LINDA AAKER practiced law in Austin, Texas for eighteen years. She currently lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and young son, and is working on her second book, Staying Home. She is a frequent columnist in the Washington Post.

BECKY ADNOT-HAYNES grew up in Gainesville, Florida, and holds a PhD in English and Creative Writing from the University of Cincinnati, where she worked as an editor for The Cincinnati Review. Her stories have appeared in literary journals such as The Missouri Review, The Indiana Review, The Literary Review, West Branch, and PANK, and she was the winner of Hobart’s Buffalo Prize for short fiction. She lives in Cincinnati.

RICHARD MATHER AHLSTROM has lived in Texas since 1979. He graduated with an AB degree from Harvard University and completed the Executive Program of Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College. He is retired from Diamond Shamrock Corporation, where he was a Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He has previously written a book on prehistoric American Indian pipes. Long interested in the Civil War and Texas soldiers, Ahlstrom has amassed a personal collection of Texas Civil War artifacts.

MIKE ALBERTI’s short fiction has appeared in Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, One Story, and elsewhere. His work has been supported by fellowships and residencies including the Camargo Foundation, the James Merrill House, the Ucross Foundation, and the MacDowell Colony. He lives in Minneapolis, where he serves as the Managing Director for Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop and teaches in prisons across the state.

HANSEN ALEXANDER, an attorney for many years in New York City, was a history major at The University of Texas when he began researching and writing about Payne. He is the author of two books about Texas baseball legend Roger Clemens, One Brave Man and The Life and Trials of Roger Clemens.

RICHARD K. ALFORD was a warden at several Texas prisons and retired as the overall administrator for fifteen prison units. He lives in Huntsville.

DEAN ALGER’s writings and presentations on blues and jazz for the new Grove Dictionary of American Music and others have been widely praised. Also a public affairs consultant, he is the author of five acclaimed books on democracy, elections, and media. He lives in St. Paul where he is a singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

A native of Alabama, PAUL ALLEN teaches at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, where he founded the creative writing program and directs the annual Charleston Writers’ Conference. He has earned the John Williams Andrews Narrative Poetry Prize, a Rainmaker Award, and the South Carolina Arts Commission’s Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry (twice).

FRED H. ALLISON, a retired Marine officer and aviator, served as the US Marine Corps oral historian from 2000 to 2020. He is the editor of My Darling Boys (UNT Press) and We Were Going to Win, or Die There: With the Marines at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and Saipan by Roy H. Elrod (UNT Press). Allison earned his PhD in military history at Texas Tech University. He lives in Katy, Texas. 

BERT ALMON has taught modern literature and creative writing at the University of Alberta since 1968. He has published eight collections of poetry and a Western Writers Series monograph on Gary Snyder. He held a Mellon Fellowship at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas and a Hawthornden Fellowship in Poetry. He lives in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

MARIE BENNETT ALSMEYER served as a pharmacist’s mate in the Navy WAVES during WWII. Her previous books are The Way of the WAVES and Old WAVES Tales. She and her husband live in Tyler, Texas.

The late JOHN Q. ANDERSON taught folklore at Texas A&M University and at the University of Houston. A past president of the Texas Folklore Society, he published more than fifty articles on the folklore of Texas and the Southwest and on American literature and humor.

KENNETH ASHWORTH, was commissioner of higher education for Texas, and has also served as Vice Chancellor for The University of Texas System.

ROBERT B. ASPREY, Captain, U. S. Marine Corps (ret.), author of The Panther’s Feast, The First Battle of the Marne, Semper Fidelis, Frederick the Great: The Magnificent Enigma, War in the Shadows: The Guerrilla in History, and The German High Command at War: Hindenburg and Ludendorff Conduct World War I, and numerous magazine articles, was educated at the University of Iowa, Oxford University the University of Vienna and the University of Nice. Wounded on Iwo Jima, he also served in the Korean War as a captain.

B.W. ASTON was chairman of the History Department and director of the Rupert N. Richardson Research Center at Hardin-Simmons University.

THOMAS AUSTENFELD was born in Germany and educated at the Universities of Münster and Virginia. He is currently Professor of American Literature at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland. Austenfeld is the author of American Women Writers and the Nazis, the editor of Kay Boyle for the Twenty-First Century, and the co-editor of Writing American Women and Terrorism and Narrative Practice.

PATRICIA BALDWIN, former Editor-in-chief of Golf for Women Magazine and business writer/columnist for The Dallas Morning News, holds B.J. and M.A. degrees from the University of Texas at Austin, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education and Journalism from the University of North Texas.

GREGORY W. BALL received his Ph.D. in United States History from the University of North Texas in 2010. He served on active duty with the USAF from 1995-2006 and remains an active member of the USAF Reserve. Ball joined the United States Air Force History and Museum Program in September 2009, serving as a civilian historian at the Air National Guard History Office in Arlington, Virginia. Currently, he resides in San Antonio, Texas, and continues to work as a historian for the United States Air Force.

Zoe Ballering’s short fiction has appeared in Craft, Electric Lit, and Hobart, and her story “Double or Nothing” won the 2021 Rougarou Fabulism and Speculative Fiction Contest. Her writing is informed by her experiences working in many different worlds: as program manager for a historic tall ship, receptionist at a garbage dump, olive oil saleswoman, teacher, radio copywriter, and currently as communications coordinator for the Reed College Office of Admission. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

J. T. BARBARESE has been widely published in journals and magazines as varied as The Georgia Review and The New York Times. He is the author of two books of poems in the University of Georgia Press’ Contemporary Poets Series, and the translator of Euripides’s Children of Herakles for the University of Pennsylvania Press. His degrees are from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Temple University. He teaches at Rutgers University-Camden and lives in Philadelphia.

JOHN T. BARNETT is Graham Barnett’s grandson and lives in southern California.

WILLIAM D. BARNEY was president of the Poetry Society of Texas and a member of the Poetry Society of America. He won two Texas Institute of Letters Awards as well as the Robert Frost Memorial Award for a narrative poem, accepting the award from Frost himself in 1962. In 1982 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Texas. He published six books of poetry.

JANE GRACY BEDICHEK, a graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia School of Social Work, currently serves on the board of Scarsdale Audubon and Weinberg Nature Center and is active in the Archaeological Institute of America.

Anna Lena Phillips Bell’s poems have appeared in the Southern Review, 32 Poems, and Poetry International. The recipient of an NC Arts Council Fellowship, she teaches at UNC Wilmington and is editor of Ecotone. She lives with her family near the Cape Fear River.

JACK BELL first began collecting Civil War artillery projectiles at the age of ten with Tom Dickey. Over the years, Bell has visited almost every site where major Civil War battles were fought using heavy explosive ordnance. Bell and his wife Virginia live in Menlo Park, California, and Annapolis, Maryland.

Texas singer/songwriter VINCE BELL’s songs have been performed and recorded by such diverse talents as Little Feat, Lyle Lovett, and Nanci Griffith. In addition to releasing five critically acclaimed albums of his own, a ballet has been set to his work and his story turned into a musical. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, with his wife Sarah Wrightson.

DAN BELLER-McKENNA is a music history professor specializing in Brahms at the University of New Hampshire. In addition to many articles, he has published Brahms and the German Spirit.

STEVE BELLIN-OKA is the author of a chapbook, Dead Letter Office at North Atlantic Station and is the recipient of a Tulsa Artists Fellowship in poetry. He has taught at the University of Mississippi and Eastern New Mexico University. He lives in Tulsa with his husband.

The Dallas Morning News writers are LARRY BLEIBERG, Travel Editor, BOB BERSANO, Personal Technology Editor, TOM SIMMONS, retired Executive Editor, JEAN SIMMONS, Travel columnist, KATHRYN STRAACH, Travel writer, and BRYAN WOOLLEY, Feature writer. LEON UNRUH is News Editor of the Anchorage Daily News.

THOMAS C. BICKNELL a native Chicagoan, has been studying the life of Ben Thompson for decades. His research and articles have appeared in various periodicals including True West and Wild West.

ALEXANDER M. BIELAKOWSKI is a former U.S. Army Reserve officer and the author of From Horses to Horsepower: The Mechanization and Demise of the U.S. Cavalry, 1916–1950; African American Troops in World War II; and U.S. Cavalryman 1891–1920. He is a professor of history at the University of Houston-Downtown.

KENT BIFFLE is a long-time columnist for the Dallas Morning News. He has received awards from the Associated Press, United Press International, the Society of Professional Journalists, Sigma Delta Chi, and the Southwest Journalists Forum. He is a Distinguished Alumnus of East Texas State University.

ASHLEY BLACKBURN is an associate dean and professor of criminal justice at the University of Houston–Downtown and coauthor of Teaching Introduction to Corrections.

ALICE BLANCHARD has received a PEN Syndicated Fiction Award, a New Letters Literary Award and a Centrum Artists in Residence Fellowship. Her fiction has appeared in literary journals throughout the country and has been broadcast on National Public Radio. She and her husband live in Hollywood, where they write screenplays.

The Dallas Morning News writers are LARRY BLEIBERG, Travel Editor, BOB BERSANO, Personal Technology Editor, TOM SIMMONS, retired Executive Editor, JEAN SIMMONS, Travel columnist, KATHRYN STRAACH, Travel writer, and BRYAN WOOLLEY, Feature writer. LEON UNRUH is News Editor of the Anchorage Daily News.

DIANA R. BLOCK is director of the University Art Gallery at the University of North Texas. She previously edited Charles T. Williams Retropective, with Friends.

NANCY BOGEN is a CUNY professor emeritus and head of The Lark Ascending, a New York-based performance group. Her writing credits include three novels of ideas: Klytaimnestra Who Stayed at Home, Bobe Mayse: A Tale of Washington Square, and Bagatelle*Guinevere by Felice Rothman. She is married and lives in New York City.

Born and educated in Canada, LORRAINE G. BONNEY married Houston attorney Orrin H. Bonney. Together they co-authored books on the Grand Tetons and Wyoming climbing. Since Orrin’s death, Lorraine has completed The Grand Controversy: History of Climbing in the Tetons to 1934, and Wyoming Mountain Ranges. She divides her time between Kelly, Wyoming, and Conroe, Texas, deep in the Big Thicket.

ANGELA BOSWELL is professor of history at Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, and the author of Her Act and Deed: Women’s Lives in a Rural Southern County, 1837-1873, which won the TSHA Liz Carpenter Award.

STEPHEN A. BOURQUE is a Professor Emeritus at the US Army Command and General Staff College. He retired from the U.S. Army in 1992 after twenty years of enlisted and commissioned service, with duty stations in the United States, Germany, and the Middle East. After earning a Ph.D. at Georgia State University, Dr. Bourque has taught American and European history at several colleges and universities, including Georgia State University, California State University-Northridge, and the University of Kansas. He lives in Columbia, Missouri, with his wife, Debra.

