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This past fall, Texas A&M Press was proud to join university presses around the country in celebrating the first annual University Press Week “University presses provide American citizens and their leaders a wealth of authoritative knowledge and fresh insights on the nations, economies, cultures, and beliefs of virtually every corner of the world.

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—Dr. Robert A. Gates, former secretary of defense, former CIA director, and former president of Texas A&M University

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Attracting airborne beauty to your garden . . .

Butterfly Gardening for Texas Geyata Ajilvsgi Texas hosts an unparalleled number of butterfly species, and whether one lives near the beaches of the Gulf Coast or in the mountains of the Trans-Pecos, all Texans can enjoy the color and tranquility that butterflies bring to any outdoor space.

In Butterfly Gardening for Texas, author and expert Geyata Ajilvsgi shares a wealth of practical information about all kinds of butterflies and the many flowers and other plants they utilize in their miraculous life cycle: from hidden egg to munching caterpillar to cryptic chrysalis to nectar-sipping, winged adult.

Written in an engaging, nontechnical style for anyone who wants to attract butterflies to the yard or garden, the book provides tips for making gardens caterpillar- and butterflyfriendly, in-depth profiles of more than fifty butterflies, descriptions of the food plants for a variety of both caterpillars and butterflies, and plant lists for easy selection and substitution, depending on where you live and what is available.

For those who want specific advice on what to plant where, Ajilvsgi has designed useful, adaptable landscape plans and extensive planting options for each of seven state regions.

Helpful appendices aid gardeners in taking photographs of the butterflies they attract, in locating sources for seeds and plants, and in finding organizations and other instructive publications for additional information about these beautiful and beneficial insects.

As the popularity of butterfly gardening continues to increase, gardeners of all skill levels will find Butterfly Gardening for Texas an invaluable source of guidance and inspiration.

Number Forty-six: Louise Lindsey Merrick Natural Environment Series

978-1-60344-806-2 flexbound $35.00 81/2x11. 448 pp. 268 color photos. 11 line art. 2 maps.

17 tables. Appendices. Bib. Index.

Gardening. Insects/Entomology. Wildlife.

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GEYATA AJILVSGI works as a butterfly and butterfly plant specialist in Austin. Considered among the state’s top plant and butterfly experts, she is the author of Wild Flowers of Texas and other books.

Praise for Ajilvsgi’s Butterfly Gardening for the South: “ . . . a must for the butterfly gardener.”—Houston Chronicle “ . . . the very best book on butterfly gardening! . . . Wherever you live, this book is an essential addition to your library.”—American Butterflies

A Dazzle of Dragonflies Forrest L. Mitchell and James Lasswell 978-1-58544-459-5 cloth $39.95

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Eagles in winter, bears in spring, sea turtles in summer, and salmon in fall . . . when and where to view some of America’s most emblematic wildlife . . .

Wildlife Watching in America’s National Parks A Seasonal Guide Gary W. Vequist and Daniel S. Licht From the Great Smoky Mountains to Point Reyes National Seashore, America’s national parks are home to some of nature’s great wildlife spectacles. Here, Gary W. Vequist and Daniel S. Licht, two veterans of the National Park Service, focus on twelve animals that have been imperiled and at risk, but are now protected within the National Park System.

Showcasing one species for each month of the year, including gray wolf, black bear, prairie dog, sea turtle, bison, bats, salmon, elk, beaver, American alligator, gray whale, and bald eagle, Vequist and Licht pair each premier species with a featured park, adding information about other parks where the species may also be readily seen and identifying other animals to look for in the same habitat—animals that prey, are preyed upon, or exist side by side with the focal species.

Beyond being a guide to observing these remarkable animals, Wildlife Watching in America’s National Parks, as the title implies, is also a book about America’s national parks. Reminding Americans why national parks are truly our “best idea” and encouraging readers to go find out why, these career wildlife specialists stress that it is “impossible to fathom America without these animals and without the parks in which they reside.”

Nature lovers, travelers, and outdoor hobbyists of all types will be enthralled by this inside view of America’s wildlife and the breathtaking photographs of places they inhabit.

Wildlife and Parks Featured Yellowstone National Park: Gray Wolf Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Black Bear Badlands National Park: Prairie Dog Dry Tortugas National Park: Sea Turtle Theodore Roosevelt National Park: Plains Bison Carlsbad Caverns National Park: Bats Olympic National Park: Pacific Salmon Buffalo National River: Rocky Mountain Elk Cuyahoga Valley National Park: Beaver Everglades National Park: American Alligator Point Reyes National Seashore: Gray Whale

GARY W. VEQUIST’s career as a biologist, ranger naturalist, and nature interpreter spans forty years and six parks. He recently retired as Associate Regional Director for Natural Resource Stewardship and Science at the Midwest Regional office of the National Park Service in Omaha. DANIEL S. LICHT has been professionally involved in wildlife issues in Alaska, Maine, South Carolina, Texas, California, and several states in the Midwest and Great Plains. He is currently the National Park Service’s Midwest regional wildlife biologist, stationed in Rapid City, South Dakota.

978-1-60344-814-7 flexbound $25.00 53/4x81/4. 238 pp. 97 color photos. 3 maps. 15 tables.

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Nature Guides. Wildlife. Nature Travel.

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On Politics and Parks George Bristol 978-1-60344-762-1 cloth $30.00

Nature Watch Austin Guide to the Seasons in an Urban Wildland Lynne Weber and Jim Weber 978-1-60344-431-6 flexbound $24.95

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An up-to-date, how-to source for photographing one of America’s most scenic national parks . . .

An up-to-date, how-to source for photographing one of America’s most scenic of desert and mountain landscapes, the dramatic canyons national parks . . .

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Photographing Big Bend National Park A Friendly Guide to Great Images Kathy Adams Clark

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Photographing Big Bend National Park

Bend National Park presents a wealth of subjects to the photographic eye. Add early morning and late evening sunlight, summer thunderstorms, and clear, star-spattered night skies, and the opportunities become irresistible.

Professional nature photographer and frequent Big Bend traveler Kathy Adams Clark offers this handy and beautiful guide to maximizing the photographic experience of this visually stunning landscape. Photographing Big Bend National Park begins with a tutorial on the basics of light meters, shutter speeds, and f/stops, featuring practical, handson-camera exercises and answers to common questions. The chapters that follow take readers on six excursions to well-known locations within the park—the Basin, Panther Junction, Rio Grande Village, Ross Maxwell Drive, Santa Elena Canyon, and the Chisos Mountains. A primer on night photography (including “light-painting” and star trails) is also included. Within each chapter are instructions for photographing various subjects at the site using simple, intermediate, and advanced techniques; information on the best seasons to photograph; and tips designed to benefit the novice.

Photographing Big Bend National Park not only provides practical information for photographers of all skill levels, it also offers a visual feast of striking images. Nature lovers, photographers, and anyone who loves this iconic national park will treasure this latest book from veteran writer and photographer Kathy Adams Clark.

With its combination of desert and mountain landscapes, the dramatic canyons of the Rio Grande, ancient pictographs, and remnants of pioneer ranch life, Big Bend National Park presents a wealth of subjects to the photographic eye. Add early morning and late evening sunlight, summer thunderstorms, and clear, star-spattered night skies, and the opportunities become irresistible.

KAthy AdAms ClArK, who owns The Woodlands–based photo agency KAC Productions, is past president of the North American Nature Photography Association. Her pho-

Photographing Big Bend National Park A Friendly Guide to Great Images

havetraveler appeared in numerous magazines, books, and Professional nature photographer and frequent Bigtographs Bend Kathy Adams Clark ofcalendars, including Texas Parks & Wildlife, Texas Highways, Birder’s World, The New York Times, and National Geographic fers this handy and beautiful guide to maximizing the photographic experience of this books. She leads photo tours worldwide and provided the photographs for Enjoying Big Bend National Park: A Friendly visually stunning landscape.

Guide to Adventures for Everyone (Gary Clark, Texas A&M University Press, 2009).

Photographing Big Bend National Park begins with a tutorial on the basics of light meters, shutter speeds, and f/stops, featuring practical, hands-on-camera exercises and answers to common questions. The chapters that readers on six excursions to wellTexasfollow A&M take University Press known locations within the park—thewww.tamupress.com Basin, Panther Junction, Rio Grande Village, Ross Maxwell Drive, Santa Elena Canyon, and the Chisos Mountains among them. A primer n Number Forty-seven: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series on night photography (including “light-painting” and star trails) is also included.

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Within each chapter are instructions for photographing various subjects at the site using simple, intermediate, and advanced techniques; information on the best seasons to photograph; and tips designed to benefit the novice.

Photographing Big Bend National Park not only provides practical information for photographers of all skill levels, it also offers a visual feast of striking images. Nature lovers, photographers, and anyone who loves this remarkable national park will treasure this latest book from veteran writer and photographer Kathy Adams Clark.

Kathy Adams Clark

978-1-60344-817-8 flexbound $19.95 51/2x81/2. 144 pp. 121 color photos. Map. Index.

Photography. Nature Travel.

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Number Forty-seven: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series KATHY ADAMS CLARK, owner of The Woodlands–based photo agency KAC Productions, is past president of the North American Nature Photography Association. Her photographs have appeared in numerous magazines, books, and calendars, including Texas Parks & Wildlife, Texas Highways, Birder’s World, The New York Times, and National Geographic books. She leads photo tours worldwide and provided the photographs for Enjoying Big Bend National Park: A Friendly Guide to Adventures for Everyone (Gary Clark, Texas A&M University Press, 2009).

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Texas State Parks and the CCC The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps Cynthia A. Brandimarte, with Angela Reed Foreword by Carter P. Smith From Palo Duro Canyon in the Panhandle to Lake Corpus Christi on the coast, from Balmorhea in far West Texas to Caddo Lake near the Louisiana border, the state parks of Texas are home not only to breathtaking natural beauty, but also to historic buildings and other structures built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) during the 1930s.

In Texas State Parks and the CCC: The Legacy of the Civilian Conservation Corps, Cynthia Brandimarte has mined the organization’s archives, as well as those of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the Texas Department of Transportation, to compile a rich visual record of how this New Deal program left an indelible stamp on many of the parks we still enjoy today.

Some fifty thousand men were enrolled in the CCC in Texas. Between 1933 and 1942, they constructed trails, cabins, concession buildings, bathhouses, dance pavilions, a hotel, and a motor court.

Before they arrived, the state’s parklands consisted of fourteen parks on about 800 acres, but by the end of World War II, CCC workers had helped create a system of forty-eight parks on almost 60,000 acres throughout Texas.

Accompanied by many never-published images that reveal all aspects of the CCC in Texas, from architectural plans to camp life, Texas State Parks and the CCC covers the formation and development of the CCC and its design philosophy; the building of the parks and the daily experiences of the workers; the completion and management of the parks in the first decades after the war; and the ongoing process of maintaining and preserving the iconic structures that define the rustic, handcrafted look of the CCC. With a call for greater appreciation of these historical resources, especially in light of the recent Bastrop fire, which threatened one of the state’s most popular CCC-era destinations, Brandimarte profiles twenty-nine parks, providing a descriptive history of each and information on its CCC company, the dates of CCC activity, and the CCC-built structures still existing within the park.

CYNTHIA BRANDIMARTE is director of the historic sites and structures program at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department in Austin, where she oversees the architectural preservation and protection of historic park resources. ANGELA REED, who now serves as preservation program manager for Preservation Austin, formerly coordinated the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Civilian Conservation Corps Legacy Parks Initiative.

“ . . . Somehow, on these pages [Brandimarte] has managed to express the experiences of the workers, early politicians, park visitors, and park professionals as if the words were coming from the old walls themselves. . . .”—Andrew Sansom, Executive Director, Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University–San Marcos “ . . . a timely reminder of the importance of the parks to the lives of Texans and visitors alike, and of the dedication and skill with which the people of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department protect and maintain them.”—David G. Woodcock, Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Director Emeritus, Center for Heritage Conservation, Texas A&M University

978-1-60344-819-2 cloth $25.00 10x10. 188 pp. 113 color, 110 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

Texas History. Architecture. Heritage Travel.

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Historic Hotels of Texas A Traveler’s Guide Liz Carmack 978-1-58544-608-7 flexbound $23.00

The Texas Post Office Murals Art for the People Philip Parisi 978-1-58544-231-7 cloth $50.00

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History along the Way Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers Dan K. Utley and Cynthia J. Beeman Texans love stories, and the 15,000 roadside markers along the state’s highways and byways testify to the abundance of tales to tell. History along the Way recounts the narratives behind and beyond more than one hundred Texas roadside markers.

Peopled with colorful characters—a national leader of Camp Fire Girls, an army engineer who mapped the Republic of Texas frontier, a hunter of mammoth bones, a ragtime composer, civil rights leaders, and an iconic rock star, among others—the book gives readers an intriguing and expanded look at the details, challenges, and lives commemorated by the words cast in metal on these wayside markers scattered across the Lone Star landscape.

Also recounted in History along the Way are the stories of historic structures (from roadside architecture and elaborate West Texas hotels to university Old Mains and country schoolhouses of Gillespie County), engineering features (the Hidalgo Pumphouse in South Texas and the Rainbow Bridge in East Texas), and even town mascots (a jackrabbit, a mule, and a prairie dog). Accompanied by helpful maps, colorful photographs, and informative sidebars, History along the Way is guaranteed to inform, amuse, and intrigue.

Every part of Texas gets a visit in this anthology of select sites, making it easy for travelers— both the armchair and touring varieties—to enjoy and learn about the fascinating nooks and crannies of history captured in all their variety by the roadside markers of Texas.

DAN K. UTLEY, chief historian of the Center for Texas Public History at Texas State University and a Fellow of the Texas State Historical Association, is the retired chief historian for the Texas Historical Commission, a past chairman of the National Register State Board of Review, and former president of the Texas Oral History Association and the East Texas Historical Association. He lives in Pflugerville. CYNTHIA J. BEEMAN, of Austin, is the former director of the History Programs Division of the Texas Historical Commission. She is past president of the East Texas Historical Association and a board member of the Texas Oral History Association and the Ruthe Winegarten Foundation for Texas Women’s History. Utley and Beeman also coauthored the award-winning History Ahead: Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers (Texas A&M University Press, 2010).

Praise for History Ahead: Stories beyond the Texas Roadside Markers “. . . brings together little-known sites and facts, as well as helpful maps to include the largest manmade oil tank, a WW II detention camp cemetery and the remains of Fort D. A. Russell. . . “—True West “History doesn’t have to be a boring succession of dates or trends to remember . . . to appreciate it as a collection of interesting stories . . . History is a book like History Ahead: Stories Beyond the Texas Roadside Markers.”—Austin American Statesman

978-1-60344-769-0 flexbound $25.00 53/4x9. 352 pp. 39 color, 33 b&w photos. 3 maps. Index.

Texas History. Heritage Travel.

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Faded Glory A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley 978-1-60344-699-0 flexbound $29.95

Gangster Tour of Texas T. Lindsay Baker 978-1-60344-258-9 flexbound $29.95

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A new edition of a gardening classic . . .

Perennial Garden Color William C. Welch Foreword by Neil Sperry Gardeners in Texas and the South face their own special problems with climate and growing seasons, and they need a guide written specifically for the region in order to have the greatest chance of success. William C. Welch’s Perennial Garden Color directly fills this need, and for years gardeners have relied on this book to aid their efforts to beautify their outdoor spaces. Now in a new Texas A&M University Press edition, this time-tested classic, dubbed a “masterpiece” by Neil Sperry, is available again.

Lavishly illustrated with more than five hundred breathtaking color photographs, Perennial Garden Color provides detailed information on planting and growing 125 different perennials and their companion plants. Also included are more than a hundred varieties of old garden roses, together with comments on their history and uses.

Welch, a veteran horticulturist and writer, goes beyond detailing individual flowers, however, to emphasize their use in landscape design. He illustrates how to harmonize the color, texture, and shape of perennials, old roses, and companion plants to create an overall effect of grace and elegance. The dozens of photographs of landscape designs offer a wealth of ideas and inspiration.

Focusing special attention on cottage gardens, Welch offers a history of this traditional design and provides the information needed for gardeners to make this style their own.

978-1-60344-968-7 flexbound $30.00 83/4x113/4. 278 pp. 532 color photos. Map. 6 tables. Bib. Index.

Gardening.

May ebook 978-1-60344-973-1

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Written with contagious enthusiasm, Perennial Garden Color is a complete, comprehensive, and authoritative guide to planning and growing a beautiful and colorful garden of perennials in the South.

AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series WILLIAM C. WELCH is professor and AgriLife Extension landscape horticulturist in the Texas A&M System. He has many years of experience with garden clubs and nursery organizations and is a regular contributor to Southern Living magazine. On the board of directors of the Southern Garden History Society, he is also an honorary member of the Garden Club of America, which awarded him its distinguished service medal in 2008. He is also the coauthor (with Greg Grant) of Heirloom Gardening in the South: Yesterday’s Plants for Today’s Gardens, published in 2011 by Texas A&M University Press, which received the 2012 Silver Award of Achievement from the Garden Writers Association.

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

Doug Welsh’s Texas Garden Almanac Doug F. Welsh 978-1-60344-478-1 flexbound $24.95

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Life in Bronze

Amy L. Bacon A disciple of Classical sculpture in a time of pervasive abstract modernism, Lawrence M. Ludtke (1929–2007) of Houston imbued his creations with a sense of movement and realism through his attention to detail, anatomy, and proportion.

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As a skilled athlete who played professional baseball for the Brooklyn Dodgers organization, Ludtke brought to his art a fascination with musculature and motion that empowered him to capture the living essence of his subjects. As author Amy L. Bacon shows in this sensitive biography, Ludtke’s gentle humanity and sensitivity shines through his work; his sculpture truly projects character, purpose, and personality.

Number Sixteen: Joe and Betty Moore Texas Art Series AMY L. BACON, also the author of Building Leaders, Living Traditions: The Memorial Student Center at Texas A&M University (Texas A&M University Press, 2009), lives in Seabrook, Texas.

“Ludtke’s role as an artist deserves recognition, and Bacon does him justice. I am not aware of any other work devoted to the life and career of Larry Ludtke.”—David G. Woodcock, Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Director Emeritus of the Center for Heritage Conservation, Texas A&M University

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Based on personal interviews with the artist as well as his family, friends, colleagues, and patrons such as H. Ross Perot, Life in Bronze: Lawrence M. Ludtke, Sculptor places Ludtke’s art within the context of the American figurative art tradition. The author explains how Ludtke was influenced by Italian-born Pompeo Coppini, whose monumental art has especially marked Texas and whose clay Ludtke inherited and used as his own favored modeling medium. Bacon meticulously details how Ludtke’s research into the lives and careers of his subjects was married to his attention to technique and talent. His own life story figures crucially in the creation of those character studies his sculptures so beautifully represent.

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978-1-60344-943-4 cloth $25.00 6x81/2. 128 pp. 10 color, 39 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

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The Texas Post Office Murals Philip Parisi 978-1-58544-231-7 cloth $50.00

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Chronicle of a Small Town Jim W. Corder

Nostalgia, wonderment, and a healthy and imaginative provincialism color the pages of Chronicle of a Small Town, which is well illustrated with the author’s own pen-and-ink sketches of the places and things he remembers.

