Latest content added for UNT Digital Library Partner: UNT Presshttps://digital.library.unt.edu/explore/partners/UNTP/browse/?sort=date_d&fq=untl_decade:2000-20092020-04-30T22:17:03-05:00UNT LibrariesThis is a custom feed for browsing UNT Digital Library Partner: UNT PressCelebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-20092014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271470/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271470/"><img alt="Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009" title="Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271470/small/"/></a></p><p>The Texas Folklore Society is one of the oldest and most prestigious organizations in the state. Its secret for longevity lies in those things that make it unique, such as its annual meeting that seems more like a social event or family reunion than a formal academic gathering. This book examines the Society’s members and their substantial contributions to the field of folklore over the last century. Some articles focus on the research that was done in the past, while others offer studies that continue today. For example, L. Patrick Hughes explores historical folk music, while Meredith Abarca focuses on Mexican American folk healers and the potential direction of research on them today. Other articles are more personal reflections about why our members have been drawn to the TFS for fellowship and fun. This book does more than present a history of the Texas Folklore Society: it explains why the TFS has lasted so long, and why it will continue.</p>Hell in an Loc: the 1972 Easter Invasion and the Battle That Saved South Viet Nam2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271335/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271335/"><img alt="Hell in an Loc: the 1972 Easter Invasion and the Battle That Saved South Viet Nam" title="Hell in an Loc: the 1972 Easter Invasion and the Battle That Saved South Viet Nam" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271335/small/"/></a></p><p>In 1972 a North Vietnamese offensive of more than 30,000 men and 100 tanks smashed into South Vietnam and raced to capture Saigon. All that stood in their way was a small band of 6,800 South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldiers and militiamen, and a handful of American advisors with U.S. air support, guarding An Loc, a town sixty miles north of Saigon and on the main highway to it. This depleted army, outnumbered and outgunned, stood its ground and fought to the end and succeeded. Against all expectations, the ARVN beat back furious assaults from three North Vietnamese divisions, supported by artillery and armored regiments, during three months of savage fighting. This victory was largely unreported in the U.S. media, which had effectively lost interest in the war after the disengagement of most U.S. forces. Thi believes that it is time to set the record straight. Without denying the tremendous contribution of the U.S. advisors and pilots, this book is written primarily to tell the South Vietnamese side of the story and, more importantly, to render justice to the South Vietnamese soldier.</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>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>Grace: A Novel2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271417/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271417/"><img alt="Grace: A Novel" title="Grace: A Novel" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271417/small/"/></a></p><p>In the east Texas town of Cold Springs in 1944, the community waits for the war to end. In this place where certain boundaries are not crossed and in a time when people reveal little about themselves, their problems, and their passions, Jane Roberts Wood exposes the heart of each of four families during the last year of World War II. Bound together by neighborhood and Southern customs, yet separated by class, money, and family, they are an unforgettable lot, vibrantly brought to life in this “delightfully perceptive and unabashedly romantic” novel (Sanford Herald). As the war grinds to an end, it becomes the catalyst that drives the inhabitants of Cold Springs across the boundaries that had once divided them, taking them to places both chaotic and astonishing. “A rare novel: intelligent, lyrical, devoid of coyness and manipulative plot turns—a book for old and young.”—Austin American-Statesman</p>Roseborough: A Novel2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271410/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271410/"><img alt="Roseborough: A Novel" title="Roseborough: A Novel" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271410/small/"/></a></p><p>In Roseborough, Jane Roberts Wood returns with a keenly observed tale of bighearted people in small-town Texas. Three weeks after Mary Lou’s Gypsy husband dies, her fourteen-year-old daughter, Echo, runs away. Numbed by grief and grounded only by her job at the Dairy Queen, she impulsively signs up for Anne Hamilton’s single-parenting class at the nearby community college. Anne, complex and passionate, has avoided the risks that come with commitment. Knowing nothing of the stages of grief or the process of recovery, Mary Lou begins a sometimes comic, yet poignant, journey to find Echo. Compelled by Mary Lou’s story and her strange daughter, Anne begins her own journey that can ultimately set her free.</p>Jade Visions: the Life and Music of Scott Lafaro2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271372/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271372/"><img alt="Jade Visions: the Life and Music of Scott Lafaro" title="Jade Visions: the Life and Music of Scott Lafaro" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271372/small/"/></a></p><p>Jade Visions is the first biography of one of the twentieth century’s most influential jazz musicians, bassist Scott LaFaro. Best known for his landmark recordings with Bill Evans, LaFaro played bass a mere seven years before his life and career were tragically cut short by an automobile accident when he was only 25 years old. Told by his sister, this book uniquely combines family history with insight into LaFaro’s music by well-known jazz experts and musicians Gene Lees, Don Thompson, Jeff Campbell, Phil Palombi, Chuck Ralston, Barrie Kolstein, and Robert Wooley. Those interested in Bill Evans, the history of jazz, and the lives of working musicians of the time will appreciate this exploration of LaFaro’s life and music as well as the feeling they’ve been invited into the family circle as an intimate. “Fernandez’ insightful comments about her brother offer far more than jazz scholars have ever known about this significant and somewhat enigmatic figure in the history of jazz. All in all, a very complete portrait.”