks). She looks at how different life forms take up occupancy from the surface downward, and she shows how these communities vary on nearshore and deepwater platforms. While most people may never experience the undersea world of oil platforms, this book will bring a better understanding of it to any teacher, beachgoer, angler, diver, or coastal resident who ever wondered what was going on beneath those far-off lights. Number Forty-seven: Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M UniversityCorpus Christi
MARY KATHERINE WICKSTEN is a professor of biology at Texas A&M University, where she specializes in the behavior, zoogeography, and systematics of shrimps and crabs.
Vertical reefs Life on Oil and Gas Platforms in the Gulf of Mexico
Mary Katherine WicKsten
978-1-62349-311-0 flexbound $29.95 978-1-62349-312-7 ebook 7x10. 160 pp. 112 color photos. 3 maps. 2 figs. Bib. Index. Gulf of Mexico. Marine Science. Recreation. October
RELATED INTEREST Texas Coral Reefs Jesse Cancelmo 978-1-58544-633-9 cloth $24.95 978-1-60344-276-3 ebook
A Worldwide Travel Guide to Sea Turtles Wallace J. Nichols, Brad Nahill, and Melissa Gaskill 978-1-62349-161-1 flexbound $25.00 978-1-62349-174-1 ebook
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n o w ava i l a b l e i n n e w t e x a s a & m u n i v e r s i t y p r e s s e d i t i o n s
A Texas Suffragist
Citizens at Last
Edited by Janet G. Humphrey
General Editor, Ellen C. Temple Edited by Ruthe Winegarten and Judith N. McArthur Foreword by Anne Firor Scott
Diaries and Writings of Jane Y. McCallum A leader in the successful fight for woman suffrage in Texas, Jane Yelvington McCallum (1878–1957) left an absorbing written record of an exceptionally productive life. McCallum was a wife, mother, and clubwoman; unlike most, she was also a suffrage leader, lobbyist, journalist, publicist, Democratic Party worker, and secretary of state. A Texas Suffragist brings to print two of Jane McCallum’s most important unpublished diaries, which cover the period from October 1916 through December 1919. They chronicle the struggle of Texas suffragists to win the vote from the viewpoint of one of the movement’s most active participants, and provide insight into a range of progressive causes—including prohibition, honest government, and the independence and integrity of the University of Texas—that women reformers supported in the World War I era. Editor Janet G. Humphrey has supplemented McCallum’s diaries with a selection of her letters, autobiographical fragments, and sketches that help round out the story of her personal and public life through 1919. Women in Texas History Series
JANET G. HUMPHREY is consulting editor of Black Texas Women: A Sourcebook and Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph. She lives in Annandale, Virginia. 978-1-62349-366-0 paper $22.95s 978-1-62349-367-7 ebook 6x9. 178 pp. Women’s Studies. Texas History. November
The Woman Suffrage Movement in Texas
“There is so much to be learned from the documents collected here. . . . Where better than in this record to find the inspiration to achieve another high point of women’s political history?”—from the foreword by Anne Firor Scott Citizens at Last is an essential resource for anyone interested in the history of the suffrage movement in Texas. Richly illustrated and featuring over thirty primary documents, it reveals what it took to win the vote. Women in Texas History Series
RUTHE WINEGARTEN was an Austin historian and the author of numerous books, including Texas Women. JUDITH N. MCARTHUR is the coauthor of Texas through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience. 978-1-62349-365-3 paper $24.95s 978-1-62349-368-4 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. Index. Women’s Studies. Texas History. October
Introducing the Ellen C. Temple Classics of Texas Women’s History Texas A&M University Press proudly presents a new collection of classic books in collaboration with Ellen C. Temple, a lifelong advocate for libraries, the humanities, and Texas women’s history. Now available in print again, the Ellen C. Temple Classics of Texas Women’s History will showcase the formative books of the field.
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The woman behind the iconic Tejas Warrior sculpture. . .
A L L I E V ICTOR I A T E N NA N T
Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas Light Townsend Cummins
At Fair Park in Dallas, a sculpture of a Native American figure, bronze with gilded gold leaf, strains a bow before sending an arrow into flight. Tejas Warrior has welcomed thousands of visitors since the Texas Centennial Exposition opened in the 1930s. The iconic piece is instantly recognizable, yet few people know about its creator: Allie Victoria Tennant, one of a notable group of Texas artists who actively advanced regionalist art in the decades before World War II. Light Townsend Cummins follows Tennant’s public career from the 1920s to the 1960s, both as an artist and as a culture-bearer, as she advanced cultural endeavors, including the arts. A true pathfinder, she helped to create and nurture art institutions that still exist today, most especially the Dallas Museum of Art, on whose board of trustees she sat for almost thirty years. Tennant also worked on behalf of other civic institutions, including the public schools, art academies, and the State Fair of Texas, where she helped create the Women’s Building. Allie Victoria Tennant and the Visual Arts in Dallas sheds new light on an often overlooked artist. Women in Texas History Series
LIGHT TOWNSEND CUMMINS is the Guy M. Bryan Jr. Professor of American History at Austin College in Sherman, Texas. He is the author or editor of a dozen books, including Emily Austin of Texas, 1795–1851. From 2009 to 2012, he served as the State Historian of Texas.
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. . . an important study of the Dallas art scene over seven decades, placing Tennant’s art and aesthetic firmly as a Texas Regionalist and distinguishing her among her peers, and other important artists and culture bearers.”—Francine Carraro, Director of Wichita Falls Museum of Art at Midwestern State University
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VISUAL ARTS IN DALL AS Light Townsend Cummins •••
978-1-62349-328-8 cloth $35.00 978-1-62349-329-5 ebook 6x9. 384 pp. 9 color , 15 b&w photos. Bib. Index. Sculpture. Texas History. Women's Studies. October
Announcing a new series Women in Texas History Sponsored by the Ruthe Winegarten Memorial Foundation for Texas Women’s History and in collaboration with Texas A&M University Press, this new series showcases books for both general readers and scholars focusing on the history of women in Texas. Under the general editorship of Nancy Baker Jones and Cynthia J. Beeman, volumes in the series will explore a broad range of biographies, eras, and events, as well as aspects of race, class, and culture.
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In 1943, an old Mexican land grant gave its name to a national wildlife refuge.
Border Sanctuary
The Conservation Legacy of the Santa Ana Land Grant M.J. Morgan Foreword by Andrew Sansom
The Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge lies on the northern bank of the Rio Grande in South Texas, about seventy miles upriver from the Gulf of Mexico. In Border Sanctuary, M.J. Morgan uncovers how 2,000 acres of rare subtropical riparian forest came to be preserved in a region otherwise dramatically altered by human habitation. The story she tells begins and ends with the efforts of the Rio Grande Nature Club to protect one of the last remaining stopovers for birds migrating north from Central and South America. In between, she reconstructs a hundred-year human and environmental history of the original “two square leagues” of the Santa Ana land grant and of the Mexican and Tejano families who lived, worked, transformed, and ultimately helped save this forest on the river’s edge. As border issues continue to present serious challenges for Texas and the nation, it is especially important to be reminded of the deep connection between the region’s human and natural history from the long perspective Morgan provides here. Kathie and Ed Cox Jr. Books on Conservation Leadership, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
M.J. MORGAN is the research director of the Chapman Center for Rural Studies at Kansas State University and the author of Land of Big Rivers: French and Indian Illinois, 1699–1778.
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Now that I have read Border Sanctuary: The Conservation Legacy of the Santa Ana Land Grant, I am eager to visit the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge to see if I can recognize the plants and the birds that Morgan describes.”—Beatriz de la Garza, author, From the Republic of the Rio Grande
978-1-62349-320-2 cloth $32.00 978-1-62349-324-0 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 12 color, 11 b&w photos. 7 line art. 6 maps. Bib. Index. Environmental History. Conservation. Borderlands Studies. September
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Going beyond borders and boundaries . . .
Transnational Indians in the North American West
Edited by Clarissa Confer, Andrae Marak, and Laura Tuennerman Foreword by Sterling Evans This collection of eleven original essays goes beyond traditional, border-driven studies to place the histories of Native Americans, indigenous peoples, and First Nation peoples in a larger context than merely that of the dominant nation. As Transnational Indians in the North American West shows, transnationalism can be expressed in various ways. To some it can be based on dependency, so that the history of the indigenous people of the American Southwest can only be understood in the larger context of Mexico and Central America. Others focus on the importance of movement between Indian and non-Indian worlds as Indians left their (reserved) lands to work, hunt, fish, gather, pursue legal cases, or seek out education, to name but a few examples. Conversely, even natives who remained on reserved lands were nonetheless transnational inasmuch as the reserves did not fully “belong” to them but were administered by a nation-state. Boundaries that scholars once viewed as impermeable, it turns out, can be quite porous. This book stands to be an important contribution to the scholarship that is increasingly breaking free of old boundaries. Connecting the Greater West Series
CLARISSA CONFER is associate professor of history at California University of Pennsylvania and the author of Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America. ANDRAE MARAK is chair of humanities and social sciences and professor of history and political science at Governors State University, University Park, Illinois, and the author of From Many, One: Indians, Peasants, Borders, and Education in Callista, Mexico, 1924–1935. LAURA TUENNERMAN is professor of history at California University of Pennsylvania and the coauthor of At the Border of Empires: The Tohono O'odham, Gender, and Assimilation, 1880–1934.
Transnational Indians in the North American West Edited by Clarissa Confer, Andrae Marak, and Laura Tuennerman
978-1-62349-326-4 cloth $45.00s 978-1-62349-327-1 ebook 6x9. 288 pp. 12 b&w figures. 7 maps. 4 tables. Bib. Index. Borderlands Studies. Native American Studies. Ethnic Studies. Western History. November
RELATED INTEREST Power and Control in the Imperial Valley Nature, Agribusiness, and Workers on the California Borderland, 1900–1940 Benny J. Andrés Jr. 978-1-62349-197-0 cloth $43.00s 978-1-62349-219-9 ebook Pesos and Dollars Entrepreneurs in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1880–1940 Alicia M. Dewey 978-1-62349-175-8 cloth $49.95s 978-1-62349-209-0 ebook
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Much more than a story about the Battle of the Alamo. . .
Contested Empire
Rethinking the Texas Revolution
Edited by Sam W. Haynes and Gerald D. Saxon Introduction by Gregg Cantrell
Rethinking the Texas Revolution
To a large degree, the story of Texas’ secession from Mexico has been undertaken by scholars of the state. Early twentieth century historians of the revolutionary period, most notably Eugene Barker and William Binkley, characterized the conflict as a clash of two opposing cultures, yet their exclusive focus on the region served to reinforce popular notions of a unique Texas past. Disconnected from a broader historiography, scholars have been left to ponder the most arcane details of the revolutionary narrative—such as the circumstances of David Crockett’s death and whether William Barret Travis really did draw a line in the sand. In Contested Empire: Rethinking the Texas Revolution, five distinguished scholars take a broader, transnational approach to the 1835–36 conflict. The result of the 48th Annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, held at the University of Texas at Arlington in March, 2013, these essays explore the origins and consequences of the events that gave birth to the Texas Republic in ways that extend beyond the borders of the Lone Star State.
Edited by Sam W. Haynes and Gerald D. Saxon Introduction by Gregg Cantrell
978-1-62349-309-7 cloth $30.00s 978-1-62349-310-3 ebook 6x9. 192 pp. 13 b&w photos. 2 maps. Index. Texas History. Western History. September
RELATED INTEREST How Did Davy Die? And Why Do We Care So Much? Commemorative Edition Dan Kilgore and James E. Crisp 978-1-60344-194-0 cloth $18.95 978-1-60344-347-0 ebook
Number Forty-six: Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press
SAM W. HAYNES is a professor of history and director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington. His most recent book is Unfinished Revolution: The Early American Republic in a British World. GERALD D. SAXON is an associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. His most recent book, which he coauthored, is Historic Texas from the Air. “We Never Retreat” Filibustering Expeditions into Spanish Texas, 1812–1822
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"We Never Retreat" Filibustering Expeditions into Spanish Texas, 1812–1822 Ed Bradley 978-1-62349-257-1 cloth $47.00s 978-1-62349-261-8 ebook
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A lavishly illustrated tour of hidden Texas military history gems . . .
ECHOES OF GLORY HISTORIC MILITARY SITES ACROSS TEXAS
Echoes of Glory
thomas e. al exan der AN D dan k. utl ey
Historic Military Sites across Texas
Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley In their previous book, Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now, historians Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley chose to go beyond the familiar military sites of Texas—the Alamo or the San Jacinto battlefield, for example—to feature lesser known locations. The book successfully recovered these “forgotten” arenas for tourists and preservationists alike. Alexander and Utley now return with Echoes of Glory, and the result is another impressive catalogue that highlights the hidden gems of Texas history. Echoes of Glory explores two dozen rarely discussed but equally significant military sites across Texas. From the establishment of a Spanish fortress at San Sabá during the mission era to a multimillion-dollar Cold War naval base, readers will find a range of sites and stories to enlighten and entertain. Rare illustrations contrast each site with how it appeared in its glory days to how it appears today. Echoes of Glory underscores the need to preserve or fully interpret such places before they are lost forever. THOMAS E. ALEXANDER, former US Air Force officer and rancher, is the author of several books on Texas military history, including The Wings of Change: The Army Air Force Experience in Texas during World War II. DAN K. UTLEY is retired as chief historian of the Texas Historical Commission and the author or coauthor of numerous books, including History Ahead: Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers.