The vibrantly concrete details of daily existence in a bygone time in a remote and desolate area of Texas are startlingly juxtaposed with philosophical musings about the limitations all of us face in comprehending even that little bit of life we live. “. . . a book I think most everyone who feels the burden of memory will love.”—Dallas Morning News “Corder’s gleanings—leavened with his own pointillist illustrations— will appeal to nostalgic contemporaries and to curious younger readers.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram “Any lover of good books will be captivated by this unusual treatment of the eternal problem of ‘going home again.’”—Booklist “Corder’s book echoes with questions about memory and reality and how we view ourselves in terms of our own pasts . . . [and] provides a treasured map of one man’s search for the past and an apt reminder to the importance of the search.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly Wardlaw Books JIM W. CORDER was a professor of English at Texas Christian University and the author of many articles and several books, including Lost in West Texas.

978-1-60344-988-5 paper $19.95 51/2x81/2. 192 pp. 27 line drawings.

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A rare glimpse inside the danger-packed lives of the Texas Rangers . . .

Pidge, Texas Ranger Edited and with an Introduction by Chuck Parsons

Thomas C. (Pidge) Robinson came to Texas from Virginia at the age of 27, fleeing a feud with a neighbor who opposed Robinson’s amorous intentions toward the neighbor’s sister. He joined the Texas Rangers in 1874, serving with legendary Capt. Leander H. McNelly’s Washington County Volunteer Militia Company A. He earned the rank of first lieutenant in this Texas Ranger company. Two years later he returned to Virginia to avenge his honor and claim the woman he loved.

A learned and witty writer who sent back letters, poems, and reports for publication in Austin newspapers, Pidge also wrote most of Captain McNelly’s reports. From the newspaper submissions, backed by extensive research to document details and explain allusions, western writer Chuck Parsons has fashioned an annotated compendium of primary materials that give insight into not only the life and actions of the famous Texas Rangers but also the popular culture of post–Civil War Texas.

Robinson rode with McNelly as the Rangers subdued the clashes between the Suttons and the Taylors in DeWitt County. He served on the Rio Grande frontier in actions against Juan Cortina, including the famous battle on Palo Alto Prairie. He was with a party of Rangers who invaded Mexico to recover cattle stolen from Texas ranchers.

Pidge’s lively, literate, and often humorous letters give first-person accounts of these and other actions that provide a unique picture of Ranger service in the field.

This Texas A&M University Press edition, incorporating newly discovered materials, also features rare period photographs, illustrations, and other helpful maps and images.

CHUCK PARSONS, author of John B. Armstrong: Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman (Texas A&M University Press, 2007), has written twelve books about Texas outlaws and lawmen and has contributed chapters to other books, including Legendary Watering Holes: The Saloons That Made Texas Famous (Texas A&M University Press, 2004).

978-1-60344-974-8 cloth $29.95 6x9. 224 pp. 18 b&w photos. 3 line art. 2 maps. Bib. Index.

Texas Rangers.

Biography. Texas History.

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Recollections of a “one-of-a-kind” life . . .

Jane’s Window My Spirited Life in West Texas and Austin Jane Dunn Sibley, as told to Jim Comer Foreword by T. R. Fehrenbach Introduction by James L. Haley On the southern portion of what was known as the Sibley’s Pezuna del Caballo (Horse’s Hoof ) Ranch in West Texas’ Culberson County are two mountains that nearly meet, forming a gap that frames a salt flat where Indians and later, pioneers came to gather salt to preserve foodstuffs. According to the US Geological Survey, the gap that provides this breathtaking and historic view is named “Jane’s Window.”

In Jane’s Window: My Spirited Life in West Texas and Austin, Jane Dunn Sibley, the inimitable namesake of that mountain gap, gives readers a similarly enchanting view: she tells the story of a small-town West Texas girl coming into her own in Texas’ capital city, where her commitment to philanthropy and the arts and her flair for fashion—epitomized by her signature buzzard feather—have made her name a society staple.

Growing up during the Depression in Fort Stockton, Jane Sibley learned first-hand the value of hard work and determination. In what she describes as “a more innocent age,” she experienced the “pleasant life” of a rural community with good schools, friends and neighbors, and daily dips in the Comanche Springs swimming pool. She arrived as a student at the University of Texas only ninety days before the bombing of Pearl Harbor and studied art under such luminaries as sculptor Charles Umlauf. Her enchanting stories of returning to Fort Stockton, working in the oil industry, marrying local doctor D. J. Sibley, and rearing a family evoke both her love for her origins and her clear-eyed aspirations.

The Sibleys never discussed the details of their good fortune, and, to their gratitude, no one ever asked. In Jane’s Window, Sibley narrates travel adventures, shares vignettes of famous visitors, and tells of her favorite causes, among which the Austin Symphony and the preservation of lower Pecos prehistoric rock art are especially prominent.

Peopled with vivid characters and told in Sibley’s uniquely down-to-earth and humorous manner, Jane’s Window paints a portrait of a life filled to the brim with events both heartwarming and heartbreaking.

Number Fourteen: Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series JANE DUNN SIBLEY served as president of the Austin Symphony for a quarter of a century. An active philanthropist, she has championed various causes and organizations benefitting the arts, culture, and history. JIM COMER is also the author of When Roles Reverse: A Guide to Parenting Your Parents, which was a finalist for the Texas Writers’ League Best Non-Fiction Book of 2007.

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“Jane Sibley is indeed like no other. Nor is this memoir. . . .”—from the foreword by T. R. Fehrenbach “If the goal was to tell a good story about a fascinating woman who saw things that needed doing, believed in getting things done and then set out to do them, facing the tragedies that life often brings and overcoming them, then this memoir achieves that.”—Frances Brannen Vick, coauthor of Letters to Alice: Birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch Dynasty

You Meet Such Interesting People Bess Whitehead Scott 978-1-60344-075-2 paper $17.95

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Javelinas and Other Peccaries Their Biology, Management, and Use Lyle K. Sowls

2nd edition, expanded and updated . . .

White-Tailed Deer Habitat Ecology and Management on Rangelands Timothy Edward Fulbright and J. Alfonso Ortega-S.

Javelinas and Other Peccaries is considered to be the definitive source on this family of New World mammals. Lyle K. Sowls, who studied these animals for much of his long, distinguished career in wildlife biology, summarized his findings in a book first published in 1984 and subsequently in this second, revised edition by Texas A&M Press in 1997.

Additionally, Sowls provided a review of contemporary management practices, along with his recommendations for conservation of peccaries and his belief in their continuing importance as a game animal.

“This is one of those books that needs to be on the shelf of anyone interested in wildlife, hunting or the outdoors in general.”—TOWA News “. . . contains fascinating chapters on the importance of peccaries . . .This book, whose author is one of the leading authorities on peccary biology, behavior, and conservation, is an invaluable resource, not only for biologists and anthropologists but for anyone interested in biodiversity and conservation in tropical America.”—Human Ecology Number Twenty-one: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series LYLE K. SOWLS was a student of Aldo Leopold at the University of Wisconsin, where he earned his PhD. A respected and influential conservationist and a longtime professor of wildlife science at the University of Arizona, he died in 2002.

978-1-62349-008-9 paper $29.95s 6x9. 352 pp. 36 b&w photos. 32 line drawings. 43 tables. Appendix. Bib. Index.

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The original, 2006 edition of Timothy Edward Fulbright and J. Alfonso Ortega-S.’s White-Tailed Deer Habitat: Ecology and Management on Rangelands was hailed as “a splendid reference for the classroom and those who make their living from wildlife and the land” and as “filling a niche that is not currently approached in the literature.”

In this second, full-color edition, revised and expanded to include the entire western United States and northern Mexico, Fulbright and Ortega-S. provide a carefully reasoned synthesis of ecological and range management principles that incorporates rangeland vegetation management and the impact of crops, livestock, predation, and population density within the context of the arid and semiarid habitats of this broad region. As landowners look to hunting as a source of income and to the other benefits of managing for wildlife, the clear presentation of the up-to-date research gathered in this book will aid their efforts. Essential points covered in this new edition include:

White-tailed deer habitat requirements Nutritional needs of white-tailed deer Carrying capacity Habitat management Hunting Focused across political borders and written with an understanding of environments where periodic drought punctuates long-term weather patterns, this revised and expanded edition of White-Tailed Deer Habitat: Ecology and Management on Rangelands will aid landowners, researchers, and naturalists in their efforts to integrate land management and use with sound ecological practices.

Perspectives on South Texas, sponsored by Texas A&M University–Kingsville Timothy Edward Fulbright is a Regents Professor and Meadows Professor in Semiarid Land Ecology at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Kingsville. J. ALFONSO ORTEGA-S. is a professor and research scientist at the Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University–Kingsville.

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Texas Waterfowl William P. Johnson and Mark W. Lockwood In this beautifully illustrated guide, two practicing wildlife biologists describe the life histories of forty-five species of ducks, geese, and swans that occur in Texas. For common species and those that breed in the state, each account begins with an interesting fact (such as, “Red-headed Mergansers have been clocked at over 80 mph, the fastest recorded flight speed for a duck . . .�) and provides information on Texas distribution and harvest, population status, diet, range and habitats, reproduction, and appearance.

Exquisite photographs, informative distribution maps, and a helpful source list accompany the species descriptions, and the book offers a glossary and full bibliography for those who want to explore the literature further.

With the degradation and disappearance of the inland and coastal habitats that these birds depend upon, the natural history of these waterfowl species provides a vital reminder of the interconnectedness and crucial importance of all wetlands.

Birders, biologists, landowners, hunters, outdoor enthusiasts, and all those interested in the health and preservation of our coastal and inland wetland resources will enjoy and learn from this book.

Number Forty-six: W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History Series WILLIAM P. JOHNSON is a professional waterfowl and wetland biologist, actively involved in research, habitat management, and wetland restoration on the Texas Upper Coast and in the Texas Panhandle.

He has studied and written on the habits and habitats of waterfowl and wetland birds in the US and Canada. He lives in Canyon, Texas. MARK W. LOCKWOOD, based in Alpine, is a conservation biologist in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. He is the recipient of the prestigious Ludlow Griscom Award from the American Birding Association and coauthor of The TOS Handbook of Texas Birds (Texas A&M University Press, 2004).

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A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting The Decoys, Guides, Clubs, and Places, 1870s to 1970s R. K. Sawyer 978-1-60344-763-8 cloth $35.00

Hummingbirds of Texas with Their New Mexico and Arizona Ranges Clifford E. Shackelford 978-1-60344-110-0 flexbound $19.95

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This season we proudly announce “Peoples and Cultures of Texas,” a new series sponsored by Texas A&M University–San Antonio.

Under the general editorship of Maria Hernandez Ferrier, this timely series will focus especially on ethnic and intercultural issues going forward in the Lone Star State, whose makeup is so rapidly changing.

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St. Philip’s College A Point of Pride on San Antonio’s Eastside

and train former slaves and other African Americans in that city. Originally tied to St. Philip’s Church, less than three miles east of the downtown center, the school grew to offer high school and then junior college courses and eventually affiliated with the San Antonio Independent School District and San Antonio College. One of the few remaining historically black junior colleges in the country, St. Philip’s, whose student body is no longer predominantly black, has the distinction of being the only school in the nation to bear the title “Historically Black and Hispanic Serving Institution.”

Known by many as “the school that love built,” St. Philip’s College claimed in its 1932 catalog, “There is perhaps as much romance surrounding the development of St. Philip’s Junior College as there is of the ‘Alamo City’ in which it is located.” That love story, also containing dominant strains of sacrifice, scarcity, creativity, determination, and pride, finds its full expression in this history by Marie Pannell Thurston. Based on archival research and extensive interviews with current and former alumni, faculty, and friends, St. Philip’s College presents the heartwarming and inspiring record of Artemisia Bowden, who led the school for fifty-two years at great personal sacrifice, a community that continues to nurture it, an administration that takes pride in leading an institution that puts its students first, and a collective appreciation of what the institution and its graduates have accomplished.

St. Philip’s College

1898, St. Philip’s Normal and Industrial Marie Pannell Thurston opened its doors in San Antonio, offerIingnSchool sewing classes for black girls. It was the inauSeries Editor’s Foreword by Maria Hernandez Ferrier gural effort in a program, founded by the West Foreword by Adena Williams Loston Texas diocese of the Episcopal Church, to educate

In 1898, St. Philip’s Normal and Industrial School opened its doors in San Antonio, offering sewing classes for black girls. It was the inaugural effort in a program, founded by the West Texas diocese of the Episcopal Church, to educate and train former slaves and other African Americans in that city.

St. Philip’s College A Point of Pride on San Antonio’s

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Originally tied to St. Philip’s Church, about three miles east of the downtown center, the school grew to offer high school and then junior college courses and eventually affiliated with the San Antonio Independent School District and San Antonio College. One of the few remaining historically black junior colleges in the country, St. Philip’s, whose student body is no Pannell Thurston has beendesignated coordinator of the Oral History Project for longer predominantly black,Marie has also been a Hispanic-serving St. Philip’s since . Her PhD is from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio. institution, one of few schools to bear both designations.

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College Station Known by many as “the school that love built, ” St. Philip’s College claimed www.tamupress.com in its 1932 catalog, “There is perhaps as much romance surrounding the development of St. Philip’s Junior College as there is of the ‘Alamo City’ in which it is located.”

MARIE PANNELL THURSTON

That love story, also containing dominant strains of sacrifice, scarcity, creativity, determination, and pride, finds its full expression in this history by Marie Pannell Thurston. Based on archival research and extensive interviews with current and former alumni, faculty, and friends, St. Philip’s College presents the heartwarming and inspiring record of a school, the community that nurtures it, and the collective pride in what the institution and its graduates have accomplished.

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Peoples and Cultures of Texas, Sponsored by Texas A&M University–San Antonio Marie Pannell Thurston has been coordinator of the Oral History Project for St. Philip’s since 2002. Her PhD is from the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio.

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African American Studies, Texas. Education History.

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Chicana/o Struggles for Education Activism in the Community

MISSIONARY BISHOP Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans

Guadalupe San Miguel Jr.

San Miguel addresses questions such as what factors led to change in the 1960s and in later years; who the individuals and organizations were that led the movements in this period and what motivated them to get involved; and what strategies were pursued, how they were chosen, and how successful they were. He argues that while Chicana/o activists continued to challenge school segregation in the 1960s as earlier generations had, they broadened their efforts to address new concerns such as school funding, testing, English-only curricula, the exclusion of undocumented immigrants, and school closings. They also advocated cultural pride and memory, inclusion of the Mexican American community in school governance, and opportunities to seek educational excellence in private religious, nationalist, and secular schools.

The profusion of strategies has not erased patterns of de facto segregation and unequal academic achievement, San Miguel concludes, but it has played a key role in expanding educational opportunities.

The actions he describes have expanded, extended, and diversified the historic struggle for Mexican American education.

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

A dedicated life spanning a pivotal time in history . . .

Missionary Bishop Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans Patrick Foley Foreword by Gilbert R. Cruz

Much of the history of Mexican American educational reform efforts has focused on campaigns to eliminate discrimination in public schools. However, as historian Guadalupe San Miguel demonstrates in Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activisim in the Community, the story is much broader and more varied than that.

While activists certainly challenged discrimination, they also worked for specific public school reforms and sought private schooling opportunities, utilizing new patterns of contestation and advocacy. In documenting and reviewing these additional strategies, San Miguel’s nuanced overview and analysis offers enhanced insight into the quest for equal educational opportunity to new generations of students.

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GILBERT R. CRUZ

In 1822 a young French missionary priest arrived in America, where he would devote the rest of his life to the mission field on behalf of the Catholic Church. Jean-Marie Odin served first in Missouri and Arkansas, then in 1840 moved to Texas, becoming the first Bishop of Galveston in 1847. He held that office until 1861, when he became Archbishop of New Orleans.

The twenty years he served in Texas were important years in the life of the young republic-turned-state. His life and career during this period allow readers to view, in the words of this book’s foreword, “French missionaries and their collaborators treading the almost limitless Texas landscape to serve encampments of settlers and to preach the Gospel in English, French, Spanish, and German.”

His decade in New Orleans during the Civil War and Reconstruction spans a period of immense importance to America, the region, and the Roman Catholic Church. Finally, in 1870, Odin returned to Hauteville, France, and died in the same home in which he had been raised.

The role of the church in those turbulent times is revealed through the life and ministry of Jean-Marie Odin.

“Foley’s scholarship is a welcome blessing for these days, when valiant missionary efforts of the past are often misunderstood and not appreciated.”—Kevin W. Vann, Bishop, Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange, California

Guadalupe San Miguel Jr., a professor of history at the University of Houston, is a past president of the National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies. He is the author of three books published by Texas A&M University Press: Brown, Not White: School Integration and the Chicano Movement (2001), Let All of Them Take Heed: Mexican Americans and the Quest for Educational Equality (reprint edition, 2001), and Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century (2002) as well as other titles..

“ . . . constitutes an important contribution to the history of antebellum Louisiana and Texas while it highlights the underappreciated story of the Catholic Church.”—Light Townsend Cummins, Bryan Professor of History, Austin College

978-1-60344-937-3 cloth $40.00s 6x9. 256 pp. 19 b&w photos. 11 tables. Bib. Index.

Mexican American Studies. Mexican American Studies, Texas. Education History.

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PATRICK FOLEY, professor emeritus of history at Tarrant County College and for many years the editor of Catholic Southwest: A Journal of History and Culture, has contributed articles to several books and encyclopedias. His PhD is from the University of New Mexico.

Number 118: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University

978-1-60344-824-6 cloth $40.00s 6x9. 256 pp. 6 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

Texas History. Biography. Religion .

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Bound in Twine The History and Ecology of the Henequen-Wheat Complex for Mexico and the American and Canadian Plains, 1880–1950 Sterling Evans

“. . . an authoritative and comprehensive history of transnational dependencies.”—Southwestern Historical Quarterly “Bound in Twine is a superb example of the trend . . . With its illumination of the history of this simple farm item, Bound in Twine not only fills a scholarly lacuna but can also serve as a model for other agricultural historians in showing the interconnected and international dimensions of things often taken for granted . . . Should those books be written, Bound in Twine will be the example to which those historians turn . . . This book deserves a wide audience.”—Montana Magazine “This is a book for historians who appreciate the craft of research and the presentation of dense, insightful detail. . . Evans is a good writer, but he is an even better researcher and scholar who has found a subject that well illustrates the complexity of the global economy, both past and present.”—Business History Review “It is a masterful account of interdependence, from the concomitant rise of henequen production . . . Sterling Evans captures in fine detail a major chapter in American agricultural history in its most appropriate and telling international context, with a keen eye for the multiple registers in which agricultural developments resonate . . . Evans’s book is beautifully illustrated with trade journal images, including a line drawing of an abandoned binder in lush overgrowth next to a wire fence—as loving and ambivalent a depiction of scrap metal as one is ever likely to see.”—American Historical Review Number Twenty-one: Environmental History Series STERLING EVANS is professor and Louise Welsh Chair in History at the University of Oklahoma. He is the author of The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica (1999), and editor of The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the 49th Parallel (2006).

His PhD is from the University of Kansas.

978-1-62288-001-0 paper $29.95s 6x9. 334 pp. 28 b&w photos. 3 line art. 10 maps. 4 tables. Notes. Bib. Index.

Agricultural History. Borderlands Studies. Environmental History. Labor History. Western History.

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An important introduction to an often-neglected topic in Texas history . . .

Texas Labor History Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and James C. Maroney

Too often, observers and writers of Texas history have accepted assumptions about labor movements in the state—both organized and not—that do not bear up under the light of careful scrutiny. Offering a scholarly corrective to such misplaced suppositions, the studies in Texas Labor History provide a helpful new source for scholars and teachers who wish to fill in some of the missing pieces.

