~ West Texas Historical Association ~

News from the Membership - Recent Publications and Presentations
Between 2006-2013, several of our WTHA members have been active in publishing and presenting papers.  Below are a list of some of these activities.  If you would like to have your publications and presentations listed, please email us.

Troy Ainsworth, Historic Preservation Officer in El Paso:

  • "Boredom, Fatigue, Illness and Death: The U.S. National Guard and the Militarization of Texas-Mexico Border, 1916-1917," Center for Big Bend Studies annual meeting, November 10-11, 2006
  • "Civic Cathedrals on the High Plains, in the Trans-Pecos, and on the Edwards Plateau," Center for Big Bend Studies annual meeting, November 9-10, 2007

T. Lindsay Baker, director of the W. K. Gordon Center for Industrial History of Texas in Thurber, Texas:

  • "American Windmill: An Album of Historic Photographs."  University of Oklahoma Press, 2007

Thomas A. Britten:

  • "The Lipan Apaches: People of Wind and Lightening."  University of New Mexico Press, 2009

Stephen Bogener:

  • [with William Tydeman]. "Llano Estacado: An Island in the Sky." Texas Tech University Press, 2011.

Paul Carlson, retired professor of History at Texas Tech University:

  • [with Tom Crum]. "Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker." Texas Tech University Press, 2010
  • [with Donald R. Abbe and Monte Monroe]. "The Centennial History of Lubbock."  Donning Company Publishers, 2008
  • [with Bruce Glasrud and Tai Kreidler]. "Slavery to Integration: Black Americans in West Texas."  Texas A&M Press, 2008
  • "Slavery to Integration: Black Americans in West Texas," Texas Authors Series presentation at the Abilene Public Library, February 19, 2008
  • "Buddy Holly, Beethoven, and Lubbock in the 1950s," Center for Big Bend Studies annual meeting, November 10-11, 2006
  • "Amarillo: The Story of a Western Town," TTU Press, 2006
  • The Ozark Trails and Early Highways in West Texas," Center for Big Bend Studies annual meeting, November 9-10, 2007

Clint Chambers:

  • Opened his exhibit on the Santa Fe Trail on May 1, 2009, in Dumas, Texas.

Dominick J. Cirincione:

  • "Texas Sesquicentiennial Wagon Train: Images of America."  Arcadia Publishing Company, 2011.

Michael L. Collins:

  • "Texas Devils: Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grand, 1846-1861."  University of Oklahoma Press, 2008

Mike Cox:

  • "West Texas Tales."  The History Press, 2011.
  • "The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900."  Forge Books, 2008

Brett Cruse, Sites Supervisor, Archaeological and Military Sites, Historic Sites Division, Texas Historical Commission:

  • "Battles of the Red River War: Archeological Perspectives on the Indian Campaign of 1874."  Texas A&M University Press, 2008

Tom Crum, retired state district judge:

  • [with Paul H. Carlson]. "Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker." Texas Tech University Press, 2010.

Patrick Dearen:

  • "To Hell or the Pecos." Texas Christian University Press, 2012.
  • "Devils River: Treacherous Twin to the Pecos, 1535-1900." Texas Christian University Press, 2011.
  • "Lone Star Lost: Buried Treasures in Texas." Texas Christian University Press, 2009.
  • "Saddling Up Anyway: the Dangerous Lives of Old-Time Cowboys."  Taylor Trade Publishing, 2006.
  • "Perseverance."  Eakin Press, 2006.

Gloria Duarte:

  • "Gayle 'Western' Cunningham: From Local Cowgirl to Hollywood Movie Star," Center for Big Bend Studies annual meeting, November 10-11, 2006

Earl Elam, historian at the Texas Heritage Museum at Hill College and editor of of the Hill College Press:

  • "Reluctant Rebels: The Eleventh Texas Cavalry Regiment" (hardcover, dust jacket, illus., 6 x 9, 191 pp.), by Allen G. Hatley.  I extensively edited and rewrote large sections of the manuscript. It is the first history of a Texas Civil War regiment that was formed in the ten counties in north Texas where the voters in 1861 did not vote for secession, thus "reluctant rebels"; the author has published other works on the Civil War and other topics.
  • "They Were There: Texan Veterans Remember World War II" (hardcover, dust jacket, illus., 6 x 9, 222 pp.) by Larue Harper Barnes. It is a compilation of memories of more than 50 WWII veterans from Johnson County, Texas; much of the content is direct quotes. The author, a retired social studies teacher has been a columnist for the Cleburne Times-Review since retiring about ten years ago and wrote a series of articles for the newspaper about the individuals. I edited the articles for publication as a book.
  • "Kitikiti's: The Wichita Indians and Associated Tribes in Texas, 1757-1859." Hill College Press, 2008.