JERRY BRADLEY was born in Jacksboro, Texas, raised in Mineral Wells, and received a Ph.D. at Texas Christian University. He is head of the English Department at West Texas A&M University at Canyon. He is the author of three other books, and winner of the 1996 Boswell Poetry Prize and the 1997 Panhandle Professional Writers poetry contest.

JAY F. BRAKEFIELD is a longtime Texas journalist, currently working at the Dallas Morning News and doing freelance writing. He lives in Irving.

JANICE H. BRAZIL is a widely published poet with involvements in Girl Scouts, Amnesty International, and hospice in Massachusetts, Illinois, and Texas. She resides in San Antonio, Texas.

CAROLYN GLENN BREWER is a longtime music educator who has written for Jam Magazine and published two books on the 1957 tornado in Ruskin Heights, Missouri. She has played clarinet in bands, chamber groups, and orchestras throughout the Kansas City area. She lives in Kansas City.

DONALY E. BRICE was Senior Research Assistant at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and is the author of The Great Comanche Raid and coauthor of Texas Ranger N. O. Reynolds and The Governor’s Hounds. He lives in Lockhart, Texas.

NORMAN WAYNE BROWN is retired from the U.S. Air Force and was a former Texas State Parole Officer. He has written two books and articles.

PETER BROWN was born in Houston, raised in Staten Island, and educated in Missoula. He’s lived in Florida, Colorado, Seattle, and Manhattan and now lives in the Boston area. He works as an IT manager for the Harvard University Economics Department. Along with his fiction, he has published translations from Spanish and French and has received support from the PEN America Center and the French Embassy for his work as a translator. The Massachusetts Cultural Council awarded him an artist’s grant in 2006 for his fiction. He also helps edit the journal Salamander.

Best known as a Southwest artist, JOHN GAITHA BROWNING studied under Harry Anthony DeYoung in San Antonio and in Taos at the Joseph H. Sharp Studio.

After a long and distinguished career in music, ANSHEL BRUSILOW retired from conducting the Richardson Symphony and lives in Dallas.

WILLIAM BUCK is senior curator at the New York Botanical Garden and author or editor of numerous publications on bryophytes.

POLLY BUCKINGHAM teaches at Eastern Washington University. She is founding editor of StringTown Press and Associate Director of EWU’s Willow Springs Books. Author of A Year of Silence (Jeanne Leiby Memorial Chapbook Award 2014), her poetry and short stories have appeared in The Gettysburg Review, Threepenny Review, and elsewhere. She lives in Spokane.

JOHN BUCKLEY is a Professor of Military History at the University of Wolverhampton.

JOHN W. BURDAN III is a retired Army Officer living with his wife Bridget in Colorado Springs, Colorado. A West Point graduate, Burdan was commissioned as an armor officer in 1977. He served with the 1st Infantry Division in the Gulf from May 1989 to June 1992, receiving the Bronze Star and Bronze Star with V device for his service during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

GEORGIANNE BURLAGE, daughter of George Burlage, is a fifth-generation Texan and teacher of secondary history and journalism for more than thirty years. She is a national officer of the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor Memorial Society, and lives in Denton, Texas.

DAN E. BURNS, Ph.D., graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1979 and taught English at Southern Methodist University, University of Texas at Arlington, and University of Phoenix, publishing in numerous scholarly journals. In 1990 his third child, Benjamin, was diagnosed with autism. Dan helped organize a Dallas chapter of FEAT, a support group for parents, and pioneered educational and medical interventions. In 2006, Dan and his former wife Susan joined forces to implement the new biomedical treatments coming out of the Defeat Autism Now! movement, including Applied Behavioral Analysis, sensory integration, megavitamin therapy, and detoxification. Dan and Ben live in Dallas, Texas.

JEFFREY BURTON, an honors graduate of London University, is an independent scholar living in England. He is a vice president of the English Westerners’ Society and the author of Bureaucracy, Blood Money, and Black Jack’s Gang; Indian Territory and the United States, 1866-1906; Constable Dodge and the Pantano Train Robbers; and Western Story.

MARK BUSBY is Director of the Center for the Study of the Southwest and Professor of English at Southwest Texas State University. He is the author of books on Ralph Ellison, Lanford Wilson and Preston Jones; the editor of New Growth/2; the co-editor of The Frontier Experience and the American Dream and the journal Southwestern American Literature; a contributing editor of Taking Stock: A Larry McMurtry Casebook.

GAIL CAPUTO holds a Ph.D. in criminal justice from Rutgers University. She has worked as a senior research associate at the Vera Institute of Justice in New York, and currently teaches at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey.

Georgia Kemp Caraway (Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration) was executive director of the Denton County Museums for fourteen years. She writes a monthly column on antiques for the Denton Record-Chronicle and has appeared on Antiques Roadshow® as a generalist expert. When she is not teaching her popular classes on antiques and collectibles, she lives in a house full of antiques in Denton, Texas.

ALFREDO E. CÁRDENAS, a former mayor for eight years of San Diego, the Duval County seat, is retired as editor of the South Texas Catholic (2010–2017) and editor/publisher of the Duval County Picture (1987– 1999). He is the author of Balo’s War, a historical novel on the Plan of San Diego.

RODNEY P. CARLISLE is Vice President of History Associates Incorporated, a historical services firm in Rockville, Maryland, and professor of history at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey. He is the author of numerous books, including Brandy, Our Man in Acapulco, published by the University of North Texas Press.

KYLE B. CARPENTER is the associate vice chancellor of academic affairs at the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain in Mena, Arkansas. He has written articles for Southwestern Historical Quarterly and the Journal of South Texas.

RICHARD CARR grew up in Blue Earth, Minnesota, and lives in Minneapolis. His careers have alternated between the computer industry and academia, and for several years he managed Fitzpatrick’s Tavern in Toledo, Ohio. His poems have been published in Painted Bride Quarterly, Poetry East, The Comstock Review, and The North Stone Review.

JAMES CARSON, who is Henry Lazelle’s great-grandson, has more than thirty years of experience as a military intelligence analyst, manager, and educator. He received his MA in International Studies from George Washington University and is a graduate of the Army Command and Staff College. He lives in Vienna, Virginia.

BETTY CASEY, formerly a ballroom dancing instructor, saw her first square dancing at the Cowboys’ Christmas Ball in Anson, Texas. She got the bug while researching the dance so her Girl Scout troop could earn a folk dance badge.

MATT CASHION was born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, and grew up in Brunswick and St. Simons Island, Georgia. He earned an MFA at the University of Oregon and now teaches at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse. He is the author of two novels, How the Sun Shines on Noise and Our 13^th^ Divorce. He lives in La Crosse, Wisconsin. www.mattcashion.com

MEAGAN CASS is the author of the chapbook Range of Motion. Her stories have appeared in DIAGRAM, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Pinch, Puerto del Sol, and PANK, among other places. She received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and her MFA in fiction from Sarah Lawrence College. An assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois Springfield, she co-curates the Shelterbelt Reading Series and serves as an assistant editor for Sundress Publications. She lives in St. Louis.

LINDA HEIDENREICH is associate professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman, and the author of “This Land Was Mexican Once”: Histories of Resistance from Northern California.

ROBERT H. CHAIRS is an assistant professor of criminal justice at the University of Nevada-Reno. He is the author and coauthor of numerous articles on minority and civil rights issues in criminal justice.

SRIPATI CHANDRASEKHAR, an internationally renowned demographer and family planning specialist, designed India’s population policy and was in charge of organizing the world’s largest official family planning program during the time he was Minister of Health and Family Planning for Madam Indira Gandhi’s administration. Dr. Chandrasekhar received his training from the Madras Presidency College, the University of Madras, Columbia and New York Universities, and the London School of Economics. Formerly Vice-Chancellor and President of Annamalai University in India, he recently served as Visiting Distinguished Professor of Demography.

DON CHAPUT is the author of Virgil Earp: Western Peace Officer; The Earp Papers: In a Brother’s Image; and co-author of Cochise County Stalwarts: A Who’s Who of the Territorial Years. He lives in Pasadena, California.

BRADLEY CHILTON is an associate professor of criminal justice at the University of North Texas. He is the author of Prisons under the Gavel: The Federal Court Takeover of Georgia Prisons.

DONALD E. CHIPMAN is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of North Texas and author of Spanish Texas, 1519–1821.

MARGARET CHRISTENSEN, M.D., a board certified obstetrician-gynecologist, currently runs the Christensen Center for Whole Life Health, a holistic outpatient functional medicine practice. In her first practice, Renaissance Women’s Health Associates, for ten years she created a collaborative, hospital based Ob-Gyn model with Certified Nurse Midwives, as well as served as medical back-up for a CNM-owned, out-of-hospital birth center. She is the mother of four children, all born drug-free.

CALVIN L. CHRISTMAN, professor of history at Cedar Valley College, edited America at War and has authored numerous articles and essays on military history.

WILLIAM H. CLAMURRO is professor emeritus of Spanish at Emporia State University in Kansas. He is the author of three books of literary criticism on Cervantes and Quevedo and three books of poetry, including The Vietnam Typescript.

AMY M. CLARK grew up in San Luis Obispo, California. She is a graduate of Carleton College, and holds degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno, and Spalding University’s MFA Program. She works as an editor and divides her time between Concord, Massachusetts, and San Diego, California. Her poems have been published in The Cincinnati Review, Cream City Review, and 32 Poems.

LAWRENCE CLAYTON was a professor of English and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Hardin-Simmons University. He published broadly on the life and literature of the American West.

A fifth-generation Texan, daughter of pioneer ranchers and teachers, CEIL CLEVELAND has taught at several universities, and currently serves as Vice President for University Affairs of the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She lives on the North Shore of Long Island with her husband.

MIKE COCHRAN, a former Denton city councilmember, served as chair of Denton’s Historic Landmark Commission and president of the Historical Society of Denton County, and continues to maintain the website dentonhistory.net. Cochran has written a catalog of O’Neil Ford’s Denton works. He resides in Denton, Texas.

JAMES L. COFFEY is a former education consultant who worked with school districts in West Texas and lives in San Angelo, Texas.

DAVID COLLINS taught English for forty years at Westminster College in Missouri. He has had unrestricted access to all materials related to the story of Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, including legal communications and documents, and conducted extensive interviews with Mark and Vic and others involved in the case. He lives in Pineville, North Carolina.

LAWRENCE D. COLLINS, M.D., served in the Baylor Medical Unit from 1942-1945, after which he went into practice with his brother in Waco. In 1982 he retired from medical practice and lived in Waco with his wife Margaret.

WINIFRED QUICK COLLINS was in the first group of women trained for Navy service as commissioned officers. As Chief of Naval Personnel for women, she retired in 1962 at the rank of captain, the highest rank a woman could then hold. She currently lives in Washington, D.C.