Tackling a number of such presumptions—that a viable labor movement never existed in the Lone Star State; that black, brown, and white laborers, both male and female, were unable to achieve even shortterm solidarity; that labor unions in Texas were ineffective because of laborers’ inability to confront employers—the editors and contributors to this volume lay the foundation for establishing the importance of labor to a fuller understanding of Texas history. They show, for example, that despite differing working conditions and places in society, many workers managed to unite, sometimes in biracial efforts, to overturn the top-down strategy utilized by Texas employers.

Texas Labor History also facilitates an understanding of how the state’s history relates to, reflects, and differs from national patterns and movements. This groundbreaking collection of studies offers notable opportunities for new directions of inquiry and will benefit historians and students for years to come.

“These essays move us toward a more accurate picture by including the poor majority. It is high time Texas had a concentrated dose of labor history showing how very much like the rest of the country life here has been for the working class.”—Kyle G. Wilkison, author, Yeomen, Sharecroppers, and Socialists Number 119: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University BRUCE A. GLASRUD is the retired dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Sul Ross State University and a professor emeritus of history at California State University, Hayward. His most recent title for Texas A&M University Press is African Americans in South Texas History (2011). JAMES C. MARONEY taught for more than forty years at Lee College in Baytown. He served as writer, editor, and coordinator for articles on labor history for Texas State Historical Association’s New Handbook of Texas.

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Recovering Five Generations Hence

Southern Black Women in the Modern Civil Rights Movement

The Life and Writing of Lillian Jones Horace

Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre

Edited by Karen Kossie-Chernyshev

Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that involving the printed word, was the key to black liberation.

In 1916, before Marcus Garvey gained fame for advocating black economic empowerment and a repatriation movement, Horace wrote a back-to-Africa novel, Five Generations Hence, the earliest published novel on record by a black woman from Texas and the earliest known utopian novel by any African American woman. She also wrote a biography of Lacey Kirk Williams, a renowned president of the National Baptist Convention; another novel, Angie Brown, that was never published; and a host of plays that her students at I. M. Terrell High School performed.

Throughout the South, black women were crucial to the Civil Rights Movement, serving as grassroots and organizational leaders. They protested, participated, sat in, mobilized, created, energized, led particular efforts, and served as bridge builders to the rest of the community. Ignored at the time by white politicians and the media alike, with few exceptions they worked behind the scenes to effect the changes all in the movement sought. Until relatively recently, historians, too, have largely ignored their efforts.

Although African American women mobilized all across Dixie, their particular strategies took different forms in different states, just as the opposition they faced from white segregationists took different shapes. Studies of what happened at the state and local levels are critical not only because of what black women accomplished, but also because their activism, leadership, and courage demonstrated the militancy needed for a mass movement.

In this volume, scholars address similarities and variations by providing case studies of the individual states during the 1950s and 1960s, laying the groundwork for more synthetic analyses of the circumstances, factors, and strategies used by black women in the former Confederate states to destroy the system of segregation in this country.

Five Generations Hence languished after its initial publication. Along with Horace’s diary, the unpublished novel, and the Williams biography, the book was consigned to a collection owned by the Tarrant County Black Genealogical and Historical Society and housed at the Fort Worth Public Library. There, scholar and author Karen KossieChernyshev rediscovered Horace’s work in the course of her efforts to track down and document a literary tradition that has been largely ignored by both the scholarly community and general readers.

BRUCE A. GLASRUD is the retired dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at Sul Ross State University and a professor emeritus of history at California State University, Hayward. His most recent title for Texas A&M University Press is African Americans in South Texas History (2011). MERLINE PITRE is a professor of history at Texas Southern University. She coedited (with Bruce A. Glasrud) Black Women in Texas History (Texas A&M University Press, 2008) and is the author of In Struggle against Jim Crow: Lulu B. White and the NAACP, 1900–1957 (Texas A&M University Press, 1999). She is a past president of the Texas State Historical Association.

In this book, the full text of Horace’s Five Generations Hence, annotated and contextualized by Kossie-Chernyshev, is once again presented for examination by scholars and interested readers. In 2009 KossieChernyshev invited nine scholars to a conference at Texas Southern University to give Horace’s works a comprehensive interdisciplinary examination. Subsequent work on those papers resulted in the studies that form the second half of this book.

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African American Studies. Women’s Studies. Southern History.

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Number 120: Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University KAREN KOSSIE-CHERNYSHEV is a professor of history at Texas Southern University. She holds a PhD from Rice University.

978-1-60344-976-2 cloth $48.50x 978-1-60344-977-9 paper $29.95s 6x9. 256 pp.

African American Studies, Texas. Women’s Studies. Texas. Literary Studies.

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Claiming Citizenship Mexican Americans in Victoria, Texas Anthony Quiroz

Telling Border Life Stories Four Mexican American Women Writers Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara

Claiming Citizenship spotlights a community where Mexican Americans, regardless of social class, embraced a common ideology and worked for access to the full rights of citizenship without confrontation or radicalization. Victoria, Texas, is a small city with a sizable Mexican-descent population dating to the period before the US annexation of the state. There, a complex and nuanced story of ethnic politics unfolded in the middle of the twentieth century.

Focusing on grassroots, author Anthony Quiroz shows how the experience of the Mexican American citizens of Victoria, who worked within the system, challenges common assumptions about the power of class to inform ideology and demonstrates that embracing ethnic identity does not always mean rejecting Americanism. Quiroz identifies Victoria as a community in which Mexican Americans did not engage in overt resistance, labor organization, demonstrations, or the rejection of capitalism, democracy, or Anglo culture and society.

Victoria’s Mexican Americans struggled for equal citizenship as the “loyal opposition,” standing against exclusionary practices while embracing many of the values and practices of the dominant society.

Quiroz’s study makes a major contribution to our understanding of the Mexican American experience by focusing on groups who chose a more subtle, less confrontational path toward equality. Perhaps, indeed, he describes the more common experience of this ethnic population in twentieth-century America.

“Anthony Quiroz’s book is a milestone in Mexican American historiography.”—Journal of American History Number Three: Fronteras Series, sponsored by Texas A&M International University

Voices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates in this investigation into the twentieth-century autobiographical writing of four women of Mexican origin who lived in the American Southwest.

Until recently, little attention has been paid to the writing of the women included in this study. As Kabalen de Bichara notes, it is precisely such historical exclusion of texts written by Mexican American women that gives particular significance to the reexamination of the five autobiographical works that provide the focus for this in-depth study.

“Early Life and Education” and Dew on the Thorn by Jovita González (1904–83), deal with life experiences in Texas and were likely written between 1926 and the 1940s; both texts were published in 1997. Romance of a Little Village Girl, first published in 1955, focuses on life in New Mexico, and was written by Cleofas Jaramillo (1878–1956) when the author was in her seventies. A Beautiful, Cruel Country, by Eva Antonio Wilbur-Cruce (1904–98), introduces the reader to history and a way of life that developed in the cultural space of Arizona.

Created over a ten-year period, this text was published in 1987, just eleven years before the author’s death. Hoyt Street, by Mary Helen Ponce (b. 1938), began as a research paper during the period of the autobiographer’s undergraduate studies (1974–80), and was published in its present form in 1993.

These border autobiographies can be understood as attempts on the part of the Mexican American female autobiographers to put themselves into the text and thus write their experiences into existence.

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

ANTHONY QUIROZ, professor of history at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi, received his PhD from the University of Iowa. A former resident of Victoria, Texas, he is the author of several articles and book chapters on various aspects of Mexican-American history.

DONNA M. KABALEN DE BICHARA is chair of the Department of Humanities at Tecnológico de Monterrey, ITESM. She is the author or coauthor of three other books.

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Borderlands Studies. Mexican American Studies. Texas History.

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978-1-60344-804-8 cloth $60.00s 6x9. 256 pp. Bib. Index.

Borderlands Studies. Literary Criticism. Mexican American Studies.

Women’s Studies.

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The Mexican Revolution

Migration-Trust Networks

Conflict and Consolidation, 1910–1940

Social Cohesion in Mexican US-Bound Emigration

Edited by Douglas W. Richmond and Sam W. Haynes Introduction by John Mason Hart

Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal

In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in the modern era.

The civil war and the reforms that followed receive new and insightful attention in this book.

These essays, the result of the 45th annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, presented by the University of Texas at Arlington in March 2010, commemorate the centennial of the outbreak of the revolution.

A potent mix of factors—including the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few thousand hacienda owners, rancheros, and foreign capitalists; the ideological conflict between the Diaz government and the dissident regional reformers; and the grinding poverty afflicting the majority of the nation’s eleven million industrial and rural laborers—provided the volatile fuel that produced the first major political and social revolution of the twentieth century. The conflagration soon swept across the Rio Grande; indeed, The Mexican Revolution shows clearly that the struggle in Mexico had tremendous implications for the American Southwest. During the years of revolution, hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens crossed the border into the United States. As a result, the region experienced waves of ethnically motivated violence, economic tensions, and the mass expulsions of Mexicans and US citizens of Mexican descent.

Number Forty-four: Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, published for the University of Texas at Arlington by Texas A&M University Press DOUGLAS W. RICHMOND is professor emeritus of history at the University of Texas at Arlington. SAM W. HAYNES is a professor of history and director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies at the University of Texas at Arlington.

978-1-60344-816-1 cloth $35.00s 6x9. 224 pp. 20 b&w photos. 2 maps. Index.

Latin American Studies. Southwestern History. Borderlands Studies.

April ebook 978-1-60344-955-7

In an important new application of sociological theories, Nadia Y. Flores-Yeffal offers fresh insights into the ways in which social networks function among immigrants who arrive in the United States from Mexico without legal documentation. She asks and examines important questions about the commonalities and differences in networks for this group compared with other immigrants, and she identifies “trust” as a major component of networking among those who have little if any legal protection.

Revealing the complexities behind social networks of international migration, Migration-Trust Networks: Social Cohesion in Mexican US-Bound Emigration provides an empirical and theoretical analysis of how social networks of international migration operate in the transnational context. Further, the book clarifies how networking creates chain migration effects observable throughout history.

Flores-Yeffal’s study extends existing social network theories, providing a more detailed description of the social micro- and macrodynamics underlying the development and expansion of social networks used by undocumented Mexicans to migrate and integrate within the United States, with trust relationships as the basis of those networks.

In addition, it incorporates a transnational approach in which the migrant’s place of origin, whether rural or urban, becomes an important variable. Migration-Trust Networks encapsulates the new realities of undocumented migration from Latin America and contributes to the academic discourse on international migration, advancing the study of social networks of migration and of social networks in general.

“This book addresses a timely and important aspect of international migration, namely the conditions that generate social support and assistance between migrants. It fits squarely within an important vein of sociological research on networks and solidarity, as well as immigrant adaption.”—Emilio A. Parrado, professor, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania NADIA Y. FLORES-YEFFAL, an assistant professor of sociology at Texas A&M University, is herself an immigrant from Mexico, whose status was regularized under the Amnesty of 1986. Her PhD is from the University of Pennsylvania.

978-1-60344-826-0 cloth $40.00s 6x9. 224 pp. 4 b&w photos. 5 figs. 2 tables. Bib. Index.

Borderlands Studies. Mexican American Studies. Social Sciences.

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Glider Infantryman

War Makes Men of Boys

Behind Enemy Lines in World War II Don Rich and Kevin Brooks

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

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

A Soldier’s World War II Katherine I. Miller

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

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

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

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

978-1-60344-962-5 paper $19.95 6x9. 320 pp. 28 b&w photos. 8 cartoons. 17 maps. Bib. Index Military History. World War II. Aviation. Memoir.

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

978-1-60344-815-4 paper $24.95 6x9. 184 pp. 16 b&w photos. Bib. Index.

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Setting the record straight for American POWs in Korea . . .

Cold Days in Hell

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COLD DAYS IN HELL

Relying on memoirs, trial transcripts, debriefings, declassified government reports, published analysis, media coverage, plus conversations, interviews, and correspondence with several dozen former prisoners, William C. Latham Jr. seeks to correct misperceptions that still linger, six decades after the prisoners came home. Through careful research and solid historical narrative, Cold Days in Hell provides a detailed account of their captivity and offers valuable insights into an ongoing issue: the conduct of prisoners in the hands of enemy captors and the rules that should govern their treatment.

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Prisoners suffer in every conflict, but American servicemen captured during the Korean War faced a unique ordeal. Like prisoners in other wars, these men endured harsh condiAdvance Praise for Cold Days in Hell tions and brutal mistreatment at the hands of their captors.

American POWs in Korea

“William C. Latham has produced a superb monograph on the Korean War and the treatment of American servicemen who were captured by North Korean and Chinese armies.

For too long, the Korean War in general and its POWs in particular have received scant attention from scholars, the media, and the general public and what has emerged has commonly distorted the experience of American POWs, often for political reasons.

In recent years, this has begun to change, and Latham’s Cold Days in Hell: American POWs in Korea will lead among those attempting to square the record.”

William C Latham Jr

In Korea, however, they faced something new: a deliberate enemy program of indoctrination and coercion designed to manipulate them for propaganda purposes. Most Americans rejected their captors’ promise of a Marxist paradise, yet after the cease fire in 1953, Lewis Carlson, dean of university libraries, Texas A&M University American prisoners came home to face a second wave of attacks. Exploiting popular “The writing is critics outstanding inportrayed form and content. When [Latham] describes prisoners as American fears of communist infiltration, thehereturning battles, captures, long marches, prison camps, it feels as if I was actually there . . . more like a work of literature a work of history their . . . exciting from beginning WILLIAM C. LATHAM JR.pawns is an assistantwho professorhad been reads weak-willed “brainwashed” intothanbetraying country.

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The truth was far more complicated. Following the North Korean assault on the Republic Number 141 Robert C. captured Doyle, leading expert on the treatment combatants American and prisoners of soldiers of KoreaTexas inA&M June of 1950, the invaders more than aof enemy thousand Williams-Ford University war, past and present; professor of history, Franciscan University of Steubenville Military History Series and brutally executed hundreds more. American prisoners who survived their initial moTexas A&M University Press University Press, College Station ments of captivity faced monthsTexas of A&M neglect, starvation, and brutal treatment as their capCollege Station www.tamupress.com tors marched them north toward prison camps in the Yalu River Valley.

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Counterattacks by United Nations forces soon drove the North Koreans back across the 38th Parallel, but the unexpected intervention of Communist Chinese forces in November of 1950 led to the capture of several thousand more American prisoners. Neither the North Koreans nor their Chinese allies were prepared to house or feed the thousands of prisoners in their custody, and half of the Americans captured that winter perished for lack of food, shelter, and medicine. Subsequent communist efforts to indoctrinate and coerce propaganda statements from their prisoners sowed suspicion and doubt among those who survived.

Relying on memoirs, trial transcripts, debriefings, declassified government reports, published analysis, and media coverage, plus conversations, interviews, and correspondence with several dozen former prisoners, William Clark Latham Jr. seeks to correct misperceptions that still linger, six decades after the prisoners came home. Through careful research and solid historical narrative, Cold Days in Hell provides a detailed account of their captivity and offers valuable insights into an ongoing issue: the conduct of prisoners in the hands of enemy captors and the rules that should govern their treatment.

978-1-60344-073-8 cloth $32.00s 6x9. 336 pp. 26 b&w photos. 6 maps. Fig. Bib. Index.

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Number 141: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series WILLIAM CLARK LATHAM JR. is an assistant professor at the Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

“ . . . a wonderful contribution to American military history in general and to Korean War POW studies in particular”—Robert C. Doyle, leading expert on the treatment of enemy combatants and prisoners of war, past and present; professor of history, Franciscan University of Steubenville

With a Black Platoon in Combat A Year in Korea Lyle Rishell 978-1-60344-740-9 paper $21.95

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The Eighth U.S. Army on the Eve of the Korean War Thomas E. Hanson 978-1-60344-167-4 cloth $45.00s

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Finalist, 2007 Emme Award for Astronautical Literature, presented by the American Astronautical Society

Testing American Sea Power

The Development of Propulsion Technology for U.S. Space-Launch Vehicles, 1926–1991

U.S. Navy Strategic Exercises, 1923–1940 Craig C. Felker

J. D. Hunley

In this definitive study, J. D. Hunley traces the program’s development from Goddard’s early rockets (and the German V-2 missile) through the Titan IVA and the Space Shuttle, with a focus on space-launch vehicles.

“Anyone aspiring to address this subject in the future must be prepared to reckon with Hunley’s professional shadow. Unquestionably, his companion volumes on other aspects of US space-launch vehicle technology will join this one to form a daunting historical trilogy.”— Air Power History “This meticulously researched work will inform scholars and engineers interested in the history of technology and innovation and those specializing in the history of spaceflight. . . There is much to praise and little to criticize in these two fine volumes on the history of US rocket technology.”—Quest “This book is based on Hunley’s total mastery of the literature in relevant fields. Both primary and secondary sources are so vast that integrating and synthesizing them is no small feat. Moreover, as Hunley points out, the sources are often inconsistent. Thanks to Hunley’s critical examination of the sources, this book will be a valuable reference for historians of American space programs.”—Technology and Culture Number Seventeen: Centennial of Flight Series J. D. HUNLEY’s career as a historian has focused on the history of aerospace technology. He was named a Ramsey Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum for 2001–2002 after serving in history programs for both NASA and the US Air Force. He holds a PhD from the University of Virginia. Now semiretired, he continues to write about the history of America’s space program and other topics. He resides in Rialto, California.

978-1-60344-987-8 paper $34.95s 6x9. 388 pp. 39 b&w photos. 4 line art. 43 tables. 9 diagrams. Index.

Aviation. History of Technology.

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“Felker’s detailed and insightful analysis of interwar strategic exercises demonstrates that the popular sterotype of a monolithic and hidebound officer corps cannot be sustained.”—World War II Quarterly “. . . offers a revealing look at the interwar navy.”—Journal of America’s Military Past “. . . provides a valuable examination of the personal US Navy’s efforts to integrate the airplane and the submarine into warfare at sea. . . an important book. . . brings vitality to an area ripe for further archival-based analyses of naval personnel, their machines, and the administrative, financial, and industrial systems that supported them.

By studying the interwar navy’s operational practices, Felker deftly illuminates a dynamic period in American military and technological history.”—Technology & Culture “This stimulating book will be welcomed by students and others with an interest in the US Navy in the interwar years. . .”—International Journal of Maritime History “Most sailors would agree that fleet exercises are not much fun— much to do and many discomforts with the underlying knowledge that ‘this isn’t real’ make them less than popular at the deck plate level. But Felker proves that these are necessary evils. Through a detailed study of the strategic exercises conducted in the years leading up to World War II, he makes it clear that fighting the greatest sea war in history would have been far more difficult and costly had these exercises not been carried out.”—Proceedings Number 107: Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History Series CRAIG C. FELKER is a captain in the United States Navy and an associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy. He resides in Annapolis, Maryland.

978-1-60344-989-2 paper $24.95s 6x9. 208 pp. 12 b&w photos. Table. Appendix. Bib. Index.

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Leadership in Agriculture

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Case Studies for a New Generation

Gulf of Mexico Origins, Water, and Biota

John Patrick Jordan, Gale A. Buchanan, Neville P. Clarke, and Kelly C. Jordan

Volume 4, Ecosystem-Based Management

In a world facing chronic and increasing shortages in food crops and natural resources, visionary leadership in agriculture becomes more and more critical for building and maintaining a sustainable future.

The authors of this book, veteran agricultural educators and administrators, assert the primacy of character in leadership. It is of paramount importance that the dynamic and challenging evolution in agriculture over the last century and a half be met today with imaginative leadership in virtually all aspects of activities and organizations involved.

