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NONFICTION the Llano: a Texas Memoir of Place BOOK REVIEWS SHELLEY ARMITAGE. Walking sity of Oklahoma Press. Hardcover, NONFICTION the Llano: A Texas Memoir of Place. Uni- 256 pages, $29.95, OUPress.com. versity of Oklahoma Press. Hardcover, The Pecos begins in the Sangre de BOB ALEXANDER. Whiskey River 216 pages, $24.95, OUPress.com. Cristo Mountains near Santa Fe, New Ranger: The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw. Shelley Armitage sprinkles her Mexico. Its pristine waters don’t stay University of North Texas Press. Hard- memoir with history and facts on liv- that way long. In 1857, the explorer cover, 373 pages, $34.95, UNTPress. ing in the Texas Panhandle. During Edward Beale offered this observation: unt.edu. a two-year period she lost both her “A more stupid and uninteresting river The lure of the West and maybe oth- mother and a brother, and her family cannot be imagined – rapid, muddy, er reasons drew Baz Outlaw away from farm became a friend, a confidante, brackish, timberless, and hard to get his family’s beloved Georgia. With a a healer. She writes about connecting at.” The Pecos, or El Salado, flows name like Baz Outlaw, you might not with the past and a grieving spirit, and across the salty Permian Sea basin of suspect that he became a lawman. Not connecting with the land as owner and New Mexico, and is often too brack- only was he a lawman, he was also caretaker. Armitage noted at an author ish for fish. Nonetheless, settlers and one of the toughest and most effective talk that writing her memoir became developers came in droves to build Texas Rangers of the storied Frontier more “about shaping memory.” The earthen dams to irrigate crops. Some- Battalion. Superiors said that Outlaw author accurately captures, with vivid times, they succeeded, but irrigation knew not fear and was worth two or imagery, the haunting beauty of the left a salty residue, reducing fertility, three ordinary men in a tight spot. He Texas plains, sprinkled with humorous while periodic floods washed out the also served as a deputy U.S. marshal. tales of growing up in this vast place. dams. Stewardship has improved some- Unfortunately, a nasty alcohol problem The Llano Estacado stretches for what, but the river’s a wreck. Patrick made him a nightmare to supervise 37,500 square miles, and is one of the Dearen, who won a Spur in 2015 for and work with. It would lead this brave largest tablelands on the continent. his novel The Big Drift, has given us a man to his ruin during a meeting with – Natalie Bright scholarly, detailed, sobering history of Constable John Selman, the man who environmental abuse, complete with killed John Wesley Hardin. JOHN W. DAVIS. The Trial of Tom maps and captivating photographs. – Monty McCord Horn. University of Oklahoma Press. – John Mort Hardcover, 358 pages, $29.95, Warren Ball- MIKE ANDERSON. OUPress.com. GLEN SAMPLE ELY. The Texas park. Arcadia. Trade paperback, 127 The murder of a relatively unknown Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail pages, $21.99, ArcadiaPublishing.com. 14-year-old boy might not make major 1858-1861. University of Oklahoma Few baseball parks can match the headlines, but in 1901, Willie Nickell’s Press. Hardcover, 354 pages, $34.95, history of Warren Ballpark, which did. He may not have been the intended OUPress.com. opened outside of Bisbee, Arizona, in target for assassination, but the trial of A must-have for anyone interested 1909 – making it older than Alabama’s his accused killer, Tom Horn, owned in Texas or transportation history, Rickwood Field (1910). Several ex- the headlines for two years. A classic this is the story of the antebellum Chicago White Sox players, banned battle between large cattle ranchers and Texas frontier, from the Red River to after the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal, homesteaders played out in a Cheyenne El Paso. It’s also a tale of people who played in an “outlaw” league here, and courtroom, with Horn’s life in the bal- lived along that frontier and the com- the stadium – still in existence today ance. John W. Davis does a masterful munities in which they worked. From – saw players and managers like Jim job of making the trial of America’s 1858-1861, Butterfield Overland Mail Thorpe, Tris Speaker, Honus Wagner, most famous stock detective come to life. passed through northern Texas on its John McGraw and Billy Martin. The The meticulously detailed account of way from St. Louis to San Francisco. park also served as a holding pen for the trial is presented in a manner that is The Texas frontier was an area where striking copper miners during the difficult to put down. Besides Horn, here different populations connected, often infamous Bisbee Deportation of 1917. portrayed is the aggressive prosecutor clashing. This book and photos tell Mike Anderson – not to be confused Walter Stoll versus a defense team of five of forgotten hardships and dreams. with