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Texas Books in Review
Volume XXIV, No. 4 (Winter 2004-2005)
CONTENTS
| 1 | Reviewing Texas Culture | Mark
Busby and Dickie Maurice Heaberlin |
| 2 | Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy
and Triumph in the Texas Revolution by Richard Bruce Winders |
Jesús F. de la Teja |
| 3 | The Texas Indians by David La Vere | Dickie Maurice Heaberlin |
| 4 | Perilous Voyages: Czech and English Immigrants to Texas in the 1870s by Lawrence H. Konecny and Clinton Machann | Mark Hama |
| 5 | Stories from the Barrio: A History of Mexican Fort Worth by Carlos E. Cuéllar | Andrea Tinnemeyer |
| 6 | The Texas Post Office Murals:
Art for the People by Philip Parisi |
Clay Reynolds |
| 8 | Art Guide Texas by Rebecca S. Cohen | Jane Manaster |
| 9 | Big Bend Landscapes by Dennis Blagg | Gabrielle Snyder |
| 10 | Vaquero: Genesis of the
Texas Cowboy photographs and text by Bill Wittliff |
Mark Busby |
| 11 | Long Dark Road: Bill King and Murder in Jasper, Texas by Ricardo C. Ainslie, photographs by Sarah Wilson | Cecilia Derkits |
| 12 | Sam Peckinpah’s
West: New Perspectives edited by Leonard Engel |
David Cremean |
| 14 | The Obituaries by Wm. Anthony Connolly | Sherry Clements |
| 15 | Castle in the Gloom by Paul Ruffin | Charlie McMurtry |
| 16 | Another Bullshit Night in Suck
City: A Memoir by Nick Flynn |
James Wright |
| 18 | Loop Group: A Novel by Larry McMurtry | Mark Busby |
| 19 | Backtracking: Poems by Dave Oliphant | Roger Jones |
| 20 | A Thousand Miles of Stars by Walt McDonald | Dave Oliphant |
| 22 | Dancing on Main Street: Poems by Lorenzo Thomas | Elvin Holt |
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 © 2005 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 photograph of Mason County Courthouse by Dickie Heaberlin.
Editors
Mark Busby
Dickie Maurice Heaberlin
Editorial Associate
Linda Busby
Assistant Editor
Twister Marquiss
Editors at Large
Rolando Hinojosa
James Ward Lee
William B. Martin
Tom Pilkington
Contributing Editors
Terrell Dixon
Environmental Literature
Don Graham
Ken Harrison
Film
Richard Holland
Music, Museums, and Collections
Al Lowman
Book Collecting/Design
Regional Editors
Patrick Bennett
West Texas
Dave Oliphant
Austin
René Saldaña, Jr.
South Texas
Dale L. Walker
Trans-Pecos
Robert Phillips
Houston
Editorial Interns
Kimberly Blackburn, Marie Coffey, Sarah Faulkner, Shelly Hunt, Sarah Lamb, Molly Michaels, Celina Paquette, and Michael Wolfe.
Student Assistants
Valentin DeLeon, Tammy Gonzales, Amy Hamilton, and Colin Mann.