Acting

Thinking

Believing

Leadership in Agriculture: Case Studies for a New Generation opens with narrative chapters focusing on key characteristics and elements of leadership. Next, using case studies from research, industry, education, administration, and extension services, the authors present real-world circumstances ranging from natural disasters to major restructuring that demanded problem solving, new initiatives, consensus, and organizational commitment. Drawing on their own experiences and covering topics as diverse as closing facilities, mounting a national research initiative, reinventing a major corporation, and dealing with invasive termites, the studies contain examples of both good and bad outcomes and refer back to the leadership principles and qualities outlined in the opening chapters.

AgriLife Research and Extension Service Series JOHN PATRICK JORDAN is the former administrator of the USDA Cooperative State Research Service in Washington, DC. GALE A. BUCHANAN is the former dean of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and former director of the Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station.

NEVILLE CLARKE served as an associate dean and professor in the Texas A&M University College of Veterinary Medicine and as director of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station. KELLY C. JORDAN, a retired US Army lieutenant colonel and professor, is currently the Commandant of Cadets at Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana.

978-1-60344-941-0 hardcover $30.00s 6x9. 192 pp. 4 b&w photos. Map. Line art. Index. Bib. Agriculture. Education.

April ebook 978-1-60344-961-8

Edited by John W. Day and Alejandro Yáñez-Arancibia

The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute’s landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated approach was tested in both the US and in Mexico. Two overview chapters cover related information on Cuba and on coastal zone management in Mexico. The comprehensive data on management policies and practices in this volume give researchers, policy makers, and other concerned parties the most up-to-date information available, supporting and informing initiatives to sustain healthy ecosystems so that they can, in turn, sustain human social and economic systems in this important transnational region.

Combined with the second volume in this series, which examines the coastal and ocean-based economy of the Gulf region, EcosystemBased Management provides pivotal empirical information on how human activity can be managed in an environmentally sustainable way. This important research points the way to better stewardship of the Gulf ’s valuable natural resources, ensuring their availability for future generations.

Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies Series, Sponsored by the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University– Corpus Christi JOHN W. DAY is distinguished professor emeritus in the Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences at Louisiana State University. He is coauthor of Estuarine Ecology (Wiley-Interscience 1989) and coeditor of three other books.

ALEJANDRO YAñEZ-ARANCIBIA, a senior scientist and professor, is head of the Coastal Ecosystems Unit, Network of Environment and Sustainability at the Institute of Ecology A. C. in Xalapa, Veracruz. He is coauthor of Estuarine Ecology (Wiley-Interscience, 1989) and coauthor and coeditor of several other books.

978-1-60344-765-2 hardcover $125.00s 81/2x11. 544 pp. 9 color, 1 b&w photo. 7 line art. 62 maps. 55 figs. 53 tables.

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Gulf of Mexico. Marine Science. Conservation.

June ebook 978-1-60344-776-8

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The Leadership of George Bush

Winner, 2012 Richard E. Neustadt Book Award, presented by the Presidents and Executive Politics Section, American Political Science Association

An Insider’s View of the Forty-first President

Presidential Term Limits in American History

Roman Popadiuk

Power, Principles, and Politics Michael J. Korzi

“Those who judge a president by his elections must stand aside for those who judge a president by his solutions to crisis (the Cold War) and new directions for the country (civil rights for the disabled). It’s all here, in a warmly human and readable history.”—Marlin Fitzwater, Press Secretary, Bush Administration “The book is an entertaining and enlightening account of Bush’s days in office. It provides a thoughtful insight into Bush’s character — the values on which he based his life and that have guided his career. It also provides a candid and revealing view of the man behind the office, and its behind-the-scenes look at the policy process and life at the White House is sure to give scholars new avenues for research.”— Gen. Brent Scowcroft, National Security Advisor, Bush Administration Author Roman Popadiuk served in the Bush White House from 1989 to 1992 as deputy assistant to the president and deputy press secretary for foreign affairs. In that capacity, he was closely involved with many of the day-to-day decisions of the administration during a momentous period that saw the dismantling of the Berlin Wall, the rise of a new global coalition, the curbing of a dictator’s expansionist policies in the Middle East, and shifting domestic, economic, and political currents.

In this important volume, Popadiuk examines the ways in which the personal leadership style of George Bush influenced the formation and execution of policy. Popadiuk composes a mosaic of events, quotations, and observations that yield a broad view of the ways in which a president’s personal qualities and philosophies impinge upon leadership options.

Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership ROMAN POPADIUK served as executive director of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation from1999 to 2012. He was appointed by Bush as the first US ambassador to Ukraine in 1992.

978-1-60344-964-9 paper $19.95 6x9. 248 pp. 14 b&w photos American History. Presidential Studies. Political Science.

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By successfully seeking a third term in 1940, Franklin D. Roosevelt shattered a tradition that was as old as the American republic. The longstanding yet controversial two-term tradition reflected serious tensions in American political values.

In Presidential Term Limits in American History, Michael J. Korzi recounts the history of the two-term tradition as well as the “perfect storm” that enabled Roosevelt to break with that tradition. He also shows that Roosevelt and his close supporters made critical errors of judgment in 1943–44, particularly in seeking a fourth term against long odds that the ill president would survive it. Korzi’s analysis offers a strong challenge to Roosevelt biographers who have generally whitewashed this aspect of his presidency and decision making. The case of Roosevelt points to both the drawbacks and the benefits of presidential term limits. Furthermore, Korzi’s extended consideration of the seldom-studied Twenty-second Amendment and its passage reveals not only vindictive and political motivations (it was unanimously supported by Republicans), but also a sincere distrust of executive power that dates back to America’s colonial and constitutional periods.

“Korzi does a fine job of highlighting the main arguments surrounding presidential tenure. He is especially informative when dealing with FDR’s decision to seek a fourth term (even though some close to the president believed his health problems would keep him from serving a full term) and the political implications of second-term presidents’ being weak “lame ducks.” Well written and compellingly argued, this important book makes a significant contribution to understanding presidential politics.”—Choice Joseph V. Hughes Jr. and Holly O. Hughes Series on the Presidency and Leadership MICHAEL J. KORZI’s articles have appeared in Presidential Studies Quarterly, Polity, and Congress and the Presidency. He is a professor of political science at Towson University in Towson, Maryland.

978-1-60344-991-5 paper $22.95s 6x9. 192 pp. 2 tables. Index.

Presidential Studies. Political Science.

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Madness and Creativity

The Struggle of Hungarian Lutherans under Communism

Ann Belford Ulanov Foreword by David H. Rosen

H. David Baer Foreword by László G. Terray

Analyst and author Ann Belford Ulanov draws on her years of clinical work and reflection to make the point that madness and creativity share a kinship, an insight that shakes both analysand and analyst to the core, reminding us as it does that the suffering places of the human psyche are inextricably—and, often inexplicably—related to the fountains of creativity, service, and even genius. She poses disturbing questions: How do we depend on order, when chaos is a necessary part of existence? What are we to make of evil—both that surrounding us and that within us? Is there a myth of meaning that can contain all the differences that threaten to shatter us?

What does a religious community do when confronted by a political regime determined to eliminate a religion? Under communism, Hungary’s persecuted Lutheran Church tried desperately to find a strategy for survival while remaining faithful to its Christian beliefs.

Appealing to the Lutheran Confessions, many argued that the church can do whatever is necessary to survive provided it does not compromise on its essential ministry, while others appealing to the witness of the confessor Bishop Lajos Ordass, argued that the church must uncompromisingly witness to the truth even if that means ecclesiological extinction.

Ulanov’s insights unfold in conversation with themes in Jung’s Red Book which, according to Jung, present the most important experiences of his life, themes he explicated in his subsequent theories. In words and paintings Jung displays his psychic encounters from1913– 1928, describing them as inner images that “burst forth from the unconscious and flooded me like an enigmatic stream and threatened to break me.”

In The Struggle of Hungarian Lutherans under Communism, H. David Baer draws upon the disciplines of theology, history, ethics, and politics to provide a comprehensive analysis of the different strategies developed by the church to preserve its integrity. Relying on previously unnoted archival documents and other primary sources, Baer has made a substantial contribution to Eastern European studies.

Responding to some of Jung’s more fantastic encounters as he illustrated them, Ulanov suggests that our problems and compulsions may show us the path our creativity should take. With Jung she asserts that the multiplicities within and around us are, paradoxically, pieces of a greater whole that can provide healing and unity as, in her words, “every part of us and of our world gets a seat at the table.” Taken from Ulanov’s addresses at the 2012 Fay Lectures in Analytical Psychology, Madness and Creativity stands as a carefully crafted presentation, with many clinical examples of human courage and fulfillment.

Vigorously written, his telling of the history is also a sensitive and moving account of courage and cowardice in the fact of religious persecution. This book should be of interest not only to students of religion in Eastern Europe but also to anyone concerned about the problems that arise wherever there is religious persecution.

Eugenia & Hugh M. Stewart ’26 Series on Eastern Europe H. DAVID BAER, who holds a PhD in theology from the University of Notre Dame, is an associate professor of theology and philosophy at Texas Lutheran University. He lived in Hungary for four years.

Number Eighteen: Carolyn and Ernest Fay Series in Analytical Psychology Ann Belford Ulanov, a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice, is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Memorial Professor of Psychiatry and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York City.

978-1-60344-949-6 cloth $24.95 51/2x81/2. 128 pp. Bib. Index.

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978-1-60344-990-8 paper $22.95s 6x9. 172 pp. 7 b&w photos.

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Matamoros and the Texas Revolution Craig H. Roell The traditional story of the Texas Revolution remembers the Alamo and Goliad but forgets Matamoros, the strategic Mexican port city on the turbulent lower Rio Grande.

In this provocative book, Craig Roell restores the centrality of Matamoros by showing the genuine economic, geographic, social, and military value of the city to Mexican and Texas history.

Roell provides a refreshing reinterpretation of the revolutionary conflict in Texas from a Mexican point of view, essentially turning the traditional story on its head. Readers will learn how Matamoros figured in the Mexican government’s grand designs for making Mexico the economic colossus of the North American continent. Mexican leaders hoped that the development of Matamoros could preserve Texas from American encroachment.

Ironically, though, Matamoros became closely linked to the United States through trade, and foreign intriguers who sought to detach Texas from Mexico found a home in the city.

By the mid-1830s, Texas revolutionaries hoped to snatch this jewel of northern Mexico for themselves.

Roell’s account culminates in the controversial Texan Matamoros expedition, which was composed mostly of American volunteers and paralyzed the Texas provisional government, divided military leaders, and helped lead to the tragic defeats at the Alamo, San Patricio, Agua Dulce Creek, Refugio, and Goliad. Sam Houston denounced the expedition as “the author of all our misfortunes.” In stark contrast, the brilliant and triumphant Matamoros campaign of Mexican General José de Urrea united his countrymen, defeated these revolutionaries, and occupied the coastal plain from Matamoros to Brazoria. Urrea’s victory ensured that Matamoros would remain a part of Mexico, but the people of Matamoros also fought to preserve their own freedom from the centralizing policies of Mexican President Santa Anna, showing the streak of independence that characterizes Mexico’s northern borderlands to this day.

978-0-87611-260-1 paper $15.95 51/2x81/2. 160 pp. 15 b&w illustrations. 2 maps.

Borderlands Studies. Texas Military History.

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A History of La Bah’a Craig H. Roell 978-0-87611-141-3 paper $9.95

Number Twenty-three: Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series

CRAIG H. ROELL is a native of Victoria, Texas, and earned his M.A. and PhD at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of The Piano in America, 1890–1940 (University of North Carolina Press, 1989) and Remember Goliad! (Texas State Historical Association, 1994). Roell is Professor of Economic, Business, and Cultural History at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, where he was named Wells/Warren Professor of the Year (2003).

Texas and the Mexican War A History and a Guide Charles M. Robinson 978-0-87611-192-5 paper $9.95

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Chronicles of the Big Bend A Photographic Memoir of Life on the Border W. D. Smithers Foreword by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale As a young teamster on a pack-mule train, Wilfred Dudley Smithers saw the Rio Grande’s Big Bend for the first time in 1916, and it captured his imagination forever. For decades thereafter he returned to Texas’ last great frontier—the great bend of the Rio Grande on the Texas-Mexico border—chronicling the region and its people in words and photographs.

After half a century of photography, Smithers’ superlative collection of nine thousand images ended up at the University of Texas at Austin, and in 1976 more than one hundred of these were reproduced in Chronicles of the Big Bend, a critically acclaimed work that until now has long been out of print.

The years that Smithers chronicled in the Big Bend were sometimes violent ones. Pancho Villa and Chico Cano were among the many “bandits” playing hide-and-seek with the US Cavalry—events Smithers recorded. He was also an eyewitness to liquor-running and smuggling during Prohibition. His principal subjects, however, were the people of the Big Bend: local ranchers, Mexican American and American families, miners, Texas Rangers, and others living simple lives in this harsh and beautiful land.

With words and camera Smithers wanted to capture “vanishing lifestyles, primitive cultures, old faces, and odd, unconventional professions. Before my camera I wanted huts, vendors, natural majesties, clothing, tools, children, old people, the ways of the border.”

He also told his own life story along with that of the Big Bend.

978-0-87611-261-8 paper $35.95 71/2x101/2. 160 pp. 80 b&w photos. Illus. Maps.

Photography. Texana. Big Bend. Gift Books.

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There are illustrated chapters on the military, law enforcement, curanderos (healers), liquor smugglers, avisadores (secret-message senders), and the national park. Smithers’ word sketches and black-and-white photographs capture the harsh reality and stark beauty, the dust and the mystery of the frontier era of the Big Bend that ended in 1944 when it became a national park. Chronicles of the Big Bend is a rare documentary look at a frontier region as it was known by only a few and as it will never be seen again. It is a deeply personal human portrait of the majestic Big Bend.

WILFRED DUDLEY SMITHERS (1895–1981) was born in San Luis Potosi, Mexico, in 1895. He began taking photographs at age fifteen while living in San Antonio, and later worked as a teamster, joined the US Army, operated a photo studio, served as a news correspondent, and helped pioneer aerial photography.

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Along Forgotten River Photographs of Buffalo Bayou and the Houston Ship Channel, 1997–2001, With Accounts of Early Travelers to Texas, 1767–1858 Geoff Winningham 978-0-87611-189-5 cloth $39.95 978-0-87611-190-1 limited edition $125.00x

Portraits of Community African American Photography in Texas Alan B. Govenar 978-0-87611-153-6 cloth $49.95

The Reminiscences of Major General Zenas R. Bliss, 1854–1876 From the Texas Frontier to the Civil War and Back Again Edited by Thomas Smith, Jerry Thompson, Robert Wooster, and Ben E. Pingenot 978-0-87611-226-7 cloth $39.95

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Cedar Crossing A Novel Mark Busby The Trans-Cedar lynching is an infamous tale that has been buried deep in the subconscious of rural Texas history—although it made front-page headlines in the Dallas Morning News and even in national newspapers from May through November of 1899. This hair-raising event is at the center of a compelling novel by author Mark Busby. He has not only researched original documents but has utilized family oral histories to probe the mysteries that still shroud a lynching that is as horrifying and baffling now as it must have been over a hundred years ago. The “War of Northern Aggression” was still fresh in the memory of those who lived through it; hog-stealing, moonshine, secret meetings, and the lore of the Texas Rangers were part of the fabric of country life, and there were many who refused to believe the war was really over. Against this backdrop, a running feud between the Humphrieses and the Wilkinsons exploded into a triple murder.

When young Jefferson Bowie Adams II is given an assignment for a college course in 1964, President Kennedy has just been assassinated, the movement for civil rights is beginning to stir, and developments in Vietnam barely make the back pages of the newspaper. Setting out to record a story from his family’s history, Jeff discovers—sitting in his grandfather’s hideout while Pampaw smokes a forbidden cigar—a story that is as mesmerizing as it is shocking: the tale of a triple lynching in Kaufman County in the late spring of 1899, an event Pampaw himself witnessed. Even as the scene of the crime is slowly being submerged by the filling of the Cedar Creek Reservoir, Jeff struggles to uncover the truths of what really happened that fateful night in 1899. Through the various recollections of his aging kin, Adams begins to uncover a web of relationships and a love story that ultimately leads him to a missing girl, a country graveyard, and a realization that he and his family are part and parcel of the stained history of the South.

978-0-87565-545-1 paper $24.95 6x9. 192 pp.

Fiction.

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MARK BUSBY is the author or editor of eleven books and is well-known for his writings on the American West. Busby is a professor of English and southwestern studies as well as the director of the NEH Southwest Regional Humanities Center and the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.

From Texas to the World and Back Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter Edited by Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin 978-0-87565-237-5 cloth $26.50

The One-Eyed Man Larry L. King 978-0-87565-236-8 paper $17.95

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The Norton Trilogy Jack L. August Jr. From the author of Dividing Western Waters comes a book on the development of the arid West—in particular the development of Arizona—as seen through the experiences of three generations of John Ruddle Nortons of Arizona. From the administration of Teddy Roosevelt and the earliest reclamation acts to the monumental case between California and Arizona that would determine where the life-giving waters of the Colorado River would be divided, the Nortons were at the center of Arizona’s development into a vital population and agricultural center. Pioneers like the Nortons shaped the very landscape of the western United States—a region that would help to supply the United States with cotton, vegetables, and livestock throughout World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II. The Norton Trilogy follows the lives of John R. Norton (1854–1923) and the beginnings of Arizona farming; John R. Norton, Jr. (1901–1987) and his expansions into diverse crops; and John R. Norton III (1929–present) and the shaping of modern agribusiness as it responded to new water irrigation policies.

As the author points out, “Several themes run through The Norton Trilogy: the most important is the interplay between human values and the waterscape. Technology, of course, played a monumental role in this drama, for dynamite, bulldozers, and reinforced concrete impacted the region’s water and shaped the agricultural economy more than any Indian’s digging stick. Another theme is the central role played by government—local, state, regional, and national—in shaping water policies. The biographical profiles of each John Norton addressed in this work reveal much about the history of Arizona and the central role that the quest for water has played in the growth and development of the region.”

Although the book focuses largely on the state of Arizona, and specifically on one Arizonan family, the story is a template of the hardworking American ideal. Senator Jon Kyl, a colleague of John Norton III, writes in the foreword, “The Nortons, who never suffered from lack of a work ethic, have made Arizona and the nation a better place. This book is as much an American story as it is an Arizona one.” Readers everywhere will be captivated by the generation-to-generation struggles of a family business and how its failures and successes have been affected by interstate politics and public policy.

JACK L. AUGUST JR. serves as executive director of the Arizona Historical Foundation at Arizona State University, where he teaches graduate courses in water policy and management. He has taught at several institutions, including the University of Houston, the University of Northern British Columbia, and Northern Arizona University. He was a Pulitzer Prize nominee for his volume Vision in the Desert: Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest (Fort Worth: TCU Press, 1999); coauthor with former Arizona Senator Dennis DeConcini of Senator Dennis DeConcini: From the Center of the Aisle (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2006); and author of Dividing Western Waters: Mark Wilmer and Arizona v. California (Fort Worth: TCU Press, 2007).

978-0-87565-547-5 cloth $37.95 6x9. 224 pp.

Environmental History. Biography.

History of the Southwest. Arizona.