At age 39, KALENA COOK gave birth naturally to a healthy 8 lb., 4 oz. boy with the help of a midwife. The positive and life-changing event inspired her to write about the latest evidence-based research and seek compelling stories from more than fifty interviews with women, doctors, midwives, hospitals, and birth centers. She encourages healthy women to become informed and guides them as a sought-after “Birth Mentor.” Kalena owned an award-winning communications company for fifteen years and has a MFA in Advertising Design.

LEE COOK is the author of The Skull and Crossbones Squadron: VF-17 in World War II; Fighting 17: A Photographic History of VF-17 in World War II; and The Aces of Fighting 17: VF-17’s Top Guns in World War II. He lives in Norfolk, England, with his wife Michele.

After 20 years as a newspaper writer (Dallas Morning News, Austin American Statesman) MICHAEL CORCORAN retired in 2011 to concentrate on Texas music history research and writing. His book/CD on gospel pioneer Arizona Dranes, He Is My Story, was nominated for a Grammy as best historical album. In 2016, his prime research for “Washington Phillips and His Manzarene Dreams” (Dust-to-Digital) was lauded by CNN, the New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books, among others.

DANIEL VARACALLI COSTAS has worked as a journalist and music critic. At Teatro Colón he was the Head of Publications and is currently Lecturer on Music History. The author of four books, he is a frequent collaborator in magazines and programs. Both authors live in Buenos Aires.

LEIGH ANN COUCH’s Houses Fly Away was published by Zone 3 Press in 2007. Her poems have been published in magazines including PANK, Pleiades, Gulf Coast, Subtropic, Smartish Pace, and Cincinnati Review, and featured in Verse Daily and the collection The Echoing Green (Penguin). She lives in Sewanee, Tennessee, with writer Kevin Wilson and their sons.

JAMES J. COZINE, Jr., received his doctorate from Texas A&M University in 1976. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force and, since 1983, the director of Educational Talent Search at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

ROY CRAIG attended Fort Lewis College, Colorado State University, University of Colorado, and California Institute of Technology before receiving a PhD in physical chemistry from Iowa State University. He served in the U.S. Army during WWII. After retiring from the professions of manufacturing nuclear weapons, teaching physical science at the university level, and technical and environmental consulting, he raised llamas on the historic LaBoca Ranch in his home state.

TAMMY CROMER-CAMPBELL is a photographer based in Longview, Texas, whose photographs have been featured in Foto Mundo, CameraArts, and on CNN.

LIGHT TOWNSEND CUMMINS is the Guy M. Bryan, Jr. Professor of History at Austin College and the author of Emily Austin of Texas, Spanish Observers and the American Revolution, and co-editor of Discovering Texas History.

LYNN MARIE CUNY is the author of Through Animals’ Eyes: True Stories from a Wildlife Sanctuary from UNT Press. She is a native of San Antonio.

SUSAN L. McHARGUE DADRES is Senior Lecturer in Economics at University of North Texas. MONA S. HERSH-COCHRAN is Emerita Professor at Texas Woman’s University. DAVID J. MOLINA is Associate Professor of Economics at University of North Texas.

WILLIAM J. DAUGHERTY was with the CIA and then a professor at Armstrong State University (now Georgia Southern University–Armstrong Campus). He spent eight years in Marine Corps aviation and served in Vietnam. Daugherty is the author of In the Shadow of the Ayatollah and Executive Secrets: Covert Action and the Presidency. He lives in Savannah, Georgia.

DONNA S. DAVENPORT is associate professor of counseling psychology at Texas A&M University and has a private practice. She is the author of a widely used textbook, An Introduction to Psychotherapy: Common Clinical Wisdom. She lives in Bryan, Texas.

JAMES M. DAVIS is a retired businessman who lives in Midland, Texas, with his wife of over six decades, Jean. He served on active duty in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and then in the Air Force reserves until 1961.

KENNETH DAVIS is professor of English at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

ROD DAVIS is an award-winning journalist and magazine editor who has taught writing at the University of Texas at Austin and Southern Methodist University in Dallas. A fifth-generation Texan, he has lived most of his life in Texas and the South, currently residing in Birmingham, Alabama.

SEBASTIANO DE FILIPPI is currently Music Director of the National Congress Chamber Orchestra in Buenos Aires. He is the author of four books.

DAVID D. DE HAAS, MD currently practices emergency medicine in Orange County, California. He has published many medical and Wild West-related articles. He resides in San Juan Capistrano, California.

ROBERT K. DeARMENT is a longtime member of the Western Writers of America and the Wild West History Association (formerly NOLA and WOLA). He is the author of numerous books, including Bat Masterson, George Scarborough, and Alias Frank Canton. He lives in Sylvania, Ohio.

JACK DeMATTOS is the author of seven books on western gunfighters, including The Notorious Luke Short co-authored with Chuck Parsons. He lives in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.

JOHN MARK DEMPSEY is assistant professor of journalism at the University of North Texas. The Greenville, Texas, native has a background in the newspaper, public relations and radio broadcasting fields, and continues to work in radio as a news announcer for the Texas State Network. He lives with his family in Denton, Texas.

MATT DIETZ is a Colonel in the US Air Force and head of the history department at the US Air Force Academy. He holds a PhD from the University of North Texas in the history of air power, military theory, and strategic thought. As an Air Force F-15E instructor pilot he logged more than 2,500 flight hours during his career, deployed in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom, served as a NATO planner for Operation Unified Protector, and was the Director of Operations for US Air Forces Central Command. Matt lives in Colorado with his wife and two sons.

ROBERT J. DILLARD received his PhD in political science from Texas Tech University and MA in history from Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. He now serves as an associate professor of political science at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi.

RICHARD DOHERTY is a Dallas-based photographer who has lived in the city for over forty years. A graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, he taught photography at Louisiana State University and Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, where he is currently professor emeritus. Doherty’s photographs are held in esteemed museum and private collections worldwide and have been exhibited internationally.

MICHAEL DOLSKI is a historian with the U.S. Joint Prisoner of War—Missing in Action Accounting Command’s Central Identification Laboratory.

KRISTINA DOWNS is the executive director of the Texas Folklore Society and assistant professor of English at Tarleton State University. She is coeditor of Advancing Folkloristics.

MICHAEL DOYLE is a reporter for E&E News and teaches advanced and introductory reporting at the George Washington University. He is the author of The Ministers’ War, Radical Chapters, and The Forestport Breaks.

RUSSELL M. DRAKE is a newspaper man who worked in Texas and California and lives in Veribest, Texas.

CHRIS DUBBS is the author of An Unladylike Profession: American Women War Correspondents in World War I and American Journalists in the Great War, as well as co-editor of The AEF in Print: An Anthology of American Journalism in World War I (UNT Press). He lives in Edinboro, Pennsylvania.

DOUG DUKES, a native Texan, retired after a lengthy law enforcement career with the Austin Police Department. He has written articles for Wild West History Association Journal, Wild West, and True West magazines, and also the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum’s online chronicle, The Texas Ranger Dispatch. He lives near Liberty Hill, Texas.

HARRY LEON MCBETH, who wrote the foreword, is Distinguished Professor of Baptist History at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.

TED EASTERLING served as a U.S. Marine in the Vietnam War. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Akron, where he taught history. He lives in Munroe Falls, Ohio, with his wife Mary.

LESLIE H. EDGERTON, author of The Death of Tarpons, lives in Ft. Wayne, Indiana. In 1993, he was declared “one of Indiana’s Best Writers” by Arts Indiana.

FRED EDWARDS, who was a captain and a major when he wrote the journal, culminated a thirty-year Marine Corps career as a lieutenant colonel. After the events narrated in this book, he returned to Vietnam in 1973 before retiring from the Marines in 1979.

SAM EDWARDS is a Lecturer in American History at Manchester Metropolitan University.

EMMA WILSON EMERY writes with sensitivity and humor of a childhood spent in the Big Thicket piney woods with many interesting relatives. She later lived in Nacogdoches and worked there at her first job as typesetter for the Daily Plaindealer. She graduated from nursing school in 1911 at Shreveport and later became poet laureate of Louisiana.

HOLLY EVERETT lived in Texas for twenty-eight years before moving to Newfoundland, Canada, where she is assistant professor at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her work on roadside crosses, commitment rings, and classical music radio has been published in scholarly journals and conference proceedings.

CAROLYN EDY is the author of The Woman Correspondent, the U.S. Military, and the Press, 1846–1947, which was a finalist for the American Journalism Historians Association’s Best Journalism History Book award in 2018. She lives in Boone, North Carolina, where she is an associate professor of journalism at Appalachian State University.

TERRANCE FURGERSON is a professor of history at Collin College, near Dallas, Texas. He holds a doctorate from the University of North Texas, with a concentration in American military history. While pursuing his graduate studies he became aware of the Texas operations of North American Aviation, initiating research into the creation and operation of this unheralded factory.

KATHY FAGAN, author of the National Poetry Series selection The Raft, currently teaches in the MFA Program at Ohio State University, where she also co-edits The Journal. Her work has appeared in The Southwest Review, The Denver Quarterly, The New Virginia Review, Nebraska Review, The Antioch Review, The New Republic and The Kenyon Review among many others. She has received the Pushcart Prize for Poetry, Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry, and Editors’ Prize for Poetry in The Missouri Review.

TOM FAULKNER piloted a B-24 bomber in World War II as part of the 15th Air Force and received the Distinguished Flying Cross. He lives in Dallas, Texas. DAVID L. SNEAD is a professor of history at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, and the editor of In Hostile Skies: An American B-24 Pilot in World War II (UNT Press).

GIBSON FAY-LeBLANC’s poems have appeared in magazines including Guernica, The New Republic, and Poetry Northwest. In 2011 he was named one of Maine’s “emerging leaders” by the Portland Press Herald and MaineToday Media for his work directing The Telling Room, where he still occasionally teaches writing. He lives with his family in Portland, Maine.

GLORIA FELDT, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America since 1996, has served the organization for almost thirty years. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including America’s Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers, awarded by Vanity Fair in

KAREN FISER earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Virginia, an M.F.A. from Mills College, and a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford. After a first career as a philosophy professor, she began writing poems during the onset of a struggle with illness and disability. Her poems have appeared in seven anthologies and many journals. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

RON FORBES-ROBERTS is an award-winning journalist and a contributing editor to Acoustic Guitar Magazine. He is a career musician with a degree in classical guitar and lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

KEVIN S. FOSTER was a Fort Worth police officer for 29 years and a sergeant for more than 22 years. After retiring from the Fort Worth Police Department, he has become a police officer for Texas Christian University. He coauthored with Richard Selcer Written in Blood Volume 1. A founding member of the Fort Worth Police Historical Association, he is also the research director and chairman of the Fort Worth Police and Firefighters Memorial committee. He lives in Weatherford, Texas.