Glen Ely:

  • "Where the West Begins: Debating Texas Identity," with forward by Alwyn Barr. Texas Tech University Press, 2011.  256 pages. $23.07, Book link
  • Guest speaker at the Fort Stockton Historical Society Banquet in February, 2009. Ely spoke about traveling on the Butterfield Overland Mail Road during 1858-1861 in what is now Pecos County.

Robert A. Fink, Visiting Professor of History at McMurry University in Abilene, Texas:

  • Introduction for "Vanitas: Poems" by Jane McKinley, Texas Tech University Press, 2011
  • "Playing in Shadows: Texas and Negro League Baseball."  Texas Texas University Press, 2010
  • "Love Unbounded: The Influence of First Baptist Church on Abilene, Texas."  State House Press, 2008
  • "Twilight Innings:  A West Texas on Grace and Survival."  Texas Texas University Press, 2006
  • Introduction for "Burning Wyclif" by Tom Satterlee, Texas Tech University Press, 2006
  • Introduction for "The Clearing" by Philip White, Texas Tech University Press, 2007
  • Introduction for "Wild Flight" by Christine Rhein, Texas Tech University Press, 2008

Tiffany Fink, Assistant Professor of History at Hardin-Simmons University in Abilene, Texas:

  • "Love Unbounded: The Influence of First Baptist Church on Abilene, Texas."  State House Press, 2008

Bruce A. Glasrud, retired dean of Arts and Sciences at Sul Ross State University:

  • [with Charles A. Braithwaite]  "African Americans on the Great Plains: An Anthology."  University of Nebraska Press, 2009.  404 pages. $28.63, Book link *winner of the Nebraska Book Award for Best Anthology.
  • "Bibliophiling West Texas African American History," Center for Big Bend Studies annual meeting, November 9-10, 2007
  • [with Merline Pitre]  "Black Women in Texas History.  Texas A&M University Press, 2008. *winner of TSHA's Liz Carpenter Award for Best Scholarly Book on Texas Women's History
  • [with Paul Carlson and Tai Kreidler]. "Slavery to Integration: Black Americans in West Texas."  Texas A&M Press, 2008
  • "The African American Experience in Texas: An Anthology."  Texas Texas University Press, 2007
  • "Unfinished Masterpiece: The Harlem Renaissance Fiction of Anita Scott Coleman."  Texas Tech University Press, 2008

Melodie A. Guatge:

  • "Journey to Goliad."  Texas Tech University Press, 2009.

A. W. R. "Rusty" Hawkins, Ph.D. student at Texas Tech University

  • "Alson Asa Meredith, A Man on Fire," Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, February 2007
  • "A Promise Kept: The Canadian River Municipal Water Authority," West Texas Historical Association Yearbook 2005, published March 2006
  • "John C. Williams," Panhandle-Plains Historical Review, published April, 2006
  • "Smoke on the Water: The Confederacy Retakes Galveston," Blue & Gray Magazine, forthcoming article
  • "Confederate Victory at Sabine Pass," Civil War Times Magazine, forthcoming feature article, August, 2006
  • "Toward Revolution: The Impact of Vladimir Lenin on the Thoughts and Deeds of Ho Chi Minh," Vietnam Magazine, forthcoming feature article, August, 2006
  •  "June 13-14, 1949: Vietnam is Named a State," entry in Great Events in History: The 20th Century, 1941-1970, forthcoming.
  • "March 30, 1981: Hinckley Attempts to Assassinate President Reagan," entry in Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1971-2000, forthcoming.
  • "January 23, 1968: North Korea Seizes the Pueblo," entry in Great Events from History: The Twentieth Century, 1941-1970, forthcoming
  • "Nathaniel Bedford Forrest," entry in ABC-CLIO Military History Series, forthcoming
  • "The Battle of Nashville," entry in ABC-CLIO Military History Series, forthcoming
  • "Ronald Reagan," entry in the Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars, forthcoming
  • "Japan since World War II," entry in the Encyclopedia of the Culture Wars, forthcoming
  • "From West Texas to West of Everything: The Panhandle’s Ties to the Secret Service," in Accent West Magazine, June 2006 Issue

Clark Hitt:

  • Presented his findings to attendees of the August 6, 2011, Wichita Brazos Museum and Cultural Center meeting.

