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| Index by Title | Acting Egyptian, contents Gitre . 83 Against Abstraction, Books for the Trade . 4–53 Moreiras . 66 Agent of Change, Trade Backlist . 46–53 Orozco . .60 Series Announcements . 31 All New, All Different? Austin & Hamilton . 74 Books for Scholars . 54–85 America’s Most Alarming Writer, Broyles . .32 Award Winners . 70–71 Bea Nettles, Scholars Backlist . 69 Allen . 36 Beyond Market Value, Texas on Texas . 86–91 Campbell-White . 96 Tower Books . 92–97 Big Wonderful Thing, 6 Harrigan . Journals . 98–106 Biscuits, the Dole, and Nodding Donkeys, Sales Information . 107 Brown . 9. 0 Sales Representatives . 108–109 Border Citizens, Meeks . 57 Staff List . 110–111 Border Land, Border Water, Alvarez . 56 Index by Author . 111 Bowie, Hesse . 26 Caught in the Path of Guitar King, The Sky That Denied Me, Katrina, Dann . 22 Fakhreddine . .84 Picou & Nicholls . 78 Handbook of Latin American Strength Coaching Cetamura del Chianti, Studies, Vol. 73, in America, de Grummond . 76 McCann . 69 Shurley, Todd & Todd . 72 Charles White, meXicana Fashions, Students of Revolution, Roberts . 94 Hurtado & Cantú . 58 Rueda . 68 Clio’s Laws, From Road Sides by Emily Wallace Tenorio-Trillo . .64 Michael Ray Charles, Texas Seafood, Smith . 40 Stoops . 88 Comics and Pop Culture, Grant & Henderson . 5 No Way but to Fight, The Value of Aesthetics, We live in an information-rich world. As a publisher of international scope, the University of Texas Dakotah, Smith . 44 Cant . .80 Press serves the University of Texas at Austin community, the people of Texas, and knowledge seekers around Bowden . 12 Quinceañera Style, Why Lhasa de Sela Matters, the globe by identifying the most valuable and relevant information and publishing it in books, journals, and Earl Campbell, González . 61 Goodman . .30 digital media that educate students; advance scholarship in the humanities and social sciences; and deepen Price . 18 humanity’s understanding of history, current events, contemporary culture, and the natural environment. Road Sides, Wûf, Egypt’s Beer, Wallace . 14 Varol . 85 Foda . 82 Engendering Revolution, Copyright © 2019 by the University of Texas Press. All rights reserved. Elfenbein . 65 Front cover photo: Big Wonderful Thing author Stephen Harrigan The Eye of the Mammoth, unsuccessfully experimenting with a Texas identity circa 1985. The Harrigan . 11 impromptu photo session with Bill Wittliff led to Harrigan’s ironic but university of texas press persistent nickname: Bronco (photo © Bill Wittliff). The Florentine Codex, Back cover photo: Earl Campbell before his boyhood home in Tyler, Peterson . 62 Texas (Shelly Katz, Sports Illustrated/Getty Images). books for books for the trade the trade Texas “cow boy.” Courtesy of the Library of Congress. | history | “I couldn’t believe Texas was real. ...the same A tour de force by a New York Times best-selling big author and master storyteller who captures the From the book: wonderful rich history of a state that sits at the center of the thing The sTaTe has naTion-sized measurements: 268,000 square miles that oceans nation, yet defiantly stands apart in all, 827 road miles from its westernmost city, El Paso, to Beau- and the highest mountains are.” mont, near the Louisiana border. But its insistent and imposing —GEORGIA O’KEEFFE sense of itself has created a vast mythical mindscape as well. A HISTORY OF TEXAS Stephen Harrigan Because it looms large in the world’s imagination, and in fact is large, Texas has a history that is of consequence not just to itself, and not just to the nations it was once part of or the nation it Big Wonderful Thing briefly became. It sits at the core of the American experience, and A History of Texas its wars, its industries, its presidents, its catastrophes, its scien- BYE ST PHEN HARRIGAN tific discoveries have never stopped shaping the world. “I salute the Empire of Texas!” President Franklin Roosevelt The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph grandly declared when he visited the Centennial Exposition STEPHEN HARRIGAN in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and Austin, Texas war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries the week after it opened. His tongue may have been slightly in Harrigan has devoted much of his of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of his cheek, and he may have been playing to the besotted native life to exploring and explaining the United States and the destiny of the world. Texas, ever since his family crossed “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe pride of his audience. But it was not much of a stretch to call the Red River from Oklahoma in remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, 1953. He is the author