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Texas Books in Review
Volume XXVIII, Nos. 1 & 2 (Spring/Summer 2008)
CONTENTS
| 1 | A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words | Mark
Busby and Dick Heaberlin |
| 2 | Death and Dying in New Mexico
by Martina Will de Chaparro |
Karima Alavi |
| 3 | Exploring the Big Bend Country
by Peter Koch and June Cooper Price |
Cassie Polasek |
| 4 | Freshwater Fishes of Texas:
A Field Guide by Chad Thomas, Timothy H. Bonner, and Bobby G. Whiteside |
Henry Lyle III |
| 5 | Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy
Times by Frederick Nolan |
Mary Jarvis |
| 6 | University Builder: Edgar Odell
Lovett and the Founding of the Rice Institute by John B. Boles |
Kevin M. Brady |
| 7 | Energy Metropolis: An Environmental
History of Houston and the Gulf Coast edited by Martin V. Melosi and Joseph A. Pratt |
Kevin M. Brady |
| 8 | Witness for Justice: The Documentary
Photographs of Alan Pogue by Alan Pogue |
James Wright |
| 9 | Available Light: Exile in Mexico
by John Howard Griffin |
Jan Seale |
| 10 | Texas Quilts and Quilters:
A Lone Star Legacy by Marcia Kaylakie and Janice Whittington |
Mary Jarvis |
| 11 | State Fare: An Irreverent Guide
to Texas Movies by Don Graham |
Mark Busby |
| 12 | Unbridled Cowboy by Joseph B. Fussell, edited by E. R. Fussell |
Mark Busby |
| 13 | Candy Barr: The Small-Town
Texas Runaway Who Became a Darling of the Mob and the Queen of Las Vegas Burlesque by Ted Schwarz and Mardi Rustam |
Celia Morris |
| 14 | Jazz Mavericks of the Lone
Star State by Dave Oliphant |
Nico Schüler |
| 15 | A Deeper Blue: The Life and
Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy |
Deirdre Lannon |
| 16 | Coming to Terms by H. Palmer Hall | Twister Marquiss |
| 17 | Land of the Permanent
Wave: An Edwin “Bud” Shrake Reader edited by Steven L. Davis |
Chad Hammett |
| 18 | Journey to Gonzales by Melodie A. Cuate | Betty Wiesepape |
| 19 | Purple Hearts: A Novel by C. W. Smith | Clay Reynolds |
| 20 | Sandhill County Lines: Stories by Clay Reynolds | Twister Marquiss |
| 21 | The Flowers: A Novel by Dagoberto Gilb | James Wright |
| 22 | The Fraternity of Oblivion by Larry D. Thomas | Courtney O'Banion |
| 23 | Praying Up the Sun by David Taylor | David Meischen |
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 © 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.
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
Judson Greene
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