Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Partner: UNT Presshttps://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNTP/browse/?sort=added_a&start=702014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Partner: UNT PressRainbow in the Morning2011-12-07T11:56:23-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67654/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67654/"><img alt="Rainbow in the Morning" title="Rainbow in the Morning" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67654/small/"/></a></p><p>Collection popular folklore of Texas, including work songs, reptile myths, ballads and other folk songs of the South. The index begins on page 185.</p>The Folklore of Texan Cultures2011-12-07T11:56:23-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67648/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67648/"><img alt="The Folklore of Texan Cultures" title="The Folklore of Texan Cultures" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67648/small/"/></a></p><p>This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains popular folklore of various ethnic and religious groups residing in Texas, including songs, myths, legends, and other essays. The index begins on page 363.</p>Built in Texas2011-12-07T11:56:23-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67646/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67646/"><img alt="Built in Texas" title="Built in Texas" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67646/small/"/></a></p><p>Book describing folk building in Texas, including information about the construction of churches, cabins, sheds, barns, fences, and other folk building techniques. The index begins on page 277.</p>Texas and Southwestern Lore2011-12-07T11:56:23-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67662/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67662/"><img alt="Texas and Southwestern Lore" title="Texas and Southwestern Lore" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc67662/small/"/></a></p><p>Collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales. It also contains the proceedings of the Texas Folklore Society. The index begins on page 243.</p>Analytical Index to Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Volumes 1-362012-03-16T09:42:17-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77207/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77207/"><img alt="Analytical Index to Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Volumes 1-36" title="Analytical Index to Publications of the Texas Folklore Society, Volumes 1-36" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77207/small/"/></a></p><p>Index to the first thirty six volumes of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society. The book is broken up into three parts: Specialized Indexes, Tale Synopses and an Alphabetical Index.</p>Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore2012-03-16T09:42:17-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77208/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77208/"><img alt="Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore" title="Observations & Reflections on Texas Folklore" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77208/small/"/></a></p><p>Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including stories about hunting, warfare, religion, Texas traditions, and other miscellaneous folk tales. The index begins on page 149.</p>Puro Mexicano2012-03-16T09:42:17-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77209/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77209/"><img alt="Puro Mexicano" title="Puro Mexicano" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc77209/small/"/></a></p><p>Collection of popular Mexican folklore, including folk songs, folk tales, myths, legends, and other essays. The index begins on page 256.</p>Theoria, Volume 18, 20112013-11-11T05:03:10-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228341/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228341/"><img alt="Theoria, Volume 18, 2011" title="Theoria, Volume 18, 2011" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228341/small/"/></a></p><p>Annual journal containing essays, studies, book reviews, and other articles related to the history of Western Music Theory, methods of analysis, and analytical discussions of musical compositions. The appendix includes corrigenda from the preceding volume, information about contributors to the current volume, and an index of content in previously-issued volumes.</p>Theoria, Volume 19, 20122013-11-11T05:03:10-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228337/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228337/"><img alt="Theoria, Volume 19, 2012" title="Theoria, Volume 19, 2012" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228337/small/"/></a></p><p>Annual journal containing essays, studies, book reviews, and other articles related to the history of Western Music Theory, methods of analysis, and analytical discussions of musical compositions. The appendix includes corrigenda from the preceding volume, information about contributors to the current volume, and an index of content in previously-issued volumes.</p>Theoria, Volume 10, 20032013-11-11T05:03:10-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228338/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228338/"><img alt="Theoria, Volume 10, 2003" title="Theoria, Volume 10, 2003" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228338/small/"/></a></p><p>Annual journal containing essays, studies, book reviews, and other articles related to the history of Western Music Theory, methods of analysis, and analytical discussions of musical compositions. The appendix includes corrigenda from the preceding volume, information about contributors to the current volume, and an index of content in previously-issued volumes.</p>Theoria, Volume 11, 20042013-11-11T05:03:10-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228351/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228351/"><img alt="Theoria, Volume 11, 2004" title="Theoria, Volume 11, 2004" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228351/small/"/></a></p><p>Annual journal containing essays, studies, book reviews, and other articles related to the history of Western Music Theory, methods of analysis, and analytical discussions of musical compositions. The appendix includes corrigenda from the preceding volume, information about contributors to the current volume, and an index of content in previously-issued volumes.</p>Theoria, Volume 16, 20092013-11-11T05:03:10-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228326/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228326/"><img alt="Theoria, Volume 16, 2009" title="Theoria, Volume 16, 2009" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228326/small/"/></a></p><p>Annual journal containing essays, studies, book reviews, and other articles related to the history of Western Music Theory, methods of analysis, and analytical discussions of musical compositions. The appendix includes corrigenda from the preceding volume, information about contributors to the current volume, and an index of content in previously-issued volumes.</p>Theoria, Volume 17, 20102013-11-11T05:03:10-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228349/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228349/"><img alt="Theoria, Volume 17, 2010" title="Theoria, Volume 17, 2010" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228349/small/"/></a></p><p>Annual journal containing essays, studies, book reviews, and other articles related to the history of Western Music Theory, methods of analysis, and analytical discussions of musical compositions. The appendix includes corrigenda from the preceding volume, information about contributors to the current volume, and an index of content in previously-issued volumes.