CHARLES FRANCIS cofounded in 2011 a repurposed Mattachine Society of Washington, DC, a history society with an edge to advocate for full LGBTQ civil equality. He is a retired public affairs consultant who has worked for the largest public affairs firms and their corporate clients worldwide. He and his family live in Washington, DC, and Homer, Alaska.

JERÉ BISHOP FRANCO lived several years in Phoenix, Arizona. As an undergraduate and a counselor with the University of Texas at El Paso Upward Bound Program, she traveled to New Mexico and visited pueblo villages, reviving her interest in native cultures. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona and has taught as a part-time lecturer at the El Paso Community College and raised four children. She lives with her husband and youngest son in El Paso, Texas.

ERIC J. FRITSCH is a professor of criminal justice at the University of North Texas and coauthor of Juvenile Justice.

KAREN FRITZ teaches history at Victoria College. Her degrees are from Skidmore College, the University of Virginia and Louisiana State University.

The late FRANK FUJITA was called back to active duty as a reservist during the Korean War. He then resumed civilian life and eventually carved out a career as an illustrator for the Air Force. He appeared on television on C-Span, was filmed at the Admiral Nimitz Museum, and was one of two prisoners of war interviewed by Ted Koppel on Nightline as part of the debate concerning the dropping of the atomic bomb. He was also interviewed as a former POW on the History Channel.

ALAN D. GAFF is an independent scholar and President of Historical Investigations. His previous books include Bayonets in the Wilderness, Blood in the Argonne, and On Many a Bloody Field.

DONALD H. GAFF is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Northern Iowa, and co-editor with Alan D. Gaff of A Corporal’s Story: Civil War Recollections of the Twelfth Massachusetts.

STEPHEN GAMBLE and WILLIAM LYNCH are both independent researchers who have been fascinated with Dennis Brain for decades. Lynch, an amateur horn player himself, is a semi-retired aerospace corporation executive with four U.S. patents to his name. Stephen Gamble is a British artist who started playing the horn in 2003.

JEFFREY MARCOS GARCÍLAZO received his doctorate from the University of California at Santa Barbara and was assistant professor at the University of California, Irvine.

DANIEL J. GELO is dean and professor of anthropology emeritus at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

DAVID GELSANLITER served as a diplomat in South America, West Africa and Washington, D.C. After eleven years with Knight-Ridder newspapers in Charlotte, Miami, and Philadelphia, he became general manager of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News. Now a writer living in New Mexico, his previous book was Jump Start: Japan Comes to the Heartland.

GEORGE GETSCHOW teaches in the University of North Texas’s Mayborn School of Journalism and is the writer-in-residence for the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. He was a reporter at the Wall Street Journal bureau in Chicago and also chief of the Dallas and Houston bureaus. Getschow was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

MORGAN GIERINGER is head of Special Collections at the UNT Libraries.

KEVIN P. GILHEANY is a retired U.S. Coast Guard chief warrant officer, professional speaker, consultant, and founder of the U.S. Coast Guard Pipe Band. He is a recipient of the U.S. Coast Guard Public Service Commendation.

JAMES T. GILLAM is professor of history at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. He holds a doctorate in Chinese history from The Ohio State University and has served as editor of the Southeastern Review of Asian Studies. Gillam has published numerous essays for scholarly journals and has contributed expert commentary on two documentaries produced by The History Channel called “Passages,” concerning tunnel warfare in Vietnam, and another on the tomb of the first Emperor of China.

The late EVERETT GILLIS was professor emeritus and former chairman of the English Department at Texas Tech.

JAMES M. GILLISPIE earned a Ph.D. in American History from the University of Mississippi. He has published articles and numerous reviews on Civil War prison scholarship and has spoken at the Museum of the Confederacy on the era’s military prisons. Gillispie is Dean of Languages, Arts, and Social Sciences at the Manassas Campus of Northern Virginia Community College. He lives in Stephens City, Virginia.

BERNARD GOFFINET is professor of biology at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, and editor-in-chief of the journal The Bryologist.

RICHARD J. GONZALES wrote for six years about Chicanos as a Fort Worth Star-Telegram weekly guest columnist. He has published short stories in The Americas Review, a Hispanic literary journal of the University of Houston, and has worked in, observed, and researched the Chicano community from the 1970s to the present.

GILBERT G. GONZALEZ is professor emeritus in the Chicano Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of numerous publications, including Guest Workers or Colonized Labor?, Mexican Consuls and Labor Organizing, Labor and Community, and Culture of Empire. Gonzalez co-directed and produced the award-winning documentary The Harvest of Loneliness.

RAY GONZALEZ is poetry editor of Bloomsbury Review and a member of Texas Institute of Letters. He has written two books of poetry, a book of essays, and has edited ten anthologies of contemporary literature.

BARRY GOODSON served in the Marine Corps in Vietnam from 1968-1969 near ChuLai, Vietnam. His primary service was as an Assistant Squad Leader in his CAP unit. Other duties included machine gunner and squad leader of Alpha guns/Alpha Company. He received a Naval Achievement Medal with Valor and a Purple Heart.

BARRY GOODSON is the author of CAP Môt, the story of his Marine service in Vietnam (UNT Press) and professor of criminal justice and homeland security with Columbia Southern University.

ALAN GOVENAR is president of Documentary Arts, a nonprofit organization dedicated to broadening public knowledge of multicultural, multimedia arts. He has a B.A. in American Folklore from Ohio State University, an M.A. in Folklore and Anthropology from the University of Texas as Austin, and a Ph.D. in Arts and Humanities from the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the author of ten books and lives in Dallas.

JOE S. GRAHAM was a professor of Anthropology and Folklore at Texas A&M University, Kingsville and worked under Don Americo Paredes in Mexican-American folklore at the University of Texas. He was born and grew up on ranches in the Big Bend country of West Texas.

MICHAEL GRAUER is the Associate Director for Curatorial Affairs/Curator of Art of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, which holds the largest public collection of Reaugh’s works. His articles on Reaugh have appeared in the American Art Review, The Pastel Journal, and the recently released Windows on the West: The Art of Frank Reaugh, companion to the Harry Ransom Center’s current exhibit. He lives in Canyon, Texas.

KATHY GREENWOOD, in addition to having grown up on the Heart-Diamond, is a former World Champion American Junior Rodeo Association All-Around Cowgirl, and holds a Ph.D. in English.

CHUCK GROSS was an Army helicopter pilot in the Vietnam War from May 1970 through May 1971. He logged more than 1,200 hours of combat flying and achieved Senior Aircraft Commander status. After the war he became a commercial pilot and recently retired from American Airlines as a 767/757 Captain. Gross is also an instructor in the martial arts and has published a self-defense video course. He lives in Gallatin, Tennessee.

Raised in Maine, MEGAN GRUMBLING lives in Portland. Her honors include the Ruth Lilly Fellowship, the Robert Frost Foundation Award, and the Hawthornden Fellowship. She teaches at Southern Maine Community College and the University of New England.

JACK GUERRY holds the rank of Alumni Professor of Music (Piano), one of the distinguished professorships at Louisiana State University. His B.M. and M.M. degrees in piano are from the University of North Texas where he was a scholarship student of Silvio Scionti as well as his assistant. He was granted the Ph.D. in music from Michigan State University.

PETE A. Y. GUNTER, Regents Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas, is a past president of the Big Thicket Association and has spent much of his time in conservationist activities concerning the Big Thicket. He is the author of numerous articles and books, both fiction and nonfiction.

NORMANT HACKERMAN is President Emeritus and Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Rice University, and Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the University of Texas at Austin.

JAMES L. HALEY is the author of two dozen books, including the biography Sam Houston (University of Oklahoma Press, 2002) and The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History 1836-1986 (University of Texas Press, 2013). He also writes historical fiction, most recently the Bliven Putnam Naval Adventures for G. P. Putnam’s Sons (2016-2021). He lives in Austin, Texas.

BARBARA HAMBY was born in New Orleans and was raised in Hawai’i. She is a poet, fiction writer, editor, and critic. Her poems have appeared in The Iowa Review, The Paris Review, Western Humanities Review, and Negative Capability. She lives in Tallahassee, Florida.

CRAIG HANLEY is a graduate of Harvard University. His writing appears in D Magazine.

ANNE HARDIN is the former editor of the International Trumpet Guild Journal. Both Haynie and Hardin are recipients of the ITG Award of Merit.

ROBERT EARL HARDY has been a professional writer and editor with an interest in contemporary music for twenty-five years. Also a musician, he has played guitar in rock’n’roll, rhythm and blues, and honky-tonk bands in the Washington, D.C., area since the 1970s. He is currently researching the cultural history of 1960s and ’70s garage bands. He lives in Laurel, Maryland.

R. SCOTT HARNSBERGER was formerly an associate professor and government documents librarian (now retired) at the Newton Gresham Library, Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas.

WILLIAM T. HARPER spent fourteen years with the Philadelphia Inquirer as reporter, writer, and editor. He has written numerous articles for American Heritage and Focus. For this story he utilized eighty-eight real-time audio tapes of negotiations and interviewed many of the surviving participants. He lives in Bryan, Texas.

ANDREW B. HARRIS, professor in the Department of Dance and Theatre at the University of North Texas, is the author of the award-winning Broadway Theatre and a stage director, playwright, and producer. He has chaired theatre departments at Columbia University, Texas Christian University, and Southern Methodist University, where he met William and Jean Eckart. He lives in McKinney, Texas.

Born in Dallas, JIM HARRIS has taught in colleges in Texas, Louisiana and New Mexico. He has published poetry, fiction and essays and has been a newspaper columnist for five years. Named a New Mexico Eminent Scholar, he teaches at New Mexico Junior College in Hobbs, New Mexico.

KENNETH W. HART holds graduate degrees from Union Theological Seminary and The University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music. He has conducted award-winning choirs and university choirs around the globe. For 18 years he was Director of Sacred Music at Southern Methodist University, where he became a lifelong friend of Lloyd Pfautsch.

JEANINE HATHAWAY entered the Dominican order in 1963. After nine years she left the convent, received an MFA from Bowling Green State University, married, and had a daughter. She has been teaching literature and writing at Wichita State University in Kansas since 1974. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies.

SULIMAN HAWAMDEH is a Regents Professor in the Department of Information Science, University of North Texas. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Information and Knowledge Management and the editor of the book series Innovation of Knowledge Management.

JOHN JAMES HAYNIE was hired in 1950 by then-North Texas State College to teach trumpet, and he retired from the University of North Texas in 1990. During his career at North Texas, he taught some of its most successful musician graduates, including Marvin Stamm and Keith Johnson.

