Have Horn, Will Travel: The Life and Music of Herman “Junior” Cook
“This book is much more than a biography. It’s a narrative journey into the life of one of our great saxophone warriors, written by a saxophonist who travels back in time to find him.”—Su Terry, author of Music and the 7 Hermetic Principles
Insurgent Politics in the Lone Star State: Remembering the Antiwar Movement in Austin, Texas, 1967-1973
“Martin J. Murray’s remarkable book is a tour de force, a juggling act, a coat of many colors. It is required reading if you want to learn about ’70s Austin activism: the Chuck Wagon riots, the battles after the Kent State shootings, the dedication of the LBJ Library, and the May Day demonstrations in 1971.”—Thorne Dreyer, a founding editor of underground papers The Rag (Austin) and Space City! (Houston)
Outer Stars
“Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum is a master storyteller, and Outer Stars is a mesmerizing, deeply felt collection about the necessity of human connection and the acceptance of those things we can’t change.” —Andrew Porter, author of The Disappeared
In the Days of Billy the Kid: The Lives and Times of José Chávez y Chávez, Juan Patrón, Martín Chávez, and Yginio Salazar
“We now have the much-needed coverage of Hispanic participation in the Billy the Kid, Lincoln County, and New Mexico story. No one previously has given us this kind of book. In the Days of Billy the Kid may be considered sui generis—one of a kind.”—Richard W. Etulain, author of Thunder in the West: The Life and Legends of Billy the Kid and Billy the Kid: A Reader’s Guide
The Bird Cage Theater: The Curtain Rises on Tombstone, Arizona's National Treasure
“This is more than a book about one theater; it is a book that touches on the history of variety theaters in the West. I have never seen anything like it.”—Casey Tefertiller, author of Wyatt Earp: The Life behind the Legend
Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author
“Robert E. Howard is worth reading whether you are a fan of Howard’s writing, wish to learn of the realities of the pulp fiction industry, or are interested in exploring life in 1920s Texas. Magnificently researched and engagingly written, it will capture readers.”-Ricochet
About the UNT Press
The University of North Texas Press was founded in 1987 and published its first book in 1989. Though we are the newest university press in North Texas (following SMU Press and TCU Press), we have quickly become a leading press with the most titles in print and published (approximately 20-25 each year). We are fully accredited members of the Association of University Presses. Our books are distributed and marketed nationally and internationally through the Texas A&M University Press Consortium.New & Forthcoming Titles
Newly Published:
TEXAS AND THE CIVIL WAR “No one has ever written a history that covers the entire story of the Texas Civil War experience. The author really shines in his fantastic presentation of original, primary-source materials, and that is why this unprecedented book will be used, and cited, for many years to come.”—Richard B. McCaslin, Texas State Historian and author of Tainted Breeze: The Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas, October 1862
TEXAS COTTON AND CONFEDERATE FINANCE “Finally! Richard McCaslin, the Texas state historian, has picked up the unfinished work of his mentor. Together they have untangled the Gordian knot that is the murky doings of the various cotton bureaus, agents, and efforts to finance the rump of the Confederacy that was hanging on west of the Mississippi. There is a renaissance of writing on Texas in the Civil War, and this work will be a crucial element.”—Donald S. Frazier, director of The Texas Center at Schreiner University and author of Blood on the Bayou: Vicksburg, Port Hudson, and the Trans-Mississippi
THE BEST AMERICAN NEWSPAPER NARRATIVES VOL. 13 This anthology collects the eight winners of the 2025 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT’s Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The event is hosted by the Frank W. and Sue Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. The conference launched the competition to honor exemplary narrative work and to encourage narrative nonfiction storytelling at newspapers across the United States.
New in paperback!
THE REEL THRILLING EVENTS OF BANK ROBBER HENRY STARR “Archuleta’s biography of Henry Starr, one of the most prolific bank robbers in the nation’s history, will transport you to a time when the Wild West of myth and reality collided”—Michael Wallis, author of Belle Starr: The Truth Behind the Wild West Legend