</p>Theoria, Volume 14, 20072013-11-11T05:03:10-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228347/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228347/"><img alt="Theoria, Volume 14, 2007" title="Theoria, Volume 14, 2007" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228347/small/"/></a></p><p>Annual journal containing essays, studies, book reviews, and other articles related to the history of Western Music Theory, methods of analysis, and analytical discussions of musical compositions. The appendix includes corrigenda from the preceding volume, information about contributors to the current volume, and an index of content in previously-issued volumes.</p>Theoria, Volume 15, 20082013-11-11T05:03:10-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228354/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228354/"><img alt="Theoria, Volume 15, 2008" title="Theoria, Volume 15, 2008" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228354/small/"/></a></p><p>Annual journal containing essays, studies, book reviews, and other articles related to the history of Western Music Theory, methods of analysis, and analytical discussions of musical compositions. The appendix includes corrigenda from the preceding volume, information about contributors to the current volume, and an index of content in previously-issued volumes.</p>Theoria, Volume 12, 20052013-11-11T05:03:10-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228356/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228356/"><img alt="Theoria, Volume 12, 2005" title="Theoria, Volume 12, 2005" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228356/small/"/></a></p><p>Annual journal containing essays, studies, book reviews, and other articles related to the history of Western Music Theory, methods of analysis, and analytical discussions of musical compositions. The appendix includes corrigenda from the preceding volume, information about contributors to the current volume, and an index of content in previously-issued volumes.</p>Theoria, Volume 13, 20062013-11-11T05:03:10-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228357/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228357/"><img alt="Theoria, Volume 13, 2006" title="Theoria, Volume 13, 2006" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc228357/small/"/></a></p><p>Annual journal containing essays, studies, book reviews, and other articles related to the history of Western Music Theory, methods of analysis, and analytical discussions of musical compositions. The appendix includes corrigenda from the preceding volume, information about contributors to the current volume, and an index of content in previously-issued volumes.</p>Life with a Superhero: Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271354/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271354/"><img alt="Life with a Superhero: Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome" title="Life with a Superhero: Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271354/small/"/></a></p><p>Over twenty years ago, in a small Israeli town, a desperate mother told a remarkable lie. She told her friends and family that her newborn child had died. That lie became the catalyst for the unfolding truth of the adoption of that same baby—Michael —who is, in fact, very much alive and now twenty-two years old. He also has Down syndrome. When Kathryn Hulings adopted Michael as an infant, she could not have known that he would save her life when she became gravely ill and was left forever physically compromised. Her story delights in how Michael’s life and hers, while both marked by difference and challenge, are forever intertwined in celebration and laughter. With candor and a sense of humor, Life With a Superhero wraps itself around the raucous joy of Michael’s existence with his four older siblings who play hard and love big; how Kathryn and her husband, Jim, utilize unconventional techniques in raising kids; the romance between Michael and his fiancée, Casey; the power of dance in Michael's life as an equalizing and enthralling force; the staggering potential and creativity of those who are differently-abled; and the mind-blowing politics of how Kathryn navigated school systems and societal attitudes that at times fought to keep Michael excluded from the lives of kids deemed “normal.” No other books about the parenting experience outline what to do when, say, a child runs across the roof of a tri-level house pretending he can fly, or shows up in a 7th grade social studies class dressed like Spiderman, or calls 911 when his girlfriend breaks his heart. But, as Michael’s mom, Kathryn has been trying to figure how to be a mother in just such circumstances—sometimes with success, sometimes with dismal failure—for over two decades.</p>Irish Girl: Stories2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271355/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271355/"><img alt="Irish Girl: Stories" title="Irish Girl: Stories" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271355/small/"/></a></p><p>Inside Tim Johnston's Irish Girl, readers will find spellbinding stories of loss, absence, and the devastating effects of chance—of what happens when the unthinkable bad luck of other people, of other towns, becomes our bad luck, our town. The contents include: Dirt men -- Water -- Things go missing -- Antlerless hunt -- Jumping man -- Lucky gorseman -- Up there -- Irish girl.</p>Written in Blood: the History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271356/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271356/"><img alt="Written in Blood: the History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen" title="Written in Blood: the History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271356/small/"/></a></p><p>In 2009 Fort Worth unveiled an elaborate, million-dollar memorial to its fallen police and firefighters going all the way back to the city’s beginnings in 1873. Fifty-eight of the ninety-five names on the memorial were policemen. Written in Blood is a more inclusive version of that idea because it covers more than just members of the Fort Worth Police Department; it includes men from all branches of local law enforcement who died defending law and order in the early years: policemen, sheriffs, constables, “special officers,” and even a police commissioner. Richard F. Selcer and Kevin S. Foster tell the stories of thirteen of those early lawmen—an unlucky number to be sure. They range from Tarrant County Sheriff John B. York through Fort Worth Police Officer William “Ad” Campbell covering the years from 1861 to 1909. York was the first local lawman to die—in a street fight. Campbell was last in this era—shot-gunned in the back while walking his beat in Hell’s Half-Acre. Co-authors Selcer and Foster bring academic credentials and “street cred” to the story, explaining how policemen got (and kept) their jobs, what special officers were, and the working relationship between the city marshal’s boys and the sheriff’s boys.</p>900 Miles on the Butterfield Trail2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271357/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271357/"><img alt="900 Miles on the Butterfield Trail" title="900 Miles on the Butterfield Trail" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271357/small/"/></a></p><p>“Remember, boys, nothing on God's earth must stop the United States mail!” said John Butterfield to his drivers. Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to be (1858 to 1861), the saga of the Butterfield Trail remains a high point in the westward movement. A. C. Greene offers a history and guide to retrace that historic and romantic Trail, which stretches 2800 miles from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast. “A fine mix of past and present to appeal to scholar and lay reader alike.”