—Bill Milkowski, author of Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius</p>The Deadliest Outlaws: the Ketchum Gang and the Wild Bunch2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271311/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271311/"><img alt="The Deadliest Outlaws: the Ketchum Gang and the Wild Bunch" title="The Deadliest Outlaws: the Ketchum Gang and the Wild Bunch" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271311/small/"/></a></p><p>After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was “cruel and unusual” for the offense charged. The appeal failed and he became the first individual—and the last—ever to be executed for a crime of this sort. He was hanged in 1901; in a macabre ending to his life of crime, his head was torn away by the rope as he fell from the gallows. Tom Ketchum was born in 1863 on a farm near the fringe of the Texas frontier. At the age of nine, he found himself an orphan and was raised by his older brothers. In his mid-twenties he left home for the life of an itinerant trail driver and ranch hand. He returned to Texas, murdered a man, and fled. Soon afterwards, he and his brother Sam killed two men in New Mexico. A year later, he and two other former cowboys robbed a train in Texas. The career of the Ketchum Gang was under way. In their day, these men were the most daring of their kind, and the most feared. They were accused of crimes that were not theirs, but their proven record is long and lurid. Their downfall was brought about by what one editor called “the magic of the telephone and telegraph,” by quarrels between themselves, and by their reckless defiance of ever-mounting odds. Jeffrey Burton has been researching the story of the Ketchum Gang and related outlaws for more than forty years. He has mined unpublished sources, family records, personal reminiscences, trial transcripts and other court papers, official correspondence and reports, census returns, and contemporary newspapers to sort fact from fiction and provide the definitive truth about Ketchum and numerous other outlaws, including Will Carver, Ben Kilpatrick, and Butch Cassidy.</p>Saving Ben: a Father's Story of Autism2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271431/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271431/"><img alt="Saving Ben: a Father's Story of Autism" title="Saving Ben: a Father's Story of Autism" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271431/small/"/></a></p><p>Each year thousands of children are diagnosed with autism, a devastating neurological disorder that profoundly affects a person’s language and social development. Saving Ben is the story of one family coping with autism, told from the viewpoint of a father struggling to understand his son’s strange behavior and rescue him from a downward spiral. “Take him home, love him, and save your money for his institutionalization when he turns twenty-one.” That was the best advice his doctor could offer in 1990 when three-year-old Ben was diagnosed with autism. Saving Ben tells the story of Ben’s regression as an infant into the world of autism and his journey toward recovery as a young adult. His father, Dan Burns, puts the reader in the passenger’s seat as he struggles with medical service providers, the school system, extended family, and his own limitations in his efforts to pull Ben out of his darkening world. Ben, now 21 years old, is a work in progress. The full force and fury of the autism storm have passed. Using new biomedical treatments, repair work is underway. Saving Ben is a story of Ben’s journey toward recovery, and a family’s story of loss, grief, and healing. “Keep the faith, never give up.” These are the lessons of the author’s miraculous journey, saving Ben.</p>Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-19012014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271455/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271455/"><img alt="Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901" title="Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271455/small/"/></a></p><p>The Texas Rangers were institutionally birthed in 1874 with the formation of the Frontier Battalion. They were tasked with interdicting Indian incursions into the frontier settlements and dealing with the lawlessness running rampant throughout Texas. In an effort to put a human face on the Rangers, Bob Alexander tells the story of one of the six companies of the Frontier Battalion, Company D. Readers follow the Rangers of Company D as—over time—it transforms from a unit of adventurous boys into a reasonably well-oiled law enforcement machine staffed by career-oriented lawmen. Beginning with their start as Indian fighters against the Comanches and Kiowas, Alexander explores the history of Company D as they rounded up numerous Texas outlaws and cattle thieves, engaged in border skirmishes along the Rio Grande, and participated in notable episodes such as the fence cutter wars. Winchester Warriors is an evenhanded and impartial assessment of Company D and its colorful cadre of Texas Rangers. Their laudable deeds are explored in detail, but by the same token their shameful misadventures are not whitewashed. These Texas Rangers were simply people, good and bad—and sometimes indifferent. This new study, extensively researched in both primary and secondary sources, will appeal to scholars and aficionados of the Texas Rangers and western history.</p>Yours to Command: the Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271413/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271413/"><img alt="Yours to Command: the Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald" title="Yours to Command: the Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271413/small/"/></a></p><p>Captain Bill McDonald (1852-1918) is the most prominent of the “Four Great Captains” of Texas Ranger history. His career straddled the changing scene from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. In 1891 McDonald became captain of Company B of the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers. “Captain Bill” and the Rangers under his command took part in a number of incidents from the Panhandle region to South Texas: the Fitzsimmons-Maher prizefight in El Paso, the Wichita Falls bank robbery, the murders by the San Saba Mob, the Reese-Townsend feud at Columbus, the lynching of the Humphries clan, the Conditt family murders near Edna, the Brownsville Raid of 1906, and the shootout with Mexican Americans near Rio Grande City. In all these endeavors, only one Ranger lost his life under McDonald’s command. McDonald’s reputation as a gunman rested upon his easily demonstrated markmanship, a flair for using his weapons to intimidate opponents, and the publicity given his numerous exploits. His ability to handle mobs resulted in a classic tale told around campfires: one riot, one Ranger. His admirers rank him as one of the great captains of Texas Ranger history. His detractors see him as an irresponsible lawman who accepted questionable information, precipitated violence, hungered for publicity, and related tall tales that cast himself in the hero’s role. Harold J. Weiss, Jr., seeks to find the true Bill McDonald and sort fact from myth. McDonald’s motto says it all: “No man in the wrong can stand up against a fellow that’s in the right and keeps on a-comin’.”