Frank Reaugh (1860-1945; pronounced "Ray") was called "theDean of Texas artists" for good reason. His pastels documentedthe wide-open spaces of the West as they were vanishing in thelate nineteenth century, and his plein air techniques influencedgenerations of artists. His students include a "Who's Who" oftwentieth-century Texas painters: ......
The large-scale Broadway musical is one of America's great contributions to world theatre. Bill and Jean Eckart were stage designers and producers at the peak of the musical, and their designs revolutionized Broadway productions. At a time when sets were meant to remain simply backdrops that established time and place but not much else, an Eckart ......
This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2014 BestAmerican Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, run by theMayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The event is hostedby the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism atthe University of North Texas. The contest honors exemplarynarrative work and encourages narrative nonfiction ......
What was it about the way John Haynie approached trumpet lessons that made such an impression on so many of his students? What were his instructions? How did the lessons transfer from the studio to the recital hall to their life after college? Come inside the studio and relive some of these students' lessons. Take a seat on the other side of the ......
The Official Modern History of the United States Marshals Service
What do diverse events such as the integration of the University of Mississippi, the federal trials of Teamsters President Jimmy Hoff a, the confrontation at Ruby Ridge, and the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina have in common? The U.S. Marshals were instrumental in all of them. Whether pursuing dangerous felons in each of the 94 judicial districts ......
Captain Frank Jones, a famed nineteenth-century Texas Ranger,said of his company's top sergeant, Baz Outlaw (1854-1894),"A man of unusual courage and coolness and in a close placeis worth two or three ordinary men." Another old-time TexasRanger declared that Baz Outlaw "was one of the worst and mostdangerous" because "he never knew what fear was." ......
Bernard A. Booker, wry old Maine codger andunofficial mayor of Ell Pond, is the subject ofBooker's Point, an oral history-inspired portrait-inverse.Weaving storytelling, natural history, and thepoetry of place, the collection evokes the sensibilityof rural New England, meditations on home andelders, and above all, the pleasures of a good story. ......
Based on articles written for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, author Richard J. Gonzales draws onhis educational, inner-city, and professional lifeexperiences to weave eyewitness testimony intoissues facing Chicanos, including economic, health,education, criminal justice, politics, immigration,and cultural issues. Raza Rising presents a ......
Frontier Cavalry and the Texas Way of War, 1822-1865
The idea of Texas was forged in the crucible of frontier warfarebetween 1822 and 1865, when Anglo-Americans adapted tomounted combat north of the Rio Grande. This cavalry-centricarena, which had long been the domain of Plains Indians and theSpanish Empire, compelled an adaptive martial tradition thatshaped early Lone Star society. Beginning with ......
