TBR Spring 2017

Texas Books in Review

Volume XXXVII, Number 1

Spring 2017

Editor's Note | ¡Adios Amigo! | by William Jensen

Another Year Finds Me in Texas: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Pier Stevens | edited by Vicki Adams Tongate
Review | Whistling Dixie | by Rebecca Sharpless

Blood for Ghosts: Stories | by John Hugon Perryman
Review | This House is Haunted | by Cedric Synnestvedt

Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo | by Mitchel P. Roth
Review | Jailhouse Rock | by Jessica Roseberry

Hap and Leonard: Blood and Lemonade | By Joe R. Lansdale
Review | Texas Trouble | by William Jensen

Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance: Other Sides of Civil War Texas | edited by Jesús F. de la Teja
Review | Look Away, Look Away | by Mary L. Scheer

Pigskin Rapture: Four Days in the Life of Texas Football | by Mac Engel
Review | For the Love of Texas Football | by James Wright

Plum Creek: a Novel | by W.W. McNeal
Review | Back in the Saddle Again | by Joe McDade

Texas Myths and Legends: The True Stories Behind History's Mysteries | Donna Ingham
Review | You Don't Say? | by Adam Clark

The Devil’s Sinkhole | by Bill Wittliff
Review | Gather Around the Campfire | by Lawton Cook

Vanishing Points: Poems and Photographs of Texas Roadside Memorials | edited by Sarah Cortez, photography by Dan Streck
Review | Crosses on the Highway | by Zach Groesbeck

Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi | edited by Deborah M. Liles and Angela Boswell
Review | Listen to Them Being Ghosts | by Elizabeth Turner