MICHAEL V. HAZEL is a native Dallasite and fifth-generation Texan. He has been an adjunct professor in history at both Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas. Hazel has served as interim director of both the Dallas Historical Society and the Dallas County Heritage Society. Since 1989 he has edited a semiannual regional history journal, Legacies, focusing on Dallas and North Central Texas. He is the author of Dallas: A History of Big D and Dallas: A Dynamic Century, as well as editor of Dallas Reconsidered and Stanley Marcus from A to Z, the latter published by the University of North Texas Press.

BEN HEGI earned a B.A. (History/English) from Texas A&M University and M.A. (History) from the University of North Texas.

LINDA HEIDENREICH is associate professor of Critical Culture, Gender, and Race Studies at Washington State University, Pullman, and the author of “This Land Was Mexican Once”: Histories of Resistance from Northern California.

KURT HEIDINGER is director of the Biocitizen School of Field Environmental Philosophy.

PEGGY HEINKEL-WOLFE received a master’s degree in journalism from the University of North Texas. She was among the first members of Families for Early Autism Treatment (FEAT) in California. Following the death of an autistic teenager shot by a police officer, Heinkel-Wolfe helped researchers at the University of North Texas find funding for autism research, including a grant for a police training program now used by police departments across the nation. She lives in Argyle, Texas, with her son, Sam, and her two other children, Michael and Paige.

KENDALL P. COCHRAN served as Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of North Texas. SUSAN L. McHARGUE DADRES is Senior Lecturer in Economics at University of North Texas. MONA S. HERSH-COCHRAN is Emerita Professor at Texas Woman’s University. DAVID J. MOLINA is Associate Professor of Economics at University of North Texas.

ERNEST HILBERT’s books include Sixty Sonnets, All of You on the Good Earth, Caligulan—selected as winner of the 2017 Poets’ Prize—and Last One Out. He lives in Philadelphia, where he works as a rare book dealer.

ANN NORTON HOLBROOK is an English professor at Saint Anselm College, where she publishes on twentieth-century women writers. Her primary book is Paradoxical Feminism: The Novels of Rebecca West.

JONATHAN HOLDEN is University Distinguished Professor and poet-in-residence of Kansas State University.

JESSICA HOLLANDER grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and received her BA from the University of Michigan. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama. Her stories have appeared in over fifty journals, including The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Quarterly West, and Web Conjunctions, and she will be anthologized in The Lineup: 25 Provocative Women Writers. She teaches at the University of Alabama.

JENN HOLLMEYER is a writer and painter who holds an MFA from Bennington College and undergrad degrees in journalism and studio art from University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Jenn grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina, and now lives in the Chicago suburbs with her husband, two kids, and a dog. Learn more at jennhollmeyer.com.

KAREN HOLMBERG was born and raised in southeastern Connecticut, on the Long Island Sound. A winner of the 1996 Discovery/Nation Award, and twice winner of an Academy of American Poets Prize, her work has been published in The Paris Review, Slate, and The Nation, among other journals. She holds an M.F.A. in Poetry from the University of California-Irvine. She currently lives in Columbia, Missouri

JUDD HOLT has drawn upon his wide range of experiences as a Yellowstone Park Ranger, a teacher, a coach, and attorney to write this novel. A native of Denton, Texas, he currently practices law there.

Lieutenant Colonel DAVID R. “BUFF” HONODEL flew 4,400 hours in F-4, A-10, OV-10, and T-33 aircraft during his 22-year Air Force career. He served overseas in Korea and Germany, and flew two tours in the Vietnam War. His decorations include two Distinguished Flying Crosses, three Meritorious Service Medals, and nineteen Air Medals.

TIMOTHY R. HOOVER is an avid music lover who has spent more than twenty years researching and writing about the life of King Curtis. A freelance writer for Hittin’ the Note magazine, he lives outside Wheatland, Wyoming, with his wife.

KIM HORNER worked as a journalist for 21 years at newspapers including The Dallas Morning News. She received a Rosalynn Carter Fellowship for Mental Health Journalism and awards from the Texas Medical Association and Public Health Association for her coverage of the increased use of genetic testing for breast cancer risk. She lives in Richardson, Texas.

DAVID M. HORTON is professor and director of the Criminal Justice Program at St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas. He obtained his doctor of philosophy degree in criminal justice from the Institute of Contemporary Corrections and Behavioral Sciences (now the George J. Beto Center for Criminal Justice) at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, where he studied under Dr. Beto. He is the coauthor of Lone Star Justice: The Texas Criminal Justice System.

SANDRA M. MAYO is currently Director of Multicultural and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Theatre at Texas State University in San Marcos.

SHARON HUDGINS is the author of five books, including an award-winning cookbook about the regional cuisines of Spain and a travel memoir, The Other Side of Russia. A former professor with the University of Maryland’s program in Russia, she has also been a National Geographic Expert on Trans-Siberian Railroad tours. TOM HUDGINS is an economics professor and accomplished cook. They live in north Texas.

KATHRYN U. HULINGS is a mother and writer who has called Fort Collins, Colorado, her home for over thirty years. While raising her family of five kids with her husband, Jim, Kathryn worked as an advocate for children with special needs, served as a community volunteer, earned a BA in English from Colorado State University, and subsequently taught 8th grade Language Arts at a local middle school. Kathryn returned to school to get an MA in English/Creative Nonfiction, also from CSU, where she is now an adjunct faculty member teaching composition and literature courses. When not teaching, parenting, or playing with her three dogs, Kathryn can be found writing prose, poetry, essays and screenplays.

LEIGH ANNE HUNSAKER retired as professor of trumpet and music education at Hardin Simmons University in Abilene, Texas. She has published in Medical Problems of Performing Artists and in the International Trumpet Guild Journal.

ALFRED F. HURLEY, Brigadier General, USAF, was President/Chancellor/Professor Emeritus of the University of North Texas. He earned a B.A. (History) from St. John’s University, and M.A./Ph.D. (History) from Princeton University.

Born in Pennsylvania, MICHAEL HYDE received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and M.F.A. from the Writing Program at Columbia University. His short fiction has appeared in Ontario Review, Bloom, Xconnect, Mars Hill Review, New Millennium Writings, and The Best American Mystery Stories. He lives in New York City where he teaches writing and literature at the Fashion Institute of Technology and has recently completed a novel.

JOHN IGO is an award-winning poet and author of many books and plays. He won an Emmy in 1985 for his writing for a one-hour documentary.

Born in Portland, Oregon, DAVID ITKIN’s conducting career includes more than 800 symphonic, operatic, and theatrical performances worldwide and throughout North America. He is currently Music Director and Conductor with the Abilene Philharmonic and Professor of Music and Director of Orchestral Studies at the University of North Texas.

From a black perspective, Jackson’s work forms a particular and important testimony, both positive and negative, about life in the United States from the 1930s through the 1960s. Champlin writes: “He was a brave man and a vivid voice, and he is long overdue to find at last the wider audiences he deserves.” Jackson died in 1985.

LARISA P. JACKSON studied at Mussorgsky Music College in St. Petersburg, Russia, and completed her M.A., M. Phil., and Ph.D. at Columbia University in New York City under eminent music theorist Ian Bent. She has taught at the University of Houston since 2001.

JAMES NAJARIAN grew up on a goat farm near Kutztown, Pennsylvania. He received his BA and PhD from Yale University and teaches nineteenth-century literature at Boston College, where he edits the scholarly journal Religion and the Arts. His poem “The Dark Ages” received the Frost Farm Poetry Prize in Metrical Poetry.

GLORIA FELDT, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America since 1996, has served the organization for almost thirty years. She is the recipient of numerous honors, including America’s Top 200 Women Leaders, Legends, and Trailblazers, awarded by Vanity Fair in

NATHAN A. JENNINGS is a U.S. Army officer and frontier historian. He earned his master’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin and taught history at the U.S. Military Academy. Jennings commanded armored forces in Baghdad and Kirkuk during Operation Iraqi Freedom.

GEOFFREY W. JENSEN is Associate Professor of History at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Prescott, Arizona. He is also the editor of The Routledge Handbook of the History of Race and the American Military.

IVA JESTRATIJEVIC is an assistant professor in the College of Merchandising, Hospitality & Tourism at the University of North Texas. She received her Ph.D. in fashion and retail from Ohio State University in 2019.

JAIME E. JIMÉNEZ is a professor of biology at UNT with a co-appointment in philosophy and religion studies. They are co-directors of the Sub-Antarctic Biocultural Conservation Program.

JAMES D. JOHNSON received his Ph.D. from Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary. The author of Combat Trauma: A Personal Look at Long-Term Consequences, he lives in Fayetteville, North Carolina.

PAUL LEE JOHNSON is the author of several articles on the famous gunfight in Tombstone, Arizona, and a featured speaker at the annual Tombstone Territory Rendezvous. He is director of the Nightwatch program at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City. He and his wife, Mary, have two grown children.

Born and educated in Canada, LORRAINE G. BONNEY married Houston attorney Orrin H. Bonney. Together they co-authored books on the Grand Tetons and Wyoming climbing. Since Orrin’s death, Lorraine has completed The Grand Controversy: History of Climbing in the Tetons to 1934, and Wyoming Mountain Ranges. She divides her time between Kelly, Wyoming, and Conroe, Texas, deep in the Big Thicket.

TIM JOHNSTON was born in Iowa City, Iowa. When his first novel, Never So Green, was published, he was working as a carpenter in Hollywood, California. Subsequently, Tim went on to work as a carpenter in such states as Iowa, Colorado, Massachusetts, Florida, Minnesota, and New Mexico—his fiction, all the while, appearing in quarterlies, national magazines, and anthologies, including the O. Henry Prize Stories and David Sedaris’ anthology of favorites, Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules. Awarded a MacDowell Fellowship in 2008, Tim is currently back in Iowa City, writing a new novel. He is still a carpenter.

The late G. WILLIAM JONES was professor of cinema and video in the Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Founder/Director of the Southwest Film/Video Archives there, and founder of the USA Film Festival in Dallas.

NANCY JONES teaches composition, literature, and creative writing at North Lake College. Her poetry has appeared in literary journals such as Swallowing the Poison, Separate Doors, Texas College English and CCTE Studies; and in poetry collections, Images from the High Plains, A Literature of Sports, and Visions and Voices.

MILTON S. JORDAN is a graduate of Southwestern University in History and has a Master of Divinity degree from Southern Methodist University. He is co-editor of If Not Me, Who? a memoir of East Texas civil rights activist Wendell Baker. Jordan lives in Georgetown, Texas.

HARRIETT DENISE JOSEPH is professor of history at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. She has co-authored three books with Donald E. Chipman, including the award-winning Notable Men and Women of Spanish Texas; Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas; and the revised edition of Spanish Texas, 1519–1821. She lives in Brownsville, Texas.

ERIC T. KASPER is an associate professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

GEORGE KEATON JR. retired from Dallas Independent School District after thirty-one years as a teacher and counselor. In 2015 he founded and continues to lead Remembering Black Dallas, dedicated to preserving and sharing the experiences of the African American families of Dallas County.