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California Jack L. August Jr. 978-0-87565-354-9 cloth $32.95

Play by Play Phoenix and Building the Herberger Theater Elizabeth B. Murfee 978-0-87565-410-2 cloth $35.00

Vision in the Desert Carl Hayden and Hydropolitics in the American Southwest Jack L. August Jr. 978-0-87565-310-5 paper $21.95s

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Limo

Between Day and Night

A Novel

New and Selected Poems, 1946–2010 Miguel GonzálezGerth

Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake

Edited and with an introduction by David Colón

Decades before it saturated the airwaves, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake actually invented reality TV—and skewered it into a comic novel that was way ahead of its time. Frank Mallory is a big gun at one of the four major networks. Cruising around Manhattan in his “Silver Goblet,” a Rolls Royce limo, he finds that life in the fast lane is beginning to unravel. Having to deal with the departure of his wife, his boss “The Big Guy”, and crazed Hollywood stars—while at the same time having to maintain a high-stakes job—all tend to make Frank Mallory, well, act out. After Frank struggles to fill all his number-four network’s primetime slots—it tends to lag behind CBS, NBC, and ABC—the Big Guy forces him to create a show called “Just Up The Street,” which is meant to entertain ordinary Americans with the “real” lives of other ordinary Americans. Ultimately the resulting script causes the Big Guy’s downfall and forces everyone else to return to a reality that comes without scare quotes.

Limo is a hilarious, entertaining caricature of the lifestyles of the rich and famous, and provides a fascinating insight into the world of network television. Through a haze of booze and drugs, we see Frank’s desperation for a normal life and real relationships. Frank Mallory’s only true relationships are found in the confines of his Silver Goblet, where he finds friendship with D. Wayne Cooper and love with Sally Hawks. Only after a series of crises does Frank ultimately find himself—and the happiness that has eluded him. Originally published in 1976, Limo is now back in print, complete with a foreword by acclaimed author Jeff Guinn.

Texas Tradition Series DAN JENKINS and BUD SHRAKE, lifelong friends from Fort Worth, made their names known through journalism and sports writing. Collectively they wrote more than forty books. Jenkins currently resides in Fort Worth where he writes and covers golf. Shrake lived and wrote in Austin until his death in 2009.

978-0-87565-550-5 paper $22.95 6x9. 336 pp.

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Miguel González-Gerth, an esteemed translator, poet, editor, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, has been publishing his original English and Spanish poetry since 1946. Born in Mexico City in 1926, González-Gerth moved to the United States in 1940 and made it his permanent home. He received his BA from the University of Texas in 1950 and a PhD from Princeton in 1973, and taught at UT for over thirty years.

Editor David Colón has compiled a selection of González-Gerth’s poems that demonstrate the range of interests, themes, and styles that span more than half a century of a life dedicated to Hispanic literature studies. The poems in this collection are arranged chronologically, exhibiting “the different phases of a poet’s life as well as different historical moments and literary traditions.”

Many of the poems appear with side-by-side translations, demonstrating not only the creativity born of a unique cultural perspective, but the profound understanding of and commitment to the process of translation, taking a poem through its original written language, rethinking the words, allusions, connotations, and presenting it in a different language and tradition.

“He has two guiding principles as a translator of poetry: to keep the languages distinct, and to approach the act of reproduction as an art form itself. In the end, the translation must work on the terms of its own language. It is more important for it to be a successful poem than a faithful copy,” writes Colón in the introduction. Between Day and Night provides a record of González-Gerth’s achievement as a poet and translator, a writer who stays true to the languages and poetic styles of Latin America and Anglo-America, and “work[s] with essentially two minds.”

DAVID COLóN is an assistant professor of English and Latino studies at TCU in Fort Worth. Colón, a Brooklyn native, received his PhD in English from Stanford University and was a chancellor’s postdoctoral fellow in English at the University of California, Berkeley. His writing has appeared in various prominent journals, and he has recently published his first book entitled The Lost Men, An Allegory (Elsewhen Press, 2012).

978-0-87565-549-9 paper $22.95 6x9. 120 pp.

Poetry.

April

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Hometown, Texas Young Poets and Artists Celebrate Their Roots Karla K. Morton Karla K. Morton’s Hometown, Texas is a collection of beautiful poems and artwork created by high school and middle school students of small towns all over Texas and by Morton herself, making the collection truly unique and intriguing. Each poem brings to life another piece of Texas that can easily be overlooked by those who do not quite understand why Texans are so passionate about their state.

The 2010 Texas Poet Laureate hit the road in September 2009, traveling to middle and high schools in small towns across the state, showing students the importance of writing and asking them to create something beautiful that accurately represented their town. From grandma’s mustang jelly and Leddy’s custom boots to forgotten railroads in Haslet, Friday night football, and even Mexican pride, Morton and her newly discovered creative writers do not miss a thing about the beloved small towns of Texas.

A great coffee table read, Hometown, Texas includes fabulous artwork drawn by talented students, giving a glimpse into the best of their hometowns. In this eclectic selection, the reader will eagerly turn page after page to learn a little something more about Texas from the Texan youth. The poetry is simple and authentic, allowing readers to fall in love with Texas all over again.

KARLA K. MORTON, a Fort Worth native, now of Denton, has had her work published in prominent literary journals, both electronic and print. Morton’s work has appeared in such publications as Amarillo Boy, REAL, descant, Langdon Review, New Texas, Illya’s Honey, Borderlands, and Southwestern American Literature. Morton was selected 2010 Texas Poet Laureate by the Texas Legislature and published New and Selected Poems with TCU Press as their sixth book in the Texas Poet Laureate Series.

978-0-87565-544-4 paper $25.00 9x9. 128 pp.

Poetry. Art. Texana.

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David M. Parsons New and Selected Poems David M. Parsons 978-0-87565-395-2 hardcover $15.95

Smurglets Are Everywhere Alan Birkelbach 978-0-87565-415-7 hardcover $19.95

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Civil War General and Indian Fighter James M. Williams Leader of the 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry and the 8th U.S. Cavalry Robert W. Lull The military career of General James Monroe Williams spanned both the Civil War and the Indian Wars in the West, yet no biography has been published to date on his important accomplishments, until now. From his birth on the northern frontier, westward movement in the Great Migration, rush into the violence of antebellum Kansas Territory, Civil War commands in the Trans-Mississippi, and as a cavalry officer in the Indian Wars, Williams was involved in key moments of American history. Like many who make a difference, Williams was a leader of strong convictions, sometimes impatient with heavyhanded and sluggish authority.

Building upon his political opinions and experience as a Jayhawker, Williams raised and commanded the ground-breaking 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment in 1862. His new regiment of black soldiers was the first such organization to engage Confederate troops, and the first to win. He enjoyed victories in Missouri, Indian Territory (Oklahoma), and Arkansas, but also fought in the abortive Red River Campaign and endured defeat and the massacre of his captured black troops at Poison Spring. In 1865, as a brigadier general, Williams led his troops in consolidating control of northern Arkansas.

Williams played a key role in taking Indian Territory from Confederate forces, which denied routes of advance into Kansas and east into Arkansas. His 1st Kansas Colored Volunteer Infantry Regiment helped turn the tide of Southern successes in the TransMississippi, establishing credibility of black soldiers in the heat of battle.

Following the Civil War, Williams secured a commission in the Regular Army’s 8th Cavalry Regiment, serving in Arizona and New Mexico. His victories over Indians in Arizona won accolades for having “settled the Indian question in that part of Arizona.” He finally left the military in 1873, debilitated from five wounds received at the hands of Confederates and hostile Indians.

978-1-57441-502-5 cloth $24.95 6x9. 320 pp. 37 b&w photos. 3 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.

Civil War. Biography. Western History.

May ebook 978-1-57441-512-4

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Number Twelve: War and the Southwest Series ROBERT W. LULL is a Vietnam veteran, retired Army officer, and most recently, a college history instructor. A graduate of Trinity University, he holds advanced degrees from the University of Texas, Webster University, and the American Military University. He lives with his wife near Waco.

“I am impressed by the depth of Lull’s research. Williams’s leadership and courage in organizing and commanding the 1st Kansas underscores that African Americans could fight and die as bravely as white Americans.”—Edwin C. Bearss, Historian Emeritus, US National Park Service, and author, Fields of Honor: Pivotal Battles of the Civil War “Lull has done painstaking research in available primary sources to piece together Williams’s life.”—Nicole Etcheson, author, Bleeding Kansas and A Generation at War

Spartan Band Burnett’s 13th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War Thomas Reid 978-1-57441-301-4 paper $19.95

The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke, Volume 1 November 20, 1872–July 28, 1876 Charles M. Robinson 978-1-57441-161-4 cloth $49.95s

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Heggie and Scheer’s Moby-Dick A Grand Opera for the Twenty-first Century Robert K. Wallace Photographs by Karen Almond Foreword by Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s grand opera Moby-Dick was a stunning success in the world premiere production by the Dallas Opera in 2010. Robert K. Wallace attended the final performance of the Dallas production and has written this book so readers can experience the process by which this contemporary masterpiece was created and performed on stage. Interviews with the creative team and draft revisions of the libretto and score show the opera in the process of being born. Interviews with the principal singers and the production staff follow the five-week rehearsal period into the world premiere production, each step of the way illustrated by more than two hundred color photographs by Karen Almond.

Opera fans, lovers of Moby-Dick, and students of American and global culture will welcome this book as a highly readable and visually enthralling account of the creation of a remarkable new opera that does full justice to its celebrated literary source. Just as Heggie and Scheer’s opera is enjoyed by operagoers with no direct knowledge of Moby-Dick, so will this book be enjoyed by opera fans unaware of Melville and by Melville fans unaware of opera.

After earning his PhD from Columbia, ROBERT K. WALLACE began his career at Northern Kentucky University, where he is Regents Professor and teaches courses in literature and the arts. Wallace’s books include Jane Austen and Mozart, Melville and Turner, Frank Stella’s Moby-Dick, and Douglass and Melville. He lives in Bellevue, Kentucky.

“Wallace really gets the piece, he really loves the piece and every aspect of that is evident. This is a wonderfully scholarly work, but there is great heart in it as well.

I was fascinated.”—Darren K. Woods, General Director, Fort Worth Opera

Queequeg (Jonathan Lemalu) kneels to begin the chant that begins the opera.

Photograph by Karen Almond

978-1-57441-507-0 cloth $45.00 11x81/2. 240 pp. 230 color photos. Notes. Bib. Index.

Performing Arts. Music. Gift Books.

April ebook 978-1-57441-520-9

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Last Stop, Carnegie Hall New York Philharmonic Trumpeter William Vacchiano Brian A. Shook 978-1-57441-306-9 cloth $24.95

Dennis Brain A Life in Music Stephen J. Gamble and William Lynch 978-1-57441-307-6 cloth $29.95

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A Lawless Breed John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown Foreword by Leon C. Metz John Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive with a $4,000 reward on his head. A Texas Ranger wrote that he killed men just to see them kick. Hardin began his killing career in the late 1860s and remained a wanted man until his capture in 1877 by Texas Rangers and Florida law officials. He certainly killed twenty men; some credited him with killing forty or more.

After sixteen years in Huntsville prison he was pardoned by Governor Hogg. For a short while he avoided trouble and roamed westward, eventually establishing a home of sorts in wild and woolly El Paso as an attorney. He became embroiled in the dark side of that city and eventually lost his final gunfight to an El Paso constable, John Selman. Hardin was forty-two years old.

Besides his reputation as the deadliest man with a six-gun, he left an autobiography in which he detailed many of the troubles of his life. In A Lawless Breed, Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown have meticulously examined his claims against available records to determine how much of his life story is true, and how much was only a half truth, or a complete lie. As a killer of up to forty men, Hardin obviously had psychological issues, which the authors probe and explain in laymen’s terms. To Hardin, those three dozen or more killings were a result of being forced to defend his life, his honor, or to preserve his freedom against those who would rob or destroy him or his loved ones. Was he a combination freedom fighter/man-killer, or merely a blood-lust killer who became a national celebrity? This deeply researched biography of Hardin and his friends and family will remain the definitive study for years to come.

978-1-57441-505-6 cloth $29.95 6x9. 512 pp. 83 b&w photos. 3 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.

Texas History. Western History. Biography.

June ebook 978-1-57441-515-5

Number Fourteen: A.C. Greene Series CHUCK PARSONS is the author of Captain John R. Hughes: Lone Star Ranger (winner of the WWHA Best Book Award), The Sutton-Taylor Feud: The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas, John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger N. O. Reynolds, and Captain L. H. McNelly. He lives in Luling. NORMAN WAYNE BROWN is retired from the US Air Force and was a former Texas State Parole Officer. He has written two books and articles for True West and Wild West History Association Journal. He lives near Snyder.

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“Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown made an excellent choice in choosing as their subject a man who would shoot first, pray quick, and ride harder than any outlaws or lawmen in western United States history. It would seem that killing people was what John Wesley Hardin was born for.”—from the Foreword by Leon C. Metz, author, Pat Garrett “Chuck and Norm have questioned everything in the Hardin autobiography, thereby adding a lot to our understanding of Hardin’s early career.”—Bill O’Neal, author, The Johnson-Sims Feud

John Ringo, King of the Cowboys His Life and Times from the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone, Second Edition David Johnson 978-1-57441-243-7 cloth $29.95

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

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Riding Lucifer’s Line Ranger Deaths along the Texas-Mexico Border Bob Alexander Foreword by Byron A. Johnson The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is—or at least can be—risky business, hazardous to one’s health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: “As their predecessors for over one hundred forty years before them did, today’s Texas Rangers continue to battle violence and transnational criminals along the Texas-Mexico border.”

In Riding Lucifer’s Line, Bob Alexander, in his characteristic storytelling style, surveys the personal tragedies of twenty-five Texas Rangers who made the ultimate sacrifice as they scouted and enforced laws throughout borderland counties adjacent to the Rio Grande.

The timeframe commences in 1874 with formation of the Frontier Battalion, which is when the Texas Rangers were actually institutionalized as a law enforcing entity, and concludes with the last known Texas Ranger death along the border in 1921. Alexander also discusses the transition of the Rangers in two introductory sections: “The Frontier Battalion Era, 1874–1901” and “The Ranger Force Era, 1901–1935,” wherein he follows Texas Rangers moving from an epochal narrative of the Old West to more modern, technological times.

Written absent a preprogrammed agenda, Riding Lucifer’s Line is legitimate history. Adhering to facts, the author is not hesitant to challenge and shatter stale Texas Ranger mythology. Likewise, Alexander confronts head-on many of those critical Texas Ranger histories relying on innuendo and gossip and anecdotal accounts, at the expense of sustainable evidence—writings often plagued with a deficiency of rational thinking and common sense.

Riding Lucifer’s Line is illustrated with sixty remarkable old-time photographs. Relying heavily on archived Texas Ranger documents, the lively text is authenticated with more than one thousand comprehensive endnotes.

Number Eleven: Frances B. Vick Series BOB ALEXANDER began a policing career in 1965 and retired as a special agent with the US Treasury Department. He is the author of Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten (winner of the WWHA Best Book Award); Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874–1901; Fearless Dave Allison, Border Lawman; Desert Desperadoes: The Banditti of Southwestern New Mexico; and Lawmen, Outlaws, and SOBs. He lives in Maypearl, Texas.

“This is Bob’s best book to date. It should attract a growing audience of Texas and Western history buffs.”—Louis R. Sadler, co-author, The Texas Rangers and the Mexican Revolution “Riding Lucifer’s Line is written in the popular vein with vivid characterizations.

Those interested in outlaw-lawman history will be attracted to the blood-and-thunder stories.”—Harold J. Weiss, Jr., author, Yours to Command: The Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald

978-1-57441-499-8 cloth $29.95 6x9. 464 pp. 60 b&w photos. Notes. Bib. Index.

Texas Rangers. Western History.

May ebook 978-1-57441-513-1

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

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This Corner of Canaan

I Fought a Good Fight

Essays on Texas in Honor of Randolph B. Campbell

A History of the Lipan Apaches

Edited by Richard B. McCaslin, Donald E. Chipman, and Andrew J. Torget

Sherry Robinson

Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell has spent the better part of the last five decades helping Texans rediscover their history, producing a stream of definitive works on the social, political, and economic structures of the Texas past. Through meticulous research and terrific prose, Campbell’s collective work has fundamentally remade how historians understand Texan identity and the state’s southern heritage, as well as our understanding of such contentious issues as slavery, westward expansion, and Reconstruction. Campbell’s pioneering work in local and county records has defined the model for grassroots research and community studies in the field. More than any other scholar, Campbell has shaped our modern understanding of Texas.

In this collection of seventeen original essays, Campbell’s colleagues, friends, and students offer a capacious examination of Texas’s history— ranging from the Spanish era through the 1960s War on Poverty—to honor Campbell’s deep influence on the field. Focusing on themes and methods that Campbell pioneered, the essays debate Texas identity, the creation of nineteenth-century Texas, the legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the remaking of the Lone Star State during the twentieth century. Featuring some of the most well-known names in the field—as well as rising stars—the volume offers the latest scholarship on major issues in Texas history, and the enduring influence of the most eminent Texas historian of the last half century.

RICHARD B. McCASLIN, chair and professor of history at the University of North Texas, is the author of Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, October 1862. DONALD E. CHIPMAN is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of North Texas and author of Spanish Texas, 1519–1821.

ANDREW J. TORGET is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Texas and co-editor of Crucible of the Civil War.

978-1-57441-503-2 cloth $24.95s 6x9. 480 pp. 17 b&w photos. Notes. Bib. Index.

Texas History.

February ebook 978-1-57441-517-9

This history of the Lipan Apaches, from archeological evidence to the present, tells the story of some of the least known, least understood people in the Southwest. These plains buffalo hunters and traders were one of the first groups to acquire horses, and with this advantage they expanded from the Panhandle across Texas and into Coahuila, coming into conflict with the Comanches. With a knack for making friends and forging alliances, they survived against all odds, and were still free long after their worst enemies were corralled on reservations.

In the most thorough account yet published, Sherry Robinson tracks the Lipans from their earliest interactions with Spaniards and kindred Apache groups through later alliances and to their love-hate relationships with Mexicans, Texas colonists, Texas Rangers, and the US Army. For the first time we hear of the Eastern Apache confederacy of allied but autonomous groups that joined for war, defense, and trade. Among their confederates, and led by chiefs with a diplomatic bent, Lipans drew closer to the Spanish, Mexicans, and Texans.

By the 1880s, with their numbers dwindling and ground lost to Mexican campaigns and Mackenzie’s raids, the Lipans roamed with Mescalero Apaches, some with Victorio. Many remained in Mexico, some stole back into Texas, and others melted into reservations where they had relatives. They never surrendered.

“It is hard to imagine a source that Robinson has not seen. This is a major and impressive contribution—it will answer all the questions about the Lipans.”—Edwin R. Sweeney, author, From Cochise to Geronimo

SHERRY ROBINSON is an award-winning New Mexico journalist and author living in Albuquerque. She graduated from the University of New Mexico and began her career in 1975 on the Navajo Reservation. Robinson is the author of Apache Voices and El Malpais, Mt. Taylor and the Zuni Mountains.

978-1-57441-506-3 cloth $32.95 6x9. 528 pp. 26 b&w illus. 11 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.

Native American Studies. Texas History. Southwestern History.

June ebook 978-1-57441-519-3

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Finish Forty and Home The Untold World War II Story of B-24s in the Pacific Phil Scearce Foreword by Col. Jesse E. Stay

During the early years of World War II in the Pacific theatre, against overwhelming odds, young American airmen flew the longest and most perilous bombing missions of the war. They faced determined Japanese fighters without fighter escort, relentless anti-aircraft fire with no deviations from target, and thousands of miles of over-water flying with no alternative landing sites. Finish Forty and Home is the true story of the men and missions of the 11th Bombardment Group as it fought alone and unheralded in the South Central Pacific, while America had its eyes on the war in Europe. They bombed Nauru, Wake Island, Tarawa, and finally Iwo Jima, bringing American forces closer and closer to the Japanese home islands.