Praise for Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Military Sites in Texas, Then and Now:
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Alexander and Utley not only help bring them back to public attention but also argue eloquently for historical preservation of these places that once played significant roles in the life of the state.”—The Eagle
978-1-62349-337-0 flexbound $29.95 978-1-62349-338-7 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 28 color, 5 b&w photos. 2 maps. Bib. Index. Texas Military History. Heritage Travel. October
RELATED INTEREST Faded Glory A Century of Forgotten Military Sites in Texas, Then and Now Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley 978-1-60344-699-0 flexbound $29.95 978-1-60344-753-9 ebook History along the Way Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers Dan K. Utley and Cynthia J. Beeman 978-1-60344-769-0 flexbound $25.00 978-1-60344-818-5 ebook
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“I’ve forgotten an awful lot of things in my life, but I’ll never forget that.”
Tattooed on My Soul
Texas Veterans Remember World War II
Edited by Stephen M. Sloan, Lois E. Myers, and Michelle Holland For more than forty years the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University has dutifully gathered the flesh-and-blood memories of the World War II generation in the state of Texas. Tattooed on My Soul brings together seventeen of the most compelling narratives from Baylor’s extensive collection of more than five thousand interviews. Taken together, these selections provide an authentic and powerful mosaic of those critical years and offer intimate glimpses into the reality and meaning of the war for those who fought it. For them, World War II is more than history. And when they tell their stories, it becomes more than facts and dates, victories and defeats for those who listen. Representing a cross-section of Texas’ population and a wide range of wartime assignments, these recollections reveal the personal perspectives on many events and figures of World War II. On land, in air, and by sea, in the Pacific and in Europe, they fought for America’s future. With the clear ring of authenticity and a surprising immediacy, even after all these years, their stories make a global war personal. Number 149: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
STEPHEN M. SLOAN is the director of the Institute for Oral History and an associate professor of history at Baylor University. LOIS E. MYERS is associate director of the Institute for Oral History. MICHELLE HOLLAND is the editor for the Institute for Oral History and produced the weekly radio program Living Stories.
TA#OOED ON MY SOUL TEXAS VETERANS
REMEMBER WORLD WAR 11 EDITED BY STEPHEN M. SLOAN, LOIS E. MYERS, AND MICHELLE HOLLAND
978-1-62349-307-3 cloth $29.95 978-1-62349-308-0 ebook 6x9. 368 pp. 34 b&w photos. Index. World War II. Military History. Oral History. September
RELATED INTEREST Every Citizen a Soldier The Campaign for Universal Military Training after World War II William A. Taylor 978-1-62349-146-8 cloth $39.95s 978-1-62349-169-7 ebook Victory Fever on Guadalcanal Japan's First Land Defeat of World War II William H. Bartsch 978-1-62349-184-0 cloth $35.00 978-1-62349-220-5 ebook
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Twelve tales of bravery, courage, and service . . .
12 Texas Aggie War Heroes From World War I to Vietnam
James R. Woodall Foreword by Thomas G. Darling Following on the success of Texas Aggie Medals of Honor, James R. Woodall now returns with a new book that focuses on the military service by graduates of Texas A&M University from World War I to Vietnam. Of the tens of thousands of Aggies who served in the nation’s military, Woodall has selected twelve individuals who stand out as singular examples of bravery and heroism. Twelve Texas Aggie War Heroes tells each serviceman’s story in a concise, engaging manner. Some subjects, such as Earl Rudder and James Hollingsworth, will be familiar to readers. But Woodall also introduces us to less familiar but no less notable men as well, from A. D. Bruce’s march from the trenches of France and the crossing of the Rhine in World War I to Bob Acklen’s three tours in Vietnam. In addition to the twelve chapters focusing on these remarkable individuals, Woodall provides an extensive set of appendixes that include the relevant citations for each serviceman as well as larger lists of Aggies who were awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, or Air Force Cross. Number 150: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series
JAMES R. WOODALL ’50 is the author of Texas Aggie Medals of Honor: Seven Heroes of World War II. He served in the US Army in the Korean War, Europe, Vietnam, and stateside, and is highly decorated, holding among other awards the Cross of Gallantry with Silver Star. His final posting was as Commandant of Cadets and professor of military science at Texas A&M University.
978-1-62349-319-6 cloth $29.95 978-1-62349-322-6 ebook 6x9. 352 pp. 68 b&w photos. 10 maps. Bib. Index. Aggie Books. World War II. World War I. Korean War. Vietnam War. December
RELATED INTEREST Texas Aggie Medals of Honor Seven Heroes of World War II James R. Woodall 978-1-60344-204-6 cloth $29.95 978-1-62349-045-4 paper $19.95 978-1-60344-253-4 ebook Texas Aggies Go to War In Service of Their Country, Expanded Edition Henry C. Dethloff and John A. Adams 978-1-60344-077-6 paper $29.95 978-1-60344-410-1 ebook
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Courageous players and coaches leading in the struggle for racial equality in 1960s Houston . . .
Houston Cougars in the 1960s
Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century
Robert D. Jacobus Forewords by Wade Phillips and James Kirby Martin On January 20, 1968, the University of Houston Cougars upset the UCLA Bruins, ending a 47-game winning streak. Billed as the “Game of the Century,” the defeat of the UCLA hoopsters was witnessed by 52,693 fans and a national television audience—the first-ever regular-season game broadcast nationally. But the game would never have happened if Houston coach Guy Lewis had not recruited two young black men from Louisiana in 1964: Don Chaney and Elvin Hayes. Despite facing hostility both at home and on the road, Chaney and Hayes led the Cougars basketball team to 32 straight victories. Similarly in Cougar football, coach Bill Yeoman recruited Warren McVea in 1964, and by 1967 McVea had helped the Houston gridiron program lead the nation in total offense. Houston Cougars in the 1960s features the first-person accounts of the players, the coaches, and others involved in the integration of collegiate athletics in Houston, telling the gripping story of the visionary coaches, the courageous athletes, and the committed supporters who blazed a trail not only for athletic success but also for racial equality in 1960s Houston. Swaim-Paup-Foran Spirit of Sport Series, sponsored by James C. ’74 & Debra Parchman Swaim, Nancy & T. Edgar Paup ’74, and Joseph Wm. & Nancy Foran
ROBERT D. JACOBUS, a history teacher for twenty-six years, is a former high school volleyball, basketball, and tennis coach in Sugar Land, Texas.
HOUSTON COUGARS IN THE 1960s Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century
Robert D. Jacobus Forewords by Wade Phillips and James Kirby Martin
978-1-62349-347-9 cloth $29.95 978-1-62349-348-6 ebook 6x9. 272 pp. 24 b&w photos. Bib. Index. Sports. African American Studies. Texas History. December
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The Other Great Migration The Movement of Rural African Americans to Houston, 1900–1941 Bernadette Pruitt 978-1-60344-948-9 cloth $40.00s 978-1-62349-003-4 ebook
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New in paperback
A chilling chronicle of racial violence. . .
Fair Ways
Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas
How Six Black Golfers Won Civil Rights in Beaumont, Texas
Robert J. Robertson
“. . . a wonderful story, rich with detail and local color and personality, that sheds an illuminating ray of light on one aspect of the story of desegregation, showing how the most unlikely persons can have a major impact on the important events of our lives. This is a book that local historians, historians of black experience, and those interested in the history of sport will all find indispensable . . . a great read, an important story, and one that every Texan ought to know.”—John B. Boles, William P. Hobby Professor of History, Rice University “The book is carefully researched, extensively footnoted, and clearly written. It provides a fresh look at race and the struggle for civil rights in a medium sized Texas city.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly Swaim-Paup-Foran Spirit of Sport Series, sponsored by James C. ’74 & Debra Parchman Swaim, Nancy & T. Edgar Paup ’74, and Joseph Wm. & Nancy Foran
ROBERT J. ROBERTSON is a Beaumont businessman and community leader. He teaches history at Lamar University and has served as president of the Tyrrell Historical Library Association, Texas Gulf Historical Society, and the Beaumont History Conference. Robertson is the author of Her Majesty's Texans: Two English Immigrants in Reconstruction Texas. 978-1-62349-356-1 paper $19.95 978-1-60344-610-5 ebook 6x9. 256 pp. 16 b&w photos. Bib. Index. African American Studies. Texas History. Sports. October
Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud
Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas provides an arresting look at the history of violence against African Americans in Texas. From a lynching in Paris at the turn of the century to the 1998 murder of Jasper resident James Byrd Jr., who was dragged to death behind a truck, this volume uncovers the violent side of race relations in the Lone Star State. Historian Bruce A. Glasrud has curated an essential contribution to Texas history and historiography that will also bring attention to a chapter in the state’s history that, for many, is still very much a part of the present. BRUCE A. GLASRUD is the author, coauthor, or editor of over two dozen books, including Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement, winner of the Liz Carpenter Award for Research in the History of Women. 978-1-62349-333-2 paper $35.00s 978-1-62349-334-9 ebook 6x9. 288 pp. Bib. Index. African American Studies. Texas History. October
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Recovering the importance of the Mexican American experience in the history of West Texas. . .
Tejano West Texas
Edited by Arnoldo De León Featuring a side of Tejano history too often neglected, author Arnoldo De León shows that people of Spanish-Mexican descent were not passive players in or, worse, absent from West Texas history but instead were active agents at the center of it. The collection of essays in Tejano West Texas—many never before published—will correct decades of historiographical oversight by emphasizing the centrality of the Mexican American experience in the history of the region. De León, a true dean of Tejano history, showcases the continued presence and contribution of Mexican Americans to West Texas. This collection begins in the 1770s when settlers of Mexican descent first began migrating to Presidio and then to other sections of the Big Bend. De León then turns his attention to the nineteenth century when Mexican immigrants and other Texans searched for work throughout the West Texas hinterland, and his coverage continues onward through the twentieth century. Mexican American and Texas history scholars will find Tejano West Texas to be an invaluable addition to the Tejano narrative. ARNOLDO DE LEÓN is the C. J. “Red” Davidson Professor of History at Angelo State University and the author and editor of a number of important books on Mexican American history, including War along the Border: The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities.
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Arnoldo De León is a superb researcher, prolific writer, and gifted scholar. The essays in this collection testify to his keen insight and careful histories of Mexican Americans in West Texas. No one has done such work better or in greater detail.”—Paul H. Carlson, professor emeritus, Texas Tech University
Tejano West Texas arnoldo de león
978-1-62349-290-8 cloth $40.00s 978-1-62349-305-9 ebook 6x9. 224 pp. 3 maps. 18 tables. Bib. Index. Mexican American Studies. Texas History. Southwestern History. September
RELATED INTEREST War along the Border The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities Edited by Arnoldo De León 978-1-60344-524-5 unjacketed cloth $50.00x 978-1-60344-525-2 paper $24.95s 978-1-60344-570-2 ebook Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821–1836 Andrés Tijerina 978-0-89096-606-8 paper $18.95s
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New in paperback
New in paperback
MigrationTrust Networks
Winner, Ottis Lock Award
Social Cohesion in Mexican US-Bound Emigration
Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal
Undaunted
A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas Charles H. Russell
“This important book complicates theories of migration and social networks for Mexican immigrants. . . . Combining ethnographic and survey research with a review of relevant scholarship, the author provides a valuable framework. . . . Flores-Yeffal illustrates how such migration trust networks, where more established migrants assist with clothing, food, housing, money, and information, are crucial for undocumented migrants in particular, because they often lack institutional support or protection. . . . As FloresYeffal explains, there is a pattern of ‘risk pooling,’ where those offered assistance are expected to eventually aid more recent immigrants. Advanced students of migration will appreciate this nuanced analysis and the author’s engagement with established theories, and practitioners will find the policy recommendations offered in the concluding chapter particularly helpful.”—Choice
Charles Russell’s vivid account of Elise Waerenskjold describes not only her influence among her countrymen but also her own life, which was a saga of considerable drama itself. It offers a clear and entertaining window onto immigrant life in Texas and the issues that shaped women's lives and elicited their talents in an earlier century.
NADIA Y. FLORES-YEFFAL, an assistant professor of sociology at Texas Tech University, is herself an immigrant from Mexico, whose status was regularized under the Amnesty of 1986.
CHARLES H. RUSSELL is a retired college dean and professor of history, with a PhD from Columbia University. His interest in Waerenskjold, a Norwegian writer who immigrated to Texas in the mid-nineteenth century, is shared with his Norwegian wife, Inger, who has helped him translate Waerenskjold's writing as he has done the research for this book.
978-1-62349-350-9 paper $22.95s 978-1-60344-963-2 ebook 6x9. 224 pp. 4 b&w photos. 5 figs. 2 tables. Bib. Index. Social Sciences. Borderlands Studies. Mexican American Studies. October
“. . . gracefully written . . . takes the reader with Elise Tvede as she moves from stuffy respectability in a rigidly organized society toward economic opportunity and democratic freedoms in northeastern Texas. . . . Russell opens up a fascinating immigrant experience that deviates from the stereotype just as much as it complicates the understanding of the frontier.”—Journal of Southern History Number Twenty: Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities
978-1-58544-453-3 cloth $29.95 978-1-62349-349-3 paper $19.95 978-1-60344-624-2 ebook 6x9. 248 pp. 16 b&w photos. 3 maps. Bib. Index. Biography. Texas History. Literary Studies. Women's Studies. October
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Landscaping with Edible Plants in Texas Design and Cultivation
Cheryl Beesley Foreword by Jim Kamas In this complete reference to integrating edible plants into a wide range of private and public landscapes, landscape designer Cheryl Beesley thoroughly answers the questions of how to plant, where to plant, and what to plant. She covers garden layout, bed construction, and fencing options and offers specific design examples for a wide variety of possibilities for edible landscapes, such as a schoolyard, restaurant, or residence. She presents an extensive pallet of edible plant choices for Texas arranged by trees, shrubs, perennials, and annuals and includes detailed information about plant families as well as individual plants. Appendixes instruct readers on disease and insect control, additional variety selections, and plant and seed sources. As the author points out, however they are incorporated, vegetables and fruits—long relegated to their own plots and often hidden from view—can become beautiful and practical additions to the ornamental landscape. Number Forty-eight: Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series
CHERYL BEESLEY is a landscape designer whose Austin company, Adelante Landscape, specializes in edible landscape design and holistic site design.
