Volume 57, 1981

• Smith, Ralph A. "Crucial Role of Prairie Coal, The": vol. 57: 3.
• Mason, Zane. "Some Thoughts on Frontier Religion in Texas After the Civil War": vol. 57: 34.
• Whisenhunt, Donald W. "Rufus Kitchens: A Twentieth Century Circuit Rider": vol. 57: 47.
• Elbow, Gary S., and Simone Gordon. "Mennonite Colonization Efforts at Seminole, Texas, 1977-1979": vol. 57: 55.
• Brown, Pat. "Dugouts, Dooryards, Dirt Tanks and Daffodils (Crosby County 1877-1936) ": vol. 57: 71.
• House, Kurt. "Early History of Live Oak County, Texas, An": vol. 57: 84.
• Nance, Joseph Milton. "Robert Crawford Cotner": vol. 57: 99.
• Chenoweth, Dean. "Houston Harte--Journalistic Giant": vol. 57: 107.
• Christian, Garna L. "Rio Grande City: Prelude to the Brownsville Raid": vol. 57: 118.
• Hill, Jim Dan. "Emergence of Historical Associations, The": vol. 57: 133.
• Clayton, Lawrence. "Folk Column: A Prospectus, The": vol. 57: 144.
• Murrah, David, editor; Marilyn Jacobs, Michael Hooks, Richard Mason, contributors. "History in West Texas": vol. 57: 149.

Volume 58, 1982

• Wallace, Ernest. "Historic Indians of the Llano Estacado, The": vol. 58: 3.
• Carlson, Paul H. "Sheepherders and Cowboys: A Comparison of Life-Styles in West Texas": vol. 58: 19.
• Jones, Arthur H. "Story of William Davies: Texas Shepherd, The": vol. 58: 29.
• Mason, Richard. "Ranger and the First West Texas Drilling Boom": vol. 58: 49.
• Alf, E. Karl. "George Wilkins Kendall and the West Texas Sheep Industry": vol. 58: 67.
• Austerman, Wayne R. "San Antonio--El Paso Mail, C.S.A., The": vol. 58: 77.
• Temple, Frank M. "Discipline and Turmoil in the Tenth U.S. Cavalry": vol. 58: 103.
• Winfrey, Dorman H. "Four Texans Tour Europe in 1910: A Look into the Journal of Auma Jon McFaden": vol. 58: 119.
• Lewis, Monte. "Chickasaw on the Texas Frontier, The": vol. 58: 130.
• Kreidler, Tai. "West Texas Town Promoters: Charles Hamilton, W.E. Spencer, and the Building of Rotan: 1900-1920": vol. 58: 142.
• Vaughan, John. "Fort Concho: Past and Present": vol. 58: 159.
• Downs, Fane. "Clayton W. Williams": vol. 58: 171.
• Clayton, Lawrence. "Factuality Versus Artistic License in Western Folk Songs": vol. 58: 176.
• Murrah, David, editor. "History in West Texas": vol. 58: 181.

Volume 59, 1983

• Wallace, Ernest. "West Texas Historical Association, The": vol. 59: 3.
• Neighbours, Kenneth F. "Walter R. Adams: Poet of Plum Creek": vol. 59: 15.
• Myres, Sandra L. "Fort Graham: Listening Post on the Texas Frontier": vol. 59: 33.
• Austerman, Wayne R. "Jose Policarpo Rodriquez: Chicano Plainsman": vol. 59: 52.
• Bielinski, Leo S. "Beer, Booze, Bootlegging And Bocci Ball In Thurber-Mingus": vol. 59: 75.
• Malone, Robbie. "Early Abilene: The Quieter Side of the West": vol. 59: 90.
• Head, Alberta. "Nolan's Marvelous Decade": vol. 59: 98.
• Neugebauer, Janet McCreedy. "Diary of William G. Deloach: A West Texas Farmer, The": vol. 59: 108.
• Griggs, Joan Druesedow. "`One-Armed’ Jim Reed": vol. 59: 122.
• Schultz, Marvin E. "Last Hunt: The Killing of the Buffalo in the Concho Region, 1876-1878": vol. 59: 133.
• McKay, Bob. "Texas Cotton Acreage Control Law of 1931 and Mexican Repatriation": vol. 59: 143.
• Aston, B.W., and Ken Jacobs. "Mrs. John (Thelma) Berry": vol. 59: 156.
• Clayton, Lawrence. "Historical Legends, Folktales, and West Texas": vol. 59: 161.
• Murrah, David, editor. "History in West Texas": vol. 59: 165.

Volume 60, 1984

• Smith, Ralph A. "Making of the Picket Lands, The": vol. 60: 5.
• Mason, Richard. "Handful of Farmers, A": vol. 60: 19.
• Blodgett, Jan. "Land Promotion and Advertisement in West Texas": vol. 60: 35.
• Mehls, Steven F. "Garden in the Grasslands Revisited: Railroad Promotion Efforts and the Settlement of the Texas Plains": vol. 60: 47.
• Anderson, H. Allen. "Monroe Brown and Rebecca Skeen Sawyer: Pioneers of the South Plains": vol. 60: 67.
• Clayton, Lawrence, and Morris Ledbetter. "John Calvin Ledbetter/S.W. Wesley: One Indian Captivity Story or Two? ": vol. 60: 83.
• Bigbee, Joe. "Goldia Malone: An Early Day Cowgirl": vol. 60: 92.
• Bates, Jack. "History of Angelo State University, The": vol. 60: 110.
• Stewart, Kenneth L., and Arnoldo De Leon. "Education, Literacy, and Occupational Structure in West Texas, 1860-1900": vol. 60: 127.
• Cutter, Paul F. "Why Not a Band: The Early History of the Bands in Lubbock, Texas, 1904-1909": vol. 60: 144.
• Clayton, Lawrence. "Today's Cowboy: Coping with a Myth": vol. 60: 178.
• Murrah, David, editor. "History in West Texas": vol. 60: 185.

