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Texas Books in Review
Volume XXVII, No. 4 (Winter 2007-08)
CONTENTS
| 1 | Cormac Redux | Mark
Busby and Dick Heaberlin |
| 2 | Petra’s Legacy:
The South Texas Ranching Empire of Petra Vela and Mifflin Kenedy by Jane Clements Monday and Frances Brannen Vick |
Phyllis Bridges |
| 3 | Basic Birds of Texas: A Field
Guide by Mark W. Lockwood, photos by Greg W. Lasley, Tim Cooper, and Mark W. Lockwood |
Guy Doré |
| 4 | Weeds in South Texas and Northern
Mexico: A Guide to Identification by James H. Everitt, Robert I. Lonard, and Christopher R. Little |
Jane Manaster |
| 5 | The Legacy of Américo
Paredes by José R. López Morín The Borderlands of Culture: Américo Paredes and the Transnational Imaginary by Ramón Saldívar |
Steve Davis |
| 6 | Texas Book Festival Bookend
Award: A Tribute to Rolando Hinojosa-Smith |
Don Graham |
| 7 | Mug’s Game: Literary Austin | Don Graham |
| 8 | The Whole Sky Full of Stars
by René Saldaña, Jr. |
Emmy Pérez |
| 9 | Under the Texas Sun / El sol
de Tejas by Conrado Espinoza |
Wallis R. Sanborn III |
| 10 | Love Hound by Oliver Welden, translated by Dave Oliphant |
Roger Jones |
| 11 | Bonfire of Road Maps by Joe Ely |
Gary Hartman |
| 12 | What Wildness Is This: Women
Write about the Southwest edited by Susan Wittig Albert, Susan Hanson, Jan Epton Seale, and Paula Stallings Yost |
Emmy Pérez |
| 13 | The Murder of Milo by Marshall Terry |
Clay Reynolds |
| 14 | Custer’s Brother’s
Horse: A Novel by Edwin Shrake |
Chad Hammett |
| 15 | Flying to America: 45 More
Stories by Donald Barthelme |
James Wright |
| 16 | Dreaming the End of War by Benjamin Alire Sáenz |
Suzanne Reid |
| 17 | Labyrinth by Sybil Pittman Estess |
Dave Kuhne |
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
Texas State University-San Marcos
601 University Dr.
San Marcos, TX 78666
Copyright © 2008 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 downtown Gruene, Texas, by Dick Heaberlin.
Editors
Mark Busby
Dick Heaberlin
Assistant Editor
Twister Marquiss
Editorial Associate
Linda Busby
Editorial Assistant/Business Manager
Tammy Gonzales
Editorial Interns
Karima Alavi
Cheyenne Mathews
David Meischen
Cassie Polasek
Student Assistants
Melody Edwards
Ricky Martinez
Cynthia Rodriguez
Editors at Large
Rolando Hinojosa
James Ward Lee
Tom Pilkington
Contributing Editors
Terrell Dixon
Environmental Literature
Don Graham
Film
Richard Holland
Music, Museums, and Collections
Al Lowman
Book Collecting/Design
Regional Editors
Patrick Bennett
West Texas
Dave Oliphant
Austin
Emmy Pérez
South Texas
Dale L. Walker
Trans-Pecos
Robert Phillips
Houston