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Cheryl Beesley, a thoroughly qualified landscape designer, combines her in-depth knowledge of the characteristics and care of vegetables, fruits, and herbs with her extensive experience in sustainable horticultural practices to write a guide to create beautiful living spaces using environmentally friendly principals and practices.” —from the foreword by Jim Kamas
978-1-62349-321-9 flexbound $35.00 978-1-62349-323-3 ebook 9x9. 256 pp. 121 color photos. 6 drawings. 10 line art. 22 tables. Index. Gardening. Horticulture. Fruits/Vegetables. November
RELATED INTEREST Growing Grapes in Texas From the Commercial Vineyard to the Backyard Vine Jim Kamas 978-1-62349-180-2 flexbound $25.00 978-1-62349-223-6 ebook
The Texas Tomato Lover's Handbook William D. Adams Photographs by William D. Adams and Deborah J. Adams 978-1-60344-239-8 flexbound $25.00 978-1-60344-240-4 ebook
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Grow a little of your own food, and have fun doing it.
Easy Edibles
How to Grow and Enjoy Fresh Food Judy Barrett
Veteran gardener and author Judy Barrett’s book dispels the idea that growing plants we can eat is harder than growing plants we can’t eat and introduces readers to the idea of placing plants that can produce in an ordinary landscape, a harvest of herbs, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Whether buying a few tomato plants for a patio container or exploring the idea of a frontyard or kitchen plot, incorporating plants that “bear food” into the landscape has real appeal, even to weekend gardeners. For the more ambitious, Barrett offers a primer on the various kinds of garden beds that are easy to create and maintain. For those without the space to garden themselves, she describes where and how one can buy the bounty produced by others in farmers markets, farm stands, and pick-your-own operations. Finally, Barrett invites readers to enjoy the camaraderie and learning opportunities available at community, neighborhood, and schoolyard gardens.
978-1-62349-339-4 flexbound $22.95 978-1-62349-343-1 ebook 6x81�2. 128 pp. 69 color photos. Bib. Index. Organic Gardening/Farming. Fruits/Vegetables. November
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Number Fifty-three: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series
JUDY BARRETT publishes at HomegrownTexas.com, writes the gardening column for the Austin American-Statesman, and is the author of five other gardening books. She lives in Taylor.
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The author has a wonderful, conversational style of writing—I can hear her voice come through as clearly as if we were talking over a cup of coffee.”—Dan J. Gill, consumer horticulturist, Louisiana State University . . . a good blend of practical tips (trombetta squash grows fast enough to outrun the squash vine borer; stockings make good melon supports) . . . along with some rather uncommon entries (calamondin and kumquat marmalade!). . .”—Suzanne Labry, contributing writer, Texas Gardener magazine
What Can I Do with My Herbs? How to Grow, Use, and Enjoy These Versatile Plants Judy Barrett Illustrations by Victor Z. Martin 978-1-60344-092-9 flexbound $19.95 978-1-60344-382-1 ebook What Makes Heirloom Plants So Great? Old-fashioned Treasures to Grow, Eat, and Admire Judy Barrett 978-1-60344-219-0 flexbound $19.95 978-1-60344-315-9 ebook
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Field Guide to Common Texas Grasses
Stephan L. Hatch, Kelly C. Umphres, and A. Jenét Ardoin Covering 172 species of the most significant common grasses growing in Texas, this complete update of the now-classic Common Texas Grasses: An Illustrated Guide contains range maps and color images of the inflorescences and spikelets of each species along with the detailed, black-and-white illustrations found in the original volume. Identifying descriptive text, keys to genera and species, a checklist, and a glossary round out this standard field reference for botanists, students, and naturalists. Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series
STEPHAN L. HATCH is professor of plant taxonomy at Texas A&M University, where he is also curator of the S. M. Tracy Herbarium. KELLY C. UMPHRES is a range management specialist at the Natural Resources Conservation Service office in Kerrville. A. JENÉT ARDOIN is an office software associate in the department of ecosystem science and management at Texas A&M.
978-1-62349-325-7 flexbound $30.00 978-1-62349-342-4 ebook 6x9. 448 pp. 348 color photos. 174 maps. 181 line art. Glossary. Bib. Index. Field Guides. Plants/Botany. December
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cheatgrass brome Bromus tectorum (Hitchcock 1951)
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curly threeawn Aristida desmantha (Gould and Box 1965)
Grasses of the Texas Hill Country A Field Guide Brian and Shirley Loflin 978-1-58544-467-0 flexbound $23.00 978-1-62349-054-6 ebook
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Amphibians and Reptiles of the US–Mexico Border States/ Anfibios y reptiles de los estados de la frontera México–Estados Unidos Edited by Julio A. Lemos-Espinal
Amphibians and Reptiles
Anfibios y reptiles
of the US–Mexico Border States
México–Estados Unidos
EditEd by Julio A. lEmos-EspinAl
EditAdo por Julio A. lEmos-EspinAl
de los estados de la frontera
In the first bilingual work on the reptiles and amphibians of the US–Mexico border, top herpetologists come together to describe the herpetofauna of the states of this region, which includes more than 600 species of toads, frogs, salamanders, turtles, sea turtles, alligators, lizards, snakes, and sea snakes that are found along the almost 2,000-mile border between the two countries. Each chapter is devoted to one state—four in the US (California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas) and six in Mexico (Baja California, Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Tamaulipas)—with text in both English and Spanish. The chapters contain an introduction to the area, a review of the research, a sketch of the state’s physiography, and a description of the species present as well as the pertinent conservation issues they face. A color photo gallery includes images of nearly all species. Almost 40 percent of the featured native species are shared between the US and Mexico, reminding us that animals depend on the integrity of natural landscapes and proving the need for a comprehensive, bilingual reference to help lead a shared effort in the management and conservation of the borderlands. Number Fifty-two: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series
JULIO A. LEMOS-ESPINAL is profesor titular of biology at the Facultad de Estudios Superiores Iztacala of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City. Widely published in both English and Spanish, Lemos-Espinal has three taxa of amphibians and reptiles named in his honor.
978-1-62349-306-6 hardcover $90.00s 978-1-62349-313-4 ebook 81�2x11. 1,056 pp. 599 color, 1 b&w photos. 5 line art. Graph. 14 tables. Bib. Index. Herpetology. Wildlife. Borderlands Studies. December
RELATED INTEREST Amphibians and Reptiles of Texas With Keys, Taxonomic Synopses, Bibliography, and Distribution Maps James R. Dixon Photographs by Toby J. Hibbitts 978-1-60344-734-8 flexbound $39.95 978-1-60344-750-8 ebook Continental Divide Wildlife, People, and the Border Wall Krista Schlyer 978-1-60344-743-0 flexbound $30.00 978-1-60344-757-7 ebook
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Texas Master Naturalist Statewide Curriculum Edited by Michelle M. Haggerty and Mary Pearl Meuth
Since its beginning more than fifteen years ago, the Texas Master Naturalist program has been hugely successful, training more than 9,600 volunteers who have given almost 2.8 million hours to nature education throughout the state. Hundreds of new volunteers are trained every year, and the Texas Master Naturalist Statewide Curriculum serves as the basis of instruction for trainees who complete a certification course taught under the auspices of more than forty program chapters. The curriculum contains twenty-four units of instruction that range from geology to ornithology to wetland ecology and have been written by the state’s top scientists and experts. Available as well to educators, interpreters, and others who may not yet be able to commit to the Texas Master Naturalist program, the curriculum offers an authoritative source of information for anyone seeking to learn more about the natural world in Texas.
The Lifelong Impact of 4-H Stories from Texas
Edited by Toby L. Lepley and Martha E. Couch Foreword by Chris Boleman
Heartwarming, surprising, and inspirational: this collection of thirty-one stories from families and individuals whose lives have been touched by 4-H covers more than a century of history in Texas. It traces the organization from its agricultural origins at the turn of the twentieth century to its presentday status as a training ground for leaders and professionals in fields ranging from the NFL to the US Senate. Told in the conversational voices of real-life participants, these essays relate an engaging story of the perseverance, dedicated work ethic, humility, and compassion that 4-H instills in its members. Including more than thirty historic photographs, the impact of “Head, Heart, Hands, and Health” weaves together these tales of familial support, triumphs, and disappointments, and the educational force that is Texas 4-H. Published for Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Service
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MICHELLE M. HAGGERTY is the Texas Master Naturalist program state coordinator at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. She lives in Kerrville. MARY PEARL MEUTH is the Texas Master Naturalist program assistant state coordinator at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in College Station. 978-1-62349-340-0 hardcover $70.00s 978-1-62349-344-8 ebook 8x11. 768 pp. 320 color, 35 b&w photos. 58 maps. 254 line art. 28 tables. Bib. Index. Conservation. Education. Natural History. December
TOBY L. LEPLEY is associate professor and assistant state 4-H leader for operations, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service. MARTHA E. COUCH is professor and associate director for 4-H and youth emerita, Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service, and has been inducted into the National 4-H Hall of Fame. 978-1-62349-357-8 cloth $25.00 978-1-62349-358-5 ebook 6x9. 236 pp. 35 b&w photos. Memoir. Agricultural History. Texas History. October
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Texas Almanac 2016–2017
Edited by Elizabeth Cruce Alvarez and Robert Plocheck THE TEXAS ALMANAC 2016–2017 includes these new feature articles: • A history of Texas’ various food regions—from Tex-Mex to barbecue—written by Dotty Griffith, longtime food writer for The Dallas Morning News and author of The Texas Holiday Cookbook, Celebrating Barbecue, and Wild About Chili. • A look at the big business of Texas wine, including a history of grape growing and winemaking, written by Melinda Esco, author of Texas Wineries. • The story of Assault, the feisty chestnut colt from King Ranch who injured his right forefoot as a foal but loved to run and went on to win the 1946 Triple Crown. This article spotlights the 70th anniversary of Assault’s historic feat, which earned him the nickname “The Club-Footed Comet.” • A overview of professional and college sports in Texas written by Norm Hitzges, a popular sports-talk radio host in the DFW area for 40 years; the author of several sports books, including Greatest Team Ever: The Dallas Cowboys Dynasty of The 1990s; and the television play-by-play voice for the Dallas Sidekicks.
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MAJOR SECTIONS UPDATED FOR EACH EDITION An illustrated History of The Lone Star State. The Environment, including geology, plant life, wildlife, rivers, lakes. Weather highlights of the previous two years, plus a list of destructive weather dating from 1766.
Old oak trees surround the Mandola Estate Winery near Driftwood in Hays County. Photo by Melinda Esco.
Agriculture, including data on production of crops, fruits, vegetables, livestock, and dairy. A Pronunciation Guide to Texas town and county names. Cover artwork by Lamberto Alvarez
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MAJOR SECTIONS UPDATED FOR EACH EDITION Business and Transportation, with an expanded section on Oil and Gas. A two-year Astronomical Calendar, including moon phases, sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, eclipses, and meteor showers. Recreation, with details on state and national parks, landmarks, and wildlife refuges. Sports, including lists of high school and college sports champions, the records of professional sports teams, as well as lists of Texas Olympians and Texas Sports Hall of Fame inductees.
Assault, who was born and bred on King Ranch and won the 1946 Triple Crown, is shown with famed jockey Eddie Arcaro after winning the Butler Handicap on July 12, 1947, at the now-defunct Jamaica Race Course in Queens, New York. Photo courtesy of Keeneland-Morgan.
Counties, a large section featuring detailed county maps and profiles for Texas’ 254 counties. Population figures, including the latest estimates from the State Data Center. A comprehensive list of Texas cities and towns. Politics, Elections, and information on Federal, State, and Local governments. Culture and the Arts, including a list of civic and religious holidays. Health and Science, with charts of vital statistics. Education, including a complete list of colleges and universities, and University Interscholastic League results.
Each detailed county map includes major and minor roadways and waterways, parks, landmarks, and a small map showing where the county is located in the state.
Obituaries of notable Texans. ELIZABETH CRUCE ALVAREZ has been the managing editor of the Texas Almanac since 2002. She received a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1978 and has a background in both newspaper and textbook publishing. Alvarez has worked as a reporter and editor for newspapers in Missouri, Iowa, and Texas. In 1980, she moved to the Permian Basin, where she was an editor at The Odessa American and traveled extensively throughout Texas. Since 1985, she has lived in Tarrant County, where she was an editor at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and, later, for Harcourt College Publishers. ROBERT PLOCHECK, editor, has been with the Texas Almanac since 1994. He is a native of Houston and was raised in Damon on the Gulf Coast. He received a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin in 1972 and has worked at the Austin American-Statesman and the Marshall News-Messenger. He served for 15 years as an editor for religious newspapers in Houston and Tyler. For many years, he was a regular contributor to the Religion section of The Dallas Morning News, writing reviews of books and magazines.