</p>The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 4, July 3, 1880-May 22, 18812014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271401/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271401/"><img alt="The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 4, July 3, 1880-May 22, 1881" title="The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 4, July 3, 1880-May 22, 1881" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271401/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 Bourke’s 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 eight books easily accessible to the modern researcher. Volume 4 chronicles the political and managerial affairs in Crook’s Department of the Platte. A large portion centers on the continuing controversy concerning the forced relocation of the Ponca Indians from their ancient homeland along the Dakota-Nebraska line to a new reservation in the Indian Territory. An equally large portion concerns Bourke’s ethnological work under official sanction from the army and the Bureau of Ethnology, work which would make a profound change in his life and his place in history. Aside from a summary of the entire Ponca affair in approximately two pages, virtually none of this material appears in Bourke’s classic On the Border with Crook. Bourke’s staff duties bring him into contact with many prominent individuals. He is particularly unimpressed with the commander of the army, General W.T. Sherman, who, he wrote, “is largely made up of the demagogue and will not survive in history.” He also is harsh on President Rutherford B. Hayes, now finishing out his term. This volume contains detailed descriptions of several tours, including those to Yellowstone National Park and the Santa Fe regions. Bourke reveals the profound changes that have overtaken the Indians in only a few years of settlement on reservations. At the new Spotted Tail, or Rosebud, Agency, he found a conference in progress, where the Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad was attempting to buy right of way across the reservation. The leaders Spotted Tail and Red Cloud had wasted little time in determining what was valuable to the whites—they astutely bargained for a high price. 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>One Man's Music: the Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271352/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271352/"><img alt="One Man's Music: the Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell" title="One Man's Music: the Life and Times of Texas Songwriter Vince Bell" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271352/small/"/></a></p><p>Texas singer/songwriter Vince Bell’s story begins in the 1970s. Following the likes of Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark, Bell and his contemporaries Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, and Lucinda Williams were on the rise. In December of 1982, Bell was on his way home from the studio (where he and hired guns Stevie Ray Vaughan and Eric Johnson had just recorded three of Bell’s songs) when a drunk driver broadsided him at 65 mph. Thrown over 60 feet from his car, Bell suffered multiple lacerations to his liver, embedded glass, broken ribs, a mangled right forearm, and a severe traumatic brain injury. Not only was his debut album waylaid for a dozen years, life as he’d known it would never be the same. In detailing his recovery from the accident and his roundabout climb back onstage, Bell shines a light in those dark corners of the music business that, for the lone musician whose success is measured not by the Top 40 but by nightly victories, usually fall outside of the spotlight. Bell’s prose is not unlike his lyrics: spare, beautiful, evocative, and often sneak-up-on-you funny. His chronicle of his own life and near death on the road reveals what it means to live for one’s art.</p>The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas During the Civil War2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271375/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271375/"><img alt="The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas During the Civil War" title="The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas During the Civil War" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271375/small/"/></a></p><p>On February 1, 1861, delegates at the Texas Secession Convention elected to leave the Union. The people of Texas supported the actions of the convention in a statewide referendum, paving the way for the state to secede and to officially become the seventh state in the Confederacy. Soon the Texans found themselves engaged in a bloody and prolonged civil war against their northern brethren. During the course of this war, the lives of thousands of Texans, both young and old, were changed forever. This new anthology, edited by Kenneth W. Howell, incorporates the latest scholarly research on how Texans experienced the war. Eighteen contributors take us from the battlefront to the home front, ranging from inside the walls of a Confederate prison to inside the homes of women and children left to fend for themselves while their husbands and fathers were away on distant battlefields, and from the halls of the governor’s mansion to the halls of the county commissioner’s court in Colorado County. Also explored are well-known battles that took place in or near Texas, such as the Battle of Galveston, the Battle of Nueces, the Battle of Sabine Pass, and the Red River Campaign. Finally, the social and cultural aspects of the war receive new analysis, including the experiences of women, African Americans, Union prisoners of war, and noncombatants.</p>The Sutton-taylor Feud: the Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271420/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271420/"><img alt="The Sutton-taylor Feud: the Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas" title="The Sutton-taylor Feud: the Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271420/small/"/></a></p><p>The Sutton-Taylor Feud of DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, and surrounding counties began shortly after the Civil War ended. The blood feud continued into the 1890s when the final court case was settled with a governmental pardon. Of all the Texas feuds, the one between the Sutton and Taylor forces lasted longer and covered more ground than any other. William E. Sutton was the only Sutton involved, but he had many friends to wage warfare against the large Taylor family. The causes are still shrouded in mystery and legend, as both sides argued they were just and right. In April 1868 Charles Taylor and James Sharp were shot down in Bastrop County, alleged horse thieves attempting to escape. During this period many men were killed “while attempting to escape.” The killing on Christmas Eve 1868 of Buck Taylor and Dick Chisholm was perhaps the final spark that turned hard feelings into fighting with bullets and knives. William Sutton was involved in both killings. “Who sheds a Taylor's blood, by a Taylor's hand must fall” became a fact of life in South Texas. Violent acts between the two groups now followed. The military reacted against the killing of two of their soldiers in Mason County by Taylors. The State Police committed acts that were not condoned by their superiors in Austin. Mobs formed in Comanche County in retaliation for John Wesley Hardin's killing of a Brown County deputy sheriff. One mob “liberated” three prisoners from the DeWitt County jail, thoughtfully hanging them close to the cemetery for the convenience of their relatives. An ambush party killed James Cox, slashing his throat from ear to ear—as if the buckshot in him was not sufficient. A doctor and his son were called from their home and brutally shot down. Texas Rangers attempted to quell the violence, but when they were called away, the killing began again. In this definitive study of the Sutton-Taylor Feud, Chuck Parsons demonstrates that the violence between the two sides was in the tradition of the family blood feud, similar to so many other nineteenth-century American feuds. His study is well augmented with numerous illustrations and appendices detailing the feudists, their attempts at treaties, and their victims.