Texas Books in Review

Volume XXV, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2005)

1	Beyond Katrina	Mark Busby and Dick Heaberlin

2	*The Spanish Acequias of San Antonio* by I. Waynne Cox	Jane Manaster

3	From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck, La Belle by James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner	Gene Fowler

4	*The Calamity Papers: Western Myths and Cold Cases* by Dale L. Walker	Clay Reynolds

5	The True Life Wild West Memoir of a Bush-Popping Cow Waddy by Charley Hester, edited by Kirby Ross	Jeremey Cagle

6	*Inventing Texas: Early Historians of the Lone Star State* by Laura Lyons McLemore	Jesús F. de la Teja

7	*Catarino Garza’s Revolution on the Texas-Mexico Border* by Elliott Young	Benjamin Heber Johnson

8	*The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America* by Larry McMurtry	Roger Walton Jones

9	*6666: Portrait of a Texas Ranch* photographs by Wyman Meinzer, text by Henry Chappell Windmill Tales: Stories from the American Wind Power Center photographs by Wyman Meinzer, edited by Coy F. Harris	Robert Murray Davis

10	*The Birth of the Texas Medical Center: A Personal Accoun*t by Frederick C. Elliott, edited by William Henry Kellar	Jane Manaster

11	*Profiles in Power: Twentieth-Century Texans in Washington:* 2nd edition edited by Kenneth E. Hendrickson Jr., Michael L. Collins, and Patrick Cox	Joseph McDade

12	*The Life and Times of Willie Velásquez: Su voto es su voz* by Juan A. Sepúlveda Jr.	Steve Davis

13	*Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes* by Darwin Payne	Mary Jarvis

14	*Contrabando: Confessions of a Drug-Smuggling Texas Cowboy* by Don Henry Ford Jr.	Chad Hammett

15	*One Ranger: A Memoir* by H. Joaquin Jackson and David Marion Wilkinson	Mark Busby

16	*Billy Joe Shaver: Honky Tonk Hero* by Billy Joe Shaver	Gary Hartman

17	*Texas Road Trip: Stories from Across the State and a Few Personal Reflections* by Bryan Woolley	Dick Heaberlin

18	*Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio* by Thomas S. Bremer	Ken Melichar

19	*Conversations with Texas Writers* edited by Frances Leonard and Ramona Cearley, photographs by Ramona Cearley	Twister Marquiss

20	Splendor in the Short Grass: The Grover Lewis Reader edited by Jan Reid and W.K. Stratton	Steve Davis

21	*Hardwater: A Novel* by Steve Sherwood	Dave Kuhne

22	*Jericho’s Road* by Elmer Kelton	Mary Ellen Hartje

23	*The Diezmo: A Novel* by Rick Bass	Dick Holland

25	*Dancing with Lyndon: A Novel* by Donley Watt	Carol Lea Clark

26	*No Country for Old Men* by Cormac McCarthy	David Cremean

27	*No Country for Old Men* by Cormac McCarthy	Mark Busby

28	*Valley Ark: Life Along the Rio* by Jan Seale, photographs by Ansen Seale	Jane Manaster

29	*The Religion of Hands: Prose Poems and Flash Fictions* by Ray Gonzalez	James Wright

34	*Pocketful of Names: A Novel* by Joe Coomer	Michael Moorhead

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Cover photograph, "Blanco River Flood, 1998," by Mark Busby.

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Dick Heaberlin

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