JOHN-DANIEL KELLEY, formerly a Research Associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, D.C., is currently studying law at Cornell University.

MARY L. KELLEY is an associate professor of history at Lamar University and a Fulbright Scholar. She has published The Foundations of Texan Philanthropy and numerous scholarly articles. She is currently working on a volume about Texas women in the twentieth century.

TOM KENNEDY spent twenty-five years with the late Houston Post as a columnist and member of the Editorial Board. His columns focused on politics, police, and criminal justice. He authored From Waco to Wall Street, the biography of SYSCO founder John Baugh. A Baylor University journalism graduate, he resides in Houston with his wife Glenda.

TOM KILLEBREW received a master’s degree in history from the University of Texas at Arlington and taught American history at Navarro College in Waxahachie, Texas. He is the author of The Royal Air Force in Texas: Training British Pilots in Terrell during World War II (UNT Press). He lives in Erath County, Texas.

JEONGHYUN KIM is an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Science, University of North Texas. She has served as an editor-in-chief for The Electronic Library.

During her lifetime ELITHE HAMILTON KIRKLAND, who died in 1992, worked as an author, journalist, and multi-media pioneer, including writing radio scripts for folklorist J. Frank Dobie and for “The Texas School of the Air” in Austin during the 1940s.

BENJAMIN A. KOLODZIEJ holds graduate degrees in theology and sacred music from SMU, where he is the organist at Perkins Chapel. He is the author of Joyful Singing: A Story of Lutheran Sacred Music in Texas.

JOANN PUFFER KOTCHER, one of the first women allowed in a combat zone, graduated from the University of Michigan and lives in Michigan.

JOE LA BARBERA has performed with world-class jazz artists including Bill Evans, Woody Herman, Chuck Mangione, Michael Brecker and Toots Thielemans. From 1993 until 2021 he was on the faculty of the California Institute of the Arts. He resides in Woodland Hills, California.

LAURA M. LABATT was president of the Bexar County Women’s Center and focuses efforts on literacy, career development, and hospice.

AIMEE LABRIE received her MFA in fiction from Pennsylvania State University in 2003. The short story “Ducklings” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Aimee lives in Philadelphia and works at Temple University.

SHARON TOSI LACEY earned her Ph.D. in military history from the University of Leeds, and is also a graduate of the United States Military Academy and Long Island University. She has served as a U.S. Army officer for more than 22 years and published more than 30 articles on military issues in magazines and journals. She currently lives in Northern Virginia with her husband and four children.

DOLORES LaCHAPELLE formed the Way of the Mountain Learning Center in Silverton, Colorado, in 1975 and served as its director. Together with George Sessions, she presented the first academic papers ever given on Deep Ecology. She is the author of Earth Festivals, Earth Wisdom, Sacred Land Sacred Sex, and Deep Powder Snow.

HELENE LaFARO-FERNÁNDEZ was born in Irvington, New Jersey, but spent most of her youth in Geneva, New York. In 1957 she joined her brother Scott in Los Angeles and has made her home there ever since.

WANDA A. LANDREY is a historian, writer and researcher who lectures on the culture of the Big Thicket region of Texas. She holds B.A. and M.A. degrees in history from Lamar University, and lives in Beaumont, Texas.

PETER B. LANE served two tours as a fighter pilot in Vietnam and then earned his doctorate in Eastern European history from the University of Washington. He teaches history at the University of North Texas and specializes in European history and the Bosnian crisis.

JOHN P. LANGELLIER received his PhD from Kansas State University with an emphasis on military history. He is the author of more than twenty books, including Fighting for Uncle Sam: Buffalo Soldiers in the Frontier Army; Bluecoats: The U.S. Army in the West, 1848-1897; and Custer: The Man, the Myth, the Movies.

GARY LANTZ was born in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, and attended universities in Oklahoma. A feature writer for the Daily Oklahoman, Outdoor Oklahoma Magazine, and Oklahoma Today, Lantz is a former Oklahoma Wildlife Federation Conservation Communicator of the Year. He lives in Taos, New Mexico, with his wife, where he works on books and wildlife photography.

EDWARD D. LATHAM was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, and attended Phillips Academy and Yale University, where he received his PhD in 2000. He has lived and worked in New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Minnesota, and is currently assistant professor of music theory at Temple University’s Boyer College of Music and Dance in Philadelphia, where he was the recipient of the 2007 Teaching Academy Award for excellence in teaching. In addition to teaching and writing about music, Dr. Latham is active as a professional singer and church musician.

LINDA LAVENDER worked for the Historical Collection at North Texas State University in the 1970s. She went on to found an alternative primary school in Denton and to raise two children. She lives in Denton, Texas. CIRRUS BONNEAU is a photographer.

JAMES WARD LEE is former chairman of the English Department at the University of North Texas. He has written numerous articles, reviews, and bibliographies and is author of Texas, My Texas.

JOYCE GLOVER LEE’S research specialties are women and minority writers of the Southwest. She is currently teaching at the University of North Texas in Denton while working on monographs on Denise Chávez and Oveta Culp Hobby.

MICHAEL V. LEGGIERE is a Professor of History at the University of North Texas and Deputy Director of the Military History Center. He I earned his Ph.D. from Florida State University in 1997 after completing work at FSU’s Institute on Napoleon and the French Revolution. He is an active member of the Society for Military History and represents UNT on the Board of Directors of the Consortium on Revolutionary Europe. He lives in Prosper, TX with his wife and two children.

KEAGAN LeJEUNE is Professor of English and Folklore at McNeese State University. Born in Louisiana, he has studied and traveled Louisiana’s Neutral Strip for more than a decade and has completed an annotated bibliography of research on the region. LeJeune has served as President of the Louisiana Folklore Society and has published and lectured about the folklore of Louisiana, especially the lore of the Neutral Strip. He lives in Lake Charles, Louisiana.

ALAN LENHOFF has been a writer, editor, and executive for major U.S. newspapers, and a magazine publisher. He lives in Birmingham, Michigan.

RIKA LESSER is a prize-winning poet and translator of Swedish and German literature. Among her previous books are Etruscan Things, Rilke: Between Roots, and Guide to the Underworld by Gunnar Ekelof. Her work has appeared in American Poetry Review, The New Yorker, and The New York Times Book Review.

CHARLES LEVIN has written for the Ventura County Star, DownBeat, Jazziz, and the Monterey Jazz Festival Program. He has a BFA and MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and played drums professionally for thirty years. He lives in Ventura, California.

HERBERT M. LEVINE taught political science at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and is now a freelance writer living in Chevy Chase, Maryland.

An ancestor of Sam Fleming, one of the 1868 San Marcos treasure hunters, DAVID C. LEWIS developed an interest in Old West history while growing up near Carlsbad, New Mexico. He received degrees in Industrial Engineering from New Mexico State University. He currently resides in Kentucky with his wife and three children.

ELIZABETH WITTENMYER LEWIS, born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, attended Susquehanna University and Pennsylvania State College. She graduated from Jefferson Medical School with an RN and served as first lieutenant in the Army Nurse Corps in World War II. She married a Southerner and spent most of her life in Virginia, Florida, Missouri, and Texas, with the exception of six years in London. She continued her education at Rice University in Houston.

LILY LEWIS is a doctoral student in bryophyte bryogeography, systematics, diversity, and conservation in high latitude regions.

TEHILA LIEBERMAN has won the Stanley Elkin Memorial Prize and the Rick Dimarinis Short Fiction Prize and her fiction has appeared in many literary journals, including Nimrod, the Colorado Review, Salamander, and Cutthroat. Her nonfiction has been published in Salon.com and in Travelers’ Tales Guides anthologies, including Best Women’s Travel Writing 2007. Originally from New York, she lived in Jerusalem before settling in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she consults as a writing coach for Harvard Business School.

DEBORAH M. LILES teaches history at the University of North Texas and is the author of Will Rogers Coliseum and several journal articles.

JERRY BRYAN LINCECUM is Shoap Professor of English at Austin College and the author of Gideon Lincecum’s Sword, published by UNT Press.

ANDREA DAWN LOPEZ is a freelance writer and broadcast journalist with KCNC-TV (CBS) in Denver, Colorado. She completed her graduate studies in journalism at Concordia University in Montreal, where she specialized in print journalism. Her continuing commitment to writing and educating on wildlife issues stems from her former employment with Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation, Inc., outside of San Antonio, Texas. Her articles have appeared in the Wild Outdoor World, the San Antonio Express-News, Bird Watcher’s Digest, and Backhome Magazine, among others.

Translator BEATRICE BERLER received degrees from Trinity University and is a Fellow of Brandeis University. Her translations include three novels by Mariano Azuela and books by Leopoldo Zea, Hugo La Torre Cabal, Edmund S. Urbanski, and editing William Prescott’s history of the conquest.

Lifelong naturalists, CAMPBELL and LYNN LOUGHMILLER explored and photographed the Big Thicket for nine years.

Lifelong naturalists, CAMPBELL and LYNN LOUGHMILLER explored and photographed the Big Thicket for nine years.

ROBERT W. LULL is a Vietnam veteran, retired Army officer, and most recently, a college history instructor. A graduate of Trinity University, he holds advanced degrees from the University of Texas, Webster University, and the American Military University. He lives with his wife near Waco, Texas.

STEPHEN GAMBLE and WILLIAM LYNCH are both independent researchers who have been fascinated with Dennis Brain for decades. Lynch, an amateur horn player himself, is a semi-retired aerospace corporation executive with four U.S. patents to his name. Stephen Gamble is a British artist who started playing the horn in 2003.

PATTY VINEYARD MACDONALD, a home economist from Oklahoma A&M married to a West Pointer, has revived recipes combined with biography in Long Lost Recipes of Aunt Susan and Spiced with Wit: Will Rogers’ Tomfoolery and More Aunt Susan Recipes. A member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and American Southern Food Institute, she and her husband live in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas.

After growing up in Orlando, Florida, KELLY MAGEE moved to Ohio, where she currently teaches and writes. Her stories have appeared in Indiana Review, Quarterly West, Crab Orchard Review, and others. She has won awards from the Associated Writing Programs and Money for Women/Barbara Deming Memorial Fund. She currently teaches at The Ohio State University-Marion and lives in Columbus.

PATRICK J. MAHONEY, or Pádraig Fhia Ó Mathúna, is a Caspersen Fellow in History and Culture at Drew University and a Fulbright Scholar at the National University of Ireland Galway. He is the co-author of From a Land beyond the Wave: Connecticut’s Irish Rebels, 1798-1916.