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The Garden of Eden
The Story of a Freedmen’s Community in Texas Drew Sanders
Tucked in a bend of the Trinity River a few minutes from downtown Fort Worth, the Garden of Eden neighborhood has endured for well over a century as a homeplace for freed African American slaves and their descendants. Among the earliest inhabitants in the Garden, Major and Malinda Cheney assembled over 200 acres of productive farmland on which they raised crops and cattle, built a substantial home for their children, and weathered a series of family crises that ranged from a false accusation of rape and attempted lynching to the murder of their eldest son. Major and Malinda Cheney’s great-great-grandson, Drew Sanders, recounts engaging tales of the family’s life against the backdrop of Fort Worth and Tarrant County history—among them stories about the famous family Sunday dinners (recipes included). Though some family members, including writer Bob Ray Sanders and transplant specialist Dollie Gentry, no longer live in this special place, life in the Garden of Eden still shapes the family’s character and binds them to the homeplace.
978-0-87565-620-5 paper $24.95 7x10. 160 pp. 20 b&w photos. African American Studies, Texas. Civil War/ Reconstruction. Biography. October
RELATED INTEREST DREW SANDERS grew up in the Garden of Eden, where he listened to stories of the early days told by his Aunt Doll and grandfather James “Dick Cheney” Sanders. He worked for thirty-eight years for the Fort Worth Sand and Gravel Division of TXI and spent over thirty years researching family history for this book.
Calvin Littlejohn Portrait of a Community in Black and White Bob Ray Sanders 978-0-87565-381-5 cloth $29.95
Lay Bare the Heart An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement James Farmer 978-0-87565-188-0 paper $19.95 978-0-87565-520-8 ebook
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Weird Yet Strange
Notes from an Austin Music Artist Danny Garrett
Weird Yet Strange is a collection of the music art created by Danny Garrett from the ’70s and ’80s in Austin, Texas, including artwork for Armadillo World Headquarters, Antone’s, Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and many other artists and venues. Garrett began creating music art at the same time that such art began to chronicle the establishment of the Austin music scene in the early 1970s. Over the course of the next two decades, Texas’s capital city became a worldrenowned music mecca, and Austin music artists played a vital role in capturing and sharing the vibrant culture swelling within what would become the “Live Music Capital of the World.” Describing the evolution of the Austin music poster, Garrett richly and poignantly details the history of the music, musicians, and venues that brought the surprising harmony of “the Austin sound” to a country otherwise polarized by antagonistic cultural, social, and political perspectives. A Texas native, DANNY GARRETT was drafted into the service for the Vietnam War in 1968. Following his service, he moved to Austin, where he began to practice his poster art for Armadillo World Headquarters, Antone’s, and many other clients. Garrett’s posters promoted the appearances of such legends as Muddy Waters, B. B. King, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Willie Nelson, and Eric Clapton. Garrett has also produced a substantial body of film and computer game work, in addition to teaching art and design at Austin Community College and Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand. He lives with his wife, Kelley, in the Texas Hill Country, where he continues to draw, paint, and write.
978-0-87565-616-8 paper with flaps $29.95 81/2x11. 240 pp. 40 color images. Texana. Gift Books. Art. Popular Culture. October
RELATED INTEREST Texas Country Singers Phil Fry and Jim Lee 978-0-87565-365-5 hardcover $8.95
Texas, My Texas Musings of the Rambling Boy Lonn Taylor 978-0-87565-434-8 paper $22.95 978-0-87565-497-3 ebook
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Crossing the Line A Marriage across Borders Linda Valdez
Not a typical immigration story, Crossing the Line is told by a middle-class American woman who falls in love with the son of an impoverished family from rural Mexico—a man who crosses the border illegally to be with her. Married in 1988, Linda and Sixto Valdez learn to love each other’s very different families and cultures, raising their child to walk proudly in both worlds. Revealing the tragedies and ultimately the triumphs that emerge when two families living on different sides of the border come together, Crossing the Line cuts through the fears and preconceptions that fuel the continuing political turmoil over immigration. It is a story America needs to hear. A finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing in 2003, LINDA VALDEZ is a columnist and editorial writer at the Arizona Republic/ azcentral.com. She has written extensively about immigration and border issues. Her commentary opposing Arizona’s infamous anti-immigration laws earned her the Scripps Howard Walker Stone Award for editorial writing in 2011.
978-0-87565-618-2 paper $22.95 6x9. 192 pp. 15 b&w photos. Borderlands Studies. Mexican American Studies. Memoir. October
RELATED INTEREST The Illegal Man Patrick Dearen 978-0-87565-614-4 ebook
The Chicken Hanger Ben Rehder 978-0-87565-436-2 paper $23.95 978-0-87565-495-9 ebook
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The Silent Shore of Memory John C. Kerr
The Silent Shore of Memory chronicles the life of James Barnhill from his days as a young Confederate soldier through the trials of Reconstruction in his native Texas and his later career as a lawyer and judge. After being critically wounded at Gettysburg and a long recuperation in North Carolina, James Barnhill returns to Texas where he battles widespread corruption and vigilante violence during the turmoil of Reconstruction. Although he endures tragedy in his personal life, Barnhill becomes a respected lawyer who defends an African American man accused of rape and represents a titan of the Texas lumber industry in a precedent-setting confrontation with a railroad monopoly controlled by Wall Street financiers. Steeped in the history of the South, The Silent Shore of Memory explores the nuances of views on slavery and the dissolution of the Union, the complexity of race relations and race politics during the thirty years following the Civil War, and the powerful bonds of familial love and friendship. JOHN C. KERR is a native of Houston, Texas, and currently lives with his wife Susan in San Antonio. He is a graduate of Stanford University, where he studied history, literature, and poetry, and of the University of Texas Law School. The Silent Shore of Memory is his fifth published novel. His previously published novels, which are available in the US, the UK, and British Commonwealth countries, are Cardigan Bay, A Rose in No Man’s Land, Fell the Angels, and Hurricane Hole. In addition, he coauthored with his late father Only a Khaki Shirt:A Memoir of the Pacific War.
978-0-87565-619-9 paper $22.95 6x9. 240 pp. Literary Novel. Texana. Civil War/Reconstruction. November
RELATED INTEREST Comanche Sundown A Novel Jan Reid 978-0-87565-422-5 cloth $29.95 978-0-87565-427-0 ebook
Yours in Filial Regards The Civil War Letters of a Texas Family Kassia Waggoner and Adam Nemmers 978-0-87565-612-0 paper $27.50
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The Boar’s Head Festival A Christmas Celebration
LaLonnie Lehman Illustrations by Susan J. Halbower
Hound Dawg
Patricia Vermillion Illustrations by Cheryl Pilgrim Hound Dawg is a retelling of The Little Red Hen, southern style. Bessie, Calico, and Penny work their fingers to the bone down on the cotton farm. But Hound Dawg, he’s a couch potato . . . lazy, lazy, lazy. Hold on now . . . something has caught Hound Dawg’s eye . . . something that changes his life forever.
A dazzling pageant that brings to life stories and traditions originating in medieval times, the Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival is a Christmas celebration that weaves both religious and secular narratives into a radiant tapestry celebrating the birth of the Christ Child. The festival began with an English legend about an Oxford student slaying a wild boar with a volume of Aristotle’s works—a story adopted by the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) to symbolize evil overcome by good. The angelic message to the shepherds, the visit of the Magi, the tradition of the Yule Log, the legend of good King Wenceslas, and more are woven into a delightful spectacle that culminates in the birth of the Christ Child himself.
PATRICIA VERMILLION, librarian at The Lamplighter School in Dallas, is the author of Texas Chili? Oh My! and ¿Chili Texano? ¡Ay Dios!, which received a Publication Award in 2015 from the San Antonio Conservation Society. CHERYL PILGRIM is a writer, illustrator, and former art teacher. She works in a variety of media including pencils, watercolors, oils, acrylics, and collage papers.
The Boar’s Head and Yule Log Festival, presented annually during Epiphany at University Christian Church in Fort Worth, is the basis for this volume, which includes lavish color illustrations revealing the extraordinary costumes and accoutrements created for the pageant.
978-0-87565-615-1 hardcover $21.95 11x81/2. 40 pp. 40 color photos. Young Readers. Texana. Folklore. August
LALONNIE LEHMAN is Professor of Theater at TCU. A costume historian and designer, she has created costumes for theatre, opera, ballet, modern dance, musicals, and children’s theater. SUSAN J. HALBOWER is a freelance artist with a degree in art from Kenyon College. 978-0-87565-617-5 paper $19.95 71/2x10. 32 pp. 32 color photos. Folklore. Religion. October
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Shoot the Conductor
Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy
Anshel Brusilow and Robin Underdahl Anshel Brusilow was born in 1928 and raised in Philadelphia by musical Russian Jewish parents in a neighborhood where practicing your instrument was as normal as hanging out the laundry. By the time he was sixteen, he was appearing as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also met Pierre Monteux at sixteen, when Monteux accepted him into his summer conducting school. Under George Szell, Brusilow was associate concertmaster at the Cleveland Orchestra until Ormandy snatched him away to make him concertmaster in Philadelphia, where he remained from 1959 to 1966. Ormandy and Brusilow had a father-son relationship, but Brusilow could not resist conducting, to Ormandy’s great displeasure. By the time he was forty, Brusilow had sold his violin and formed his own chamber orchestra in Philadelphia with more than a hundred performances per year. For three years he was conductor of the Dallas Symphony, until he went on to shape the orchestral programs at Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas. Brusilow played with or conducted many top-tier classical musicians, and he has opinions about each and every one. He also made many recordings. Co-written with Robin Underdahl, his memoir is a fascinating and unique view of American classical music during an important era, as well as an inspiring story of a working-class immigrant child making good in a tough arena. Number Seven: Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series
After a long and distinguished career in music, ANSHEL BRUSILOW retired from conducting the Richardson Symphony and lives in Dallas. ROBIN UNDERDAHL holds an MFA in creative writing from Columbia University and writes fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. She also lives in Dallas.
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Hilarious and heartbreaking, this memoir is a real page-turner as well as a remarkably accurate account of one extraordinarily gifted musician’s professional ups and (alas!) downs. Anshel Brusilow tells it like it was, con brio and molto vivace.”—Gary Graffman, pianist
978-1-57441-613-8 cloth $29.95 978-1-57441-629-9 ebook 6x9. 336 pp. 50 b&w illus. Notes. Index. Music. Memoir. July
RELATED INTEREST Last Stop, Carnegie Hall New York Philharmonic Trumpeter William Vacchiano Brian Shook 978-1-57441-306-9 cloth $24.95
A Day for Dancing The Life and Music of Lloyd Pfautsch Kenneth W. Hart 978-1-57441-567-4 cloth $24.95s
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Storming the City
U.S. Military Performance in Urban Warfare from World War II to Vietnam Alec Wahlman
In an increasingly urbanized world, urban terrain has become a greater factor in military operations. Simultaneously, advances in military technology have given military forces sharply increased capabilities. The conflict comes from how urban terrain can negate or degrade many of those increased capabilities. What happens when advanced weapons are used in a close-range urban fight with an abundance of cover? Storming the City explores these issues by analyzing the performance of the US Army and US Marine Corps in urban combat in four major urban battles of the mid-twentieth century (Aachen 1944, Manila 1945, Seoul 1950, and Hue 1968). Alec Wahlman assesses each battle using a similar framework of capability categories, and separate chapters address urban warfare in American military thought. In the four battles, across a wide range of conditions, American forces were ultimately successful in capturing each city because of two factors: transferable competence and battlefield adaptation. The preparations US forces made for warfare writ large proved generally applicable to urban warfare. Battlefield adaptation, a strong suit of American forces, filled in where those overall preparations for combat needed fine tuning. From World War II to Vietnam, however, there was a gradual reduction in tactical performance in the four battles. Number One: American Military Studies
ALEC WAHLMAN has been an analyst for fourteen years at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a Federally Funded Research and Development Center that works primarily with the Department of Defense. He earned his PhD in military history from the University of Leeds (UK) and lives in Falls Church, Virginia.
Announcing a new series American Military Studies Books in this series study the American military during peace and war, from colonial times to the present, and may include operational accounts, unit histories, strategy and tactics, and general studies in American military experience and thought. Titles are intended to appeal to military historians, officers and veterans of the U.S. military, and nonspecialists.
978-1-57441-619-0 cloth $29.95 978-1-57441-622-0 ebook 6x9. 400 pp. 22 b&w illus. 8 maps. Bib. Index. World War II. Vietnam War. Korean War. October
RELATED INTEREST Command Culture Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901–1940, and the Consequences for World War II Jörg Muth 978-1-57441-533-9 paper $18.95 D-Day in History and Memory The Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration Edited by Michael Dolski, Sam Edwards, and John Buckley 978-1-57441-548-3 cloth $24.95
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A Different Face of War
Memories of a Medical Service Corps Officer in Vietnam James G. Van Straten
A Different Face of War is a riveting account of one American officer in the Medical Service Corps during the early years of the Vietnam War. Assigned as the senior medical advisor to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in I Corps, an area close to the DMZ, James G. Van Straten traveled extensively and interacted with military officers and non-commissioned officers, peasant-class farmers, Buddhist bonzes, shopkeepers, scribes, physicians, nurses, the mentally ill, and even political operatives. He sent his wife daily letters from July 1966 through June 1967, describing in impressive detail his experiences, and those letters became the primary source for his memoir. The author describes with great clarity and poignancy the anguish among the survivors when an American cargo plane in bad weather lands short of the Da Nang Air Base runway on Christmas Eve and crashes into a Vietnamese coastal village, killing more than 100 people and destroying their village; the heart-wrenching pleadings of a teenage girl that her shrapnelravaged leg not be amputated; and the anger of an American helicopter pilot who made repeated trips into a hot landing zone to evacuate the wounded, only to have the Vietnamese insist that the dead be given a higher priority. Number Eight: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series
After his thirty-year military career ended in 1986, JAMES G. VAN STRATEN moved into academia. In 1990 he was appointed dean of the School of Allied Health Sciences at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He and his spouse now reside in Windcrest, Texas.