“Finish Forty and Home is a treasure: poignant, thrilling, and illuminating.”—Laura Hillenbrand, best-selling author, Unbroken and Seabiscuit “Powerful and moving.”—World War II Magazine “This is the rare volume filling in a glaring gap in American combat aviation history. . . . The author strongly relates in the words and memories of the participants the gut-wrenching sense of loss and the frustration over the slow mission counts. . . . The author, through his extensive work in tracking down and interviewing those who trained and flew with his father—his commanders, pilots, fellow crewmen, ground personnel—has delivered a work of art, as well as a strong commemoration. . . . Highly recommended.”—The Journal of America’s Military Past Number Five: Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Series PHIL SCEARCE is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a 2009 graduate of the Middle Tennessee State University Writer’s Loft Program. He is a member of the Tennessee Writer’s Alliance. Phil resides in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. COLONEL JESSE E. STAY commanded the 42nd Squadron in the Pacific.

978-1-57441-510-0 paper $18.95 6x9. 408 pp. 39 b&w illus. Map. Notes. Bib. Index.

World War II. Army Air Corps. Aviation.

April ebook 978-1-57441-437-0

They Called Them Soldier Boys A Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I Gregory W. Ball

They Called Them Soldier Boys offers an in-depth study of soldiers of the Texas National Guard’s Seventh Texas Infantry Regiment in World War I, through their recruitment, training, journey to France, combat, and their return home. Gregory W. Ball focuses on the fourteen counties in North, Northwest, and West Texas where officers recruited the regiment’s soldiers in the summer of 1917, and how those counties compared with the rest of the state in terms of political, social, and economic attitudes.

In September 1917 the “Soldier Boys” trained at Camp Bowie, near Fort Worth, Texas, until the War Department combined the Seventh Texas with the First Oklahoma Infantry to form the 142d Infantry Regiment of the 36th Division. In early October 1918, the 142d Infantry, including more than 600 original members of the Seventh Texas, was assigned to the French Fourth Army in the Champagne region and went into combat for the first time on October 6. Ball explores the combat experiences of those Texas soldiers in detail up through the armistice of November 11, 1918.

“Ball has done a fine job to describe and analyze the types of men who served—regarding their backgrounds and economic and social status—which fits well with the important trend relating military history to social history.”—Joseph G. Dawson, editor, The Texas Military Experience Number Eleven: War and the Southwest Series GREGORY W. BALL received his PhD in United States History from the University of North Texas in 2010. He served on active duty with the USAF from 1995–2006 and remains an active member of the USAF Reserve. Ball serves as a historian for the United States Air Force in San Antonio.

978-1-57441-500-1 cloth $29.95 6x9. 352 pp. 21 b&w photos. 5 maps. Notes. Bib. Index.

Military History. Texas. World War I. March ebook 978-1-57441-511-7

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Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation

Bad Boy from Rosebud

Gilbert G. Gonzalez

The Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen McDuff Gary M. Lavergne

Chicano Education in the Era of Segregation analyzes the socioeconomic origins of the theory and practice of segregated schooling for Mexican-Americans from 1910 to 1950. Gilbert G. Gonzalez links the various aspects of the segregated school experience, discussing Americanization, testing, tracking, industrial education, and migrant education as parts of a single system designed for the processing of the Mexican child as a source of cheap labor. The movement for integration began slowly, reaching a peak in the 1940s and 1950s. The 1947 Mendez v. Westminster case was the first federal court decision and the first application of the Fourteenth Amendment to overturn segregation based on the “separate but equal” doctrine. This paperback features an extensive new Preface by the author discussing new developments in the history of segregated schooling.

In October of 1989, the State of Texas set Kenneth Allen McDuff, the Broomstick Murderer, free on parole. By choosing to murder again, McDuff became the architect of an extraordinarily intolerant atmosphere in Texas. The spasm of prison construction and parole reforms—collectively called the “McDuff Rules”—resulted from an enormous display of anger vented towards a system that allowed McDuff to kill, and kill again. Bad Boy from Rosebud is a chilling account of the life of one of the most heartless and brutal serial killers in American history. Gary M. Lavergne goes beyond horror into an analysis of the unbelievable subculture in which McDuff lived. Equally compelling are the lives of remarkable law enforcement officers determined to bring McDuff to justice, and their seven-year search for his victims.

“[Gonzalez] successfully identifies the socioeconomic and political roots of the inequality of education of Chicanos. . . . It is an important historical and policy source for understanding current and future issues affecting the education of Chicanos.”—Dennis J. Bixler-Marquez, International Migration Review

“Texas still feels the pain inflicted by Kenneth Allen McDuff, despite the relentless efforts of law enforcement officials to solve his crimes and bind up its wounds. Bad Boy from Rosebud is an impeccably researched, compellingly detailed account of the crimes and the long search for justice. Gary Lavergne takes us directly to the scenes of the crimes, deep inside the mind of a killer, and in the process learns not only whom McDuff killed and how—but why. This is classic crime reporting.”—Dan Rather, CBS News

“[T]his book is a most welcome contribution to the field. It should be required reading for those interested in ethnic studies, education, and history.”—Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., Teachers College Record “A major study essential for collections in the history of American education and the social sciences.”—Choice

“May make even the most hardened true-crime fans sweat. A must for aficionados of the grisly and a thrill ride to hell for more casual crime fans.”—Booklist

Number Seven: Al Filo: Mexican American Studies Series GILBERT G. GONZALEZ is professor emeritus in the Chicano Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of numerous publications, including Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?, Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing, Labor and Community, and Culture of Empire. Gonzalez co-directed and produced the award-winning documentary The Harvest of Loneliness.

978-1-57441-501-8 paper $18.95s 6x9. 240 pp. 10 b&w photos. Notes. Bib. Index.

Education History. Mexican American Studies.

March ebook 978-1-57441-516-2

GARY M. LAVERGNE is Director of Admissions Research at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of A Sniper in the Tower: The Charles Whitman Murders and Worse Than Death: The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law, both published by the University of North Texas Press.

978-1-57441-508-7 paper $18.95 6x9. 384 pp. 63 b&w illus. Notes. Bib. Index.

Texas History. Criminal Justice.

March ebook 978-1-57441-497-4

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Winner, Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2012

New in paperback

Through Time and the Valley

Club Icarus Matt W. Miller

With muscular language and visceral imagery, Club Icarus bears witness to the pain, the fear, and the flimsy mortality that births our humanity as well as the hope, humor, love, and joy that completes it. This book will appeal to sons and fathers, to parents and children, to those tired of poetry that makes no sense, to those who think lyric poetry is dead, to those who think the narrative poem is stale, to those who think that poetry has sealed itself off from the living world, and to those who appreciate the vernacular as the language of living and the act of living as something worth putting into language.

“A down-to-earth intelligence and an acute alertness to the gritty movement of language are what you’ll treasure most in Matt Miller’s Club Icarus. If you love sentences that fiercely sing the full measure of human tides—from joy to grief—you just might pass this book on to a friend or relative who needs it, or even better yet, purchase their own copy.”—Major Jackson, author, Holding Company and judge

Number Twenty: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry

The Beauty of a Nail hangs on it being unseen as when it suspends a painting or some caught on camera moment on a plain wall or the way within the wall it holds up the house, the pipes, the unrolled insulation or even when somewhat seen as when it holds a man up to martyrdom— always it is the tool, not the meaning.

A former Wallace Stegner Fellow, MATT W. MILLER earned his master’s of fine arts degree in creative writing from Emerson College. His poems have appeared in Slate, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Third Coast, and other journals.

His first book, Cameo Diner: Poems, was published in 2005. He teaches English and coaches football in Exeter, New Hampshire.

978-1-57441-504-9 paper $12.95 6x9. 80 pp.

Poetry.

April ebook 978-1-57441-514-8

John R. Erickson Photographs by Bill Elzey

The isolated Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle stretched before John Erickson and Bill Ellzey as they began a journey through time and what the locals call “the valley.” They went on horseback, as they might have traveled it a century before. Everywhere they went they talked, worked, and swapped stories with the people of the valley, piecing together a picture of what life has been like there for a hundred years. Through Time and the Valley is their story of the river—its history, its lore, its colorful characters, the comedies and tragedies that valley people have spun yarns about for generations. Outlaws, frontier wives, Indian warriors, cowboys, craftsmen, dance-hall girls, moonshiners, inventors, ranchers—all are part of the Canadian River country heritage that gives this book its vitality.

“Through Time and the Valley is the finest non-scholarly account of the history, culture, and people of this region. . . . What I did notice was humor, pathos, strong characterization, crisp dialogue, and such a sense of place as to bring a lump to my throat.”—Roundup Magazine “This is such a nice book, written in a perceptive but relaxed style, and with a pervasive sense of the land on every page. . . . This includes discussions of both battles at Adobe Walls, with much on Billy Dixon, Kit Carson, and Charles Goodnight.”—Council Fires “[T]his is a pleasant journey back in time to a distinct locale in Texas.”—Review of Texas Books Number Two: Western Life Series JOHN R. ERICKSON, a fifth-generation Texan, was born and raised in the Texas Panhandle. In 1982 Erickson launched the Hank the Cowdog series, with sales well over seven million copies and counting. He is the author of Prairie Gothic, The Modern Cowboy, Catch Rope, LZ Cowboy, Panhandle Cowboy, Some Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys, and Friends, all published by the University of North Texas Press.

978-1-57441-509-4 paper $22.95 6x9. 256 pp. 31 b&w illus. Map. Bib. Index.

Texas History. Folklore.

February ebook 978-1-57441-518-6

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Theoria, Vol. 20

Journal of Schenkerian Studies 7

Edited by Frank Heidlberger

Edited by Colin Davis

Heinrich Schenker

Theoria is an annual peer-reviewed journal on all aspects of the history of music theory. It includes critical articles representing the current stage of research, and editions of newly discovered or mostly unknown theoretical texts with translation and commentary.

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.

Analytical articles on recent or unknown repertory and methods are also published, as well as review articles on recent secondary literature and textbooks. Back issues are available from Texas A&M University Press.

The journal features articles on all facets of Schenkerian thought, including theory, analysis, pedagogy, and historical aspects.

ISSN: 1554-1312 $22.00x 71/2x91/4. 196 pp.

Music.

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For a list of articles in Volumes 1-6 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.

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What would you have done if you were caught behind enemy lines when the Civil War broke out?

Two Years Before the Paddlewheel Charles F. Gunther, Mississippi River Confederate Edited by Bruce S. Allardice and Wayne L. Wolf Charles F. Gunther is a Yankee ice peddlar who is trapped in the South at the outbreak of the war. Presented here are two years of diaries of Gunther’s experiences working on the steamboat Rose Douglas, ferrying Confederate troops and supplies.

After the war, Gunther makes a fortune in the candy business across the street from Marshal Field’s in Chicago, becomes a premier collector and preserver of Civil War artifacts and Lincoln memorabilia, endows the Chicago History Museum with its Civil War collection, and goes on to hold political office as an alderman and City Treasurer of Chicago.

978-1-933337-52-4 paper $29.95 6x9. 350 pp. 22 photos. 4 maps. 11 documents.

43 Illus. Bib. Index.

Military History. Civil War. Southern History. American History.

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Thunder Across the Swamp The Fight for the Lower Mississippi, February–May 1863 Donald S. Frazier 978-1-933337-44-9 cloth $59.95

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In Two Years Before the Paddlewheel, readers can follow the day-by-day survival of an ordinary ice merchant turned Confederate steamboat purser during the Civil War. Gunther’s day-by-day account as a civilian in military service illuminates the economic, military, social, and personal side of America’s Civil War. BRUCE S. ALLARDICE is Professor of History at South Suburban College in Illinois. He is a past president of the Civil War Roundtable of Chicago. Allardice has authored or coauthored six books and numerous articles on the Civil War. His book More Generals in Gray was a selection of the History Book Club. WAYNE L. WOLF is Professor of Social Sciences and Criminal Justice at South Suburban College in Illinois. He is past president of the Lincoln-Davis Civil War Roundtable and is the author of twenty-three books, including Heroes and Rogues of the Civil War, The Last Confederate Scout, and Soldiers, Sailors, and Scoundrels of the Civil War.

“A fascinating personal story of the experiences of a Northern businessman forced by the outbreak of the Civil War to work for the Confederacy through 1862.

Gunther’s situation was unique in many respects, and his diaries are a wonderful addition to the historiography of the Western Theater.”—Michael B. Ballard, coordinator, Congressional and Political Research Center at Mississippi State University, and Mississippi State University archivist “A meticulously researched book of a Yankee trapped in the South . . . fascinating account of a neglected area of Civil War history.”—Michael Moosmann, past president, Lincoln-Davis Civil War Roundtable “Two Years Before the Paddlewheel fills a void in Civil War historiography. While Gunther’s 1861 diary provides insight into civilian life in Memphis during secession and the economic impact of the war during its early months, his 1862 diary is possibly the best primary source detailing the problems of supplying Confederate troops conducting field operations in Arkansas, a region almost devoid of railroads and navigable waterways.”—Lawrence Lee Hewitt, author, Port Hudson, Confederate Bastion on the Mississippi

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New from the author of Fluffing the Concrete . . .

Does This Book Make My Head Look Fat? Mack Dryden Mack Dryden, born and educated in Mississippi, has made a living making people laugh since an air purifier was a box of matches. As a comedian, he’s performed on dozens of TV shows, including The Tonight Show and his own show, Comedy Break. He was handpicked

by Bill Maher for the writing staff of Politically Incorrect, and his cartoons have appeared in numerous publications, including his first illustrated book, Remember When Safe Sex Meant All the Car Doors Were Locked?

Does This Book Make My Head Look Fat? is a collection of this world-class humorist’s funniest columns, cartoons, standup riffs, and lyrics, and every page is crammed with belly laughs.

MACK DRYDEN appeared on dozens of TV shows, including 125 episodes of the syndicated sketch show Comedy Break with Mack & Jamie, and starred in the movie Million Dollar Mystery. As a solo actor, he appeared in JAG, The Guardian, and as Scotty the bartender on two seasons of ABC’s western Paradise. As a writer, he was handpicked for the staff of Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher, where he honed his skill at writing topical humor.

“She knows that neither of us is capable of ignoring her when she is splayed out like a wanton trollop begging to be serviced. If this one quirk disqualifies her for sainthood, they should change the rules.

I think Jesus would have washed her feet, particularly when she comes galumphing in on a rainy day with enough mud on her paws to pot a petunia.”

978-1-937875-03-9 paper $22.95 51/2x81/2. 160 pp.

Literary Nonfiction.

February ebook 978-1-937875-16-9

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So There You Are The Selected Prose of Glenn Brown Paul Ruffin 978-1-881515-11-1 cloth $30.00 978-1-881515-12-8 paper $20.00

Ice House Sketches Robert Phillips 978-1-933896-65-6 paper $14.95

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“. . . like mixing sushi with mashed potatoes and gravy.”

Genesis in Japan The Bible beyond Christianity Thomas Dabbs Genesis in Japan rises from a journal of reflections that were collected by the author while teaching the Bible to Japanese university students in Tokyo. It relates the diverse responses to the Bible that rebound, subtly but forcefully, back to the teacher from these students—extraordinary responses, in that they are simple, pure, ordinary, and entirely disorienting.

Teaching and learning the Bible in Japan has led the author to another view of the Bible, one that stands in stark contrast with the Bible in the Bible-heavy culture that was the author’s beginning at a small crossroads in central South Carolina.

THOMAS DABBS is a professor in the Department of English and American Literature at Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, where he teaches Shakespeare and the Bible.

“In this fascinating book, Thomas Dabbs uses his experiences in Japan to delve into the complexities of faith and doubt. He is a true pilgrim, a searcher for ‘the signs that are not there and the signs that are.’”—Ron Rash “Tom Dabbs hath ventured into the Wilderness armed with Answers, and returnethed mostly unscathed, armed with Questions. Or at least different—and better, sane— answers. Genesis in Japan should be required reading in America. I wish I’d’ve had a copy of this great memoir to knock upside the heads of many people—friends, relatives, and strangers—throughout my life. Self-effacing and scholarly, hilarious and poignant, Dabbs offers a brilliant portrait of culture-curious Japanese students under the tutelage of a well-meaning, patient, and increasingly-baffled professor.”

—George Singleton “Tom Dabbs’ book is an exciting adventure into cross-cultural communication. His task of teaching Biblical material to a class without a modicum of awareness of Biblical assumptions is daunting, but in his engaging, self-deprecatory fashion, he enters into his hearers’ world, and questions his own relation to the texts and to Christianity itself.”—Harold French

978-1-933896-99-1 paper $24.95 51/2x81/2. 280 pp.

Literary Nonfiction.

January ebook 978-1-937875-12-1

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Swallowing the Past: Scenes from the Postmodern South Greg Bottoms 978-1-933896-60-1 paper $22.95

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. . . an exceedingly rare Southern Man of Letters

George Garrett A Critical Biography Casey Clabough Considering George Garrett’s life and work in the continuum of American literary history, it is perhaps most profitable to place him in the tradition of the now exceedingly rare Southern “man of letters”—he (or she) who embraces and produces literature in all its complexity and in multiple forms (novels, short stories, poems, plays, criticism, translation, editing, and so on).

This kind of Southern writer, stretching back to Edgar Allan Poe, perhaps finds its best modern examples in the Nashville-based writers of the 1920s and 1930s. Chronologically, Garrett, born in 1929, probably was the most variously gifted Southern writer to arrive on the scene following Robert Penn Warren. Indeed, it is in such company that his life and work belong.

CASEY CLABOUGH is the author of the novel Confederado, the travel memoir The Warrior’s Path: Reflections Along an Ancient Route, and five scholarly books on Southern writers, including Inhabiting Contemporary Southern & Appalachian Literature: Region & Place in the 21st Century.

Clabough serves as editor of the literature section of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities’ Encyclopedia Virginia and as general editor of the literary journal James Dickey Review. He lives on a farm in Appomattox County, Virginia, and teaches at Lynchburg College.

“George Garrett was the only Renaissance man I knew. Fortunately, the quality of the man comes through in the work, which is one of the reasons why it is as fine as it is.”—Joseph Blotner

978-1-937875-00-8 paper $22.95 51/2x81/2. 240 pp.

Literary Criticism.

January ebook 978-1-937875-13-8

“George Garrett was an American literary hero.”—Matthew J. Bruccoli “This critical biography helps to raise Garrett to his much-deserved position as one of the top luminaries of Southern literature and articulates beautifully the vast intelligence, wit, and talent of this remarkable man.”—Lynda Byrd Cook, author, Dancing in the Flames: Spiritual Journeys in the Novels of Lee Smith

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New from an award-winning Texas novelist . . .

Vox Populi A Novel of Everyday Life Clay Reynolds A nameless and sometimes hapless narrator moves through a series of casual encounters, mostly in the Southwest, with total strangers, average people going about day-to-day, often mundane activities, but taking time to reveal to him, unprompted, their life experiences.

Although he does not invite their attention, they sometimes seem desperate to share their stories with him, mostly because he’s right there, sometimes trapped by circumstance.

Often funny, sometimes sad, always poignant in a way, their voices, their words open up their deeper selves, reveal both the comedy and tragedy of individual life, and expose the unique humanity behind the anonymous faces of the ordinary person. Through their candid and unselfconscious revelations, they tell a composite story of the everyday individual muddling through the vicissitudes of everyday life.

CLAY REYNOLDS is an award-winning novelist and short-fiction writer and a widely published scholar and critic. The author of thirteen books and more than a thousand other publications, he is a professor of arts and humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas, where he teaches creative writing and literature. He and his wife, Judy, live in Lowry Crossing, Texas.