Diana Hinton:

  • "The Seventeen Year Overnight Wonder: George Mitchell and Unlocking the Barnett Shale," The Journal of American History, June 2012.

Elmer Kelton, prolific and noted writer of Southwestern novels:

  • Foreword for "A Taste of Texas Ranching" by Tom Bryant and Joel Bernstein, Texas Tech University Press, 2011
  • "Hard Trail to Follow."  Doherty, Tom Associates, LLC, 2008.  287 pages.
  • "The Rebels: Sons of Texas."  St. Martin's Press, 2007.  304 pages.

Tai Kreidler, Deputy Director for Internal Operations for the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library:

  • Nikkei Farmer on the Nebraska Plains. Texas Texas University Press, 2010
  • [with Paul Carlson and Bruce Glasrud]. "Slavery to Integration: Black Americans in West Texas."  Texas A&M Press, 2008

Marty Kuhlman, Associate Professor at West Texas A&M University:

  • "Always WT: West Texas A&M Centennial History."  New Forums Press Inc., 2010
  • "Barriers," Publishamerica.com, 2006

Shirley Gordon Jackson:

  • "A Place to be Someone: Growing Up with Charles Gordone."  Texas Tech University Press, 2009

Clare V. McKanna Jr.:

  • "Court Martial of Apache Kid: Renegade of Renegades."  Texas Tech University Press, 2009

Ross McSwain, retired award winning journalist, freelance writer and author:

  • "See No Evil, Speak No Evil, A History of Mob Violence in the Texas Heartland, 1869-1904."  2008

John Miller Morris, Associate Professor of political science and geography at the University of Texas at San Antonio:

  • "Taming the Land: The Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plains."  Texas A&M University Press, 2009

Monte Monroe, Associate Archivist at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library:

  • [with Donald R. Abbe and Monte Monroe]. "The Centennial History of Lubbock."  Donning Company Publishers, 2008

Dolores Mosser:

  • "A Train Story."  Adrian Street Productions, 2009

Bill Neal, retired trial lawyer after 40 years experience in the courtrooms of West Texas - 20 as a District Attorney and 20 as a defense attorney:

  • "Vengeance is Mine: The Scandalous Love Triangle that Triggered the Boyce-Sneed Feud."  University of North Texas Press, 2011
  • Presenter in a session moderated by James L. Haley at the Texas Book Festival on October 31, 2009
  • "Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style."  Texas Tech University Press, 2009
  • "From Guns to Gavels: How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West."  Texas Tech University Press, 2008.  Winner of the 2008 Rupert Richardson Award for best book on West Texas history
  • "Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings & Celebrated Trials," TTU Press, November 2006. Winner of the 2007 Book of the Year by the National Association for Outlaw and Lawman History and finalist for the 2007 Western Writers of America Spur Award

Elleta Nolte:

  • "Indeed You Can: A True Story Edged in Humor to Inspire All Ages to Rush Forward with Arms Outstretched and Embrace Life."  CCB Publishing, 2011.
  • "Deeds and Misdeeds of an Indian Territory Doctor."  AuthorHouse, 2009.