</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>Death Lore: Texas Rituals, Superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271351/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271351/"><img alt="Death Lore: Texas Rituals, Superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter" title="Death Lore: Texas Rituals, Superstitions, and Legends of the Hereafter" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271351/small/"/></a></p><p>Death provides us with some of our very best folklore. Some fear it, some embrace it, and most have pretty firm ideas about what happens when we die. Although some people may not want to talk about dying, it’s the only thing that happens to all of us–and there’s no way to get around it. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society examines the lore of death and whatever happens afterward. The first chapter examines places where people are buried, either permanently or temporarily. Chapter Two features articles about how people die and the rituals associated with funerals and burials. The third chapter explores some of the stranger stories about what happens after we’re gone, and the last chapter offers some philosophical musings about death in general, as well as our connection to those who have gone before.</p>Last Known Position2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271414/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271414/"><img alt="Last Known Position" title="Last Known Position" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271414/small/"/></a></p><p>Most of the nine stories in Last Known Position were written upon James Mathews’ return from combat deployment to the Middle East with the D.C. Air National Guard. Life under fire provided the author with both dramatic events and a heightened sense of observation, allowing him to suggest the stress of combat as the driving factor behind extreme yet believable characterization and action. Military experiences and settings cause certain human elements and truisms to emerge more profoundly and dramatically. These stories portray desperate characters driven to make desperate choices. Always on the edge of a dark and unpleasant reality, Mathews’ characters survive by embracing fantasy, humor, violence, and sometimes redemption. Each story bears its own brand of hopeless quirkiness. Four teenagers on an army base steal a grenade and are stalked by a parade horse. A drifter returns home to rob the grandparents who raised him. A national guardsman faces a homicidal superior officer in Iraq on the eve of war. An elderly man worries that his wife’s new house guests are unrepentant cannibals. Always tense, sometimes ridiculous, and never dull, Last Known Position brings the reader to places unknown before and unforgettable after.</p>Andersonvilles of the North: the Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271380/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271380/"><img alt="Andersonvilles of the North: the Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners" title="Andersonvilles of the North: the Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271380/small/"/></a></p><p>Soon after the close of military operations in the American Civil War, another war began over how it would be remembered by future generations. The prisoner-of-war issue has figured prominently in Northern and Southern writing about the conflict. Northerners used tales of Andersonville to demonize the Confederacy, while Southerners vilified Northern prison policies to show the depths to which Yankees had sunk to attain victory. Over the years the postwar Northern portrayal of Andersonville as fiendishly designed to kill prisoners in mass quantities has largely been dismissed. The Lost Cause characterization of Union prison policies as criminally negligent and inhumane, however, has shown remarkable durability. Northern officials have been portrayed as turning their military prisons into concentration camps where Southern prisoners were poorly fed, clothed, and sheltered, resulting in inexcusably high numbers of deaths. Andersonvilles of the North, by James M. Gillispie, represents the first broad study to argue that the image of Union prison officials as negligent and cruel to Confederate prisoners is severely flawed. This study is not an attempt to “whitewash” Union prison policies or make light of Confederate prisoner mortality. But once the careful reader disregards unreliable postwar polemics, and focuses exclusively on the more reliable wartime records and documents from both Northern and Southern sources, then a much different, less negative, picture of Northern prison life emerges. While life in Northern prisons was difficult and potentially deadly, no evidence exists of a conspiracy to neglect or mistreat Southern captives. Confederate prisoners’ suffering and death were due to a number of factors, but it would seem that Yankee apathy and malice were rarely among them. In fact, likely the most significant single factor in Confederate (and all) prisoner mortality during the Civil War was the halting of the prisoner exchange cartel in the late spring of 1863. Though Northern officials have long been condemned for coldly calculating that doing so aided their war effort, the evidence convincingly suggests that the South’s staunch refusal to exchange black Union prisoners was actually the key sticking point in negotiations to resume exchanges from mid-1863 to 1865. Ultimately Gillispie concludes that Northern prisoner-of-war policies were far more humane and reasonable than generally depicted. His careful analysis will be welcomed by historians of the Civil War, the South, and of American history.</p>Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271446/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271446/"><img alt="Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley" title="Living in the Woods in a Tree: Remembering Blaze Foley" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271446/small/"/></a></p><p>Living in the Woods in a Tree is an intimate glimpse into the turbulent life of Texas music legend Blaze Foley (1949--1989), seen through the eyes of Sybil Rosen, the woman for whom he wrote his most widely known song, “If I Could Only Fly." It captures the exuberance of their fleeting idyll in a tree house in the Georgia woods during the countercultural 1970s. Rosen offers a firsthand witnessing of Foley’s transformation from a reticent hippie musician to the enigmatic singer/songwriter who would live and die outside society's rules. While Foley's own performances are only recently being released, his songs have been covered by Merle Haggard, Lyle Lovett, and John Prine. When he first encountered “If I Could Only Fly," Merle Haggard called it “the best country song I've heard in fifteen years." In a work that is part-memoir, part-biography, Rosen struggles to finally come to terms with Foley's myth and her role in its creation. Her tracing of his impact on her life navigates a lovers' roadmap along the permeable boundary between life and death. A must-read for all Blaze Foley and Texas music fans, as well as romantics of all ages, Living in the Woods in a Tree is an honest and compassionate portrait of the troubled artist and his reluctant muse.