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If you have any interest in the history of the Vietnam War, the age-old culture, values, and religions of the Vietnamese people, the terrible effects of the war on the civilian population and the challenges of providing medical advisory support—this book is for you. I could not lay it down.”—LTG Quinn H. Becker, Former US Army Surgeon General
978-1-57441-617-6 cloth $34.95 978-1-57441-621-3 ebook 6x9. 576 pp. 35 b&w illus. Map. Notes. Bib. Index. Vietnam War. Memoir. Medical Humanities. November
RELATED INTEREST Donut Dolly An American Red Cross Girl's War in Vietnam Joann Puffer Kotcher 978-1-57441-324-3 cloth $24.95
Life and Death in the Central Highlands An American Sergeant in the Vietnam War, 1968–1970 James T. Gillam 978-1-57441-292-5 cloth $27.95
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Winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
Last Words of the Holy Ghost Matt Cashion
Funny, heartbreaking, and real—these twelve stories showcase a dynamic range of voices belonging to characters who can’t stop confessing. They are obsessive storytellers, disturbed professors, depressed auctioneers, gambling clergy. A fourteen-year-old boy gets baptized and speaks in tongues to win the love of a girl who ushers him into adulthood; a troubled insomniac searches the woods behind his mother’s house for the “awful pretty” singing that begins each midnight; a school-system employee plans a yearend party at the site of a child’s drowning; a burned-out healthcare administrator retires from New England to coastal Georgia and stumbles upon a life-changing moment inside Walmart. These big-hearted people—tethered to the places that shape them— survive their daily sorrows and absurdities with well-timed laughter; they slouch toward forgiveness, and they point their ears toward the Holy Ghost’s last words. Number Fourteen: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
MATT CASHION was born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, and grew up in Brunswick and St. Simons Island, Georgia. He earned an MFA at the University of Oregon and now teaches at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. He is the author of two novels, How the Sun Shines on Noise and Our 13th Divorce. He lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin. www.mattcashion.com
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In its precise prose and spooky intelligence and sharp-eyed examination of the condemned kind we are, Last Words of the Holy Ghost is an original. Listen: if you can find a collection of stories more cohesive, more ambitious in reach, more generous in its passion, and fancier in its footwork, I will buy it for you and deliver it in person. In the meantime, put some Matt Cashion between your ears and then try to resist the temptation to dash into the street and shout ‘hallelujah’ at your neighbors.”— Lee K. Abbott, author of All Things, All at Once: New and Selected Stories and judge
978-1-57441-612-1 paper $14.95 978-1-57441-623-7 ebook 51/2x81/2. 240 pp. Collection of Short Fiction. November
RELATED INTEREST The Year of Perfect Happiness Becky Adnot-Haynes 978-1-57441-565-0 paper $14.95
In These Times the Home Is a Tired Place Jessica Hollander 978-1-57441-523-0 paper $14.95
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Tales of Texas Cooking
Stories and Recipes from the Trans Pecos to the Piney Woods and High Plains to the Gulf Prairies Edited by Frances Brannen Vick
According to Renaissance woman and Pepper Lady Jean Andrews, although food is eaten as a response to hunger, it is much more than filling one’s stomach. It also provides emotional fulfillment. This is borne out by the joy many of us feel as a family when we get in the kitchen and cook together and then share in our labors at the dinner table. Food is comfort, yet it is also political and contested because we often are what we eat—meaning what is available and familiar and allowed. Texas is fortunate in having a bountiful supply of ethnic groups influencing its foodways, and Texas food is the perfect metaphor for the blending of diverse cultures and native resources. Food is a symbol of our success and our communion, and whenever possible, Texans tend to do food in a big way. This latest publication from the Texas Folklore Society contains stories and more than 120 recipes, from long ago and just yesterday, organized by the 10 vegetation regions of the state. Herein you’ll find Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s Family Cake, memories of beef jerky and sassafras tea from John Erickson of Hank the Cowdog fame, Sam Houston’s barbecue sauce, and stories and recipes from Roy Bedichek, Bob Compton, J. Frank Dobie, Bob Flynn, Jean Flynn, Leon Hale, Elmer Kelton, Gary Lavergne, James Ward Lee, Jane Monday, Joyce Roach, Ellen e re Temple, Walter PrescottW ebb, and Jane Roberts Wood. Th is something for the cook as well as for the Texan with a raftof takeaway menus on their refrigerator. Number Seventy: Publications of the Texas Folklore Society
FRANCES BRANNEN VICK is retired director of the University of North Texas Press. She has coauthored Petra's Legacy, winner of the Coral Horton Tullis Award for the best book on Texas history and Letters to Alice: Birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch Dynasty; and edited Literary Dallas. She lives in Dallas.
978-1-57441-618-3 cloth $34.95 978-1-57441-628-2 ebook 6x9. 352 pp. 60 b&w illus. Index. Texas Folklore. Cooking. December
RELATED INTEREST The Texas Cookbook From Barbecue to Banquet—an Informal View of Dining and Entertaining the Texas Way Mary Faulk Koock 978-1-57441-136-2 paper $19.95
Goodbye Gluten Happy Healthy Delicious Eating with a Texas Twist Kim Stanford and Bill Backhaus 978-1-57441-578-0 paper $21.95
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Against the Grain
Colonel Henry M. Lazelle and the U.S. Army James Carson
The Royal Air Force in American Skies
The Seven British Flight Schools in the United States during World War II Tom Killebrew
Henry Martyn Lazelle (1832–1917) was the only cadet in the history of the US Military Academy to be suspended and sent back a year (for poor grades and bad behavior) and eventually return as Commandant of the Corps of Cadets. After graduating from West Point in 1855, he scouted with Kit Carson, was wounded by Apaches, and spent nearly a year as a “paroled” prisoner-ofwar at the outbreak of the Civil War. Exchanged for a Confederate officer, he took command of a Union cavalry regiment, chasing Mosby’s Rangers throughout northern Virginia. Lazelle’s service was punctuated at times with contention and controversy. In charge of the official records of the Civil War in Washington, he was accused of falsifying records, exonerated, but dismissed short of tour. As Commandant of Cadets at West Point, he was a key figure during the infamous court martial of Johnson Whittaker, one of West Point’s first African American cadets. Again, he was relieved of duty after a bureaucratic battle with the Academy’s Superintendent. Number Nine: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir Series
JAMES CARSON has more than thirty years of experience as a military intelligence analyst, manager, and educator. He received his MA in International Studies from George Washington University and is a graduate of the Army Command and Staff College. He lives in Vienna, Virginia. 978-1-57441-611-4 cloth $32.95 978-1-57441-625-1 ebook 6x9. 432 pp. 36 b&w photos. Notes. Bib. Index. Biography. Army. Western History. December
By early 1941, Great Britain stood alone against the aerial might of Nazi Germany and was in need of pilots. The Lend-Lease Act allowed for the training of British pilots in the United States and the formation of British Flying Training Schools. These unique schools were owned by American operators, staffed with American civilian instructors, supervised by British Royal Air Force officers, utilized aircraft supplied by the US Army Air Corps, and used the RAF training syllabus. Tom Killebrew provides the first comprehensive history of all seven British Flying Training Schools located in Terrell, Texas; Lancaster, California; Miami, Oklahoma; Mesa, Arizona; Clewiston, Florida; Ponca City, Oklahoma; and Sweetwater, Texas. The British students attended classes and mastered the elements of flight day and night. Some students flushed out, while others were killed during training mishaps and are buried in local cemeteries. Those who finished the course became Royal Air Force pilots. These young British students would also forge a strong and long-lasting bond of friendship with the Americans. TOM KILLEBREW received a master’s degree in history from the University of Texas at Arlington and taught American history at Navarro College in Waxahachie, Texas. He is the author of The Royal Air Force in Texas: Training British Pilots in Terrell during World War II (UNT Press). He lives in Erath County, Texas. 978-1-57441-615-2 cloth $32.95 978-1-57441-624-4 ebook 6x9. 464 pp. 20 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. World War II. Aviation. October
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n e w i n pa p e r b a c k
Blitzkrieg
Combat Chaplain
Sharon Tosi Lacey
James D. Johnson
Pacific
World War II in the Central Pacific
• Winner, Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award, 2014 • US Army Chief of Staff Professional Reading List, February 2014 Pacific Blitzkrieg closely examines the planning, preparation, and execution of ground operations for five major invasions in the Central Pacific (Guadalcanal, Tarawa, the Marshalls, Saipan, and Okinawa). Sharon Tosi Lacey explores the development of joint ground operations between the US Army and Marine Corps, the rapid transformation of tactics and equipment, and the evolution of command relationships between army and marine leadership. “This book is an important contribution to our understanding of the Pacific War, especially as it relates to the evolving joint doctrine and, in particular, the storied—and, at times, turbulent— relationship between the Army and the Marine Corps. It will be of great interest to most readers of ARMY magazine, but it is definitely a must-read for anyone with interest in World War II’s Pacific Theater.”—ARMY SHARON TOSI LACEY earned her PhD in military history from the University of Leeds, and is also a graduate of the United States Military Academy and Long Island University. She has served as a US Army officer for more than twenty-five years. She lives in Northern Virginia. 978-1-57441-609-1 paper $19.95 978-1-57441-541-4 ebook 6x9. 320 pp. 35 b&w illus. 5 maps. Notes. Bib. Index. World War II. July
A Thirty-Year Vietnam Battle
In 1967 Chaplain James D. Johnson chose to accompany his men, unarmed, on their daily combat operations, a decision made against the recommendations of his superiors. During what would be the final days for some, he offered his ministry not from a pulpit but on the battlefields— in hot landing zones and rice paddies, in hospitals, aboard ship, and knee-deep in mud. He even found time for baptisms in the muddy Mekong River. “Chaplain Johnson’s book should be required reading by national leaders before they consider whether to commit our troops to combat.”—James P. Maloney, Major General, USA, Retired “Be prepared to shed a few tears as Johnson reveals the damage that sustained combat can inflict on a person's psyche. His willingness to share these deeply personal thoughts will be therapeutic to any combat veteran who still suffers from his Vietnam experiences.”—Vietnam Magazine “His descriptions of war's physical and 'emotional fatigue,' and anger at its gruesome results, evoke at times those of the best combat memoirs like E. B. Sledge's With the Old Breed.”—On Point JAMES D. JOHNSON received his PhD from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The author of Combat Trauma: A Personal Look at Long-Term Consequences, he lives in Fayetteville, North Carolina. 978-1-57441-620-6 paper $19.95 978-1-57441-626-8 ebook 6x9. 312 pp. 35 b&w illus. 5 maps. Index. Vietnam War. Memoir. August
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A History of Fort Worth in Black & White
Free Blacks in Antebellum Texas Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Milton S. Jordan
165 Years of AfricanAmerican Life Richard F. Selcer
This volume fills a long-empty niche on the Fort Worth bookshelf: a scholarly history of the city’s black community that starts at the beginning with Ripley Arnold and the early settlers, and comes down to today with our current battles over education, housing, and representation in city affairs. Profiles on some noted and some not-sonoted African Americans will appeal to both schools and general readers. Using a wealth of primary sources, Richard Selcer dispels several enduring myths, for instance the mistaken belief that Camp Bowie trained only white soldiers, and the spurious claim that Fort Worth managed to avoid the racial violence that plagued other American cities in the twentieth century. Selcer arrives at some surprisingly frank conclusions that will challenge current politically correct notions. “Selcer does a great job of exploring little-known history about the military, education, sports, and even some social life and organizations.”—Bob Ray Sanders, author of Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White RICHARD SELCER is a native Fort Worther who has taught in his hometown for more than forty years. He holds a PhD from TCU, and has authored ten books on Western, military, and cultural history. He has taught at Tarrant County College, Dallas County College, and Weatherford College. 978-1-57441-616-9 cloth $29.95 978-1-57441-630-5 ebook 6x9. 400 pp. 35 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. African American Studies. Texas. November
Free Blacks in Antebellum Texas collects the essays of Harold R. Schoen and Andrew Forest Muir, early scholars who conducted the most complete studies on the topic, although neither published a book. Schoen published six articles on “The Free Negro in Republic of Texas” and Muir four articles on free blacks in Texas before the Civil War. Free black Texans experienced the dangers and risks of life on the frontier in Texas. Those experiences, and many others, required of them a strength and fortitude that evidenced the spirit and abilities of free blacks in antebellum Texas. Sometimes with support from a few whites, as well as their own efforts, they struggled and survived. Editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Milton S. Jordan include a thoughtful introduction and a wide-ranging bibliography. “Schoen and Muir were first-rate historians, and their pioneering work stands today as outstanding scholarship.”—Randolph B. Campbell, author of Gone to Texas and An Empire for Slavery BRUCE A. GLASRUD is Professor Emeritus of History, California State University, East Bay, and co-editor of the two-volume Tracking the Texas Rangers and The African American Experience in Texas. He lives in San Antonio. MILTON S. JORDAN is a graduate of Southwestern University and co-editor of If Not Me, Who? a memoir of East Texas civil rights activist Wendell Baker. Jordan lives in Georgetown, Texas. 978-1-57441-614-5 cloth $45.00s 6x9. 320 pp. Notes. Bib. Index. African American Studies. Texas. September
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From Wright Field, Ohio, to Hokkaido, Japan General Curtis E. LeMay's Letters to His Wife Helen, 1941–1945 Benjamin Paul Hegi Edited by Alfred F. Hurley Foreword by John K. Hurley
In 1942, Colonel Curtis E. LeMay and his 305th Bomb Group left Syracuse, New York, bound for England, where they joined the Eighth Air Force and Royal Air Force in war against Germany and her allies. Over the next three years LeMay led American air forces in Europe, India, China, and the Pacific against the Axis powers. His efforts yielded advancement through the chain of command to the rank of Major General in command of the XXIst Bomber Command, the most effective strategic bombing force of the war. LeMay’s activities in World War II are welldocumented, but his personal history is less thoroughly recorded. Throughout the war he wrote hundreds of letters to his wife, Helen, and daughter, Jane. They are published for the first time in this volume, woven together with meticulously researched narrative essays buttressed by both official and unofficial sources and supplemented with extensive footnotes. History remembers “LeMay, the Commander” well. From Wright Field, Ohio, to Hokkaido, Japan, will yield a better understanding of “LeMay, the Man.” BEN HEGI earned a BA (history/English) from Texas A&M University and MA (history) from the University of North Texas. ALFRED F. HURLEY, Brigadier General, USAF, was President/Chancellor/Professor Emeritus of the University of North Texas. He earned a BA (history) from St. John’s University, and MA/PhD (history) from Princeton University. 978-1-68040-001-4 paper $34.95s 6x9. 400 pp. 5 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index. World War II. October
Journal of Schenkerian Studies 9 Edited by Ryan Tacher and Benjamin Graf
The Journal of Schenkerian Studies is a peer-reviewed journal published annually by the Center for Schenkerian Studies and the University of North Texas Press under the guidance of Timothy Jackson, Stephen Slottow, and an expert editorial board. The journal features articles on all facets of Schenkerian thought, including theory, analysis, pedagogy, and historical aspects. For a list of articles in Volumes 1-8 and abstracts for Volumes 1-2, please visit http://music.unt.edu/mhte/ node/55. Back issues can be obtained from Texas A&M University Press. ISSN: 1558-268X $22.00x 71/2x91/4. 240 pp. Music. December
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Empire of Sand
The Struggle for the Southwest, 1862 Thomas W. Cutrer
Empire of Sand is the story of the Southern attempt, in 1862, to open a path to California, thus securing a port on the Pacific Ocean. The port would enable them to gain access to the gold fields of Colorado and California and expand the practice of slavery into the Southwest. This quixotic undertaking was attempted by a few regiments of Texas cavalry, known as “the Army of the Southwest,” commanded by the ambitious but ultimately incompetent Brig. Gen. Henry H. Sibley. Marching out of San Antonio and across the forbidding deserts of West Texas, the Sibley Brigade achieved initial success in winning a significant victory over the Union forces of Col. E. R. S. Canby at the battle of Valverde. They then traveled up the Rio Grande to capture Albuquerque and Santa Fe and to threaten Union possession of Colorado territory. A Federal force consisting of US regulars and Colorado volunteers, however, fought the Texans to a standstill at the battle of Glorieta Pass and decisively checked the Rebels when the notorious Col. John Chivington led a daring raid behind their lines. Civil War Campaigns and Commanders Series
THOMAS W. CUTRER is Professor Emeritus of History and American Studies at Arizona State University.