“Clay Reynolds’ Vox Populi is just what its title says it is—snapshots in the lives of ordinary, undistinguished people, narrated by themselves. It’s a photographic exercise in writing, where word imagery amplifies the smallest background details, at random, and conveys them to the mind’s eye. A feast for readers who delight in the potential to be found in their everyday surroundings.”—Adam Dunn, author, Rivers of Gold and The Big Dogs “Clay Reynolds’ tenth novel, Vox Populi, is a seriocomic celebration of ordinary people doing the humdrum tasks of daily living, going to a car wash, the tax office, a flea market, a doctor’s office, a barber shop, etc. All in all, a funny, engaging look at everyday life in our time.”—Don Graham

978-1-933896-98-4 paper $22.95 51/2x81/2. 240 pp.

Literary Novel.

January ebook 978-1-937875-11-4

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Hog to Hog Jack Smith 978-1-933896-23-6 paper $24.95

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Between Cloud and Horizon A Relationship Casebook in Stories Colin Fleming Between Cloud and Horizon: A Relationship Casebook in Stories is an examination of what defines the relationships that define each of us, and the myriad forms they take, in a story collection that doubles as a casebook of how we interact with each other.

It is an exposé—in narrative—of what binds—or breaks—the bonds between fathers and sons, partners in crime, brothers, roommates, bandmates, co-workers, the past and the present, man and machine, the living and the dead, book and reader.

COLIN FLEMING, of Boston Mass., writes for The Atlantic, Slate, The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, Tin House, ESPN The Magazine, and The New Criterion. This is his first book.

“Colin Fleming’s stories exhibit many of the qualities that have distinguished his criticism: namely, a fierce but disciplined intelligence, a singular view of society—and, sometimes, those who live in isolation from mainstream society—and a well-earned and convincing compassion. All of this, in a debut collection of stories written in eloquent prose, at once vivid, hypnotically precise, and always bursting with energy.”

—Richard Burgin, Boulevard, and five-time Pushcart winner “The range, the range: there are knotty stories here and straightforward ones, lighter moments and moments that will drag you, like an anchor, into a sea where you will willingly drown. There are fragments of high culture like Turgenev and fragments of low culture like Sega. And beneath it all, there’s a single purpose in Colin Fleming’s Between Cloud and Horizon, a unifying drive—to lay bare the infernal, angelic messiness of human relationships, whether between fathers and sons, friends, lovers, or strangers.”—Ben Greenman, Goings On About Town editor, The New Yorker, and author, What He’s Poised to Do (Harper Perennial) “From the father and son bonding over videos of Mark ‘The Bird’ Fidrych to the con man obsessed with Big Star’s manic-depressive third album, Colin Fleming has a knack for detail that gives his stories genuine inertia and makes them feel wonderfully true to life. Between Cloud and Horizon is the work of a writer who’s no tourist in the interior world but keeps finding things to love about the real one.”

—Christian Hoard, Rolling Stone

978-1-933896-97-7 paper $22.95 51/2x81/2. 256 pp.

Collection of Short Fiction.

January ebook 978-1-937875-10-7

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“The Death of Bonnie and Clyde” and Other Stories Michael Gills 978-1-933896-70-0 paper $18.95

News About People You Know Robert Phillips 978-1-881515-45-6 paper $18.95

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Fifth volume in the series of contemporary Southern poetry . . .

From the author of Come Rain, Come Shine . . .

Southern Poetry Anthology V

Bone-Hollow, True New and Selected Poems

Georgia

Jack B. Bedell

Edited by William Wright and Paul Ruffin

Edited by William Wright and Paul Ruffin, The Southern Poetry Anthology, Volume V: Georgia brings together over one hundred of Georgia’s poets, including David Bottoms, Natasha Trethewey, Leon Stokesbury, Thomas Lux, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alice Friman, Judson Mitcham, and Stephen Corey, as well as myriad other luminous voices. The volume marks the fifth of the series Art & Literature has called “one of the most ambitious projects in contemporary Southern letters.”

“The time of the major poet, and perhaps even the major poem, is probably a thing of the past. The lack of the insular may very well keep such individual peaks from bursting into being. But so many other things are happening, and being written, that a new village of poets is all around Georgia. The editors of this anthology have indeed performed their duty well, for it is a garland of flowers, beautiful and more multi-colored than anyone might have imagined, and a most wonderful way to spend some afternoons and feel the earth made new again.”—Leon Stokesbury

PAUL RUFFIN, Texas State University System Regents’ Professor at Sam Houston State University, is the author of two novels, four collections of stories, four books of essays, and seven collections of poetry. WILLIAM WRIGHT, of Marietta, Georgia, is author of Dark Orchard, The Ghost Narratives, and Sleep Paralysis. Wright is the series editor of The Southern Poetry Anthology and founding editor of Town Creek Poetry.

978-1-933896-93-9 paper $26.95 6x9. 288 pp.

Poetry.

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Jack B. Bedell’s poems celebrate the people, traditions, and landscapes that have shaped him throughout his life. The poetry collected in Bone-Hollow, True represents over two decades of Bedell’s published work, all driven by an intense love of story and heritage. From first page to last, this book revels in the culture that makes south Louisiana, and Bedell’s poetry, so unique. At once contemplative and conversational, these poems consistently find the simple beauty of the world at hand, relying on the power of narrative to drive it home for all of us.

“Jack B. Bedell knows the ancient power of story to hold things together: societies, beliefs, clans, families, love. Here is a poet whose practice makes him a master of every part of the poem, but he will startle you with how beautifully he manages storytelling as his primary argument for art in the service of the lives he knows from the inside out.”—Darrell Bourque “Jack Bedell is a prince amongst poets, a kindred spirit in this magnificent landscape of Cajuns and southern Louisiana, where his best poems render amazing texture to a place filthy rich in culture, sugar cane fields, Mardi Gras, and a world where any child would be blessed to live.”—Virgil Suarez

JACK B. BEDELL is Professor of English and coordinator of the programs in creative writing at Southeastern Louisiana University, where he also serves as editor of Louisiana Literature and director of Louisiana Literature Press. His most recent books are Call and Response and Come Rain, Come Shine, both with Texas Review Press.

978-1-933896-95-3 paper $8.95 6x73/4. 80 pp.

Poetry.

March ebook 978-1-937875-08-4

48 | texas review press | www.texasbookconsortium.com From the author of Penelope’s Design . . .

More poems from a disabled physician . . . .

Map Home

More Poems from Both Sides of the Fence

David Havird

Experiences of a Disabled Physician in Medicine Beryl Lawn

In the poem that opens this career-spanning odyssey, a blind weaver, who is at once a grandmotherly Penelope and a Homeric bard, “maps you home”—home finally, as the concluding poem reveals, to the Swamp Fox-haunted lowlands of Havird’s native South. Along the way, which threads through Hardy’s Wessex, the Greece of Homer and Seferis, and Jack London’s Valley of the Moon, we take our bearings in “elliptical” terrain, as Rosanna Warren describes the typical setting—landscapes through whose gaps emerge the ghosts of memory and myth to engage the living in scenes of infinite moment.

These short, accessible poems describe the experiences of the author as a practicing internist and (later) psychiatrist. Some allude to the responses of patients to a physician with an obvious physical disability.

Others describe the reactions of patients to illness, injury, and death.

In Map Home, as in Havird’s award-winning chapbook, Penelope’s Design—but amply here—“the memories of ‘a dream-disheveled child’ in the Deep South unfold,” as Eleanor Wilner observes, “into the meditative travels of the literary man in elegant poems riddled with starlight.”

The dying man had been a beloved husband and father.

“He taught me to fish, to play ball, and to love God,” his adult son told us, “and now he’s teaching me how to die.”

DAVID HAVIRD grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, and studied at the University of South Carolina under James Dickey. He completed his graduate studies at the University of Virginia with a doctoral dissertation on Thomas Hardy. While not a prolific poet, he has published for many years in major journals, having broken into print in 1975 with a poem in The New Yorker. His collection of fourteen poems, Penelope’s Design (2010), won the 2009 Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize. He lives in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he teaches at Centenary College.

978-1-933896-94-6 paper $8.95 51/2x81/2. 80 pp.

Poetry.

March ebook 978-1-937875-07-7

Some of the poems are funny, some angry, some sad. Reading them has been likened to eating potato chips: “You can’t eat just one.”

How to Die

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

Her subsequent life (medical school, postgraduate training, medical practice, marriage) has been spent in a wheelchair. Lawn is now living in Temple, Texas.

978-1-937875-01-5 paper $8.95 51/2x81/2. 80 pp.

Poetry.

May ebook 978-1-937875-14-5

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| texas review press | 49 Poetry from the world of the urban street cop . . .

Cold Blue Steel

Broken Hallelujah

Sarah Cortez

New and Selected Poems Jack Butler

Jack Butler’s Broken Hallelujah: New and Selected Poems is a celebration that refuses to explain away pain and trouble, or to oversell the very transcendence it seeks. Its poems are always musical, whether formal, improvisational, or written according to the music of speech itself.

Butler understands poetry more nearly as the essence of that speech than as one of its products, the heart of the ways we know each other.

Some of these forms are as old as English, but the voice stays immediate; and whether dark or hopeful, comic or sober, passionate or calm and knowing, these poems speak with the urgency of praise itself.

The son of a Southern Baptist minister, JACK BUTLER grew up in the Mississippi Delta (his home town is Alligator). He was awarded undergraduate degrees in mathematics and English, and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Arkansas. He has worked in the marketplace as well as in academia and administration. Broken Hallelujah: New and Selected Poems is his tenth book in eighteen worldwide editions, including a translation into Japanese.

With its publication, his published books include three volumes of poetry, one of short fiction, a food book, and five novels, including two with Alfred A. Knopf.

He has been nominated for the Pulitzer and the Pen/Faulkner, and has won awards for fiction and his poetry. His poetry, fiction, and reviews have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, Poetry Northwest, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Times Book Review, The Los Angeles Times Book Review, Black Warrior Review, New Orleans Review, Plains Poetry Review, and many other journals.

He enjoys mathematics, physics, painting, zen, and yoga. Butler lives in Eureka, California.

978-1-933896-96-0 paper $10.95 51/2x81/2. 80 pp.

Poetry.

March ebook 978-1-937875-09-1

Cold Blue Steel contains fifty lyric poems set in the world of the urban street cop in Houston, the nation’s fourth largest metropolis.

In the patrol car, at scenes of suicides and DOAs, in the overtime reality of aching feet and sweating torsos, the reader experiences the hard realities and unexpected luminosities of doing America’s most dangerous job.

On Some Streets The children don’t wave to cops. Instead, they stare, eyes glinting—an array of hard, black diamonds.

Sallow skin. Sparse freckles.

Front-yard autos hiked up on make-shift stilts. A chow dog wandering loose, patches of fur hanging off his belly.

Each young face turning to watch the patrol car’s path on the block.

Each face hardened into a cold, white cipher.

SARAH CORTEZ, author of How to Undress a Cop, has edited Windows into My World: Latino Youth Write Their Lives, Hit List: The Best of Latino Mystery, Indian Country Noir, and You Don’t Have a Clue: Latino Mystery Stories for Teens. Her most recent title is Walking Home: Growing Up Hispanic in Houston. Cortez resides in Houston.

978-1-937875-02-2 paper $10.95 51/2x81/2. 80 pp.

Poetry.

July ebook 978-1-937875-15-2

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Defining East Texas architecture . . .

Diedrich Rulfs Designing Modern Nacogdoches Jere Langdon Jackson Diedrich Anton Wilhelm Rulfs, the German-born architect who immigrated to Nacogdoches, Texas in 1880, transformed the historic, frontier town into a modern city.

The life and work of Rulfs and his interaction with his contemporaries is the story of Nacogdoches in the crucial years at the turn of the 20th century.

The substantial visual legacy of Rulfs to the history of a pioneering town can be enjoyed today. Over fifty architectural creations are extant and form the core for the city’s extensive National Registry Districts. Rulfs incorporated the motifs of his homeland along with elements from current trends in American architecture into Nacogdoches projects. He comfortably used classical and Palladian features, romantic (Gothic), flamboyant (Queen Ann), and eclectic (Mediterranean) styles.

Rulfs proved himself a master at servicing many architectural needs: modest domestic structures, commercial buildings, city blocks, hotels, elaborately fashionable mansions, churches for all denominations, and public schools. While few towns the size of Nacogdoches had, or could have supported, a talented resident architect, Rulfs returned the admiration by working flawlessly with the community. His success resided in his professionalism, his intimate knowledge of his clients, and his willingness to accomodate his designs to the needs and budgets of his patrons. Rulfs, as the architect and builder of choice in Nacogdoches between 1880 to the mid-1920s, left an incorporable architectural legacy.

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

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

978-1-936205-17-2 cloth $50.00x 9x12. 500 pp. 400 color, 150 b&w photos. 10 maps.

10 architectural drawings.

Architecture. Biography. Texas Urban History.

Photography. Cultural Studies.

July

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Chopper Blues Charles D. Jones 978-1-936205-69-1 cloth $40.00

War Cuts Don R. Schol 978-1-936205-13-4 cloth $35.00

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| stephen f. austin state university press | 51 A fascinating look at the evolution of distaffs . . .

To Spin a Yarn Michael T. Ricker

Distaffs are simple tools for spinning fiber, forming part of our culture for millennia. In certain cultures, distaffs evolved over centuries from plain sticks to surprisingly ornate sculptures. They eventually became important cultural objects, with almost ritualistic significance.

A beautiful work of art by Corinne Jones . . .

13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird Corinne Jones Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” appeared originally in 1917 and was subsequently published in his first book, Harmonium, in 1923. In a letter, Stevens once wrote that “this group of poems is not meant to be a collection of epigrams or of ideas, but of sensations.” If this is indeed the poet’s intent, the poem provides readers with no fewer than thirteen perspectives or observances about blackbirds, but in those “thirteen ways” is the immeasurable culmination of sensations. Just as the poet’s imagination invites readers to discover the infinite mysteries of the world and how these unify us in unexpected ways, Corinne Jones’ new visual interpretation of Stevens’ poem invites us, again, to re-explore the multiplicity of observation and subsequent knowledge.

This new trade edition, a 10x10 reprint of the original fine arts book, juxtaposes Jones’s beautiful and sensual prints of blackbirds against Stevens’s poetic text. The result is that the life and power inherent in each artwork is increased wonderfully and vibrantly when taken as a whole.

CORINNE JONES earned her Bachelor of Fine Art Degree, with an emphasis on painting from Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, Tennessee; and a Master of Art Degree along with a Master of Fine Art Degree, both with an emphasis on painting, from Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacagdoches, Texas. Her work has been exhibited all over the world, including France, Italy, and Russia. She lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.

978-1-62288-018-8 paper $40.00 10x10. 60 pp.

Art. April

During a heyday lasting from the mid 18th century to the early 20th century, distaff production soared. This production was ultimately quashed by the progress of the Industrial Revolution and subsequent availability of ready-made fabric. Distaff use continued, but primarily to honor tradition and create special textiles of cultural and familial importance, rather than make clothes for daily wear.

MICHEAL T. RICKER is an independent scholar, artist, and collector who lives and works in the greater Dallas area. Ricker’s areas of interest within the fine arts include livres d’ artiste and 20th-century social realism, with a particular focus on Mexican social realism and the legendary printmaking workshop, El Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP) and its artists. In addition to his research on private press books and the TGP, he has contributed to studies of the American artists Leonard Baskin and Rico Lebrun.

978-1-62288-013-3 hardcover $45.00 81/2x11. 140 pp.

Art. History.

April

52 | stephen f. austin state university press | www.texasbookconsortium.com Another great book of poetry from award winning poet Christopher Buckley . . .

Varieties of Religious Experience

New poetry from award winning poet, Gary Soto . . .

Sudden Loss of Dignity Gary Soto

Christopher Buckley 978-1-62288-017-1 paper $16.00 6x9. 88 pp.

Poetry.

April

Christopher Buckley investigates the large, unanswerable questions that have dogged humanity since the Beginning. Often the seascapes along the California coast toss their debris of ontological doubts upon the shores of his writing . . . uncertainties concerning God, the human condition, the limits of our knowing, and the universe.

Buckley’s poetry provides readers with the constant blending of beautiful language and stirring content. Full of emotion, Varieties of Religious Experience promises to deliver meaningful messages.

CHRISTOPHER BUCKLEY was raised in Santa Barbara, CA and educated at St. Mary’s College, San Diego State University, and the University of California Irvine. He teaches in the Creative Writing Department at the University of California Riverside. Buckley is the author of eighteen books of poetry, and was the winner of the 2009 Tampa Review Prize for Poetry for Rolling the Bones, published by The University of Tampa Press in 2010. White Shirt was published by the University of Tampa Press August, 2011.

978-1-62288-005-8 paper $16.00 6x9. 100 pp.

Poetry.

April

Sudden Loss of Dignity represents where Gary Soto is in his life. He finds himself positioned in life as the older gent, or old guy. His poetry mirrors his personality, snarky and full of mockery. Soto writes about mainly aging and the loss of one’s dignity as the years pass. It’s very funny, poignant, sad, and especially true.

GARY SOTO is the author of eleven poetry collections for adults, most notably New and Selected Poems, a 1995 finalist for both the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the National Book Award. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including Ploughshares, Michigan Quarterly, Poetry International and Poetry. He has received the Literature Award from the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, the Author-Illustrator Civil Rights Award from the National Education Association, and the PEN Center West Book Award for Petty Crimes.

A fun adventure with a great East Texas legacy . . .

In honor of the great Ben Procter . . .

Junior Jacks

Never without Honor

Archie P. McDonald

Studies of Courage in Tribute to Ben H. Procter

978-1-62288-002-7 paper $15.00 10x7. 48 pp.

Juvenile Non-fiction.

April

Follow Archie McDonald as he leads a group of students on an illustrated tour of the beautiful campus of Stephen F. Austin State University.

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

Archie P. McDonald 978-1-62288-003-4 hardcover $20.00 6x9. 250 pp.

Literary Non-Fiction.

April

In Memory of Ben H. Procter, a beloved mentor and friend who taught many people most of what they know about the practice of history, and even more about life.

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

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A gripping collection of short stories by Jeanne Sirotkin . . .

Beautiful poetry from Jose Rodriguez . . .

Wrestling the Bear

The Backlit Hour

Jeanne Sirotkin

Jose Antonio Rodriguez

Wrestling the Bear is a first collection of nineteen stories. Many of the stories deal with synchronicity – the remarkable moments of coincidence when lives collide. The characters represent a range: male, female, young, and old, including dead Elvis, Jimmy Hoffa and the Emperor of New York City. The stories reveal webs of entanglement and often redemption.

The stories are tinged with the surreal. Their settings work as characters whether it is an unnamed island of Central America, Brooklyn, or the streets of Detroit and its surrounding working class suburbs.

Sirotkin writes with poetic language and rhythm, reflecting her background in poetry and performance.

JEANNE SIROTKIN briefly attened East Michigan, Wayne State, and Wilmington College in Ohio before hopping in a car and moving to San Fransisco.

For eight years, she lived a life of poetry. Salons with artists and writers. Good friends. Broken relationships. Her first book An Unzipped Dress (poetry) was published in 1975 by Harold Graves’s Golden Mountain Press. The same year she met Michael Haynes in Mexico, her partner for life, through a series of unbelievable coincidences.

978-1-62288-006-5 paper $16.00 6x9. 100 pp.

Fiction.