</p>Tonality As Drama: Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-century American Operas2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271395/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271395/"><img alt="Tonality As Drama: Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-century American Operas" title="Tonality As Drama: Closure and Interruption in Four Twentieth-century American Operas" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271395/small/"/></a></p><p>Whether you are “in the business,” or you are a music theorist, musicologist, or simply an opera fan—read on! This is an analytical monograph by a Schenkerian music theorist, but it is also written by one performer and enthusiast for another. Tonality as Drama draws on the fields of dramaturgy, music theory, and historical musicology to answer a fundamental question regarding twentieth-century music: why does the use of tonality persist in opera, even after it has been abandoned in other genres? Combining the analytical approaches of the leading music and dramatic theorists of the twentieth century—Austrian music theorist Heinrich Schenker (1868-1935) and Russian director Constantin Stanislavsky (1863-1938)—Edward D. Latham reveals insights into works by Scott Joplin, George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, and Aaron Copland that are relevant to analysts, opera directors, and performers alike. Tonality as Drama is not a textbook—rather, it is an innovative analytical study meant to inspire changes in the study and performance of tonal opera. By applying Schenker’s tonal analytical technique to a small segment (early twentieth-century American opera) of a repertoire typically regarded as non-tonal (modern opera), Latham reveals a strategic use of tonality in that repertoire as a means of amplifying or undercutting the success or failure of dramatic characters. This use of “strategic tonality” is present in many of the grand operas and song cycles of the nineteenth century as well, suggesting avenues for future research.</p>John Ringo, King of the Cowboys: His Life and Times From the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271409/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271409/"><img alt="John Ringo, King of the Cowboys: His Life and Times From the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone" title="John Ringo, King of the Cowboys: His Life and Times From the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271409/small/"/></a></p><p>Few names in the lore of western gunmen are as recognizable. Few lives of the most notorious are as little known. Romanticized and made legendary, John Ringo fought and killed for what he believed was right. As a teenager, Ringo was rushed into sudden adulthood when his father was killed tragically in the midst of the family's overland trek to California. As a young man he became embroiled in the blood feud turbulence of post-Reconstruction Texas. The Mason County “Hoo Doo” War in Texas began as a war over range rights, but it swiftly deteriorated into blood vengeance and spiraled out of control as the body count rose. In this charnel house Ringo gained a reputation as a dangerous gunfighter and man killer. He was proclaimed throughout the state as a daring leader, a desperate man, and a champion of the feud. Following incarceration for his role in the feud, Ringo was elected as a lawman in Mason County, the epicenter of the feud’s origin. The reputation he earned in Texas, further inflated by his willingness to shoot it out with Victorio’s raiders during a deadly confrontation in New Mexico, preceded him to Tombstone in territorial Arizona. Ringo became immersed in the area’s partisan politics and factionalized violence. A champion of the largely Democratic ranchers, Ringo would become known as a leader of one of these elements, the Cowboys. He ran at bloody, tragic odds with the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday, finally being part of the posse that hounded these fugitives from Arizona. In the end, Ringo died mysteriously in the Arizona desert, his death welcomed by some, mourned by others, wrongly claimed by a few. Initially published in 1996, John Ringo has been updated to a second edition with much new information researched and uncovered by David Johnson and other Ringo researchers.</p>See Sam Run: a Mother's Story of Autism2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271472/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271472/"><img alt="See Sam Run: a Mother's Story of Autism" title="See Sam Run: a Mother's Story of Autism" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271472/small/"/></a></p><p>Thousands of children are diagnosed with autism each year, with a rate of occurrence of 1 in 150 births, compared to 5 per 10,000 just two decades ago. This astounding escalation has professionals scrambling to explain why the devastating neurological disorder, which profoundly affects a person’s language and social development, is on the rise. Are we simply getting better at diagnosing autism, or is a modern health crisis unfolding before us?</p>Mister Martini: Poems2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271374/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271374/"><img alt="Mister Martini: Poems" title="Mister Martini: Poems" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271374/small/"/></a></p><p>Spare yet evocative, the poems in Mister Martini pair explorations of a father-son relationship with haiku-like martini recipes. The martini becomes a daring metaphor for this relationship as it moves from the son’s childhood to the father’s death. Each poem is a strong drink in its own right, and together they form a potent narrative of alienation and love between a father and son struggling to communicate. “This is a truly original book. There’s nothing extra: sharp and clear and astonishing. Viva!” —Naomi Shihab Nye, judge and author of 19 Varieties of Gazelle</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>Twentieth-century Texas: a Social and Cultural History2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271454/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271454/"><img alt="Twentieth-century Texas: a Social and Cultural History" title="Twentieth-century Texas: a Social and Cultural History" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271454/small/"/></a></p><p>Texas changed enormously in the twentieth century, and much of that transformation was a direct product of social and cultural events. Standard histories of Texas traditionally focus on political, military, and economic topics, with emphasis on the nineteenth century. In Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History editors John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley offer a much-needed corrective. Written with both general and academic audiences in mind, the fourteen essays herein cover Indians, Mexican Americans, African Americans, women, religion, war on the homefront, music, literature, film, art, sports, philanthropy, education, the environment, and science and technology in twentieth-century Texas. Each essay is able to stand alone, supplemented with appropriate photographs, notes, and a selected bibliography. In spite of its ongoing mythic image of rugged ranchers, cowboys, and longhorns, Texas today is a major urban, industrial society with all that brings, both good and bad. For example, first-rate medical centers and academic institutions exist alongside pollution and environment degradation. These topics, and more, are carefully explored in this anthology. It will appeal to anyone interested in the social and cultural development of the state. It will also prove useful in the college classroom, especially for Texas history courses.