—Robert M. Utley, author of The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull</p>Warriors and Scholars: a Modern War Reader2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271358/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271358/"><img alt="Warriors and Scholars: a Modern War Reader" title="Warriors and Scholars: a Modern War Reader" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271358/small/"/></a></p><p>Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield and academia. But Warriors and Scholars takes the best from both worlds by presenting the viewpoints of senior, eminent military historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the modern war being discussed. Editors Peter Lane and Ronald Marcello have added helpful contextual and commentary footnotes for student readers. The papers, originally from the University of North Texas's annual Military History Seminar, are organized chronologically from World War II to the present day, making this a modern war reader of great use for the professional and the student. Scholars and topics include David Glantz on the Soviet Great Patriotic War, 1941-1945; Robert Divine on the decision to use the atomic bomb; George Herring on Lyndon Baines Johnson as Commander-in-Chief; and Brian Linn comparing the U.S. war and occupation in Iraq with the 1899-1902 war in the Philippines. Veterans and their topics include flying with the Bloody 100th by John Luckadoo; an enlisted man in the Pacific theater of World War II, by Roy Appleton; a POW in Vietnam, by David Winn; and Cold War duty in Moscow, by Charles Hamm.</p>Pride of Place: a Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271359/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271359/"><img alt="Pride of Place: a Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing" title="Pride of Place: a Contemporary Anthology of Texas Nature Writing" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271359/small/"/></a></p><p>Since Roy Bedichek's influential Adventures with a Texas Naturalist, no book has attempted to explore the uniqueness of Texas nature, or reflected the changes in the human landscape that have accelerated since Bedichek's time. Pride of Place updates Bedichek's discussion by acknowledging the increased urbanization and the loss of wildspace in today's state. It joins other recent collections of regional nature writing while demonstrating what makes Texas uniquely diverse. These fourteen essays are held together by the story of Texas pride, the sense that from West Texas to the Coastal Plains, we and the landscape are important and worthy of pride, if not downright bravado. This book addresses all the major regions of Texas. Beginning with Roy Bedichek's essay "Still Water," it includes Carol Cullar and Barbara "Barney" Nelson on the Rio Grande region of West Texas, John Graves's evocative "Kindred Spirits" on Central Texas, Joe Nick Patoski's celebration of Hill Country springs, Pete Gunter on the Piney Woods, David Taylor on North Texas, Gary Clark and Gerald Thurmond on the Coastal Plains, Ray Gonzales and Marian Haddad on El Paso, Stephen Harrigan and Wyman Meinzer on West Texas, and Naomi Shihab Nye on urban San Antonio. This anthology will appeal not only to those interested in regional history, natural history, and the environmental issues Texans face, but also to all who say gladly, "I'm from Texas."</p>Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 3, 1840 - 18412014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271360/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271360/"><img alt="Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 3, 1840 - 1841" title="Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 3, 1840 - 1841" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271360/small/"/></a></p><p>This third volume of the Savage Frontier series focuses on the evolution of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in Texas during the years 1840 and 1841. Comanche Indians were the leading rival to the pioneers during this period. Peace negotiations in San Antonio collapsed during the Council House Fight, prompting what would become known as the Great Comanche Raid in the summer of 1840. Stephen L. Moore covers the resulting Battle of Plum Creek and other engagements in new detail. Rangers, militiamen, and volunteers made offensive sweeps into West Texas and the Cross Timbers area of present Dallas-Fort Worth. During this time Texas's Frontier Regiment built a great military road, roughly parallel to modern Interstate 35. Moore also shows how the Colt repeating pistol came into use by Texas Rangers. Finally, he sets the record straight on the battles of the legendary Captain Jack Hays. Through extensive use of primary military documents and first-person accounts, Moore provides a clear view of life as a frontier fighter in the Republic of Texas. The reader will find herein numerous and painstakingly recreated muster rolls, as well as casualty lists and a compilation of 1841 rangers and minutemen. For the exacting historian or genealogist of early Texas, the Savage Frontier series is an indispensable resource on early nineteenth-century Texas frontier warfare.</p>The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 5, May 23, 1881 - August 26, 18812014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271396/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271396/"><img alt="The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 5, May 23, 1881 - August 26, 1881" title="The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 5, May 23, 1881 - August 26, 1881" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271396/small/"/></a></p><p>John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries as aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook. This fifth volume opens at Fort Wingate as Bourke prepares to visit the Navajos. Next, at the Pine River Agency, he is witness to the Sun Dance, where despite his discomfort at what he saw, he noted that during the Sun Dance piles of food and clothing were contributed by the Indians themselves, to relieve the poor among their people. Bourke continued his travels among the Zunis, the Rio Grande pueblos, and finally, with the Hopis to attend the Hopi Snake dance. The volume concludes at Fort Apache, Arizona, which is stirring with excitement over the activities of the Apache medicine man, Nakai’-dokli’ni, which Bourke spelled Na Kay do Klinni. This would erupt into bloodshed less than a week later. Volume Five is particularly important because it deals almost exclusively with Bourke’s ethnological research. Bourke’s account of the Sun Dance is particularly significant because it was the last one held by the Oglalas. The volume is extensively annotated and contains a biographical appendix on Indians, civilians, and military personnel named.</p>Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 2, 1838 - 18392014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271397/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271397/"><img alt="Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 2, 1838 - 1839" title="Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 2, 1838 - 1839" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271397/small/"/></a></p><p>This second volume of the Savage Frontier series focuses on two of the bloodiest years of fighting in the young Texas Republic, 1838 and 1839. By early 1838, the Texas Rangers were in danger of disappearing altogether. Stephen L. Moore shows how the major general of the new Texas Militia worked around legal constraints in order to keep mounted rangers in service. Expeditions against Indians during 1838 and 1839 were frequent, conducted by militiamen, rangers, cavalry, civilian volunteer groups and the new Frontier Regiment of the Texas Army. From the Surveyors' Fight to the Battle of Brushy Creek, each engagement is covered in new detail. The volume concludes with the Cherokee War of 1839, which saw the assembly of more Texas troops than had engaged the Mexican army at San Jacinto. Moore fully covers the failed peace negotiations, the role of the Texas Rangers in this campaign, and the last stand of heroic Chief Bowles. Through extensive use of primary military documents and first-person accounts, Moore provides a clear view of life as a frontier fighter in the Republic of Texas. The reader will find herein numerous and painstakingly recreated muster rolls, as well as a complete list of Texan casualties of the frontier Indian wars from 1835 through 1839. For the exacting historian or genealogist of early Texas, the Savage Frontier series will be an indispensable resource on early nineteenth-century Texas frontier violence.