978-1-933337-65-4 paper $24.99 6x9. 170 pp. Civil War. Military History. October
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Death in September The Antietam Campaign Perry D. Jamieson 978-1-893114-06-7 paper $12.95
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Winner, 2014 George Garrett Fiction Prize
Get a Grip Kathy Flann
The stories in Get a Grip depict a range of imagined lives. There are Estonian brothers trekking from their blighted neighborhood to a college interview. There’s a TV meteorite hunter in town to search for otherworldly treasure. We meet a widow addicted to physical pain and a successful ad executive who loses all his worldly possessions in one day. All of the characters work out their struggles in the Baltimore region, channeling, in turns, the area’s charm, its despair, its humor, its self-doubt, its compassion. Get a Grip is a book about who we are when the cameras are off and the phone has died. KATHY FLANN, whose fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, The North American Review, The Michigan Quarterly Review, New Stories from the South, and other publications, teaches at Goucher College in Baltimore, where she lives with her husband, Howard. Her previous publications include a short story collection, Smoky Ordinary, and novella entitled Mad Dog.
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In her smart and beautifully observed stories, Kathy Flann drops us straight into the complex lives of a collection of imperfect strivers, who want love, want to be good, or want somehow to transcend their makeshift existences, and who are often their own worst enemies. Each of these tales is simultaneously a portrait of its grim-funny, yet touching protagonist and of a land, very like the United States, where everything is possible, and nothing is quite what it should be.”—Stephen O’Connor
978-1-68003-051-8 paper $14.95 978-1-68003-052-5 ebook 51/2x81/2. 160 pp. Collection of Short Fiction. October
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A Place for Writers Unknown . . .
A Hall of Fame for Unknown Writers S. P. Areham
After thirty-six years as a book-editor in New York, Robin retires and moves back to her girlhood home in Oberlin, Ohio. She takes with her copies of items she had kept in a special file. The items had come not from literary agents but directly from writers, reflecting their quirky, original, creative, passionate, ironic, even bizarre voices. All the items enlighten and entertain. A Hall of Fame for Unknown Writers is Robin’s story as she reproduces the comic items and nominates them for induction into America’s first (and only) hall of fame for unknown writers, where the motto reads: “We’re in Kansas forevermore.” S. P. AREHAM is a retired self-employed writer-editor who lived in Kansas, the state that houses the fictional Unknown Writers Hall of Fame in the first novel authored by Areham. Areham now lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, swims in the Pacific on a regular basis, and climbs Diamond Head every now and then as energy, health, and time permit.
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For thirty-six years, I was an editor at a family-owned (now part of a bulky conglomerate) book-publishing house in New York. In retirement, I thought it might be enjoyable to write not the Great American Novel (my authors are trying to do that) but the Fun American Novel. Over the years, I had accumulated all sorts of material that I could weave into the novel: material that came to me directly from the country’s most unforgettable unknown writers and professors.”—Robin
978-1-68003-041-9 paper $22.95 978-1-68003-042-6 ebook 51/2x81/2. 280 pp. Literary Novel. November
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Going to See the Elephant Pieces of a Writing Life George Garrett 978-1-881515-42-5 paper $18.95
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Winner, 2014 Clay Reynolds Novella Prize
Elevation: 6,040 Ernest J. Finney
It’s 1981, and thirteen-year-old Roscoe McAdams and his brother and sister have always lived with their parents, Sebastian and Moonstar, in an isolated cabin high on a ridge in California’s northern Sierra, though often in spring when Moonstar can’t stand the snow anymore she takes them for a stay down below. They’ve mostly been home-schooled. Then, through a fluke that April, Moonstar becomes a substitute teacher in a small town and enrolls the kids in school there. Roscoe assumes that when summer comes, they’ll go back to the ridge and Sebastian: that’s how it’s always been. But they don’t, and then everything Roscoe thinks he knows for sure begins to fall apart. ERNEST J. FINNEY, who lives in Sierra County, California, writes stories and novels, mostly set in the San Francisco Bay area or in the Central Valley or the Sierras. His books include Winterchill, Lady With the Alligator Purse, Words of My Roaring, California Time, Birds Landing, Flights in the Heavenlies, and Sequoia Gardens: California Stories.
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This is a novella of beauty, imagination, and the unique bonding of a unique family in a unique situation that captivates from the first few lines and never releases its grip. It is unrelentingly honest, often difficult to absorb because of the discomfort it creates. Peopled by fascinating and original characters, it comes alive on the page and enters the heart, often leaving one breathless.”—Clay Reynolds, Final Judge
978-1-68003-049-5 paper $12.95 978-1-68003-050-1 ebook 51/2x81/2. 128 pp. Novellas. November
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Houston’s own Iliad . . .
The Houstiliad An Iliad for Houston
Michael Lieberman The Houstiliad, An Iliad for Houston: Does Houston need its own Iliad? If it’s Mike Lieberman’s, it does. In this nervy adaptation of Homer’s classic, the story of Achilles’ rage is told with a deft touch and a large dollop of humor. Achilles, an MIT-trained engineer, has dropped out and with Patroclus, his white macaw, cruises around Houston on an old BMW motorcycle looking for trouble. And he finds plenty. The result is a wry take on Houston and an uncompromising exploration of the rage of men in contemporary society. Here’s how Lieberman’s narrator introduces the story: Achilles’ wrath is where our tale begins then spools out venom and his mortal sins. It’s tempered true but false to Homer's style, suffused with guile, grit, and mordant wiles. The enterprise is underpinned by myth— Achilles’ soul and psyche are the plinth on which our story’s force and verve depend, and which the meddling gods and fate upend. Men savage men in violent travails though in the end it’s humor that prevails.
MICHAEL LIEBERMAN, retired research physician, is the author of six books of poems and three previous novels: Never Surrender--Never Retreat, The Lobsterman’s Daughter, and The Women of Harvard Square. He lives in Houston with his wife, the writer Susan A. Lieberman.
978-1-68003-055-6 paper $18.95 978-1-68003-056-3 ebook 51/2x81/2. 208 pp. Literary Novel. October
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The Lobsterman's Daughter Michael Lieberman 978-1-937875-59-6 paper $14.95 978-1-937875-60-2 ebook
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“We are the fools of time and terror.”—Lord Byron
Fools of Time Thomas H. Schmid
Associate Professor Gale Ruthven, a vampire with nearly four hundred years of service at eighty-three colleges and universities, teaches British Romantic poetry at an obscure commuter college somewhere in far West Texas, enjoying an existence of literary research, student papers, and the bare amount of blood-sucking necessary to survive. His chief aggravation is the Regency Romantic poet, Lord Byron, on whom he fed in 1816 and who refuses to play the role of submissive underling. When a powerful and seductive vampire named Tempest joins the faculty, Ruthven becomes entangled in a dark mystery involving ancient vampire cults in Mexico and the American Southwest, a hippie vampire named Via Medea, grave robbers in Byron’s Gothic ancestral estate in Nottinghamshire, and a shadowy vampire associate from Ruthven’s early nineteenth-century past— all of which lead him on a wild chase across two continents and to a final showdown in the New Mexico badlands. THOMAS H. SCHMID lives with his wife Joanie in El Paso, where he has taught for 25 years. He is professor of English at the University of Texas at El Paso and the author or editor of books on Humor and Transgression in the Shelley circle, Romanticism and Pleasure (coedited with Michelle Faubert), and A Student Guide to Writing about Literature.
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Tom Schmid has written the ultimate vampire novel. The unholy crew has invaded academia, where the wellsprings of blood are fresh and abundant. Fools of Time is easily the most entertaining novel I’ve read in years.” —Rick DeMarinis
978-1-68003-057-0 paper $18.95 978-1-68003-058-7 ebook 51/2x81/2. 224 pp. Literary Novel. November
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A memoir of Central Texas . . .
Raiders and Horse Thieves Memoir of a Central Texas Baby Boomer Jackie Ellis Stewart
“All the more desirable coastal land of the New World had been acquired by the 1840s and ’50s. The Scots-Irish entered this country through the Mid-Atlantic States rather than New England. They settled first in Virginia and Maryland and then moved on to Kentucky and West Virginia. Some went further south from there, while others moved west. Raiders and Horse Thieves is the story of my early childhood in Cedar Creek, Texas (Bastrop County), during the final days of World War II. Due to Reconstruction and the Great Depression, economic growth in this central Texas County had been severely restricted. The residents maintained the pioneer values and lived the lifestyle of a much earlier period. This is a true story of the human will to persevere, against Nature and against one another. I describe growing up in a ramshackle old house called The Holcomb Place, in Cedar Creek, Bastrop County. All the elements of life in rural Texas are there: drought; storms; rattlesnakes; religion; guns. . . .”—Jackie Ellis Stewart From the book: “It was Judy who found the family plot hidden among a clump of young mesquites. The larger headstone was broken; lying face down and embedded in the earth. A number of smaller markers had once surrounded it, but time and the weather, as well as grazing animals and invasive vegetation, had worn them down to indecipherable sandstone lumps. The men were able to pull the larger marker free; they used Joe’s handkerchief to clean off the inscription. Sure enough: Absalom Ellis.” JACKIE ELLIS STEWART, born in Bastrop, Texas, was educated in the central Texas public school system, the University of Texas at Austin, and George Peabody College in Nashville. She married Jack Stewart in 1968. The couple has four children and four grandchildren and currently are living in a suburb of Memphis, with their better-than- standard poodle, George.
978-1-68003-061-7 paper $18.95 978-1-68003-062-4 ebook 51/2x81/2. 200 pp. Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. November
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Winship's Log Robert Winship 978-1-937875-55-8 paper $18.95 978-1-937875-56-5 ebook
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New from 2005 Texas State Poet Laureate . . .