Volume 61, 1985

• Carlson, Paul H. "Bankers and Sheepherders in West Texas": vol. 61: 5.
• Olien, Diana Davids. "Rag Town Life in the West Texas Oil Fields": vol. 61: 15.
• Schofield, Donald F. "Making of a West Texas Ghost Town, The": vol. 61: 30.
• Burley, Joanne. "Glenn Biggs and the Establishment of Guadalupe Mountains National Park": vol. 61: 42.
• Williams, Mary L. "Empire Building: Colonel Benjamin H. Grierson at Fort Davis, 1882-1885": vol. 61:58.
• Marshall, David. "Civilian Fort on the Confederate Frontier, A": vol. 61: 74.
• Marshall, Doyle. "Red-Haired `Indian’ Raiders on the Texas Frontier": vol. 61: 88.
• White, Benton R. "F.G. Oxsheer: The Forgotten Cattle King": vol. 61: 106.
• DeLeon, Arnoldo. "Tejano History Scholarships: A Review of the Recent Literature": vol. 61: 116.
• Myers, James. "Prisoners of War at Camp Berkeley": vol. 61: 134.
• Clayton, Lawrence. "Ice Man Comes to Ft. Griffin: An Oral History from the 1930's, The": vol. 61: 141.
• Byrns, Robert E. "Escal Duke": vol. 61: 147.
• Byrns, Robert E. "Presidential Address": vol. 61: 151.
• Murrah, David, editor. "History in West Texas": vol. 61: 162.

Volume 62, 1986

• Grider, Sylvia. "Showdown Between Dorothy Scarborough and Judge R.C. Crane, The": vol. 62: 5.
• Henegar, Lucielle. "Beating Swords into Ploughshares: Hereford Military Reservation and Reception Center": vol. 62: 14.
• Hooks, Michael Q. "Recording West Texas Lands: The Role of the General Land Office": vol. 62: 29.
• Blodgett, Jan. "Crosby County's Year Old Baby: Julian Bassett and the Development of Crosbyton, Texas": vol. 62: 43.
• Jones, Eugene W. "Decade of the Country Editor: 1954-1964, A": vol. 62: 52.
• Hayter, Delmar. "Early Development of the Pecos River Valley of New Mexico and Texas, 1880-1900, The": vol. 62: 69.
• Duke, Escal F. "J. Willis Johnson: Lawman, Rancher, Banker": vol. 62: 86.
• Clayton, Lawrence. "Ronnie Gill, Log Cabin Builder: A Study in Material Folklore": vol. 62: 98.
• Fisher, B.J. "Medical Conditions at West Texas Military Posts in the 1850's": vol. 62: 108.
• Baulch, Joe R. "Making West Texas Safe for Democracy: The 1917 Farmers and Laborers Protective Association Conspiracy": vol. 62: 119.
• Bond, Ann Y. "Wylie, Taylor County, Texas": vol. 62: 130.
• Olien, Diana Davids, and Roger M. Olien. "Dedication: J. Conrad Dunagan": vol. 62: 141.
• Berry, Mrs. John. "Excessive Land, An": vol. 62: 145.
• Murrah, David, editor. "Historv in West Texas": vol. 62: 149.

Volume 63, 1987

• Nance, J. Milton. "Rendezvous at the Alamo: The Place of Bowie, Crockett and Travis in Texas History": vol. 63: 5.
• Mowrey, Danile Patrick, and Paul H. Carlson. "Native Grasslands of the High Plains of West Texas: Past-Present-Future, The": vol. 63: 24.
• Colwell, James L. "Wings Over West Texas: Pecos Army Air Field in World War II": vol. 63: 42.
• Inselberg, Lee Bradley. "Lubbock Lake Site: The History and Development of a Site, The": vol. 63: 63.
• Davis, Kenneth W. "Jeanne Williams--Novelist: The Williams Papers in the Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University": vol. 63: 77.
• Kite, JoDee. "Image of Woman in the Novels of Jeanne Williams, The": vol. 63: 84.
• Wagner, James. "Cowboy--Origin and Early Use of the Term": vol. 63: 91.
• Philipps, Edward Hake. "Up the Trail in '93": vol. 63: 101.
• Clayton, Lawrence. "Mountain Man in West Texas, The": vol. 63: 118.
• Romero, Yolanda. "Los Socios Del Sementerio(Sic): A Mexican-American Burial Society in Early Lubbock, Texas": vol. 63: 123.
• Mason, Richard. "Lost Seas and Forgotten Climes: Petroleum and Geologists in North Texas": vol. 63: 131.
• Burton, Bob. "`I Wish We Were Not Called Upon To Act’": The Early Growth of the Santa Fe Railway on the South Plains": vol. 63: 153.
• Martin, Cindy. "Southwest Collection: New Materials, New Directions, The": vol. 63: 171.
• Stewart, Patricia. "John Moore Shannon: His Life, Legend and Legacy": vol. 63: 178.
• Murrah, David, editor. "History in West Texas": vol. 63: 189.