April

Sometimes I wonder when it will be safe enough for me to try to get another automobile related job. Probably I’m on some black list that’s circulated through the industry. I picture my photo on a poster with a black X through it. “Do Not Hire This Guy. Call the FBI. Wanted for questioning on National Security matters.” The picture would not look anything like me, of course.

—from the book

“Such a wealth of perception in these voluptuous poems – through “the silent call of presence” absolutely everything is backlit and branching–precious family, rooms, whole eras of living. This is a wondrous book to be absorbed and found by.”—Naomi Shihab Nye “Poems that broke open my heart and haunted me. Beautiful, heartfelt, vulnerable. A humble voice, and because of this humility, filled with grace.”—Sandra Cisneros “There are poets who seem to ride a current, a wave of ideas and sentiments so vital for our times. Jose Antonio Rodriguez does this in spades—his narrative voice is strong, his images nuanced and surprising, his themes are from a world breaking down borders, imagining a deeper humanity, and drawing on the complex spectrum of what it is to be fully alive, fully sensual, fully in command of language and its beauty.”—Luis J. Rodrigues

JOSE ANTONIO RODRIGUEZ is winner of the 2011 SFA Press Prize in Poetry.

He is the recipient of the 2010 Allen Ginsberg poetry award. In 2008, he headed “Writing By Degrees”, an invitational literary program conducted by the graduate department in English at Binghamton University. His poetry has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Connecticut Review and elsewhere.” Rodriguez currently resides in McAllen, Texas.

978-1-62288-004-1 paper $16.00 6x9. 88 pp.

Poetry.

April

“Such a wealth of perception in these voluptuous poems— through “the silent call of presence” absolutely everything is backlit and branching—precious family, rooms, whole eras of living. This is a wondrous book to be absorbed and found by.”

—Naomi Shihab Nye “Poems that broke open my heart and haunted me. Beautiful, heartfelt, vulnerable. A humble voice, and because of this humility, filled with grace.”— Sandra Cisneros

54 | stephen f. austin state university press | www.texasbookconsortium.com An interesting outlook on life . . .

A brilliant collection from an up and coming author . . .

See Spot Run

The Baby That Ate Cincinnati

Lessons for Life

Matt Mason

The Baby That Ate Cincinnati is a collection of poems about parenthood. And horror movies. It’s about that other side of things, the bit with the wonder and the magic as well as the terror of trying to redefine yourself and your place in the universe with what is really a very strange and monumental change in who you are, what you do, and what you truly fear. Ultimately, you know, it’s life affirming, just like all classic scary movies, by the time the credits roll.

MATT MASON has won a Pushcart Prize and two Nebraska Book Awards (for Poetry in 2007 and Anthology in 2006); organized and run poetry programming with the US Department of State in Kathmandu, Nepal and Minsk, Belarus; and been on five teams at the National Poetry Slam. He is executive director of the Nebraska Writers Collective, has served as board president of the Nebraska Center for the Book, and is the Nebraska State Coordinator for Poetry Out Loud, a Poetry Foundation/NEA program. He edits PoetryMenu.com, a listing of every Nebraska poetry event.

978-1-936205-94-3 paper $18.00 51/2x81/2. 100 pp.

Poetry.

April

Rememberizationing You haven’t been out like this since the baby was born: alone, night highway, middle of Nebraska, moon so bright you could turn off the headlights, one star– maybe a streetlight–obscure radio station playing something with Middle Easterny cello; the place you were supposed to stop is miles behind, you watched the lights slide away as you shot through, hot day gone, you, hand in the wind, could drive till morning and when that sun comes looking, when that sun pulls up over Kansas or Oklahoma, who do you think’ll be the most surprised?

Glenda Walker

The stories in See Spot Run: Lessons for Life are based upon observations and incidences with Glenda Walker’s spot dogs, with the exception of “Swallowing the Bone to Eat the Cats,” which was based upon a tale told by a friend of Glenda’s, Ginger Koppersmith, involving her dog. All the “lessons learned” have their roots in psychological theories, principles, and observations from her clinical practice.

GLENDA WALKER has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Troy State University, a Master of Science in Nursing and a Doctorate of Science in Nursing from the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Her master’s and doctorate majors were psychiatric nursing and community mental health nursing. Walker has focused her clinical practice in the area of family violence. She has been an educator and administrator in nursing education for thirty years and is currently the Director of the DeWitt School of Nursing at Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas.

978-1-62288-014-0 paper $20.00 6x9. 106 pp.

Literary Non-Fiction.

April

“This book is a merging of over thirty-seven years of experience as a psychiatric nurse with my observations on my animal families. My training as a psychiatric nurse provided me with a deep understanding of the theories related to individual, group, and family psychotherapy. However, it was only as I began to practice as a psychiatric nurse that I truly began to understand how the theories unfold in the lived experiences of individuals, groups, and families.”—from the book

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An important collection of short stories about life . . .

Little Houses

Death by Violin

Eleanor Swanson

J. T. Ledbetter

Ledbetter’s writing is often about people on the small farms of Southern Illinois, Nebraska, and the Palouse in Southeast Washington who have lost their ability or inclination to talk to each other, having been beaten down by harsh weather, or poor crops. John Van Doren has called his work “a report of a vanishing world that was always achingly inarticulate and therefore of violent heart. “ There is humor of course, as there is in any place in any time, but it is often short-lived, and a feeling of terror is never far beneath the surface. And throughout, there is that strange farm silence that covers land and the people of the prairies—places Ledbetter both feared and loved.

The stories in Eleanor Swanson’s Little Houses are full of subtle mystery and nuance— of what we tell each other, and the secrets we keep, how we connect, and fail to connect, how we love, and how we betray those we love. And how there are no answers, not anywhere, though looking for them is what keeps us alive. These stories deal with nothing less than what it means to be human.

J.T. LEDBETTER received his bachelor of arts degree from Long Beach State University, California, his MA and PhD in English from Nebraska University. He is Professor Emeritus at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, and has published eight volumes of poetry, the latest being Underlying Premises, Lewis Clark Press, 2010, and Old and Lost Rivers, Lost Horse Press, 2012.

ELEANOR SWANSON’S fiction and poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of publications including The Missouri Review, Black Warrior Review, High Plains Literary Review, The Denver Quarterly, and The Southern Review. Awards include a Fiction Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a Colorado Council on the Arts Fellowship in Literature (fiction). Her first poetry collection, A Thousand Bonds: Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium, was a finalist for the Colorado Book Award. A native of Miami, Florida, Swanson now lives in Denver and teaches environmental literature and fiction and poetry workshops at Regis University, where she is a professor in the English department.

978-1-936205-99-8 paper $20.00 6x9. 250 pp.

Fiction.

April

978-1-936205-96-7 paper $18.95 6x9. 200 pp.

Fiction.

April

“He watched her sitting quietly in a canvas chair, half in shadow, studying the Istrian Marble of the Palazzo Ducale. Pigeons fell like confetti into the piazza. He waited for a chair so he could watch her swan-like movements: her long graceful neck, her arms, white, like the Marble of the Palazzo. That night his wife asked him why he sat so long in front of that old building. “It’s peeling.”

But he could not tell her about the beautiful young woman studying the delicate shadings in the marble, so he listened as she talked about the dirty water eroding the lower floors of buildings, letting his mind wander to the cafe where he sat long with the old men drinking coffee under the green awning, lulled by water lapping against the stones.”—from the book

“Some of these stories will break your heart. Some will raise the hairs on the back of your neck with their eerie power. All will astound you with their beauty and truth. Little Houses is a marvelous debut collection.”—Robert Cooperman, winner, Colorado Book Award for In the Colorado Gold Fever Mountains “The stories in Eleanor Swanson’s Little Houses are full of subtle mystery and nuance—of what we tell each other, and the secrets we keep, how we connect, and fail to connect, how we love, and how we betray those we love. And how there are no answers, not anywhere, though looking for them is what keeps us alive.

These stories deal with nothing less than what it means to be human.”—Jim Daniels

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A new approach to an age-old story . . .

Stories from the hardest economic time in American history . . .

The First Republic and A. Lincoln

Nuggets from the Great Depression

Donald Pickens 978-1-62288-019-5 paper $20.00 6x9. pp.

History. Civil War. April

The First Republic and A. Lincoln is an exercise in intellectual history.

The topics discussed in the book are among the most argumentative in the study of American histroy. Combined with a simple-minded view of history, The First Republic and A. Lincoln will not present “new” facts, instead will focus on new scholarship.

DONALD PICKENS lives in Denton with his wife Mary Jo. He is a professor emeritus in the department of history at the University of North Texas.

An intriguing look into the life of Venerable Friar Antonio Margil de Jesus . . .

Espinas Fernando Valdez Perez 978-1-62288-016-4 paper $20.00 6x9. 200 pp.

Mexican American Studies.

April

Espinas, Thorns, about the Franciscan missionary Venerable Friar Antonio Margil de Jesús, was published in a Spanish edition in March 2012 by the Franciscan Province of Saints Peter and Paul of Michoacán, México.

The book was reviewed and approved by the postulator of the canonization cause for Venerable Father Antonio Margil de Jesús in Rome, Italy, and is now being translated into English.

FERNANDO VALDEZ PEREZ is a full time writer with special focus on historical novels based on the lives of Spanish missionaries who lived during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. He is the author of Morir en Japón, To Die in Japan, Espinas, Thorns, and Siempre Alelante, Always Forward. Fernando Valdez currently lives in Corregidora, Querétaro, Mexico and is a member of the Historical Novel Society.

Lois Scott

978-1-62288-010-2 paper $18.95 6x9. 140 pp.

American History.

April

Scott presents readers with an in depth look at the Great Depression by providing gripping memoirs from those who experienced it firsthand.

LOIS SCOTT is the typical small town (a post office, a grocery store and a school) girl, from San Perlita, Texas. There was always that inclination to write, to tell a story or record an event, but it didn’t emerge full blown until she had a story published in Woman’s World. Since then, she has had a career as Book Review Columnist with the Victoria Advocate—a far ranging Texas newspaper—for twenty-three years—and had her poetry and short items of interest published in the San Antonio Express-News, the Sunday supplement of The Advocate and the Anchorage Times of Alaska. Lois has published six books—two biographies and three mysteries—and is a member of Mystery Writers of America. She has had book signings with Barnes & Noble of Corpus Christi Texas, Waldenbooks in Victoria Texas, Hastings Books Music & Video in Victoria, plus one with the Reber Public Library in Raymondville, Texas.

VENISEN ROAST WITH CARROTS, POTATOES AND ONIONS • Prepare large chunk of rump meat by soaking in vinegar overnight.

• Salt and pepper, rub in garlic and sage, and place in roasting pan.

• In a separate large bowl; peel and wash several large potatoes, an onion and three or four carrots.

• Chop potatoes and carrots into chunks—divide onion into rings.

• Add about an inch of water in bottom of roasting pan and circle roast with carrots, potatoes and onion rings.

• Bake until vegetables are partly cooked.

• Add a can of Cream of Mushroom soup, and mix carefully and slowly with veggies • Put lid on roasting and bake on low heat, until meat is tender and slice.

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A new meaning of self reflection . . .

A new collection in American poetry . . .

Self-Storage

Loose Change James E. Cherry

Rebecca Hoogs

978-1-62288-012-6 paper $16.00 6x9. 88 pp.

Poetry.

February

978-1-62288-015-7 paper $16.00 6x9. 88 pp.

Poetry.

April

Rebecca Hoogs digs down into the depths of humanity in her newest collection of poetry, Self-Storage. She tells stories of myth, self-portrait, and understanding. With poignant language and beautiful subject matter, Hoogs connects with her audience on a personal level.

REBECCA HOOGS is the author of a chapbook, Grenade (2005) and her poems have appeared in Poetry, AGNI, Crazyhorse, Zyzzyva, The Journal, Poetry Northwest, The Florida Review, and others. She is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony (2004) and Artist Trust of Washington State (2005). She is the Director of Education Programs and the curator and host for the Poetry Series for Seattle Arts & Lectures.

Safe in Your Head explores family over three generations.

Safe in Your Head Laura Valeri 978-1-62288-011-9 paper $18.95 6x9. 140 pp.

Fiction.

April

A middle class Italian family finds reason to immigrate to America when Italy is threatened by the Red Brigades’ terrorist movement of the 1970s.

The family patriarch manages a transfer to the United States, certain of better prospects and of a more secure future for his family, but each of the family members experiences a deeper kind of upheaval, negotiating personal losses and estrangement. A grandmother, a mother, and a granddaughter each discovers the many insidious ways in which war warps and defines life, even at a distance of decades.

LAURA VALERI is the author of numerous works of fiction, memoirs, essays on craft and poems. Her debut collection of short stories The Kind of Things Saints Do was the winner of the Iowa/John Simmons Award. She has an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and an MFA from Florida International University. She lives in Savannah Georgia with her husband Joel Caplan, and she is Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro.

With Loose Change, James E. Cherry explores those things that make us human. These poems are visceral, honest and possess a vulnerability that will allow you access into the world each day.

In this collection of verse, very little is exempt from examination.

Family, politics, race, art, aging and much more are placed under the poet’s mircoscopic eye to be clearly defined. But these are more than mere analytical explorations. Its Cherry’s ability to interpret those findings and how they have impacted his life that moves this work beyond the personal into the universal. He has managed to take the pedestrian and left us with a remarkable second collection of poetry. From the discordant aspects of his life, a melodious solo rises. You’ll continue to pat your feet long after the final page is finished.

JAMES E. CHERRY is the author of four books: Bending the Blues, a poetry chapbook, Honoring the Ancestors, a full collection of poems, Shadow of Light, a novel and Still A Man and Other Stories, a collection of short fiction. He has been nominated for an NAACP Image Award, a Lillian Smith Book Award and was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Award.

He resides in Tennessee with his wife Tammy and is preparing a novel for publication.

UNPLUGGED This night, I have become unplugged.

Emails, newsgroups, chatrooms no longer exist.

My computer is abandoned to a darkened corner of a downtown shop disemboweled, the victim of casual downloading without prophylactics.

All of my files are wavering in the balance: novels, poems, short stories, addresses and letters from poets, family, friends.

I am resigned to the fact that 20 years could possibly never have existed, that not backing up my work proves that I am not as smart as I think.

The moment brings epiphany: like a fire that consumes past mistakes, cleanses new beginnings, freedom to go for the journey’s sake alone, embrace one word at a time.

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A children’s book that explores the importance of being needed by others . . .

Follow me! Let’s take a hike . . .

Let’s Take a Hike Myrna Johnson

The Day X Ran Away

978-1-936205-79-0 paper $13.95 81/2x81/2. 32 pp.

Juvenile Fiction.

April

This is a story about four children who take a hike and the adventures they encounter, such as giant spiders, giant birds, pirates, monkeys, and other exciting happenings. A collaboration between Myrna and her four grandchildren, Let’s Take a Hike is a fun story to share with all generations.

MYRNA JOHNSON is a graduate from Abilene Christian University. She worked almost thirty years for the federal government, mainly in research agencies, and retired from the US Forest Service in 1998. She and her husband, Bobby H. Johnson, have two daughters, and four grandchildren. Myrna wrote Let’s Take a Hike in 2000 with her grandchildren, Garrick, Aubrey, Cameron, and Elliott. This is Myrna’s first publication.

What happens when you take a pig shopping?

The Adventures of Penny Ann and Alexa Jane Abby West

978-1-936205-33-2 paper $13.95 81/2x81/2. 28 pp. 28 color illus.

Juvenile Fiction.

January

Leap into laughter with the heartwarming story of Penny Ann and Alexa Jane as they shop for school clothes.

ABBY WEST lives on a farm in Nacogdoches with her husband, Rick. Abby has an affinity for animals which can be seen in the myriad of animals present around her rural home. The Adventures of Penny Ann and Alexa Jane is West’s first publication.

Marvin Mayer

There are but twenty six letters in our alphabet, yet together, they can form hundreds of thousands of words. Some letters—L, N, R, S, T, M for example—appear in more words than letters like Q, X, and Z. X checks his personal dictionary and is distressed to find only sixty three words beginning with him (X.) Feeling unimportant, he decides to prove his worthlessness by running away, leaving the other twenty five letters to make words without him. To his great surprise, X discovers he is needed to complete words started by his twenty five friends.

MARVIN MAYER, a native of Louisville, Kentucky, began writing children’s books when he retired from a career in banking, bank regulation, and financial management. The Day That X Ran Away is his second picture book and third children’s book to be published. Now residing in the piney woods of East Texas, Marvin is a member of the Society for Children’s Writers and Illustrators (“SCBWI”), East Texas Writers Guild (“ETWG”), the New Jersey Children’s Writers Guild, and the Texas Writers Network. An active volunteer, he can be found interacting with children at or for the Tyler Public Library’s “Book Buddy” program and the Children’s Advocacy Center of Smith County.

978-1-936205-87-5 paper $12.00 81/2x81/2. 38 pp. 38 color illustrations.

Juvenile Fiction.

April

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A beautiful debut collection by Diane Hueter . . .

Deep imagery awaits in The Edge of Known Things . . .

After the Tornado

The Edge of Known Things

Diane Hueter 978-1-62288-009-6 paper $16.00 6x9. 88 pp.

Poetry.

April

Diane Hueter breathes life into her poetry by relaying the tales of past generations. Beauty and passion radiate from each selection.

DIANE HUETER’s poems have appeared in: Comstock Review, Clackamas Literary Review, Texas Review, and Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review. She reads poetry submissions for Iron Horse Literary Review and lives in Lubbock, Texas, with her husband. As Diane Warner—having been born under the astrological sign of the twins, the confusion caused by using two names seems to be what she was destined for—she works in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library of Texas Tech University.

A new collection from acclaimed poet Stephen Massimilla . . .

The Plague Doctor in His Hull-Shaped Hat Stephen Massimilla 978-1-62288-007-2 paper $16.00 6x9. 88 pp.

Poetry.

April

In Stephen Massimilla’s latest book, The Plague Doctor in His HullShaped Hat, self-recognition is found in the loss, beauty, and suffering that define our common humanity. This collection of poems maps overseas and underworld routes by which personal exploration opens onto universal territory. From Capri to Venice, from New England to the tropics, from Ithaca to the prismatic sea, the poems enact a struggle to salvage psychological, social, cultural and ecological landscapes.

STEPHEN MASSIMILLA is a poet, critic, professor, and painter. Massimilla has recent work in AGNI, the American Literary Review, Atlanta Review, Barrow Street, The Bitter Oleander, The Colorado Review, The Greensboro Review, Denver Quarterly, Provincetown Arts Magazine, Quarterly West, The Southern Poetry Review, Verse Daily, and many other journals and anthologies. He is a founding member of the Urban Range poetry collective and holds an master’s of fine arts degree and doctorate from Columbia University. He teaches literary modernism among other subjects at Columbia University and the New School. For more info: www.stephenmassimilla.com

Kelly Madigan 978-1-62288-008-9 paper $16.00 6x9. 80 pp.

Poetry April

The Edge of Known Things is a declaration of reverence, a communication from a nontraditional prophet attempting to both explore and adore the world. What some flinch away from is held up for examination in these poems, poked at with a stick, as the narrator seeks to understand the line between what is already understood and what is hidden. Returning often to the issue of memory—what we know, what we think we recall, what actually happened, what was dreamed, imagined or pretended— the poems rotate on deep images in an attempt to separate comprehension from mystery.

KELLY MADIGAN is the author of Getting Sober: A Practical Guide to Making it Through the First 30 Days (McGraw-Hill), which is based on her work as a drug and alcohol counselor. She is a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, as well as Individual Artist Fellowships from the Nebraska Arts Council in poetry and nonfiction.

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