~ West Texas Historical Association ~

WTHA Publications- Yearbook, volumes 82-87
The West Texas Historical Association Yearbook is published annually.

Volume 82, 2006

  • Eoff, Shirley M.  "San Angelo Army Air Field Bombardier School: Military and Civilian Interaction in World War": vol. 82: 7.

  • Ainsworth, Troy.  "The Second Santa Fe Expedition: Jacob Snively and the Mission to Disrupt New Mexico Commerce in 1843": vol. 82: 23.

  • Rich, Harold.  "A Distinctive Legacy: Settlement Patterns of Fort Worth's Hispanic Community": vol. 82: 35.

  • Cooper, Dana.  "Where are the Soldiers in Twentieth-Century Texas? A West Texas Community Study": vol. 82: 52.

  • Specht, Joe W.  "Great Big Taters in the Sandy Land:  The Musical Friendship of Bob Willis & Hoyle Nix": vol. 82: 67.

  • Ely, Glen Sample.  "Bedlam at Belknap:  Frontier Lawlessness on the Butterfield Overland Mail Road in Texas, 1858-1861": vol. 82: 81.

  • Glasrud, Bruce A. and James M. Smallwood.  "The Texas Tech School of Black History:  an Overview": vol. 82: 102.

  • Davis, Kenneth W.  "Lawrence and Sonja Clayton:  Ranchers, Ranching Historians, Academicians and Folklorists": vol. 82: 120.

  • McWhorter, William.  "Uvalde and Eagle Pass:  The World War II Army Air Forces and Small West Texas Towns": vol. 82: 131.

  • Pruitt, Nicholas.  "Broadening the Scope:  The High Plains Klan of the 1920s": vol. 82: 156.

  • Pate, J'Nell.  "A Syrian Immigrant in West Texas": vol. 82: 170.

  • [Translated and edited by] Kueth, Allan J., Jorge Iber, Paul H. Carlson, and José Manuel Serrano Álvarez.  "Notes and Documents- Commandant General Felipe de Neve's 1783:  Rebuke of Governor Juan Bautista de Anza": vol. 82: 183.

  • Paschall, Freedonia, Marleta Childs and Julia Saffell.  "History in West Texas": vol. 82: 186.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2006 Annual Meeting": vol. 82: 205.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 82: 212.

  • Fink, Tiffany, Editor.  "Book Reviews": vol. 82: 219.


Volume 83, 2007

  • Álvarez, José Manuel Serrano and Allan J. Kuethe.  "The San Sabá Presidio and Spain's Frontier Policy in North America": vol. 83: 7.

  • McCullough, John W.  "Pre-Flights on Tech Campus: Texas Tech's World War II Pre-Flight Pilots (1943-1944)": vol. 83: 19.

  • Fink, Rob.  "Our Story: The Teaching of Texas History in the Public Schools": vol. 83: 35.

  • Campbell, Suzanne.  "Annie Black and the Soiled Doves of San Angelo": vol. 83: 45.

  • Sheffield, Wes J.  "U. S. Army Primary Helicopter School, Fort Wolters, Texas 1956-1973": vol. 83: 55.

  • Sosebee, Scott.  "Dashed Hopes and Gained Opportunities: Mexican American Education Experiences in Lubbock, Texas from the 1920s through the 1960s": vol. 83: 67.

  • Stephens, Christena.  "Mallet Ranch: What Was, What Is, What the Future Can Be": vol. 83: 87.

  • Volanto, Keith J.  "Up in Arms: Local Protest vs. Placement of Black CCC Camps in West Texas": vol. 83: 96.

  • Hawkins, Rusty.  "Alson Asa Meredith and John C. Williams Generations Apart, Water in Common": vol. 83: 111.

  • Fenton, Jim.  "The Cowboy Earl in England: The Earl of Aylesford's Mysterious Past": vol. 83: 130.

  • Toland, Lewis.  "Standing Proud from a Buckskin Line to Jericho's Road": vol. 83: 148.

  • Lewis, Cheryl.  "A Century of History Yields Far More Than Railroads, Grain Elevators, and Pied Pipers": vol. 83: 155.

  • [Introduction by] Carlson, Paul H.  "Notes and Documents- Jose Piedad Tafoya's Testimony on Behalf of Charles Goodnight in 1893": vol. 83: 188.

  • Paschall, Freedonia, Marleta Childs and Julia Saffell.  "History in West Texas": vol. 83: 200.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2007 Annual Meeting": vol. 83: 222.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 83: 231.

