July 2009
Vol No.:
113
Cover: Walter Prescott Webb and Terrell Maverick Webb, 1961
Table of Contents:
PLAIN FOLK, PLANTERS, AND THE COMPLEXITIES OF SOUTHERN SOCIETY: KINSHIP TIES IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY NORTHWEST LOUISIANA AND NORTHEAST TEXAS
By Ricky L. Sherrod 1
THE “BATTLE” AT PEASE RIVER AND THE QUESTION OF RELIABLE SOURCES IN THE RECAPTURE OF CYNTHIA ANN PARKER
By Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum 32
NOTES AND DOCUMENTS
TOUCHED WITH A SUNSET: THE LETTERS OF TERRELL MAVERICK AND WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB
Edited by Betty Hannstein Adams 54
SOUTHWESTERN COLLECTION 86
BOOK REVIEWS 111
Robert Calvert, Arnoldo De Léon, and Gregg Cantrell, The History of Texas.
BY PAUL H. CARLSON 111
Lawrence E. Estaville and Richard A. Earl, Texas Water Atlas.
BY JANE MANASTER 112
William C. and John Wesley Hardt, Historical Atlas of Texas Methodism.
BY JAMES S. BAUGESS 113
David G. McComb, Spare Time in Texas: Recreation and History in the Lone Star State.
BY JORGE IBER 114
Lewis F. Fisher, Saint Mark’s Episcopal Church: 150 Years of Ministry in Downtown San Antonio, 1858–2008.
BY GUY LANCASTER 115
Benjamin Heber Johnson and Jeffrey Gusky, Bordertown: The Odyssey of an American Place.
BY DANIEL ARREOLA 116
Melodie A. Cuate, Journey to Gonzales.
BY DEBORAH HARDIN 118
Gary W. Gallagher, Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War.
BY ANGELA F. MURPHY 119
Bill O’Neal, Texas Rangers in Movies, TV, Radio, & Other Forms of Popular Culture.
BY JODY EDWARD GINN 120
Leigh Clemons, Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State.
BY ROLLO NEWSOM 121
Richard Kluger, Seizing Destiny: The Relentless Expansion of American Territory.
BY JEFF BREMER 123
John Corey Henshaw, Recollections of the War with Mexico.
BY BOB CAVENDISH 124
Jerry Thompson, editor, New Mexico Territory during the Civil War: Wallen and Evans Inspection Reports, 1862–1863.
BY BRADLEY R. CLAMPITT 125
Mike Cox, The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821–1900.
BY PAUL N. SPELLMAN 126
Samuel Truett, Fugitive Landscapes: The Forgotten History of the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.
By MATTHEW D. TIPPENS 127
Carlos González Herrera, La frontera que vino del norte.
BY J. A. ZUMOFF 129
Jennifer Ritterhouse, Growing Up Jim Crow: How Black and White Southern Children Learned Race.
BY NATALIE J. RING 130
Clifford Farrington, Biracial Unions on Galveston’s Waterfront, 1865–1925.
BY GREGG ANDREWS 131
R. Douglas Hurt, The Great Plains during World War II.
BY R. STEVEN JONES 133
Edward E. Telles and Vilma Ortíz, Generations of Exclusion: Mexican Americans, Assimilation, and Race.
BY JOSEPH ORBOCK MEDINA 134
Dolph Briscoe, Dolph Briscoe: My Life in Texas Ranching and Politics.
BY KELLY E. CRAGER 135
Adrian X. Esparza and Angela J. Donelson, Colonias in Arizona and New Mexico: Border Poverty and Community Development Solutions.
BY JOEL D. KITCHENS 136
AFFAIRS OF THE ASSOCIATION 139