</p>A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271421/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271421/"><img alt="A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt" title="A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271421/small/"/></a></p><p>This is the first serious biography of a man widely considered one of Texas’—and America’s—greatest songwriters. Like Jimmie Rodgers, Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Hank Williams, Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure, the troubled troubadour. A Deeper Blue traces Van Zandt’s background as the scion of a prominent Texas family; his troubled early years and his transformation from promising pre-law student to wandering folk singer; his life on the road and the demons that pursued and were pursued by him; the women who loved and inspired him; and the brilliance and enduring beauty of his songs, which are explored in depth. The author draws on eight years’ extensive research and interviews with Townes’ family and closest friends and colleagues. He looks beyond the legend and paints a colorful portrait of a complex man who embraced the darkness of demons and myth as well as the light of deep compassion and humanity</p>Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Volume 3, 20082014-08-18T14:33:02-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330555/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330555/"><img alt="Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Volume 3, 2008" title="Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Volume 3, 2008" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330555/small/"/></a></p><p>Annual journal featuring "articles on all facets of Schenkerian thought and reviews of relevant sources" (copyright page).</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>Folklore in Motion: Texas Travel Lore2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271474/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271474/"><img alt="Folklore in Motion: Texas Travel Lore" title="Folklore in Motion: Texas Travel Lore" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271474/small/"/></a></p><p>Collection of folklore stories and personal anecdotes that relate to travel in Texas, grouped into broad topics that include historic and modern modes of transportation. Index starts on page 281.</p>Wonderful Girl2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271440/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271440/"><img alt="Wonderful Girl" title="Wonderful Girl" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271440/small/"/></a></p><p>This extraordinary first collection of short stories covers the landscape of dysfunctional childhood, urban angst, and human disconnection with a wit and insight that keep you riveted to the page. The characters here have rich and imaginative interior lives, but grave difficulty relating to the outside world. The beginning story, "Ducklings," introduces the over-weight and over-enthusiastic Marjorie, the last twelve-year-old you would want babysitting your toddler. In "Wanted" we meet Eleanor, a single girl living in Chicago who may or may not be dating a serial killer. "Another Cancer Story" is an unsentimental account of two sisters whose beloved mother just won't seem to die, and "The Last Dead Boyfriend" gives us a recovering addict who keeps encountering her recently deceased boyfriend, an unpleasant man she wished she'd broken up with before he died. Always funny, often dark, and wholly satisfying, these stories explore the longing for connection among characters who are frequently stricken with anxiety. Each story is rendered in a way that is surreal, vivid, and entirely convincing. "Wonderful Girl is a smart, funny collection, by turns poignant, mysterious, terrifying, sexy, often just plain nuts (in a good way!). The characters in these stories are deliciously confused but always in control, if not of their fates, at least of their pets and boyfriends. What strong voices these women have! Contemporary American life has never seemed so threatening and yet so warm, so full of possibility, yet so harrowing. Reading Wonderful Girl is like meeting a dozen new friends, people you instantly fret over, want to know better, want to call and give advice, bring home to meet your folks, people you ultimately love." --Bill Roorbach, judge and author of The Smallest Color, Big Bend, and Temple Stream</p>The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 3, June 1, 1878-June 22, 18802014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271415/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271415/"><img alt="The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 3, June 1, 1878-June 22, 1880" title="The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 3, June 1, 1878-June 22, 1880" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271415/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 Bourke's 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 eight books easily accessible to the modern researcher. Volume 3 begins in 1878 with a discussion of the Bannock Uprising and a retrospective on Crazy Horse, whose death Bourke called "an event of such importance, and with its attendant circumstances pregnant with so much of good or evil for the settlement between the Union Pacific Rail Road and the Yellowstone River." Three other key events during this period were the Cheyenne Outbreak of 1878-79, the Ponca Affair, and the White River Ute Uprising, the latter two in 1879. The mistreatment of the Poncas infuriated Bourke: when recording the initial meeting between Crook and the Poncas, he wrote: "This conference is inserted verbatim merely to show the cruel and senseless ways in which the Government of the United States deals with the Indian tribes who confide in its justice or trust themselves to its mercy." Bourke's diary covers his time not only on the Plains and Midwest, but also digresses to his time as a young junior officer, fresh out of West Point, and experiencing his first introduction to the Southwest. He comments on issues in the military during his day, such as the quirks and foibles of the Irish soldiers who made up a large part of the frontier army, and also on the problems of Johnson Whittaker, who became West Point's only black cadet following the graduation of Henry Flipper in 1878. 