</p>Bad Boy From Rosebud: the Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen Mcduff2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271399/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271399/"><img alt="Bad Boy From Rosebud: the Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen Mcduff" title="Bad Boy From Rosebud: the Murderous Life of Kenneth Allen Mcduff" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271399/small/"/></a></p><p>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. “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</p>Stan Kenton: This is an Orchestra!2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271400/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271400/"><img alt="Stan Kenton: This is an Orchestra!" title="Stan Kenton: This is an Orchestra!" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271400/small/"/></a></p><p>Stan Kenton (1911–1979) formed his first full orchestra in 1940 and soon drew record-breaking crowds to hear and dance to his exciting sound. He continued to tour and record unrelentingly for the next four decades. Stan Kenton: This Is an Orchestra! sums up the mesmerizing bandleader at the height of his powers, arms waving energetically, his face a study of concentration as he cajoled, coaxed, strained, and obtained the last ounce of energy from every musician under his control. Michael Sparke’s narrative captures that enthusiasm in words: a lucid account of the evolution of the Kenton Sound, and the first book to offer a critical evaluation of the role that Stan played in its creation. “Michael Sparke’s book, the first general history of the Kenton Orchestra, is the best evaluation yet of Kenton’s 40-year musical development.”—The Wall Street Journal</p>Tales From the Big Thicket2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271385/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271385/"><img alt="Tales From the Big Thicket" title="Tales From the Big Thicket" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271385/small/"/></a></p><p>Edited collection of writing about the Big Thicket area in Texas, including geographic descriptions, anecdotes, historical accounts, and other aspects of the people and features of the region. Index starts on page 235.</p>Captain J.A. Brooks, Texas Ranger2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271386/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271386/"><img alt="Captain J.A. Brooks, Texas Ranger" title="Captain J.A. Brooks, Texas Ranger" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271386/small/"/></a></p><p>James Abijah Brooks (1855-1944) was one of the four Great Captains in Texas Ranger history, others including Bill McDonald, John Hughes, and John Rogers. Over the years historians have referred to the captain as “John” Brooks, because he tended to sign with his initials, but also because W. W. Sterling’s classic Trails and Trials of a Texas Ranger mistakenly named him as Captain John Brooks. Born and raised in Civil War-torn Kentucky, a reckless adventurer on the American and Texas frontier, and a quick-draw Texas Ranger captain who later turned in his six-shooter to serve as a county judge, Brooks’s life reflects the raucous era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American West. As a Texas Ranger, Brooks participated in the high profile events of his day, from the fence-cutting wars to the El Paso prizefight, from the Conner Fight–where he lost three fingers from his left hand–to the Temple rail strike, all with a resolute demeanor and a fast gun. A shoot-out in Indian Territory nearly cost him his life and then jeopardized his career, and a lifelong bout with old Kentucky bourbon did the same. With three other distinguished Ranger captains, Brooks witnessed and helped promote the transformation of the elite Frontier Battalion into the Ranger Force. As a state legislator, he brokered the creation of a South Texas county that bears his name today, and where he served for twenty-eight years as county judge. He was the quintessential enforcer of frontier justice, scars and all.</p>Circles Where the Head Should Be: Poems2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271387/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271387/"><img alt="Circles Where the Head Should Be: Poems" title="Circles Where the Head Should Be: Poems" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271387/small/"/></a></p><p>The poems in Circles Where the Head Should Be are full of objects and oddities, bits of news, epic catalogues, and a cast of characters hoping to make sense of it all. Underneath the often whimsical surface, however, lies a search for those connections we long for but so often miss, and a wish for art to bridge the gaps. “Circles Where the Head Should Be has its own distinctive voice, a lively intelligence, insatiable curiosity, and a decided command of form. These qualities play off one another in ways that instruct and delight. An irresistible book.”—J. D. McClatchy, author of Mercury Dressing: Poems, judge</p>Behind the Walls: a Guide for Family and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271388/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271388/"><img alt="Behind the Walls: a Guide for Family and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates" title="Behind the Walls: a Guide for Family and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271388/small/"/></a></p><p>Texas holds one in every nine U.S. inmates. Behind the Walls is a detailed description of one of the world's largest prison systems by a long-time convict trained as an observer and reporter. It spotlights the day-to-day workings of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-what's good, what's bad, which programs work and which ones do not, and examines if practice really follows official policy. Written to inform about the processes, services, activities, issues, and problems of being incarcerated, this book is invaluable to anyone who has a relative or friend incarcerated in Texas, or for those who want to understand how prisoners live, eat, work, play, and die in a contemporary U.S. prison. Containing a short history of Texas prisons and advice on how to help inmates get out and stay out of prison, this book is the only one of its kind-written by a convict still incarcerated and dedicated to dispelling the ignorance and fear that shroud Texas prisons. Renaud discusses living quarters, food, and clothing, along with how prisoners handle money, mail, visits, and phone calls. He explores the issues of drugs, racism, gangs, and violence as well as what an inmate can learn about his parole, custody levels, and how to handle emergencies. What opportunities are available for education? What is the official policy for discipline? What is a lockdown? These questions and many others are answered in this one-of-a-kind guide.</p>Fort Worth Characters2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271389/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271389/"><img alt="Fort Worth Characters" title="Fort Worth Characters" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271389/small/"/></a></p><p>Fort Worth history is far more than the handful of familiar names that every true-blue Fort Worther hears growing up: leaders such as Amon Carter, B. B. Paddock, J. Frank Norris, and William McDonald. Their names are indexed in the history books for ready reference. But the drama that is Fort Worth history contains other, less famous characters who played important roles, like Judge James Swayne, Madam Mary Porter, and Marshal Sam Farmer: well known enough in their day but since forgotten. Others, like Al Hayne, lived their lives in the shadows until one, spectacular moment of heroism. Then there are the lawmen, Jim Courtright, Jeff Daggett, and Thomas Finch. They wore badges, but did not always represent the best of law and order. These seven plus five others are gathered together between the covers of this book. Each has a story that deserves to be told. If they did not all make history, they certainly lived in historic times. The jury is still out on whether they shaped their times or merely reflected those times. Either way, their stories add new perspectives to the familiar Fort Worth story, revealing how the law worked in the old days and what life was like for persons of color and for women living in a man’s world. As the old TV show used to say, “There are a million stories in the ‘Naked City.’” There may not be quite as many stories in Cowtown, but there are plenty waiting to be told—enough for future volumes of Fort Worth Characters. But this is a good starting point.