of numerous the state an empire, and still isn’t. The scale of Texas has always for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest works of nonfiction and fiction, including the critically acclaimed mountains are.” been—to borrow a word invented to describe the exposition’s novels A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, Re- Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of an- architecture—Texanic. In every dimension that matters, it is a member Ben Clayton, and the New cient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. York Times best seller The Gates of Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New very big place. the Alamo. He is a longtime writer York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with for Texas Monthly and an award- “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” remembered Georgia winning screenwriter who has writ- novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who ten many movies for television. shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, O’Keeffe, who arrived in the Panhandle as a young artist and Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding teacher in 1912. Her first impression was grander than even The Texas Bookshelf artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Roosevelt’s. Her new home was not a state, not an empire, but release date | october 6∑ x 9∑ inches, 992 pages, 188 b&w Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a world. Texas, she thought, was “the same big wonderful thing photos, 10 maps a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby that oceans and the highest mountains are.” ISBN 978-0-292-75951-0 $35.00 | £27.99 | C$52.50 Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about hardcover a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, ISBN 978-1-4773-2004-4 epically sprawling story of Texas. $35.00 e-book 6 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS | FALL 2019 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS | FALL 2019 7 “Stephen Harrigan has given us a wonderful new history of Texas. It tells us all we need to know and little that we don’t need to know. A splendid effort.” —LARRY MCMURTRY “Big Wonderful Thing is history at its best—comprehensive, deeply informed, pleasurable, and filled with surprise and delight. It is at once a gift to the people of Texas and an unflinching explanation to the world at large of America’s most controversial state. The book itself is truly a big wonderful thing.” —LAWRENCE WRIGHT 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. “No one tells the story of Texas better than Stephen Harrigan. He brings to Big Wonderful Thing contemporary and thoughtful analy- sis along with the most graceful writing anywhere. Harrigan pulls no punches but uses humor and pathos to examine the complexities and contradictions that have made us who we are. Finally, Texas has the rich and honest history it deserves.” —MiMI SWARTZ “It’s rare to find a book that so compellingly weds such deep research with brilliant storytelling. A masterwork and a Texas history for the ages, destined to become a classic.” —DAN RATHER 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. “I am not sure which is the greater achievement here: digesting such a vast amount of historical data or making that gigantic wall of information fun to read. Because it certainly is the latter. I challenge the reader, in fact, to open to any page of this 829-page colossus and not have fun. It’s all interesting, and that is not hype. Harrigan tacks brilliantly through the shifting winds of Texas history by telling a series of rip-snorting good tales.” —S.C. GWYNNE Opposite page: [see p.111 for photo credits] 8 UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS | FALL 2019 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. NEW IN PAPERBACK | texas | Literature By the author of the critically acclaimed and best-selling novels The Gates of the Alamo and A Friend of Mr. Lincoln, here is the definitive, career-spanning collection of nonfiction from one of America’s leading writers, Stephen Harrigan 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. The Eye of the Mammoth New and Selected Essays BYE ST PHEN HARRIGAN Foreword by Nicholas Lemann History—natural history, human history, and personal history—and place are the cornerstones of The Eye of the Mammoth. Stephen Harrigan’s career has taken him from the Alaska Highway to the Chihuahuan Desert, from the casinos of Monaco to his ances- tors’ village in the Czech Republic. And now, in this new edition, he movingly recounts in “Off Course” a quest to learn all he can about his father, who died in a plane crash six months before he was born.

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