  • Fink, Tiffany, Editor.  "Book Reviews": vol. 83: 239.


Volume 84, 2008

  • Fehr, Kregg.  "Harbingers of Change: Wind Turbines and the Dawning of a New Age in Texas Energy History": vol. 84: 7.

  • Chambers, Clint E.  "Jack Stilwell, a Teenager on the Santa Fe Trail, 1863-1866": vol. 84: 20.

  • Eoff, Shirley.  "Crime and Punishment in Early San Angelo": vol. 84: 31.

  • Stuntz, Jean.  "West Texas Women in Ranching: Myth and Reality": vol. 84: 49.

  • Sweeney, Kevin.  "Drought in the Heart of Texas, 1864-1865": vol. 84: 58.

  • Caraway, John.  "The Texas Mohair Industry and the Seven Year Drought of the 1950's": vol. 84: 74.

  • Stewart, Tracy.  "Founding Mothers of Deaf Smith County": vol. 84: 85.

  • Mathes, W. Michael.  "Medieval Castile on the Llano Estacado: The Vásquez de Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542": vol. 84: 99.

  • Pope, Philip.  "A Failed Plains Empire: W. P. Soash on the South Plains": vol. 84: 109.

  • Kiel, Frank and Ruth.  "The History of the Brownsboro Settlement": vol. 84: 121.

  • Becker, Jack.  "Some Medieval Contributions to the American Southwest: Animal, Environmental, and Vegetable": vol. 84: 138.

  • Christian, Garna.  "'Dear Carl, Dear Ralph:' Correspondence of an Uncommon Friendship": vol. 84: 153.

  • [Edited by] Becker, Jack and Paul H. Carlson.  "Notes and Documents- 'An Account of a Trip on the Great Plains in 1877'": vol. 84: 169.

  • Paschall, Freedonia, Marleta Childs and Julia Saffell.  "History in West Texas": vol. 84: 173.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2008 Annual Meeting": vol. 84: 190.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 84: 199.

  • "Life Members, Past Presidents, and Annual Awards": vol. 84: 201.

  • Stuntz, Jean, Editor.  "Book Reviews": vol. 84: 206.


Volume 85, 2009

  • Levario, Miguel A.  "Cowboys and Bandidos: Authority and Race in West Texas, 1913-1918": vol. 85: 7.

  • Stephens, Christena.  "Double Murder in a Small West Texas Town": vol. 85: 28.

  • Grimshaw, Joe.  "Adrift on a Sea of Oil: Population Change in Desdemona, Texas": vol. 85: 38.

  • Gossman, David M.  "McDonald Observatory: The Origins and Development of a West Texas Scientific Institution": vol. 85: 51.

  • Murrah, David.  "When 'Methodism Grew Mightily:' The First One Hundred Years of the Northwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church": vol. 85: 69.

  • Anderson, H. Allen.  "The Laying of the Cornerstone: Lubbock's Most Memorable Armistice Day": vol. 85: 81.

  • Duarte, Gloria.  "Eva Camuñez's Teaching Career, 1932-1942": vol. 85: 96.

  • Townsley, Bill  "Sleuthing the Mysteries of West Texas' Spider Rocks Treasure": vol. 85: 108.

  • Hardman, Peggy.  "Building a Place of their Own: The Kerrville State Sanatorium for 'Negroes'": vol. 85: 121.

  • Ainsworth, Troy.  "Mabel Welch: El Paso's First Woman Architect": vol. 85: 139.

  • Crider, Jonathan B.  "Desertion and Race in the Llano Estacado: The Trial of William L. Umbles, Buffalo Solder": vol. 85: 153.

  • Collins, Marilyn.  "'Coin' Harvey's Ozark Trails Association: Early Road Markers Preserved in Texas": vol. 85: 168.

  • Weiner, Robert G.  "A Brief 100 Year Personal History of the Lubbock and West Texas Musical Heritage": vol. 85: 175.

  • Collett, James.  "Tour of Duty: The West Texas Service of Stephen Carpenter": vol. 85: 193.

  • Matthews, Becky.  "From Log Cabins to the TEA Party: A History of Homeschooling in Texas": vol. 85: 205.

  • Shirley, Ruth Ann.  "'Prisoners Among Prisoners:' Conflicts at Camp Barkeley, Texas": vol. 85: 217.