</p>The Big Thicket Guidebook: Exploring the Backroads and History of Southeast Texas2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271390/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271390/"><img alt="The Big Thicket Guidebook: Exploring the Backroads and History of Southeast Texas" title="The Big Thicket Guidebook: Exploring the Backroads and History of Southeast Texas" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271390/small/"/></a></p><p>Start your engines and follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates—all as diverse as the Big Thicket itself. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, you will meet some unusual characters who inhabited an exceptional region. The Big Thicket and its National Preserve contain plants and animals from deserts and swamps and ecosystems in between, all together in one amazing Biological Crossroad. The fifteen tours included with maps will take you through them all. Visitors curious about a legendary area will find this book an essential companion in their cars. Libraries will use the book as a reference to locate information on ghost towns, historic events, and National Preserve features. “A result of a prodigious amount of local research as well as a great deal of driving and tramping around, this book might end up as a classic.”—Thad Sitton, author of Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley</p>The Johnson-sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271317/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271317/"><img alt="The Johnson-sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style" title="The Johnson-sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271317/small/"/></a></p><p>In the early 1900s, two families in Scurry and Kent counties in West Texas united in a marriage of fourteen-year-old Gladys Johnson to twenty-one-year-old Ed Sims. Billy Johnson, the father, set up Gladys and Ed on a ranch, and the young couple had two daughters. But Gladys was headstrong and willful, and Ed drank too much, and both sought affection outside their marriage. A nasty divorce ensued, and Gladys moved with her girls to her father’s luxurious ranch house, where she soon fell in love with famed Texas Ranger Frank Hamer. When Ed tried to take his daughters for a prearranged Christmas visit in 1916, Gladys and her brother Sid shot him dead on the Snyder square teeming with shoppers. One of the best lawyers in West Texas, Judge Cullen Higgins (son of the old feudist Pink Higgins) managed to win acquittal for both Gladys and Sid. In the tradition of Texas feudists since the 1840s, the Sims family sought revenge. Sims’ son-in-law, Gee McMeans, led an attack in Sweetwater and shot Billy Johnson’s bodyguard, Frank Hamer, twice, while Gladys—by now Mrs. Hamer—fired at another assassin. Hamer shot back, killed McMeans, and was no-billed on the spot by a grand jury watching the shootout through a window. An attempt against Billy Johnson failed, but a three-man team shotgunned the widely respected Cullen Higgins. Texas Rangers and other lawmen caught one of the assassins, extracted a confession, and then prompted his “suicide” in a Sweetwater jail cell.</p>One Long Tune: the Life and Music of Lenny Breau2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271318/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271318/"><img alt="One Long Tune: the Life and Music of Lenny Breau" title="One Long Tune: the Life and Music of Lenny Breau" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271318/small/"/></a></p><p>From book jacket: “Mr. Guitar” Chet Atkins called Lenny Breau (1941-1984) “the greatest guitarist who ever walked the face of the earth.” Breau began playing the instrument at age seven, and went on to master many styles, especially jazz. Between 1968 and 1983 he made a series of recordings that are among the most influential guitar albums of the century. Breau’s astonishing virtuosity influenced countless performers, but unfortunately it came at the expense of his personal relationships. Despite Breau’s fascinating life story and his musical importance, no full-length biography has been published until now. Forbes-Roberts has interviewed more than 175 people and closely analyzed Breau’s recordings to reveal an enormously gifted man and the inner workings of his music. “Lenny Breau was, and will always be, a great treasure. We need him today more than ever.” —Mundell Lowe</p>What Are You Afraid Of?2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271319/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271319/"><img alt="What Are You Afraid Of?" title="What Are You Afraid Of?" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271319/small/"/></a></p><p>Powerful and haunting, the ten stories of this debut collection imagine a world where dreams and reality merge, often with dangerous consequences. Michael Hyde explores the relationships between illusion and reality, delusion and clarity, as his characters come to realize that the revelations they wholeheartedly pursue are often not the ones that await them and will move them. A teenage girl obsessed with the death of a classmate hopes to become the killer's next victim, a wayward graveyard attendant punishes the dead for his punishments in life, and a ghostly vision in a garden shed offers a catalyst for one woman's change. "Michael Hyde’s stories are strangely satisfying and satisfyingly strange. They combine the gothic sensibility of Flannery O’Connor and the restrained prose of Raymond Carver. These are tales of love-in-extremis. They should be taken as a tonic before bedtime, to stir up our dreams and awaken our compassion."—Sharon Oard Warner, judge, author of Learning to Dance and Deep in the Heart</p>American Voudou: Journey Into a Hidden World2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271320/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271320/"><img alt="American Voudou: Journey Into a Hidden World" title="American Voudou: Journey Into a Hidden World" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271320/small/"/></a></p><p>Voudou (an older spelling of voodoo)—a pantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and transported to the Americas during the diaspora of the slave trade—is the generic term for a number of similar African religions which mutated in the Americas, including santeria, candomble, macumbe, obeah, Shango Baptist, etc. Since its violent introduction in the Caribbean islands, it has been the least understood and most feared religion of the New World—suppressed, out-lawed or ridiculed from Haiti to Hattiesburg. Yet with the exception of Zora Neale Hurston's accounts more than a half-century ago and a smattering of lurid, often racist paperbacks, studies of this potent West African theology have focused almost exclusively on Haiti, Cuba and the Caribbean basin. American Voudou turns our gaze back to American shores, principally towards the South, the most important and enduring stronghold of the voudou faith in America and site of its historic yet rarely recounted war with Christianity. This chronicle of Davis' determined search for the true legacy of voudou in America reveals a spirit-world from New Orleans to Miami which will shatter long-held stereotypes about the religion and its role in our culture. The real-life dramas of the practitioners, true believers and skeptics of the voudou world also offer a radically different entree into a half-hidden, half-mythical South, and by extension into an alternate soul of America. Readers interested in the dynamic relationships between religion and society, and in the choices made by people caught in the flux of conflict, will be heartened by this unique story of survival and even renaissance of what may have been the most persecuted religion in American history.