RONALD E. MARCELLO received his Ph.D. from Duke University and is professor of history at the University of North Texas and director of the Oral History Program, where he has conducted over 1,000 interviews with World War II veterans. Coeditor of three books dealing with oral history and military history, his academic specialty is the Age of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

JAS. MARDIS is an award-winning poet and commentator. He is also a storyteller specializing in the Family Story and a Quiltmaker in the tradition of his family. He lives in Dallas with his daughter.

BEN MARKLEY is an associate professor and the Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Wyoming. A noted bandleader, composer/arranger, pianist, and educator, Markley performs widely throughout the northern Colorado–Wyoming region with the best touring and local musicians, many of whom play in the Ben Markley Big Band. His 2017 album, Clockwise: The Music of Cedar Walton (OA2 Records), received critical acclaim. Markley is the author of A Practical Approach to Improvisation: The David Hazeltine Method.

JUAN FRANCISCO MARTINEZ is Assistant Dean for the Hispanic Church Studies Department and Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Pastoral Leadership at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California.

FRANCISCA MASSARDO is director of the Omora Ethnobotanical Park and the University of Magallanes campus in Puerto Williams, Chile.

JAMES MATHEWS was born in Maryland and grew up on a variety of Army bases. After serving in the U.S. Air Force, he graduated from the University of Maryland and received an M.A. in Writing from the Johns Hopkins University. He has worked in and around Washington, D.C., writing speeches and congressional testimony. His short fiction has been published in The Florida Review, The Greensboro Review, Carolina Quarterly, The South Carolina Review, and many other journals. He currently lives in Maryland with his wife, Diana, and their three children.

CHARLES R. MATTHEWS is Chancellor Emeritus of the Texas State University System, the oldest public university system in Texas. He was chancellor from 2005 until his retirement in 2010. He received his doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. He lives on his ranch in Hill County.

The late ROBERT S. MAXWELL, with degrees from Kentucky Wesleyan, the University of Cincinnati, and the University of Wisconsin, was a Distinguished Professor and the first Regent’s Professor at Stephen F. Austin State University, where he also chaired the Department of History and served as a director of the national Forest History Society.

SANDRA M. MAYO is currently Director of Multicultural and Gender Studies and Associate Professor of Theatre at Texas State University in San Marcos.

JAMES M. MCCAFFREY is an associate professor of history at the University of Houston–Downtown. His previous books include This Band of Heroes: Granbury’s Texas Brigade, C.S.A.; Army of Manifest Destiny: The American Soldier in the Mexican War, 1846–1848; with John F. Kinney, Wake Island Pilot: A World War II Memoir.

ARCHIE P. MCDONALD is Professor of History at Stephen F. Austin State University and also Executive Director and Editor for the East Texas Historical Association.

WALTER MCDONALD is Paul W. Horn Professor of English and Director of Creative Writing at Texas Tech University. His awards include three Western Heritage Awards,one for Rafting the Brazos; twice winner of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship Grant; Juniper Prize; George Elliston Poetry Prize; three-time winner of the Texas Institute of Letters Poetry Prize; 1992 Texas Professor of the Year awarded by CASE in Washington, D.C.

BRUCE MCGINNIS is a Professor of English at Amarillo College. His previous novels are The Fence and Sweet Cane.

OWEN McLEOD is a studio potter and a professor of philosophy at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, where he lives. He has held visiting positions at Yale and Mt. Holyoke. His poems have been published in such journals as Field, Massachusetts Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and The Southern Review.

FRANKIE MCWHORTER grew up in the Texas Panhandle town of Memphis and has managed a seventeen-section ranch in the Panhandle. In addition to fiddling and cowboying, his books include Horse Fixin’: Forty Years of Working with Problem Horses, as told to John R. Erickson, and Play It Lazy: The Bob Wills Fiddle Legacy, with Lanny Fiel.

An Ohio native, REBECCA MEACHAM received her MFA in fiction from Bowling Green State University and her doctorate from the University of Cincinnati. Her fiction has appeared in numerous journals, and in 2002, was awarded the Chelsea Award for Short Fiction and the Indiana Review Fiction Prize. She lives with her husband in Wisconsin, where she is an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

MANUEL F. MEDRANO is a professor of history at the University of Texas at Brownsville and the coauthor of Medieval Culture and the Mexican American Borderlands and Charro Days in Brownsville. He has also authored three bilingual poetry books about the South Texas Border and has produced and directed a series of oral history profiles about Rio Grande Valley people entitled Los del Valle. He is the recipient of the Chancellor’s Teaching Excellence Award, the University of Texas Board of Regents’s Outstanding Teaching Award, and the Houston Endowment for Civic Engagement.

THOMAS M. MELSHEIMER has tried cases for more than thirty years. He has been named “Trial Lawyer of the Year” by the Texas Chapters of the American Board of Trial Advocates and by the Dallas Bar Association. He is the managing partner at Winston & Strawn in Dallas.

Credit for art: “Bathing,” by Jonathan Green, used by permission of Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida

KLAUS MICHAEL MEYER-ABICH was Professor of the Philosophy of Nature at the University and the Institute for Cultural Studies in Essen. He also played an active part in German politics, as Minister for Science and Research for the state of Hamburg, and as a member of the Enquete Commission of the German parliament on the protection of the atmosphere.

The late COL. HAROLD “JACK” MEYER served under “Hanging Sam” as a Blue Spader (26th Infantry Regiment) in Bambur, Germany. He held a B.S. degree from Kent State University and a master’s in journalism from the University of Missouri.

MICHAEL PAUL MIHALJEVICH is a historical researcher and author of several articles pertaining to southeastern Arizona history and its notable inhabitants. His body of work includes art photography that epitomizes the romance and history of the American West.

MATT W. MILLER was born and grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts. He earned a BA at Yale University, where he also played varsity football, and his MFA in Creative Writing from Emerson College. His poems have appeared in Slate, Harvard Review, Notre Dame Review, Third Coast, and other journals. His first book, Cameo Diner: Poems, was published in

RICK MILLER is the author of Bloody Bill Longley: The Mythology of a Gunfighter (UNT Press). He has also written biographies of Sam Bass (Sam Bass & Gang), Jack Duncan (Bounty Hunter), and Eugene Bunch (The Train Robbing Bunch). Raised in Dallas, Texas, Miller is a former paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division, and served in law enforcement as a Dallas policeman, as well as chief of police in both Killeen and Denton, Texas. Currently he is the elected County Attorney of Bell County, Texas. He holds a bachelor of arts from the University of Texas at Arlington, a master’s degree in public administration from Southern Methodist University, and earned his juris doctorate at Baylor University School of Law. He lives in Harker Heights, Texas.

JAMES B. MILLS was born in 1983 and resides in Australia. He has studied the American frontier and numerous other areas of history since childhood. He has published numerous articles for True West and Wild West magazines. He enjoys living a quiet life with his cat Bernard and dog Dennis.

JAY DUNSTON MILNER attended high school in Lubbock where he played on a state championship football team. He graduated from Southern Mississippi University with a B.A. and M.A. and coached football before becoming a reporter for the Hattiesburg, Mississippi American and the Associated Press. He was managing editor of Hodding Carter’s Greenville, Mississippi Delta Democrat-Times and went to New York as assistant to the editorial page editor of the New York Herald Tribune. He returned to Texas in 1961 and fell in with a rowdy crowd of Texas prose and song writers to whom much of this book is devoted. He lives in Fort Worth.

KENDALL P. COCHRAN served as Chair and Professor of Economics at the University of North Texas. SUSAN L. McHARGUE DADRES is Senior Lecturer in Economics at University of North Texas. MONA S. HERSH-COCHRAN is Emerita Professor at Texas Woman’s University. DAVID J. MOLINA is Associate Professor of Economics at University of North Texas.

PATRICIA SMITH PRATHER is a freelance writer, co-editor of the Texas Trailblazer series, a member of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and a second-generation Tuskegee graduate. She is executive director of the Houston Place Association.

DOMINIC J. MONETTA is the founder and President of Resource Alternatives, Inc., a Washington, D. C.-based firm. He holds degrees from Manhattan College, George Washington University and a doctorate from the University of Southern California. He and his wife live in Washington, D.C.

STEPHEN L. MOORE is a sixth-generation Texan and author of volumes 1, 2, and 3 of Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, covering the years 1835-37, 1838-39, and 1840-41. He is also the author of several other titles, including Eighteen Minutes: The Battle of San Jacinto and the Texas Independence Campaign and Taming Texas: Captain William T. Sadler’s Lone Star Service. Steve, his wife Cindy, and their children Kristen, Emily, and Jacob live near Dallas in Lantana, Texas.

GREGORIO MORA-TORRES received his Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University of California at Irvine and teaches in the Department of Mexican American Studies at San Jose State University.

KIRA E. MORT is a student assistant in the Texas Folklore Society office.

PATRICK B. MULLEN is Director of the Center for Folklore Studies and Professor of English at Ohio State University.

LINDA WILEY holds degrees from Sam Houston State University and Texas A&M University and currently teaches in the Windham School System, Texas Department of Criminal Justice/Institutional Division.

JÖRG MUTH received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Utah. He is the author of Flucht aus dem militärischen Alltag: Ursachen und individuelle Ausprägung der Desertion in der Armee Friedrichs des Großen, a study of desertion in the Prussian army during the era of Frederick the Great.

JACK MYERS (Poet Laureate 2003 of Texas) was director of the creative writing program at Southern Methodist University and also taught in the Vermont College MFA Program in Writing. One of his numerous poetry books, As Long As You’re Happy, was selected for the National Poetry Series by Seamus Heaney.

SHARON A. NAVARRO and RODOLFO ROSALES are associate professors of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Navarro is the author of Latina Legislator, co-author of Politicas, and co-editor of Latino Americans and Political Participation. Rodolfo is the author of the Illusion of Inclusion: The Untold Political Story of San Antonio.

BILL NEAL practiced criminal law in West Texas for forty years. He is the author of Vengeance Is Mine: The Scandalous Love Triangle That Triggered the Boyce-Sneed Feud (UNT Press); Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier; and Skullduggery, Secrets, and Murders.

KELAN NEE is a poet and carpenter from Massachusetts. He is a 2023 Adroit Djankian Scholar and has received support from the Poetry Foundation, The Academy of American Poets, and The Breadloaf Writers’ Conference. He lives in Texas, is pursuing a PhD, and holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. He has lived and worked throughout New England.

NANCY OWEN NELSON taught at Auburn University, Albion College, and Augustana before accepting her present position at Henry Ford Community College. Her previous book, The Selected Letters of Frederick Manfred: 1932–1954, led to her exploration of androgyny and other gender issues.

W. DALE NELSON spent forty years with The Associated Press, first in western bureaus and then in Washington, D.C., where he was honored with the Aldo Beckman Award, given annually by the White House Correspondents Association for excellence in reporting about the presidency. He is the author of two books and holds a master’s degree in library science from the University of Washington. He lives in Laramie, Wyoming.

