January 2010
Vol No.:
CXIII
Cover: Four Star Recording Artist Slim Willet Heads the Cast of the Big State Jamboree, circa March 1953.
Image courtesy of Joe W. Specht.
Table of Contents:
“I’M A TOOL PUSHER FROM SNYDER”: SLIM WILLET’S OIL PATCH SONGS
By Joe W. Specht
TEXAS THROUGH 1845: A SURVEY OF THE HISTORICAL LITERATURE OF RECENT DECADES
By F. Todd Smith
Notes and Documents
TOUCHED WITH A SUNSET: THE LETTERS OF TERRELL MAVERICK AND WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB (PART 3)
Edited By Betty Hannstein Adams
Southwestern Collection
Book Reviews
Andrew Wallace and Richard H. Hevly, eds., From Texas to San Diego in 1851: The Overland Journal of Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, Surgeon-Naturalist of the Sitgreaves Expedition.
BY GLEN SAMPLE ELY
J. Brett Cruse, Battles of the Red River War: Archeological Perspectives on the Indian Campaign of 1874.
BY STEPHEN L. BLACK
Kenneth L. Untiedt, ed., Death Lore: Texas Rituals, Superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter.
BY ADRIENNE CAUGHFIELD
W. David Baird and Danney Goble, Oklahoma: A History. 2nd ed.
BY TANYA FINCHUM
James W. Hulse, Nevada’s Environmental Legacy: Progress or Plunder.
BY KELLY A. ROARK
Robert W. Sledge, The Story of Abilene, Volume 1: The Future Great City, 1881–1940.
BY BRUCE BUMBALOUGH
Marshall Terry et al., “From High on a Hilltop”: Marshall Terry’s History of SMU.
BY LIGHT TOWNSEND CUMMINS
Bruce A Glasrud and Archie P. McDonald, eds., Blacks in East Texas History.
BY JENNIFER ECKEL
Thomas A. Britten, The Lipan Apaches: People of Wind and Lightning.
BY MATTHEW S. TAYLOR
Ian W. Record, Big Sycamore Stand Alone: The Western Apaches, Aravaipa, and the Struggle for Place.
BY JON REYHNER
Earl H. Elam, Kitikiti’sh: The Wichita Indians and Associated Tribes in Texas, 1757–1859.
BY F. TODD SMITH
J. C. A. Stagg, Borderlines in Borderlands: James Madison and the Spanish American Frontier, 1776–1821.
BY DAVID E. NARRETT
John A. Adams Jr., Conflict and Commerce on the Rio Grande: Laredo, 1755–1955.
BY DANIEL MELENDREZ
Brian DeLay, War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.-Mexican.
BY JOAQUÍN RIVAYA-MARTÍNEZ
Kenneth Wayne Howell, Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor: James Webb Throckmorton.
BY MATTHEW C. HULBERT
Chuck Parsons, The Sutton-Taylor Feud: The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas.
BY ROBIN SAGER
Michael J. Makley, John Mackay: Silver King in the Gilded Age.
BY JOHN MASON HART
John Mason Hart, The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepherd, and the People of the Canyons.
BY MICHAEL M. SMITH
Kate Sayen Kirkland, The Hogg Family and Houston: Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal.
BY MARY KELLEY SCHEER
Kelly McMichael, The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas.
BY CARL H. MONEYHON
Laurie E. Jasinski, Dinosaur Highway: A History of Dinosaur Valley State Park.
BY DAN K. UTLEY
Brian McCall, The Power of the Texas Governor: Connally to Bush.
BY GEORGE GREEN