</p>Bill Jason Priest, Community College Pioneer2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271321/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271321/"><img alt="Bill Jason Priest, Community College Pioneer" title="Bill Jason Priest, Community College Pioneer" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271321/small/"/></a></p><p>There are few things that are purely American. On that short list are baseball and the two-year community college. Bill Jason Priest possessed skill and acumen for both. The better part of his life was spent developing and defining the junior college into the comprehensive community college. His contributions earned him a prestigious place in the annals of higher education, but his personality was not one of a stereotypical stodgy educator, nor is the story of his life a dry read. After working his way through college, Priest played professional baseball before serving in Naval Intelligence during World War II. His varied experiences helped shape his leadership style, often labeled as autocratic and sometimes truculent in conservative convictions. The same relentless drive that brought him criticism also brought him success and praise. Forthright honesty and risk-taking determination combined with vision brought about many positive results. Priest’s career in higher education began with the two-year college system in California before he was lured to Texas in 1965 to head the Dallas County Junior College District. Over the next fifteen years Priest transformed the junior college program into the Dallas County Community College District (DCCCD) and built it up to seven colleges. He performed major roles in the evolution of nursing education, the founding of a telecommunications center for the production of televised courses, the delivery and acceptance of vocational education, and in greater breadth in noncredit courses. After his retirement in 1981, he continued to serve as Chancellor Emeritus until 2003. Drawing from archives as well as from numerous interviews with Priest and his personal and professional associates, Kathleen Krebbs Whitson presents the life of a giant in Texas education and reveals his lasting influence upon the community college movement.</p>A Life on Paper: the Drawings and Lithographs of John Thomas Biggers2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271322/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271322/"><img alt="A Life on Paper: the Drawings and Lithographs of John Thomas Biggers" title="A Life on Paper: the Drawings and Lithographs of John Thomas Biggers" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271322/small/"/></a></p><p>John Thomas Biggers (1924–2001) was a major African American artist who inspired countless others through his teaching, murals, paintings, and drawings. After receiving conventional art training at Hampton Institute and Pennsylvania State, he had his personal and artistic breakthrough in 1957 when he spent six months in the newly independent country of Ghana. From this time forward, he integrated African abstract elements with his rural Southern images to create a personal iconography. His new approach made him famous, as his personal discovery of African heritage fit in well with the growing U.S. civil rights movement. He is best known for his murals at Hampton University, Winston-Salem University, and Texas Southern, but the drawings and lithographs that lie behind the murals have received scant attention—until now. Theisen interviewed Dr. Biggers during the last thirteen years of his life, and was welcomed into his studio innumerable times. Together, they selected representative works for this volume, some of which have not been previously published for a general audience. After his death in 2001, his widow continued to work closely with Theisen, resulting in a book that is intimate and informative for both the scholar and the student.</p>The Royal Air Force in Texas: Training British Pilots in Terrell During World War II2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271323/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271323/"><img alt="The Royal Air Force in Texas: Training British Pilots in Terrell During World War II" title="The Royal Air Force in Texas: Training British Pilots in Terrell During World War II" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271323/small/"/></a></p><p>With the outbreak of World War II, British Royal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and poor weather. In the United States six civilian flight schools dedicated themselves to instructing RAF pilots; the first, No. 1 British Flying Training School (BFTS), was located in Terrell, Texas, east of Dallas. Tom Killebrew explores the history of the Terrell Aviation School and its program with RAF pilots. Most of the early British students had never been in an airplane or even driven an automobile before arriving in Texas to learn to fly. The cadets trained in the air on aerobatics, instrument flight, and night flying, while on the ground they studied navigation, meteorology, engines, and armaments–even spending time in early flight simulators. By the end of the war, more than two thousand RAF cadets had trained at Terrell, cementing relations between Great Britain and the United States and forming lasting bonds with the citizens of Terrell.</p>Bloody Bill Longley: the Mythology of a Gunfighter2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271324/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271324/"><img alt="Bloody Bill Longley: the Mythology of a Gunfighter" title="Bloody Bill Longley: the Mythology of a Gunfighter" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271324/small/"/></a></p><p>William Preston “Bill” Longley (1851-1878), though born into a strong Christian family, turned bad during Reconstruction in Texas, much like other young boys of that time, including the deadly John Wesley Hardin. He went on a murderous rampage over the last few years of his life, shotgunning Wilson Anderson in retribution for Anderson’s killing of a relative; killing George Thomas in McLennan County; and shooting William “Lou” Shroyer in a running gunfight. Longley even killed the Reverend William R. Lay while Lay was milking a cow. Once he was arrested in 1877, and subsequently sentenced to hang, his name became known statewide as an outlaw and a murderer. Through a series of “autobiographical” letters written from jail while awaiting the hangman, Longley created and reveled in his self-centered image as a fearsome, deadly gunfighter—the equal, if not the superior, of the vaunted Hardin. Declaring himself the “worst outlaw” in Texas, the story that he created became the basis for his historical legacy, unfortunately relied on and repeated over and over by previous biographers, but all wrong. In truth, Bill Longley was not the daring figure that he attempted to paint. Rick Miller’s thorough research shows that he was, instead, a braggart who exaggerated greatly his feats as a gunman. The murders that could be credited to him were generally nothing more than cowardly assassinations. Bloody Bill Longley was first published in a limited edition in 1996. Miller separates fact from fancy, attempting to prove or disprove Longley’s many claims of bloodshed. Since the time of the first edition, diligent research has located and identified the outlaw’s body, the absence of which was a longstanding myth in itself. This revised edition includes that part of the Longley story, as well as several new items of information that have since come to light.