  • Hinkle, Mary Nell and Betty Rathjen, Editors.  "Notes and Documents- 'An Outing near Sanderson, Texas in 1915'": vol. 85: 231.

  • Paschall, Freedonia, Marleta Childs and Julia Saffell.  "History in West Texas": vol. 85: 233.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2009 Annual Meeting": vol. 85: 253.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 85: 264.

  • "Life Members, Past Presidents, and Annual Awards": vol. 85: 267.

  • Stuntz, Jean, Editor.  "Book Reviews": vol. 85: 273.


Volume 86, 2010

  • De Leon, Arnoldo.  "Tejanos in Northwest Texas: Rural Folks or Urbanites?": vol. 86: 8.

  • Camp, Harman.  "John Ringo in Texas: Much Hoo Doo About Nothing.": vol. 86: 33.

  • Fink, Robert.  "'Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose, Sometimes it Rains': Major League Baseball Comes to Abilene, Texas": vol. 86: 42.

  • Caraway, John.  "Dallas Scarborough: Abilene Attorney and Civic Leader": vol. 86: 53.
  • Saunders, Thomas L. "Six-Man Football Comes to Texas: The Fisher County Six-Man Football League of 1936:" vol. 86: 62.
  • Hathorn, Billy. "Mayor Ernest Angelo, Jr., of Midland and the 96-0 Reagan Sweep of Texas, May 1, 1976": vol. 86: 77.
  • Clark, Robin.  "F. Vandervoort: The Judge Who Wasn't a Judge": vol. 86: 92.
  • Neal, Bill. "Ardor in the Courts!: Sex and Law in Frontier Texas": vol. 86: 110.
  • Woodrick, James, Editor.  "Notes and Documents- 'West Texas in 1853: An Account of a Wagon Train Expedition Seeking Gold in the Guadalupe Mountains'": vol. 86: 124.
  • Ainsworth, Len, Editor. "Notes and Documents- 'Crimmins and Cameron'": vol. 86: 158.
  • Stuntz, Jean, Editor.  "Book Reviews": vol. 86: 170.
  • Paschall, Freedonia and Marleta Childs.  "History in West Texas": vol. 86: 199.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2010 Annual Meeting": vol. 86: 224.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 86: 240.

  • "Life Members, Past Presidents, and Annual Awards": vol. 86: 242.


Volume 87, 2011

  • Murrah, David J.  "'He Stole My Courthouse' : S.B. Hale and the Hansford County Seat Fight of the 1920s": vol. 87: 8.

  • Taylor, Travis.  "Garrison Life at Fort Chadbourne, 1852-1861": vol. 87: 23.

  • Crawford, Patrick.  "Tracking Ancient Beasts: The Saga of the Glen Rose Dinosaur Footprints": vol. 87: 35.

  • Baumgardner, Karl.  "Gentle Persuasion Gone Awry: An Analysis of the Spanish Attempts to Convert the Indians of Spanish Texas": vol. 87: 52.

  • Stuntz, Jean.  "The Early African American Community in Amarillo": vol. 87: 63.

  • Weiner, Robert G.  "Lubbock and West Texas Unsung Musical Hero: The Legendary Stardust Cowboy": vol. 87: 72.

  • Chambers, Clint E.  "Simpson Everett 'Jack' Stillwell: Teamster, Hunter, Frontier Scout, Cowboy, Lawman and Judge": vol. 87: 84.

  • Liles, Debbie.  "Uncontested Ground: The Northwestern Frontier of Texas, 1846-1855": vol. 87: 98.

  • Weaver, R G.  "Home-Brewed: Organized Crime in West Texas in the 1950s": vol. 87: 118.

  • Hathorn, Billy.  "Mayor Jim Reese of Odessa and the Republican Party in the Permian Basin": vol. 87: 127.

  • Chapman, Karla J., PeeWee Roberson and Stacy A. Jacob.  "Rabid Advocates for Fair Play in Football: H. J. Lutcher Stark and L. Theo Bellmont's Vision Becomes the Southwest Conference": vol. 87: 153.

  • Perrin, John, editor.  "Notes and Documents- United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans Collection": vol. 87: 167.

  • Stuntz, Jean, Editor.  "Book Reviews": vol. 87: 176.

  • Paschall, Freedonia and Marleta Childs.  "History in West Texas": vol. 87: 196.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2010 Annual Meeting": vol. 87: 219.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 87: 231.

  • "Life Members, Past Presidents, and Annual Awards": vol. 87: 233.

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