the Mike Anderson of Phillies, accomplished attorneys. Who wins? Well-documented, fascinating stories Cardinals and Bleacher Bums fame – – Monty McCord of pioneers – the people brave enough chronicles the storied ballpark in this to venture to Texas – make this book well-illustrated (it is an Arcadia book, PATRICK DEAREN. Bitter Waters: relatable to today’s lives. after all) history. The Struggles of the Pecos River. Univer- – Melody Groves OCTOBER 2016 ROUNDUP MAGAZINE 27 NATHAN A. JENNINGS. Riding areas. Colorado Springs and its visitors RON McFARLAND. Edward J. for the Lone Star: Frontier Cavalry and still profit from many of his ventures, Steptoe and the Indian Wars: Life on the Texas Way of War, 1822-1865. University but his influence spread across Colo- Frontier, 1815-1865. McFarland. Trade of North Texas Press. Hardcover, 402 rado and into the larger West. While paperback, 260 pages, $39.95, pages, $32.95, UNTPress.unt.edu. the reader comes away from this slim McFarlandPub.com. Nathan Jennings, an Army officer, volume with a good understanding of Ron McFarland grew up in Florida traces the unique military history of Penrose’s many accomplishments, one where he developed a boyhood interest Texas from Mexican colonial days does not gain much insight into the in the man who became the focus of through the Civil War, giving the leg- man himself. this book, Edward J. Steptoe. Steptoe endary Rangers a scholarly, sometimes – Rod Miller studied at West Point, served on the rather dry examination. Skirmishes frontier in the Seminole War, the Mexi- with the Tonkawas taught Stephen RICHARD LOWITT. Twentieth-Cen- can War, Utah Territory and Washing- Austin’s settlers the art of warfare on tury Oklahoma: Reflections on the Forty- ton Territory. In one engagement he horseback. Thus began the Rangers, Sixth State. University of Oklahoma led his men on a narrow escape after irregular cavalry with much the same Press. Paperback, 424 pages, $24.95, Indians surrounded them in the state brutality and endurance as the formida- OUPress.com. of Washington. Considerable research ble Comanches. To defend the South, Oklahoma politics and historical went into McFarland’s book and read- Texas mustered more cavalry than development are reflected in this collec- ers looking for facts of this historical any other state – though, as a point of tion of essays by Richard Lowitt. Envi- character and the sphere of his activity pride, almost no infantry. Texans were ronmental issues, agricultural adven- can find them in this volume. known for their “shock” charge, and tures, civil rights and the struggle of – Lynn Bueling when they closed with revolvers and the Indian peoples who were dumped Bowie knifes they could devastate an into the region by federal edict paint MARIANNE MONSON. Frontier infantry unit. But as the war continued, a less than positive picture of the Grit: The Unlikely True Stories of Daring Union cavalry, infantry and munitions territory cum state. This collection is Pioneer Women. Shadow Mountain. improved, and wild charges were cut a valuable repository of significant Hardcover, 208 pages, $19.99, down. Meanwhile, Texas was devastat- historical events that continue to shape ShadowMountain.com. ed economically, lost at least a quarter the direction the state is taking in the “Thousands of women – black, 21st Century. If you want to understand of its manpower, and had to endure white, Native American, Mexican, Oklahoma there can be no better begin- Reconstruction. The Rangers were Chinese, Polynesian, and other racial ning than reading these essays. never the same. variations – experienced the frontier.” – Vernon Schmid – John Mort Marianne Monson offers glimpses into the lives and frontier experiences of MARK WILLIAM LUSK and JENNIFER J. LAWRENCE. Soap 12 women, from Gold Rush “boomer” NICOLE LeFAVOUR. Sawtooth-White Suds Row: The Bold Lives of Army Laun- Nellie Cashman to María Amparo Cloud. Caxton. Hardcover, 128 pages, dresses, 1802-1876. High Plains. Trade Ruiz de Burton, the first Mexican- $26, CaxtonPress.com. paperback, 157 pages, $18.95, American novelist, to stagecoach driver It’s a safe bet that this book is as HighPlainsPress.com. Charley Parkhurst and even Makaopio- close as most people will ever come to A fact-filled primer on laundresses, pio, “The Spirit of Aloha.” the remote Sawtooth and White Clouds those valiant women – and even some Wilderness Areas in central Idaho. transgenders – who, from 1802 until The Fortunately, it’s as good a substitute as MICHAEL P. O’CONNOR. 1876, were the only women “paid and Wild West meets the Big Apple. Pelican. a book could possibly be. Photographer recognized” by the U.S. government. Hardcover, 204 pages, $25.95, Mark William Lusk’s rich photographs Jennifer J. Lawrence provides details of PelicanPub.com. capture the stark beauty of the high, the duties and glimpses into the lives First-time author Michael O’Connor wild mountains.
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