Ceil Cleveland and Larry McMurtry grew up as friends in the little Texas town of Archer City, fictionalized by McMurtry in The Last Picture Show, which later became a film by Peter Bogdanovich. Among the locals, Cleveland has long been assumed to be the principal model for the novel's iconic character, Jacy Farrow--played in the movie by Cybill ......
The stories in What Did You Do Today? explore the ordinary and the offbeat as if they were one and the same, asking what it's like to be alive and what makes us human. With warmth, humor, and wonder, these stories suggest that the past is always alive in the present and that even the most fleeting relationships have the power to change us forever. ......
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 ......
With the Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan
In 1940, native West Texan Roy H. Elrod joined the Marine Corps. A few years later his unit, the 8th Marine Regiment, went into the fight at Guadalcanal, where he commanded a platoon of 37 mm gunners. They endured Japanese attacks, malarial tropical weather, and starvation rations. His combat leadership earned him a Silver Star and a battlefield ......
WASP of the Ferry Command is the story of the women ferrypilots who flew more than nine million miles in 72 differentaircraft-115,000 pilot hours-for the Ferrying Division, AirTransport Command, during World War II. In the spring of 1942,Col. William H. Tunner lacked sufficient male pilots to movevital trainer aircraft from the factory to the ......
Maria Jimenez of Houston and Mexican American Activists
Warriors for Social Justice examines the contributions of Mexican American activists to the nation's democratic values by concentrating on the activism of Maria JimEnez (1950-2020) in Houston, Texas. Linda J. Quintanilla documents how JimEnez and other activists advanced social justice by promoting our nation's best virtues, especially equality. ......
Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield and the university. But ""Warriors and Scholars"" takes the best from both worlds by presenting scholarship from eminent historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the war being discussed. Editors Peter B. Lane and Ronald E. Marcello have added ......
The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons in the Vietnam War
Much of the history written about the Vietnam War overlooks the U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons. These CAPs lived in the Vietnamese villages, with the difficult and dangerous mission of defending the villages from both the National Liberation Front guerrillas and the soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army. The CAPs also worked to improve ......
The U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons in the Vietnam War
Much of the history written about the Vietnam War overlooks the U.S. Marine Corps Combined Action Platoons. These CAPs lived in the Vietnamese villages, with the difficult and dangerous mission of defending the villages from both the National Liberation Front guerrillas and the soldiers of the North Vietnamese Army. The CAPs also worked to improve ......