Bill O'Neal, a prolific writer of western history:

  • "The Johnson-Sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style."  University of North Texas Press, 2012
  • "The Johnson County War."  Eakin Press, 2004

Freedonia Paschall, Archivist at Texas Tech University:

  • [with Rob Weiner]  "Nature Conquering, or Nature Conquered in 'The Wind'," a chapter in The Landscape of Hollywood Westerns: Ecocriticism in an American Film Genre.  Univerity of Utah Press, 2007

J'Nell L. Pate:

  • "Texas Sesquicentiennial Wagon Train: Images of America."  Arcadia Publishing Company, 2011
  • "The Fort Worth Stockyards: Images of America."  Arcadia Publishing Company, 2009.
  • Edited "From Syria to Seminole:  Memoir of a High Plains Merchant."  Texas Tech University Press, 2006

Curtis Peoples, Assistant Archivist at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library:

  • "Soundscapes and Landscapes: The History of Sound Recording in West Texas," Center for Big Bend Studies annual meeting, November 10-11, 2006

Ashley Pettiet-Richey:

  • "The Music and the Mystique of the Lubbock Cotton Club: 1938-1980," Center for Big Bend Studies annual meeting, November 10-11, 2006

Gene Preuss, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Houston - Downtown:

  • "To Get a Better School System: One Hundred Years of Education Reform in Texas."  Texas A&M University Press, 2009

Lou Rodenberger:

  • "Jane Gilmore Rushing:  A West Texas Writer and Her Work."  Texas Tech University Press, 2006

Peter Rose:

  • "The Reckoning: the Triumph on the Texas Outlaw Frontier."  Texas Tech University Press, 2012

Dana Middlebrooks Samuelson and Robert Samuelson, M.D.:

  • "Clovis Road: The Dr. Roy Hunt Murder - Littlefield, Texas, 1942-1943 Second Edition."  Highgate Publishing, L.L.C., 2013.
  • "Clovis Road: The Dr. Roy Hunt Murder - Littlefield, Texas, 1942-1943."  Highgate Publishing, L.L.C., 2009

Russell S. Smith, a retired San Angelo Police Chief and retired Tom Green County Justice of the Peace:

  • "Steps into God's Country."  CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Christina Stephens:

  • "Mallet Ranch:  What Was... What is... What the Future Can Be...," 2007

Jean Stuntz, Associate Professor of History at West Texas A&M University:

  • [with Claudia Stuart]. "African Americans in Amarillo."  Arcadia Publishing, 2009
  • "Prairies to Progress: Women on the Texas Panhandle Frontier," in Social Studies Texan, 2009
  • "Women of the Texas Revolution," in Social Studies Texan, 2007.
  • "Hers, His, & Theirs:  Community Property Law in Spain & Early Texas."  Texas Tech University Press, 2005. Winner of the 2007 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Book Award; Presidio La Bahia Award, The Sons of the Republic of Texas.

Lonn Taylor, former curator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History:

  • "The Star-Spangled Banner: The Making of a National Icon."  Collins, 2008

William Tydeman:

  • [with Stephen Bogener]. "Llano Estacado: An Island in the Sky." Texas Tech University Press, 2011.

Kenneth L. Untiedt, Secretary-Editor of the Texas Folklore Society and teaches English at Stephen F. Austin State University:

  • Edited "Folklore: In All of Us, In All We Do."  University of North Texas Press, 2007

Charles Waite:

  • [with Sonia Hernandez]. "The Mexican American Experience in Texas: A Primary Source Reader." Kendall-Hunt Publishers, 2009

Diane Hueter Warner:

  • "Leaving Vineland," a chapter in To Everything on Earth: New Writing on Fate, Community and Nature.  Texas Tech Press, 2010

Donald W. Whisenhunt:

  • "Veterans of Future Wars: A Study in Student Activism."  Lexington Books, 2010
  • "President Herbert Hoover."  First Men, America's President's Series, Nova Science Publishers, 2007

Scott White, Special Projects Manager and Curator of Art:

  • "Viento: Wind, Turbines & Ranchland."
  • "Getting By in Hard Time: Letters from the Pitchfork Ranch." 2012

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Peter R. Rose, Frederica Wyatt and Chuck Parsons at Rose's premier presentation of his book, The Reckoning: the Triumph of Order on the Texas Outlaw Frontier. Photo by Chuck Parsons.


Clark Hitt giving his presentation at the 2011 Wichita Brazos Museum and Cultural Center meeting.

Several WTHA members presented papers at the Center for Big Bend Studies annual meeting on November 10-11, 2006.  Pictured are Ashley Pettiet-Richey, Tom Crum, Curtis Peoples, and Paul Carlson.


For those planning to submit articles to the Yearbook, the Style Sheet Presentation has been added to the website. You can view it either in PowerPoint or html format.  Also added is Dr. Carlson's presentation on Style Concerns.


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