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>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>Risk, Courage, and Women Contemporary Voices in Prose and Poetry2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271344/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271344/"><img alt="Risk, Courage, and Women Contemporary Voices in Prose and Poetry" title="Risk, Courage, and Women Contemporary Voices in Prose and Poetry" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271344/small/"/></a></p><p>This unique collection of narratives, essays, and poems includes an original interview with Maya Angelou and pieces by Naomi Shihab Nye, Pat Mora, Rosemary Catacalos, and many others. Each work relates how women have demonstrated courage by taking a risk that has changed their lives. The Introduction explores courage not as a battlefield quality, but as the result of thoughtful choices demonstrating integrity and self-awareness. Each section opens with a description of its organization and the significance of individual pieces. Themes include sustenance for living, faith in the unknown, the courage of choice, the seams of our lives, and crossing borders. The book begins with a conversation with Dr. Maya Angelou, the embodiment of a courageous woman. She urges readers to "Envision" and concludes the book with the wish "Good morning," inviting all to join her in a new day reflecting "The Power of One." Voices of racial and ethnic diversity speak throughout the work, underscoring both difference and unity in the female experience. Including role models for university audiences and powerful reflections of life experiences for older readers, this work serves many purposes: a textbook in Literature or Women's/Gender Studies classes, a focus for book study groups, and a source for providing perspective during quiet moments. All net proceeds from book sales will go to the WINGS nonprofit organization, recipient of Oprah's Angel Network award, providing uninsured women with free breast cancer surgery, radiation, counseling, and follow-up treatments such as chemotherapy. "I wish women could see themselves free. Just see and imagine what they could do if they were free of the national and international history of diminishment. Just imagine, if we could have a Madame Curie born in the nineteenth century, suppose that twenty other women had been liberated at the same time? That's what I wish for women: See it. Try to see yourself free. What would you do?"--from "Sources of Courage: An Interview with Dr. Maya Angelou"</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>Murder on the White Sands: the Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271453/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271453/"><img alt="Murder on the White Sands: the Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain" title="Murder on the White Sands: the Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271453/small/"/></a></p><p>On a cold February evening in 1896, prominent attorney Col. Albert Jennings Fountain and his eight-year-old son Henry rode home across the White Sands of New Mexico. It was a trip the father and son would not complete—they both disappeared in a suspected ambush and murder at the hands of cattle thieves Fountain was prosecuting. The disappearance of Colonel Fountain and his young son resulted in outrage throughout the territory, yet another example of lawlessness that was delaying New Mexico’s progress toward statehood. The sheriff, whose deputies were quickly becoming the prime suspects, did little to solve the mystery. Governor Thornton, eager for action, appointed Pat Garrett as the new sheriff, the man famous for killing Billy the Kid fifteen years earlier. Thornton also called on the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, who assigned top operative John Fraser to assist Garrett with the case. The evidence pointed at three men, former deputies William McNew, James Gililland, and Oliver Lee. These three men, however, were very close with powerful ex-judge, lawyer, and politician Albert B. Fall. It was even said by some that Fall was the mastermind behind the plot to kill Fountain. Forced to wait two years for a change in the political landscape, Garrett finally presented his evidence to the court and secured indictments against the three suspects. Garrett quickly arrested McNew, but Lee and Gililland went into hiding. Lee claimed that Garrett merely wanted to kill him with a warrant for his arrest as an excuse. When both men were tracked down at one of Lee's ranches, Lee and Gililland got the best of the sheriff's posse in the ensuing gun battle, killing one deputy and forcing Garrett and his two remaining deputies to retreat. Lee and Gililland would finally surrender months later, under the condition that they would never be in the custody of Sheriff Garrett. The trial took place in the secluded town of Hillsboro. The murders of the Fountains became an afterthought as the accused men, defended by their attorney Fall, pleaded innocence. Missing witnesses plagued the prosecution, and armed supporters of the defendants, who packed the courtroom, intimidated others. The verdict: not guilty. The bodies of Albert Fountain and his young son Henry still lie in an unmarked grave, the location of which remains a mystery. Corey Recko tells for the first time the complete story of the Fountain case and, through extensive research, reconstructs what really happened to them and who the likely killers were.</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>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>Inside John Haynie's Studio: a Master Teacher's Lessons on Trumpet and Life2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271333/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271333/"><img alt="Inside John Haynie's Studio: a Master Teacher's Lessons on Trumpet and Life" title="Inside John Haynie's Studio: a Master Teacher's Lessons on Trumpet and Life" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271333/small/"/></a></p><p>“This wonderful collection of essays is a treasure of insight into the mind and heart of one of our great American performers and teachers. If the Arban book is the trumpet player’s ‘Bible,’ then I’d have to say Inside John Haynie’s Studio is the trumpet teacher’s ‘Bible.’”–Ronald Romm, founder, Canadian Brass and Professor of Trumpet, University of Illinois “The essays in this remarkable volume go far beyond trumpet pedagogy, providing an exquisite portrait of the studio practices of one of the first full-time single-instrument wind faculty members in an American college or university setting. John’s concern for educating the whole person, not just cramming for the job market, emanates from every page. This book showcases a teaching career that has become legendary.”–James Scott, Dean of the College of Music, University of North Texas “The principle that pervades my entire educational philosophy did not come from education or psychology classes; it did not come from the many sermons preached by my Dad and hundreds of other pulpiteers. It came from John Haynie’s studio.”–Douglas Smith, Mildred and Ernest Hogan Professor of Music, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary “I read a book like this and I come out the other end asking, ‘Why didn’t I try this long before now?’ All hail to John Haynie and Anne Hardin.”– Ray Bradbury, author of Fahrenheit 451</p>The Devil’s Triangle: Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction in Texas2020-04-30T22:17:03-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1637678/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1637678/"><img alt="The Devil’s Triangle: Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction in Texas" title="The Devil’s Triangle: Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction in Texas" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1637678/small/"/></a></p><p>"This book provides a well-researched, exhaustive, and fascinating examination of the life of Benjamin Bickerstaff, a desperado who preyed on blacks, Unionists, and others in northeastern Texas during the Reconstruction era until armed citizens killed him in the town of Alvarado in 1869. The work adds to our knowledge of Reconstruction violence and graphically supports the idea that the Civil War in Texas did not really end in 1865 but continued long afterward.”—Carl Moneyhon, author of Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction</p>Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Volume 2, 20072014-08-18T14:33:02-05:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330554/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330554/"><img alt="Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Volume 2, 2007" title="Journal of Schenkerian Studies, Volume 2, 2007" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc330554/small/"/></a></p><p>Annual journal featuring "articles on all facets of Schenkerian thought, and reviews of relevant publications" (copyright page).</p>The Road to Safwan: the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 Persian Gulf War2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271406/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271406/"><img alt="The Road to Safwan: the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 Persian Gulf War" title="The Road to Safwan: the 1st Squadron, 4th Cavalry in the 1991 Persian Gulf War" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271406/small/"/></a></p><p>Book documenting the history of the 1st Infantry Divisions cavalry unit fighting in Operation Desert Storm based on personal accounts and recollections of personnel, squadron documents, and contextual information about the conflict.</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>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>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>Mexican Light: Healthy Cuisine for Today's Cook2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271373/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271373/"><img alt="Mexican Light: Healthy Cuisine for Today's Cook" title="Mexican Light: Healthy Cuisine for Today's Cook" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271373/small/"/></a></p><p>Did you know that Pre-Columbian Mexican cuisine was low in fat and high in fiber and vitamins? Based on corn, squash, tomatoes, beans, and lean meats, the everyday diet of the first Americans was remarkably close to the recommendations for healthy eating we hear about every day. Now for the first time, cooks can use the secrets of the Aztecs in today’s kitchen, thanks to Kris Rudolph’s thoroughly researched cookbook. And because cooks from both sides of the border will be eager to try these recipes, Rudolph presents the recipes and text in Spanish on facing pages. The book opens with a short introduction outlining the history of Mexican cooking, followed by an overview of healthy eating habits, a description of the most common ingredients, and a useful guide to planning for parties. The fifty recipes cover everything from appetizers to after-dinner refreshers and each includes the number of calories, amounts of total fat and saturated fat, grams of carbohydrates, and amount of fiber. Rudolph suggests low-fat and low-carbohydrate alternatives, as well as ways to vary the spiciness.</p>Big Thicket Plant Ecology: an Introduction2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271428/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271428/"><img alt="Big Thicket Plant Ecology: an Introduction" title="Big Thicket Plant Ecology: an Introduction" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271428/small/"/></a></p><p>Originally published in 1979, Geraldine Ellis Watson’s Big Thicket Plant Ecology is now back in print. This updated edition explores the plant biology, ecology, geology, and environmental regions of the Big Thicket National Preserve. After decades of research on the Big Thicket, Watson concluded that the Big Thicket was unique for its biological diversity, due mainly to interactions of geology and climate. A visitor in the Big Thicket could look in four different directions from one spot and view scenes typical of the Appalachians, the Florida Everglades, a southwestern desert, or the pine barrens of the Carolinas. Watson covers the ecological and geological history of the Big Thicket and introduces its plant life, from longleaf pines and tupelo swamps to savannah wetlands and hardwood flats. “This is the work on the plant biology of the Big Thicket.”—Pete A.Y. Gunter, author of The Big Thicket</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>Sea La Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-19002014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271416/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271416/"><img alt="Sea La Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900" title="Sea La Luz: The Making of Mexican Protestantism in the American Southwest, 1829-1900" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271416/small/"/></a></p><p>Mexican Protestantism was born in the encounter between Mexican Catholics and Anglo American Protestants, after the United States ventured into the Southwest and wrested territory from Mexico in the early nineteenth century. Sea la Luz tells the story of Mexican converts and the churches they developed through the records of Protestant missionaries. Juan Francisco Martinez traces Protestant mission work among the Spanish speaking of the Southwest throughout the nineteenth century. By 1900, about 150 Spanish-speaking Protestant churches with more than five thousand adult members existed in the region. They were rejected by their own people because they were Protestants, but Anglo American Protestants did not readily accept them either because they were Mexican. In spite of the pressures from both their own community and the larger society, they forged a new religious identity in the midst of conquest.</p>Through Animals' Eyes, Again: Stories of Wildlife Rescue2014-01-23T13:09:13-06:00https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271364/<p><a href="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271364/"><img alt="Through Animals' Eyes, Again: Stories of Wildlife Rescue" title="Through Animals' Eyes, Again: Stories of Wildlife Rescue" src="https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271364/small/"/></a></p><p>From the author of Through Animals’ Eyes come more true stories from the rare perspective of someone who not only cares for the animals she treats, but also has never wanted nor tried to tame or change them. Lynn Cuny founded Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation (WRR) in 1977 in her backyard in San Antonio. It has since grown to 187 acres and now rescues more than 7,000 animals annually and maintains an emergency hotline 365 days a year. Native animals are released back into the wild, and those non-native or severely injured animals that cannot be released become permanent Sanctuary residents. Through her stories, Lynn hopes to dispel the belief that animals do not reason, have emotions, or show compassion for each other. Lynn’s stories cover the humorous and the tragic, the surprising and the inevitable. The animals she describes range from the orphaned baby Rhesus monkey who found a new mother in an old monkey rescued from a lab, to the brave red-tailed hawk who was illegally shot, but healed to soar again. The stories will touch your heart and help you see “through animals’ eyes.” “These true accounts, as amazing as some of them are with their unlikely bondings (a porcupine and a rabbit, a duck and a cat) will captivate, fascinate, educate, and often move you deeply. It’s an inspiring read for animal advocates and a must-read for those who have not been exposed to the beautiful experiences of the animal-animal bond.”—Loretta Swit, actress</p>