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Texas Books in Review
Volume XXVI, No. 2 (Summer 2006)
CONTENTS
| 1 | Drab and Dazzling | Mark
Busby and Dick Heaberlin |
| 2 | Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas by James L. Haley | Clay Reynolds |
| 4 | The First Texas News
Barons by Patrick Cox The News in Texas: Essays in Honor of the 125th Anniversary of the Texas Press Association edited by Wanda Garner Cash and Ed Sterling |
Steve Davis |
| 5 | The Birds of Tanglewood by Karle Wilson Baker, illustrations by Charlotte Baker Montgomery | Betty Wiesepape |
| 6 | Camino del Norte: How a Series of Watering Holes, Fords, and Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate 35 in Texas by Howard J. Erlichman | Jane Manaster |
| 7 | Race and the Houston Police Department, 1930-1990: A Change Did Come by Dwight Watson | Allan O. Kownslar |
| 8 | Book Collecting/Design Notes: Two Unexpected Pleasures | Al Lowman |
| 10 | Paul Patterson’s Mentoring Friendship with Elmer Kelton | Robert J. (Jack) Duncan |
| 12 | Stark Beauty by Larry D. Thomas | Dave Oliphant |
| 14 | Between Heaven and Texas photographs by Wyman Meinzer, poems selected by Naomi Shihab Nye | Twister Marquiss |
| 15 | Lone Star Rising: The Texas Rangers Trilogy by Elmer Kelton | Bill Cunningham |
| 16 | Black Tuesday’s Child by Donald Mace Williams | Alex Hunt |
| 17 | We Happy Few by Rolando Hinojosa | Chad Hammett |
| 18 | Telegraph Days: A Novel by Larry McMurtry | Roger Walton Jones |
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.
Address all correspondence to:
Texas Books in Review
Center for the Study of the Southwest
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601 University Dr.
San Marcos, TX 78666
Copyright © 2006 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 from Lantry, Texas, by Mark Busby.
Editors
Mark Busby
Dick Heaberlin
Assistant Editor
Twister Marquiss
Editorial Associates
Linda Busby
Tammy Gonzales
Student Assistants
Melody Edwards
Marisa Martin
Krystle Villanueva
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