Winner, 2014 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize
Waking the Bones
Ascension
J. Scott Brownlee
New and Selected Works
Alan Birkelbach
This is the most complete selection of work by 2005 Texas State Poet Laureate Alan Birkelbach ever put in one volume. It brings together selections that represent his more recognizable pieces, work that has only been available in journals, work that has only been available in books that are out of print or unavailable, plus a generous selection of new work. In Case of Poetry Reading Break Glass It is almost certain this is a scenario that will never happen: if someone spontaneously combusts while reading something by Bukowski then perhaps they should be allowed to burn. Then let’s all go for the axe. Of course, the sign there would read, “In case of fire break glass,” and inside the tiny little alcove, the shelf barely big enough to hold an ancient dwarf mummy, would be a poetry book which most of us, I fear, would not know how to use. We would stare blankly at it for several seconds, wondering what possible good it could do us, how it might yet save our lives.
Set in the drought-plagued landscape of Central Texas, Ascension is a collection of lyric poems that chronicles life in and around Llano, Texas (population 3,033). Brownlee’s poems meditate on the inescapability of place. Organ Solo with Oblivion and Gar Skittish fish lay eggs in this shallow stone cleft of an algae chorus. Turn my soul into song, if you can, River Lord. Treat believing the same as each minnow slipping coin-like into deep murk. Your spirit mimics me unblinking, fishbone face framing brackish absence, saying, Kneel into this. Lean low, sinner, & drink. Bitter infidel, swallow the black granite whole if you are not afraid of what comes after it: ___________. Live forever.
ALAN BIRKELBACH, a native Texan currently living in The Colony, Texas, was the 2005 Poet Laureate of Texas. He has been named as one of the Distinguished Poets of Dallas, was nominated for Wrangler, Spur, and Pushcart Prizes, and is a member of both the Texas Institute of Letters and The Academy of American Poets.
J. SCOTT BROWNLEE is a founding member of the Localists, a literary collective that emphasizes placebased writing of personal witness, cultural memory, and the aesthetically marginalized working class. His poems appear in The Kenyon Review, Narrative, Beloit Poetry Journal, RATTLE, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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978-1-68003-045-7 paper $8.95 978-1-68003-046-4 ebook 51/2x81/2. 48 pp. Poetry. September
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William Virgil Davis New and Selected Poems . . .
New poems from the author of Penetralia . . .
Dismantlements of Silence
River Road
Richard Foerster
Poems Selected and New William Virgil Davis
William Virgil Davis is a widely published, awardwinning poet. Among his many honors, fellowships, and awards are the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize, the New Criterion Poetry Prize, and the Helen C. Smith Memorial Award for Poetry. His poems regularly appear in leading journals, both in this country and abroad. His Dismantlements of Silence: Poems Selected and New brings together a generous selection of Davis’s poetry to date. It includes samples of his early uncollected work, poems from his previously published books, and selections from his most recently published work. Driving Alone in Winter Driving alone in winter through acres of land deserted by everything save the snow trapped in the ruts of the road, the moon broken by the bare trees, I remember the days when my brothers and I would fall asleep in the backseat on the way home. Tonight, coming home, I remember the faint light on the dashboard holding my father’s face, my mother’s soft voice, my brothers asleep, the moon running among the trees beside the car.
Set primarily in a garden alongside a tidal river in Maine, River Road maps the troubled path of a middle-aged man torn between longing for an idealized past that never existed and realizing he must remain vulnerable to a future of love. Over Breakfast . . . he said, We need to reinvent ourselves, meaning not so much the pair as the each of us, as if we could unroll the raw blue-print of being, right there on the table between us by setting our bowls and cups at the corners to fix it in place and staring down abstract anew the physics of stress and tolerance into other schemata, as if time were a constant and love, an infinite variable that always yields a positive future, but one yet together, as if mindfulness were will and will by necessity commands action. So we sat, long, looking each into the other’s eyes.
WILLIAM VIRGIL DAVIS, of Austin, Texas, has published five other books of poetry: The Bones Poems; Landscape and Journey; Winter Light; The Dark Hours; and One Way to Reconstruct the Scene, which won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. A widely published scholar, he is Professor of English and Writer-in-Residence at Baylor University.
RICHARD FOERSTER is the author of Sudden Harbor, Patterns of Descent, Trillium, Double Going, The Burning of Troy, and Penetralia (Texas Review Press, 2011). Recipient of numerous honors, including the “Discovery”/The Nation Award, Poetry magazine’s Bess Hokin Prize, a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, and two NEA poetry fellowships, he lives on the coast of Southern Maine.
978-1-68003-047-1 paper $12.95 978-1-68003-048-8 ebook 51/2x81/2. 200 pp. Poetry. October
978-1-68003-053-2 paper $8.95 978-1-68003-054-9 ebook 6x9. 80 pp. Poetry. September
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The best of poetry from Texas
Winner, 2014 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize
Southern Poetry Anthology, VIII: Texas
Inked
Corinna McClanahan Schroeder
The poems in Inked chart a course of departure and return. These are finely-crafted, musical poems, attentive to the world’s rhythms in an Ohio apple orchard, at a Midlands train station, in the throbbing life of the South. Instructions for Return
Follow the serpentine river roads toward the Little Miami’s lip. Pass through the sycamores, their molting whitewashed limbs. These are curves I can still ride hard, roads I can trace along a back’s bare skin. Feel that wind, saturated, undercut with vespertine chill. Let it frizz your hair. Turn up the Smashing Pumpkins or the Cowboy Junkies. That’s river musk on your teeth. See how the lightning bugs burn their bulbs just ahead? In the rearview, bats unstitch your wake. Now the humming bridge in your fingertips and thighs. Remember that darkening vein underneath, how it pushes and pushes toward main stem waters. The truss will bear your weight ten thousand times. CORINNA MCCLANAHAN SCHROEDER received her MFA from the University of Mississippi and is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Southern California. She is the recipient of an AWP Intro Journals Award in poetry, and her poems have been published in numerous journals. She lives with her husband, Matthew, in Los Angeles, California. 978-1-68003-059-4 paper $8.95 978-1-68003-060-0 ebook 51/2x81/2. 64 pp. Poetry. September
Edited by William Wright, Paul Ruffin, and Nick Lantz
Texas sprawls. No other state can claim such varied nationalities, geographies, and cultural richness—a largesse of natural resources, cityscapes, and landscapes of every ecosystem. With a unique, raucous, and rich history, Texas also abounds with some of the most diverse contemporary poets, many of whom consider themselves “Southern,” and the eighth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology reflects this variegation with poems both traditional and experimental, Texas-centered and universal. SOW Chomping her chocolates of fresh road kills, she swaggers through her slop, oblivious of the piglets she crushed during last night’s slumber, squishing through the splits of her thick, cloven hooves. The last boar which tried to straddle her fabulous girth fractured both forelegs. She dined on his carcass for days, grunting in the shade. —Larry Thomas
WILLIAM WRIGHT, author of four books of poetry and series editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology, lives in Marietta, Georgia. PAUL RUFFIN is the author or editor of over thirty books. He lives in Willis, Texas. NICK LANTZ, author of three poetry collections, teaches poetry at Sam Houston State University and lives in Huntsville, Texas. 978-1-68003-063-1 paper $22.95 978-1-68003-064-8 ebook 6x9. 296 pp. Poetry. November
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The Azaleas of Nacogdoches Barbara Stump
The Azaleas of Nacogdoches is a photographic tour of some of the finest azalea gardens in East Texas, not to mention the United States. Follow Barbara Stump on her annual tour of these magnificent plants, culminating in the Ruby M. Mize Azaelea Garden where more than one hundred feet of purple spider azaleas are planted alongside University Road and frame one side of the garden. Composed of a broad variety of plant specimens, including Japanese maples, hydrangeas, camellias, and more than 6,500 azaleas, the Ruby M. Mize Garden is Texas’s largest azalea garden and attracts thousands of tourists annually.
978-1-62288-031-7 flexbound $35.00 10x8. 100 pp. 100 color photos. Gardening/Horticulture. Nature Travel. October
The garden is designed in a naturalistic style to showcase the full range of azalea colors, as well as camellias in the winter, Japanese maple color throughout the year, and more than one thousand other ornamental trees. Here, however, the focus is azaleas, and page after page is a delight in color and composition. The azaleas of Nacogdoches are special, breathtaking, unsurpassed. No wonder Nacogdoches was recently named as the Garden Capital of Texas; The Azaleas of Nacogdoches provides compelling evidence why this designation is appropriate. BARBARA STUMP is the Research Associate for Development at SFA Gardens and the project coordinator for the Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden. Barbara received a BS in English from Iowa State University in 1968 and her MS in horticulture from Stephen F. Austin State University in 2001. Her thesis topic was site analysis and design of the Ruby M. Mize Azalea Garden.
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Well Done
Stephen F. Austin State University 90th Anniversary Cookbook Kimberly Verhines
Well Done: Stephen F. Austin State University 90th Anniversary Cookbook is a veritable feast and a unique book in many ways. For readers interested in East Texas history or for alumni of Stephen F. Austin State University, Well Done provides an exceptional pictorial profile and overview of the university, its campus, its events, and its array of characters spanning 90 years.
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Among the photographs are those of historical figures who played prominently on the SFA campus and in the larger Nacogdoches community, athletes past to present, students, faculty, games, social activities, and so on. Each page is a visual surprise, and nostalgia becomes a heartwarming occasion here. Were this not palatable enough in itself, the book is also a comprehensive cookbook, containing a variety of wonderful recipes that readers and cooking enthusiasts anywhere may enjoy. The recipes are tried and true and provided for the occasion by campus luminaries, faculty, and SFA friends. As an illustrated cookbook, Well Done is a true delight for eyes and for appetites, and the careful fusion of photographs and foods is remarkable. KIMBERLY VERHINES received her MA in Literature from University of Houston Clear Lake and her Master’s of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from University of Idaho. She and her husband, Mark, own a small ranch near Nacogdoches, Texas, where they raise horses.
Done 90+ years and cooking 978-1-62288-400-1 hardcover $35.00 11x81/2. 200 pp. 100 color, 50 b&w photos. Cooking. Texas History. Popular Culture. October
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ChoctawApache Foodways Robert B. Caldwell Jr.
FOOTPRINTS
Footprints of a Private John Pearce
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Choctaw-Apache Foodways explores the rich and complex food history and culture of the ChoctawApache Community of Ebarb in western Louisiana. The corn complex is an indispensable component of Choctaw-Apache food traditions. Corn was such an important part of the tribe’s culture that, according to Rhonda Remedies Gauthier, many families grew two seasons of corn every year. Shuck Bread by Arlene V. Rivers Wright, Ebarb, Louisiana 2 cups cornmeal (yellow or white) 1 tsp. salt 1 tsp. soda Corn shucks (boil before using) Mix cornmeal, soda, and salt with enough boiling water to make a very thick paste. Wrap in corn shucks like tamale and tie. Drop into deep pot of boiling water. Cover and cook for 40 minutes (or steam just like tamales until they are done).
ROBERT B. CALDWELL JR. is is a PhD candidate in the Transatlantic History Program at the University of Texas at Arlington where he focuses on colonialism, imperialism, and cartographic history. He holds a Bachelors of Arts degree in Anthropology and History from the University of New Orleans, a Masters of Science degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and a Masters of Arts degree in Heritage Resources from Northwestern State University. He is enrolled in the Choctaw-Apache Tribe of Ebarb and is a founder of the Ho Minti Society, a group dedicated to teaching the tribe’s traditional culture. 978-1-62288-099-7 paper $22.00 8x11. 68 pp. Native American Studies. Cooking. Agriculture. September
Frank Webster Pearce’s informative diary and letters home form the backbone of this in-depth look at Texas’ own 36th Division and the 111th Engineer Combat Battalion. The Division’s story has been told before, but never from start to finish by a combat engineer, whose footprints stirred the sands of three invasion beaches, wallowed through the mud, and trudged in the snow of every battle. Added to it is an up close look at the movement of the engineers, detailed to company, platoon, and squad units. With the combination of diary, numerous letters home describing the wants and needs of a private, and official 36th Division reports, you have the most complete look ever produced on the engineers and their war with Hitler’s Germany. This is a primary account, written daily as the events unfolded. Here you find out how to properly bury a man in the water soaked Italian soil, a fool proof way to smuggle liquor from the US to the soldiers overseas, the foul stench of death reeking across the battlefield, and the beauty of exploding artillery shells in the night sky. For over forty years JOHN PEARCE has been a requested speaker and an author of numerous articles concerning his vocation: football. He was the head football coach at Stephen F. Austin State University for seven years, an assistant at Texas A&M University for three seasons, UCLA for four years, and the assistant head coach at Rice University in 2006. 978-1-62288-102-4 paper $20.00 6x9. 310 pp. 100-plus b&w photos. Military History. September
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Idols, Icons, and Illusions Bill Mesce Jr.
978-1-62288-096-6 paper $20.00 6x9. 312 pp. 20 b&w photos. Performing Arts. Film. September
There is cinema . . . and there are the movies. This is a book for movie junkies: salutes to the once great but now forgotten stars, to the acknowledged behindthe-scenes movers and shakers, and to the movies themselves—the classics major and minor, the overlooked gems, the guiltiest of guilty pleasures. If you’re old enough to remember Saturday matinees or late night fright flicks on your local TV channels—or just wish you were—grab a bag of popcorn, a soft seat, and enjoy the show. This book synopsizes dozens of films, and includes a variety of personal and critical essays written by Bill Mesce, Jr. 1: A Night to Remember (1958) Directed by Roy Ward Baker Adapted from Walter Lord’s book by Eric Ambler James Cameron’s Titanic (1997) might have had better special effects (change that; it had incredible effects), but its gooey teen romance front story pales next to this painstakingly exact adaptation of Walter Lord’s classic account of the tragic 1912 sinking of the opulent ocean liner on her maiden voyage. It’s a stirring and ultimately moving account of grace under pressure, of human hubris and waste, of heroism and infuriating indifference. Cameron caught some of it, but Night is wholly dedicated to it and it still stands as a textbook example of how to do it right.
BILL MESCE, JR. is a screenwriter, playwright, and author of fiction and nonfiction. He spent 27 years in the corporate communications area of pay-TV giant Home Box Office and is currently an adjunct instructor at several colleges and universities in his native New Jersey. From August 2010 to February 2014, he regularly wrote for Sound on Sight, which is where these pieces first appeared.
Sleeping Giant
Judy R. Smith
978-1-62288-097-3 paper $18.00 6x9. 162 pp. Fiction. September
Part entrancing fable, yet based on historical fact, Sleeping Giant is by turns alarming and endearing. It is the story of the last remaining Montowese Indians around the mountainous formation called Sleeping Giant in Southern Connecticut. JUDY R. SMITH is a Professor Emerita of American and Native American Literature at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. Her first novel, Yellowbird, won the Native Writers’ Circle of the Americas Award. Her fiction interrogates the complicated relationships among and between Algonquin Indians and English Colonists.
McTavich that Rascal Squirrel 978-1-62288-101-7 paper $12.00 81/2x81/2. 20 pp. 14 illus. Juvenile Fiction. September
The Acorn People are squirrels who live in the GlenCoe Higlands of Scotland, and they are generally good-hearted. But this is the tale of McTavish, an outlaw among the Acorn People. He is guilty of stealing from the community’s annual acorn gathering. Will McTavich, that rascal squirrel, be redeemed? CAROLYN TOLLEFSON has written many stories about her adventures in life, her family, and poetry. Carolyn lives with her husband Bob, in Nacogdoches. They have one daughter Kim.
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One Man’s Christmas Leon Hale
Leon Hale’s well-known gift for touching the humanity in all of us finds the ideal subject in this personal recollection of Christmases he has known throughout his life. Originally published in 1984 and long out of print, One Man’s Christmas highlights the warmth and humor for which this legendary writer is so beloved. Whether Hale is scrambling to put together a new toy for his children on Christmas Eve, racing around to buy last minute, often misguided gifts, or reliving his family’s fraught holiday on a hardscrabble sheep farm during the Great Depression, the unique sensibility that has endeared him to generations of readers shines through every word. These are stories to savor by oneself or to read out loud to loved ones of all ages during the holiday season, when we discover again in our own memories the reasons why this time of year is so special. LEON HALE is the award-winning longtime columnist for the Houston Chronicle, and before that, The Houston Post, author of eleven books including regional bestsellers, Home Spun and Supper Time. He has received the prestigious Lon Tinkle lifetime achievement award from the Texas Institute of Letters as well as awards for fiction and non-fiction from TIL, the Headliners Foundation, United Press International, and the Associated Press, among others. Last year the Texas Newspaper Association Foundation elected him to their Hall of Fame. Retired in 2014 from column writing after a 65-year career, Hale blogs at blog.chron. com/leonhale, tweets @leonhale1921 and may be visited at leonhale. com and facebook.com/leonhale.
978-1-62349-384-4 paper $16.00 5x8. 72 pp. 20 b&w photos. Texana. September
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Reading these short meditations is like settling in with a box of bourbon candy. It’s hard to stop with just a few. . . .”—Kirkus Reviews Hale’s voice in writing is the voice of the man himself. Colloquial, wise, caring, closely observant and— most often at his own expense—wrily and powerfully humorous.”—John Graves
Old Friends A Collection Leon Hale 978-0-9752727-0-1 cloth $24.00
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Wildflowers of Texas Geyata Ajilvsgi
Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country Marshall Enquist
In her popular Wildflowers of Texas, native-plant expert Geyata Ajilvsgi gives lay readers the most comprehensive field guide currently available on the state’s abundant wildflowers. This latest edition contains information on 482 of the most common species found in the state’s major vegetation zones. Each entry includes a fullcolor photograph of the flower on the page facing the entry, bloom period, range and habitat, and botanical description. A special note in each entry explains the plant’s therapeutic, culinary, and other traditional uses, such as landscaping value. A color map of Texas shows the state’s major vegetation zones, corresponding to the range codes used in the text. Other supplementary material includes a glossary of botanical terms, an illustrated glossary of plant parts, and a selected bibliography for future reading. GEYATA AJILVSGI writes and photographs from her home in the Hill Country. Considered among the state’s top plant and butterfly experts, she is the author of Butterfly Gardening for Texas and many other books. 978-0-940672-73-4 flexbound $19.95 43/4x71/2. 544 pp. 486 color photos. Map. Illustrated glossary. Bib. Index. Natural History. Nature Guide. Field Guide. Texana.
A land of rugged hills and deeply cut canyons with clear streams running over beds of solid limestone, the Hill Country is rich in regional species, from Sycamore-Leaf Snow Bell and Texas Barberry to Canyon Mock-Orange and Scarlet Leatherflower. In the classic reference Wildflowers of the Texas Hill Country, Austin conservationist Marshall Enquist provides detailed descriptions and color illustrations of 427 wildflower species. Broad in scope, the book covers everything from the smallest meadow flowers to the largest flowering trees and shrubs. A comprehensive guide to the flora of one of Texas’ most beautiful regions, Enquist subdivides and provides brief explanations of three geological areas within the Hill Country: the Edwards Plateau, the Lampasas Cut Plains, and the Llano Uplift and the indigenous species of wildflowers that thrive in each locale. Published by Lone Star Botanical. MARSHALL ENQUIST is an Austin attorney and conservationist, whose long time focus has been plants of Central Texas. 978-0-9618013-0-4 paper $19.95 51/2x81/2. 275 pp. 438 color photographs. Illustrated glossary. Bib. Index. Natural History. Nature Guide. Field Guide. Texana.
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Texas Country Reporter Cookbook
Lone Star Eats A Gathering of Recipes from Great Texas Cookbooks
Recipes from the Viewers of “Texas Country Reporter”
Edited by Terry ThompsonAnderson
It’s no wonder that Texans love to eat: the Lone Star State is not only the nation’s second-largest producer of agricultural products but also one of the richest in culinary diversity. In compiling Lone Star Eats, Terry ThompsonAnderson has pored over a vast collection of Texas cookbooks and chosen the best examples of the way Texans eat today. More than 500 favorite recipes make up this collection, from down-home comfort foods with rural roots to sophisticated dishes of urban inspiration. Drawing from more than 65 different cookbooks, published by some of the state’s leading chefs and by community organizations such as junior leagues and church auxiliaries, Thompson-Anderson has selected traditional favorites as well as new classics to illustrate the mouth-watering array of good eats that characterize Texas cooking. TERRY THOMPSON-ANDERSON is a professional chef, cookbook author, culinary instructor, and restaurant consultant. She has written five cookbooks, including Texas on the Plate, Cajun-Creole Cooking, Eating Southern Style, and The Texas Hill Country: A Food and Wine Lover’s Paradise. She is a charter member of the International Association of Culinary Professions (IACP) and the Southern Foodways Alliance. She lives in Fredericksburg, Texas. 978-0-940672-76-5 flexbound $21.95 8x10. 384 pp. Index. Cooking. Texana.
Bob Phillips llustrated by Barbara Jezek
In traveling the backroads to gather material for the popular television show Texas Country Reporter, producer Bob Phillips and his crew have tasted some of the best Texas cooking—from crawfish in Mauriceville to chili in Terlingua to sautéed tumbleweeds in Clint. In this cookbook viewers from all around the state share their favorite recipes, along with colorful anecdotes about the history of the dish. BOB PHILLIPS is the host and producer of the weekly syndicated television show Texas Country Reporter, which airs in all 22 Texas media markets, generally on weekends. In 2005, Phillips was inducted into the Silver Circle of the Lone Star Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. He lives in Beaumont, Texas. 978-0-940672-54-3 paper $15.95 7x10. 256 pp. Line drawings. Index. Cooking. Texana.
Preserving and celebrating German culture
Our Way of Life
Voices of Gillespie County in the 1970s
Philip O’Bryan Montgomery III 978-0-940672-87-1 hardbound $39.95 10x81/2. 128 pp. 40 duotone photos. Texana.
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A Family Farm in Tuscany Recipes and Stories from Fattoria Poggio Alloro
by Sarah Fioroni
A Family Farm in Tuscany
Recipes and Stories from Fattoria Poggio Alloro Sarah Fioroni
Sarah Fioroni shares stories of family traditions and daily life as well as recipes in A Family Farm in Tuscany: Recipes and Stories from Fattoria Poggio Alloro. Fioroni provides a month-by-month glimpse of farm living as well as seasonal recipes that are simple yet so delicious, and easy to prepare in your kitchen. Three generations of Fioronis continue to work the land using age-old practices and sustainable agriculture, growing a bounty of fruits, vegetables, cereal crops, olives, and grapes for their award-winning wines. They also keep bees, produce saffron, and raise chickens, Chianina cattle, and pigs, the basis of homemade prosciuttos and salamis. The book is illustrated with hundreds of color photographs depicting the landscapes and crops, as well as the family at work and at the table. The farm is also a popular agriturismo destination, giving visitors an opportunity to stay overnight, participate in various farming activities, and revel in the tastes of freshly prepared food and artisanal farm products. SARAH FIORONI is executive chef, sommelier, and general manager of Fattoria Poggio Alloro near San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy. 978-0-940672-83-3 flexbound $24.95 81/2x81/2. 240 pp. 373 color, 16 b&w photos. Map. Bib. Index. Cooking. Italy. Farming.
Don Strange of Texas His Life and Recipes
Frances Strange with Terry Thompson-Anderson Photographs by Tracey Maurer San Antonio catering company Don Strange of Texas, known across the state as “the king of caterers,” is acclaimed for serving fresh, delicious food with imaginative flair, even at events attended by thousands of people. From its humble beginnings as a small grocery store and meat market, the business has evolved into an empire of catering venues. The author, Don’s wife, reveals his innovative genius in cooking and serving party foods, his showman’s sense of fun and surprise, and his dogged persistence in overcoming the challenges of feeding huge crowds under adverse conditions. The book contains more than one hundred of the caterer’s most popular recipes, adapted for the home kitchen by noted chef Terry Thompson-Anderson. Also included are cooking tips and sample party menus. Tracey Maurer’s full-color photographs illustrate selected dishes and the caterer’s signature serving style. FRANCES STRANGE is owner of Don Strange Market Place, a full-service catering company in San Antonio. 978-0-940672-81-9 cloth $34.95 10x10. 256 pp. 245 color photos. Index. Cooking.
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Fishing Texas
An Angler’s Guide Russell Tinsley
978-0-940672-44-4 paper $14.95 51/4x83/4. 318 pp. 146 color illus. 1 color, 6 b&w photos. Index. Fishing. Sport.
Even experienced fishermen sometimes have a hard time telling a redear sunfish from a longear sunfish, or a southern flounder from a Gulf flounder. Now you can be certain of the difference with this indispensable guide to the sport fish of Texas. Designed to fit into tackle box or boat, the book includes: Beautiful color illustrations of the 36 freshwater and 84 saltwater fish species most often encountered in Texas waters; Useful details about Texas fish, such as spawning habits, preferred habitats and foods, explaining where to find them and at what time of year; Hundreds of valuable tips gleaned from years of experience by expert fishermen; A handy guide to angling basics, including equipment, bait, influences that affect fish, and more; A wrap-up of state sport fishing regulations;
PCS to Corporate America
From Military Tactics to Corporate Interviewing Strategy Roger Cameron with Chuck Alvarez and Joel Junker 978-0-940672-85-7 paper $14.95 8½x4½. 269 pp. Index. Appendixes. Business Practice.
Both a workbook and a reference book, this bestselling resource guides junior military officers seeking a permanent change of station (PCS) through each stage of a job search. Covering everything from making an application to accepting an offer, with emphasis on mission-critical preparation for the initial and follow-up interviews, this book will help JMOs make a successful transition to corporate America. ROGER CAMERON is a leading authority on corporate interviewing strategy and cofounder of the recruiting firm Cameron-Brooks Inc.
The Story of Texas
John Edward Weems Compiled by Ron Stone Illustrations by Tom Jones 978-0-940672-35-2 paper $10.95 51/2x81/2. 220 pp. 121 color illus. Index. Texas History. Young Readers.
Told in simple language for children of all ages, The State and world records for all species, plus informa- Story of Texas emphasizes the drama and excitement tion on how you can get your prize catch in the record of the state’s history—from prehistoric times to the books. modern age of space travel and computers. RUSSELL TINSLEY was the first outdoor editor of the Austin American Statesman, a photographer, and author of eleven books on hunting, fishing, and taxidermy.
JOHN EDWARD WEEMS was a freelance writer, and the author of ten books, including A Weekend in September.
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Cleopatra’s Barge in 1818 by George Ropes Jr. Courtesy of the Peabody Essex Museum. From the book Shipwrecked in Paradise: Cleopatra’s Barge in Hawai‘i by Paul F. Johnston. (See page 3)
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