</p>Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271325/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271325/"><img alt="Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger" title="Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271325/small/"/></a></p><p>John Harris Rogers (1863-1930) served in Texas law enforcement for more than four decades, as a Texas Ranger, Deputy and U.S. Marshal, city police chief, and in the private sector as a security agent. He is recognized in history as one of the legendary “Four Captains” of the Ranger force that helped make the transition from the Frontier Battalion days into the twentieth century, yet no one has fully researched and written about his life. Paul N. Spellman now presents the first full-length biography of this enigmatic man. During his years as a Ranger, Rogers observed and participated in the civilizing of West Texas. As the railroads moved out in the 1880s, towns grew up too quickly, lawlessness was the rule, and the Rangers were soon called in to establish order. Rogers was nearly always there. Likewise he participated in some of the most dramatic and significant events during the closing years of the Frontier Battalion: the Brown County fence cutting wars; the East Texas Conner Fight; the El Paso/Langtry Prizefight; the riots during the Laredo Quarantine; and the hunts for Hill Loftis and Gregorio Cortez. Rogers was the lawman who captured Cortez to close out one of the most infamous chases in Texas history. Unlike the more gregarious Bill McDonald, Captain Rogers had a quiet manner that kept him from the public limelight; nevertheless, he, John Brooks, and John Hughes shared the same experiences as McDonald during the almost two decades they led the Ranger companies. Unique to Rogers’ career was his devout Christian faith that was on display on almost all occasions. Rogers was wont to use the Bible as often as his six-gun, both with dramatic effect. That and his constant devotion to his family set him apart from the usual lawmen of that era. He was a man of the law and a man of God, a rare combination at the turn of the century.</p>William & Rosalie: a Holocaust Testimony2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271326/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271326/"><img alt="William & Rosalie: a Holocaust Testimony" title="William & Rosalie: a Holocaust Testimony" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271326/small/"/></a></p><p>William & Rosalie is the gripping and heartfelt account of two young Jewish people from Poland who survive six different German slave and prison camps throughout the Holocaust. In 1941, newlyweds William and Rosalie Schiff are forcibly separated and sent on their individual odysseys through a surreal maze of hate. Terror in the Krakow ghetto, sadistic SS death games, cruel human medical experiments, eyewitness accounts of brutal murders of men, women, children, and even infants, and the menace of rape in occupied Poland make William & Rosalie an unusually explicit view of the chaos that World War II unleashed on the Jewish people. The lovers’ story begins in Krakow’s ancient neighborhood of Kazimierz, after the Germans occupy western Poland. A year later they marry in the ghetto; by 1942 deportations have wasted both families. After Rosalie is saved by Oskar Schindler, the husband and wife end up at the Plaszow work camp under Amon Goeth, the bestial commandant played by Ralph Fiennes in Schindler’s List. While Rosalie is on “heaven patrol” removing bodies from the camp, William is working in the factories. But when Rosalie is shipped by train to a different factory camp, William sneaks into a boxcar to follow, and he ends up at Auschwitz instead. Craig Hanley powerfully narrates the struggle of the couple to stay alive and find each other at war’s end. Now in their eighties, William and Rosalie come to terms in this book with the loss of their families and years of torture at the hands of Nazi captors. Unique among memoirs from this era, the book connects directly to the present day. The Schiffs’ ongoing and highly effective campaign against prejudice and discrimination is a heroic culmination of two lives scarred beyond belief by racism. William & Rosalie artfully combines biography with timely lessons on the nature of mass hate, a stubborn phenomenon that continues to endanger every life on Earth.</p>Fruit of the orchard: environmental justice in East Texas2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271327/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271327/"><img alt="Fruit of the orchard: environmental justice in East Texas" title="Fruit of the orchard: environmental justice in East Texas" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271327/small/"/></a></p><p>In 1982, a toxic waste facility opened in the Piney Woods in Winona, Texas. The residents were told that the company would plant fruit trees on the land left over from its ostensible salt-water injection well. Soon after the plant opened, however, residents started noticing huge orange clouds rising from the facility and an increase in rates of cancer and birth defects in both humans and animals. The company dismissed their concerns, and confusion about what chemicals it accepted made investigations difficult. Outraged by what she saw, Phyllis Glazer founded Mothers Organized to Stop Environmental Sins (MOSES) and worked tirelessly to publicize the problems in Winona. The story was featured in People , the Houston Chronicle magazine, and The Dallas Observer . The plant finally closed in 1998, citing the negative publicity generated by the group. This book originated in 1994 when Cromer-Campbell was asked by Phyllis Glazer to produce a photograph for a poster about the campaign. She was so touched by the people in the town that she set out to document their stories. Using a plastic Holga camera, she created hauntingly distorted images that are both works of art and testaments to the damage inflicted on the people of a small Texas town by one company’s greed. In the accompanying essays, Phyllis Glazer describes the history of Winona and the fight against the facility; Roy Flukinger discusses Cromer-Campbell's striking photographic technique; Eugene Hargrove explores issues of environmental justice; and Marvin Legator elaborates on how industry and government discourage victims of chemical exposure from seeking or obtaining relief.</p>Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271328/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271328/"><img alt="Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture" title="Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271328/small/"/></a></p><p>A fifteen-year-old high school cheerleader is killed while driving on a dangerous curve one afternoon. By that night, her classmates have erected a roadside cross decorated with silk flowers, not as a grim warning, but as a loving memorial. In this study of roadside crosses, the first of its kind, Holly Everett presents the history of these unique commemoratives and their relationship to contemporary memorial culture. The meaning of these markers is presented in the words of grieving parents, high school students, public officials, and private individuals whom the author interviewed during her fieldwork in Texas. Everett documents over thirty-five memorial sites with twenty-five photographs representing the wide range of creativity. Examining the complex interplay of politics, culture, and belief, she emphasizes the importance of religious expression in everyday life and analyzes responses to death that this tradition. Roadside crosses are a meeting place for communication, remembrance, and reflection, embodying on-going relationships between the living and the dead. They are a bridge between personal and communal pain–and one of the oldest forms of memorial culture. Scholars in folklore, American studies, cultural geography, cultural/social history, and material culture studies will be especially interested in this study.</p>Folklore: in All of Us, in All We Do2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271329/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271329/"><img alt="Folklore: in All of Us, in All We Do" title="Folklore: in All of Us, in All We Do" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271329/small/"/></a></p><p>Compilation of articles about various topics related to folklore organized into five chapters by subject: "The first tackles this issue of folklore and its relationship to history, with some of the articles trying to provide some of that folkloric filler to historical facts. Another chapter focuses on women; one features various types of occupational lore; and another is a tongue-in-cheek look at 'shady characters' such as police officers, politicians, and horsetraders. A final chapter has no theme; it is a catch-all, containing a few interesting articles you may remember from some of our [Texas Folklore Society's] most recent meetings" (p. viii).