GEORGE R. NIELSEN spent his entire career teaching in Lutheran schools, first in Houston and then, from 1959 to 1997, at Concordia University in River Forest, Illinois. His most recent book, Johann Kilian, Pastor, is a biography of the pastor of the Wends at Serbin, Texas. In 1995 Concordia University named him Distinguished Professor of History. He is now retired, living in the Black Hills of South Dakota.

RALPH H. NUTTER is a retired superior court judge living in Santa Barbara, California. He is one of the few survivors of the 305th Bomb Group.

MAX OELSCHLAEGER is the author of The Idea of Wilderness, The Environmental Imperative, and Religion in a Time of Ecological Crisis and the editor of The Wilderness Condition. He teaches courses related to environmentalism, ecofeminism, and the philosophical dimensions of ecology at the University of North Texas.

TYRA A. OLSTAD has worked as a seasonal park ranger, cave guide, and paleontology technician for the National Park Service and U.S. Forest Service in Arizona, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, and Alaska. An alumna of Dartmouth College, the University of Wyoming, and Kansas State University, she currently teaches at SUNY Oneonta.

BILL O’NEAL is State Historian of Texas and the author of more than thirty books, including The Johnson-Sims Feud, The Johnson County War (2005 NOLA Book of the Year), Historic Ranches of the Old West, Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters, and Cheyenne, 1867-1903. He is retired from teaching at Panola College.

Born in Dallas, where she graduated from Forest Avenue High School, EVELYN OPPENHEIMER attended the University of Chicago. After graduating Phi Beta Kappa she returned to Dallas. A literary agent for thirty-five years, she also taught book reviewing at the University of Texas at Austin, Texas Tech University, SMU, University of Dallas, UCLA, University of Wisconsin extension. UNT Press has endowed a series in her name.

RICHARD ORTON was born in Nacogdoches and raised in Midland. He became mesmerized by photography after seeing an image materializing in a development tray. After two years in the Peace Corps, he settled in Austin, Texas, where he worked with nonprofits before becoming a photographer for the Texas House of Representatives. He moved back to Nacogdoches in 2007.

BARBARA ORTWEIN combines the story of her fictional characters Johann and Karl Engelbach with the real story of the actual people involved in this historical emigration and settlement, which took place in Germany and Texas in 1844 to 1847. She led a German Texan School Exchange Program in 2000. She lives in Winterberg, Germany.

WILLIAM A. OWENS, folklorist, author, and professor, was born in Lamar County. The author of This Stubborn Soil, A Season of Weathering, Tell Me a Story Sing Me a Song, and several novels, he also wrote Slave Mutiny: The Revolt of the Schooner Amistad, which provided much of the material for the Steven Spielberg film, Amistad.

JEFFREY L. PATRICK is the librarian at Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield in Republic, Missouri. He holds a master’s degree in history from Purdue University and is the editor of Guarding the Border: The Memoirs of Ward Schrantz, U.S. Army, 1912-1917.

DARWIN PAYNE is professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University and the author of Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes; Big D: Triumphs and Troubles of an American Supercity in the 20th Century; and Dallas, an Illustrated History. He and his wife, Phyllis, live in Dallas.

PAULA SELZER is a third great-granddaughter of Adolphe Gouhenant. She has spent twenty-five years working on children’s health policy for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EMMANUEL PÉCONTAL, a French professional astronomer and an historian of astronomy, works at the Centre Recherche Astrophysique de Lyon.

BURLE PETTIT worked in the newspaper industry for half a century, first as a sports writer and later as the editor of the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.

EDWARD HAKE PHILLIPS was Professor Emeritus of History at Austin College.

Award-winning photographer BLAIR PITTMAN has also written The Earth Book and The Natural World of the Texas Big Thicket in addition to being a contributing photographer to American Heritage, Forbes, National Geographic Magazine, Smithsonian, Time-Life Books, and Texas Highways.

ANITA BELLES PORTERFIELD is a seasoned journalist who also served as the Director of Emergency Medical Services for the state of Louisiana, which provided her with a technical perspective in critiquing the response to the Fort Hood shooting. JOHN PORTERFIELD has a B.A. in journalism from the Manship School of Mass Communications at Louisiana State University. They both live in Boerne, Texas.

ANITA BELLES PORTERFIELD is a seasoned journalist who also served as the Director of Emergency Medical Services for the state of Louisiana, which provided her with a technical perspective in critiquing the response to the Fort Hood shooting. JOHN PORTERFIELD has a B.A. in journalism from the Manship School of Mass Communications at Louisiana State University. They both live in Boerne, Texas.

PATRICIA SMITH PRATHER is a freelance writer, co-editor of the Texas Trailblazer series, a member of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, and a second-generation Tuskegee graduate. She is executive director of the Houston Place Association.

GLORIA PRIDDY has taught criminal justice courses at Angelo State University and currently teaches online at Sul Ross State University. She has published on Texas Rangers and constables.

LINDA J. QUINTANILLA taught history at the University of Houston and Houston-area community colleges. She earned an Ed.D. from the University of Houston and is a volunteer archivist at the Austin History Center.

KATHRYN RAIGN is associate professor and communications lab director at the University of North Texas. She is the author of four books: Harbrace Guide to the Teaching of Introductory Composition, The Decisive Writer, Write Now, and Writing for Results.

STEVEN RAMOLD is Professor of American History at Eastern Michigan University. He is the author of three previous books on the Civil War: Slaves, Sailors, Citizens: African Americans in the Union Navy; Baring the Iron Hand: Discipline in the Union Army; and Across the Divide: Union Soldiers View the Northern Home Front. He and his family reside in Ypsilanti, Michigan.

RUSH RANKIN has published in The Failure of Grief, as well as in such journals as The Paris Review and Triquarterly. He currently teaches theory and literature at the Kansas City Art Institute.

DICK J. REAVIS, member of the Texas Institute of Letters, a senior reporter for the San Antonio-Express News, former senior editor of Texas Parks & Wildlife and Texas Monthly, is author of The Ashes of Waco and Diary of an Undocumented Immigrant, among other books. He lives in San Antonio.

COREY RECKO is the author of Murder on the White Sands: The Disappearance of Albert and Henry Fountain (UNT Press), winner of the Best Book of the Year award from the Wild West Historical Association. He also wrote A Spy for the Union: The Life and Execution of Timothy Webster. Along with those books and a novel, Recko has written articles on a variety of historical topics for websites, magazines, and historical journals, and has become a sought-after speaker (including an appearance on C-SPAN). For more information about the book and its author, visit www.coreyrecko.com.

PEGGY A. REDSHAW is Professor of Biology at Austin College. The three previously coedited Science on the Texas Frontier: Observations of Dr. Gideon Lincecum.

ANDREAS REICHSTEIN is a Lecturer on American History at the University of Hamburg and a program consultant for NDR (North German Radio). His previous book, The Rise of the Lone Star, won the Elizabeth Broocks-Bates Award, T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award, and the Texas Historical Foundation Book Award. He lives in Bremen, Germany.

THOMAS REID retired from teaching history at Lamar University, where he received his Master of Arts degree. Formerly an employee of the Department of the Army, he served six years on active duty and sixteen in the Army Reserve. He lives in Woodville, Texas.

JORGE ANTONIO RENAUD was born in New Mexico and has lived in Texas most of his life. A former copy editor for the Austin-American Statesman and the Waco Tribune-Herald, Renaud is a contributing columnist for Hispanic Link News Service. His op/ed columns have appeared in newspapers across the country. A former editor of the ECHO, the Texas Prison newspaper, Renaud has served time for armed robbery and was paroled in 2008. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Sam Houston State University and currently lives in Austin, Texas.

AL RENDON is the owner of Rendon Photography & Fine Art in San Antonio. A photographer since he has been able to hold a camera, his images have appeared in Newsweek, USA Today, Texas Monthly, and numerous other books and magazines.

JOSEPH RESCIGNO is a seasoned conductor with a career that has taken him to more than fifty companies. He has served as guest conductor at opera houses around the world. He served as artistic advisor and principal conductor of the Florentine Opera Company in Milwaukee for 38 seasons and has been music director of La Musica Lirica in Novafeltria, Italy, since 2005. He has also recorded extensively, including two world premieres. He lives in New York City.

SARAH BYRN RICKMAN is the author of an award-winning WASP novel, Flight from Fear; The Originals: The Women’s Auxiliary Ferrying Squadron of World War II; and Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II (UNT Press). She is the recipient of the Seventh Annual Combs Gates Award by the National Aviation Hall of Fame for her outstanding work on the women pilots of World War II.

JUDYTH W. RIGLER is book editor of the San Antonio Express-News and writes “Lone Star Library,” a column on Texas books carried in newspapers throughout the state. She is married to Erik T. Rigler, Lewis Rigler’s youngest son, who retired in 1994 after twenty-three years as an FBI agent and now works as an investigator for the Texas Lottery Commission.

Born in Lorena, Texas, in 1914, LEWIS C. RIGLER attended Texas A&M University. He entered Ranger service as a member of Dallas-based Company B, and retired in 1977. He is an investment consultant and owner of a bail-bond business. He speaks throughout Texas about his Ranger career.

JONATHAN TEMPLIN RITTER has worked as an archivist with the Archdiocese of San Francisco and is currently the archivist for Archbishop Riordan High School. He earned a master’s degree in history from San Francisco State University and a master’s degree in library & information science from San Jose State University. He lives in San Francisco.

BRIAN RIVERA is a former F-14 Topgun pilot and an Agile coach/consultant in the private and military sectors.

GARY L. ROBERTS is emeritus professor of history at Abraham Baldwin College and author of Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend.

DAVID ROBERTSON is an industrial designer, commercial photographer, and design historian from Adelaide, Australia. He is a member of the Order of Australia for services to professional design.

MICHAEL ROBINS was raised in Portland, Oregon, and educated at the University of Oregon and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, The Cincinnati Review, Denver Quarterly, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Chicago.

SHERRY ROBINSON is a long-time New Mexico journalist and author whose work has earned awards from nine communications organizations. She graduated from the University of New Mexico and began her career in 1975 on the Navajo Reservation. She has worked for newspapers, television, and the University of New Mexico, where she edited the award-winning research magazine, Quantum. She is the author of Apache Voices and El Malpais, Mt. Taylor and the Zuni Mountains. Robinson has given talks on Apaches as a member of the speaker’s bureau for the New Mexico Humanities Council since 1999. She lives in Albuquerque.

VICTOR RODRIGUEZ earned his bachelor and master’s degrees in art education from North Texas State College (now the University of North Texas) and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin. He retired after twelve years as Superintendent of the San Antonio School District and lives in San Antonio, Texas.

JAMES L. ROGERS taught journalism at North Texas from 1953 to 1996 and also served as Vice President of Administrative Affairs (1965-71) and Director of University Planning (1971-78). He currently lives in Denton, