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Texas Books in Review

Volume XIX, No. 4 (Winter 1999)



CONTENTS


1 An Adiós Mark Busby
Dick Heaberlin
2 Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas
by Gregg Cantrell
Jack Jackson
5 Where the Creosote Blooms: A Memoir
by Mary King Rodge
Shannon Smithson
6 The San Sabá Mission: Spanish Pivot in Texas
by Robert S. Weddle
Jane Manaster
7 Features and Fillers: Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore
edited by Jim Harris
Betty J. Roberts
8 Sam Bass & Gang
by Rick Miller
Henry F. Lyle Jr.
10 The Historic Seacoast of Texas
Paintings by J. U. Salvant; essays by David G. McComb
Guy Doré
11 Wild Orchids of Texas
by Joe Liggio and Ann Orto Liggio
Stanley L. Sissom
12 Lizards on the Mantel, Burros at the Door: A Big Bend Memoir
by Etta Koch with June Cooper Price
Jane Manaster
13 One Day's Perfect Weather: More Twice Told Tales
by Daniel Stern
Sherry Fay Clements
14 The Gates of the Alamo
by Stephen Harrigan
Mark Busby
16 Hiding in Plain Sight: A Profile Dick Holland
18 The Boy Orator
by Tracy Daugherty
Glenn Dayley
19 If the Gods Had Meant Us to Vote They Would Have Given Us Candidates
by Jim Hightower
Clay Smith
20 Crossing Shattuck Bridge
by Annette Sanford
Clay Smith
22 Haley, Texas 1859, Two Novellas from Texas
by Donley Watt
Dick Holland


Texas Books in Review (ISSN 0739-3202) is published by the Center for the Study of the Southwest at Texas State University-San Marcos. Annual subscription is $14.00.

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Copyright © 1999 by the Center for the Study of the Southwest. TBR is indexed in the Texas Index. Texas State is a member of the Texas State University System.

Cover illustration and Alamo photograph on Editors' page are from A New History of Texas for Schools by Mrs. Anne J. Pennybacker.

Editors
Mark Busby
Dick Heaberlin

Editorial Associate
Linda Busby

Assistant Editor
Glenn Dayley

Editorial Assistants
Jennifer Belcik
Henry Lyle III

Editors at Large
A. C. Greene
Rolando Hinojosa
James Ward Lee
William B. Martin
Tom Pilkington

Contributing Editors

Norman Brown
Social Sciences

Terrell Dixon
Environmental Literature

Don Graham
Ken Harrison
Film

Richard Holland
Music, Museums, and Collections

Al Lowman
Book Collecting/Design

Judyth Rigler
Brief Reviews

Regional Editors

Patrick Bennett
West Texas

James W. Byrd
East Texas

Dave Oliphant
Austin

Jan Epton Seale
South Texas

Dale L. Walker
Trans-Pecos

Robert Phillips
Houston

 
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