</p>Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 1, 1835 - 18372014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271331/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271331/"><img alt="Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 1, 1835 - 1837" title="Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 1, 1835 - 1837" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271331/small/"/></a></p><p>This first volume of the Savage Frontier series is a comprehensive account of the formative years of the legendary Texas Rangers, focusing on the three-year period between 1835 and 1837, when Texas was struggling to gain its independence from Mexico and assert itself as a new nation. Stephen L. Moore vividly portrays another struggle of the settlers of Texas to tame a wilderness frontier and secure a safe place to build their homes and raise their families. Moore provides fresh detail about each ranging unit formed during the Texas Revolution and narrates their involvement in the pivotal battle of San Jacinto. New ranger battalions were created following the revolution, after Indian attacks against settlers increased. One notorious attack occurred against the settlers of Parker's Fort, which had served as a ranger station during the revolution. By 1837 President Sam Houston had allowed the army to dwindle, leaving only a handful of ranging units to cover the vast Republic. These frontiersmen endured horse rustling raids and ambushes, fighting valiantly even when greatly outnumbered in battles such as the Elm Creek Fight, Post Oak Springs Massacre, and the Stone Houses Fight. Through extensive use of primary military documents and first-person accounts, Moore documents the organization of the early ranger units and their activities. Of particular interest to the reader will be the various rosters of the companies, which are found throughout the book. Many of these muster rolls have been compiled from multiple sources and not published together previously. For the exacting historian or genealogist of early Texas, the Savage Frontier series will be an indispensable resource on early nineteenth-century Texas frontier warfare.</p>The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 2, July 29, 1876 - April 7, 18782014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271332/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271332/"><img alt="The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 2, July 29, 1876 - April 7, 1878" title="The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 2, July 29, 1876 - April 7, 1878" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271332/small/"/></a></p><p>John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872, and ending the evening before his death in 1896. As aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook, he had an insider's view of the early Apache campaigns, the Great Sioux War, the Cheyenne Outbreak, and the Geronimo War. Bourke's writings reveal much about military life on the western frontier, but he also was a noted ethnologist, writing extensive descriptions of American Indian civilization and illustrating his diaries with sketches and photographs. Previously, researchers could consult only a small part of Bourkes diary material in various publications, or else take a research trip to the archive and microfilm housed at West Point. Now, for the first time, the 124 manuscript volumes of the Bourke diaries are being compiled, edited, and annotated by Charles M. Robinson III, in a planned set of six books easily accessible to the modern researcher. This volume opens as Crook prepares for the expedition that would lead to his infamous and devastating Horse Meat March. Although Bourke retains his loyalty to Crook throughout the detailed account, his patience is sorely tried at times. Bourke's description of the march is balanced by an appendix containing letters and reports by other officers, including an overview of the entire expedition by Lt. Walter Schuyler, and a report by Surgeon Bennett Clements describing the effects on the men. The diary continues with the story of the Powder River Expedition, culminating in Bourke’s eyewitness description of Col. Ranald Mackenzie's destruction of the main Cheyenne camp in what became known at the Dull Knife Fight. With the main hostile chiefs either surrendering or forced into exile in Canada, field operations come to a close, and Bourke finishes this volume with a retrospective of his service in Tucson, Arizona. Extensively annotated and with a biographical appendix on Indians, civilians, and military personnel named in the diaries, this book will appeal to western and military historians, students of American Indian life and culture, and to anyone interested in the development of the American West.</p>Nancy Love and the Wasp Ferry Pilots of World War II2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271391/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271391/"><img alt="Nancy Love and the Wasp Ferry Pilots of World War II" title="Nancy Love and the Wasp Ferry Pilots of World War II" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271391/small/"/></a></p><p>She flew the swift P-51 and the capricious P-38, but the heavy, four-engine B-17 bomber and C-54 transport were her forte. This is the story of Nancy Harkness Love who, early in World War II, recruited and led the first group of twenty-eight women to fly military aircraft for the U.S. Army. Love was hooked on flight at an early age. At sixteen, after just four hours of instruction, she flew solo “a rather broken down Fleet biplane that my barnstorming instructor imported from parts unknown.” The year was 1930: record-setting aviator Jacqueline Cochran (and Love’s future rival) had not yet learned to fly, and the most famous woman pilot of all time, Amelia Earhart, had yet to make her acclaimed solo Atlantic flight. When the United States entered World War II, the Army needed pilots to transport or “ferry” its combat-bound aircraft across the United States for overseas deployment and its trainer airplanes to flight training bases. Most male pilots were assigned to combat preparation, leaving few available for ferrying jobs. Into this vacuum stepped Nancy Love and her civilian Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron (WAFS). Love had advocated using women as ferry pilots as early as 1940. Jackie Cochran envisioned a more ambitious plan, to train women to perform a variety of the military’s flight-related jobs stateside. The Army implemented both programs in the fall of 1942, but Jackie’s idea piqued General Hap Arnold’s interest and, by summer 1943, her concept had won. The women’s programs became one under the name Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), with Cochran as the Director of Women Pilots and Love as the Executive for WASP. Nancy Love advised the Ferrying Division, which was part of the Air Transport Command, as to the best use of their WASP ferry pilots. She supervised their allocation and air-training program. She proved adept at organizing and inspiring those under her command, earning the love and admiration of her pilots. Her military superiors trusted and respected her, to the point that she became Ferrying Division commander Gen. William H. Tunner’s troubleshooter. By example, Love won the right for women ferry pilots to transition into increasingly more complex airplanes. She checked out on twenty-three different military aircraft and became the first woman to fly several of them, including the B-17 Flying Fortress. Her World War II career ended on a high note: following a general’s orders, she piloted a giant C-54 Army transport over the fabled China-Burma-India “Hump,” the crucial airlift route over the Himalayas. Nancy Love believed that the women attached to the military needed to be on equal footing with the men and given the same opportunities to prove their abilities and mettle. Young women serving today as combat pilots owe much to Love for creating the opportunity for women to serve.</p>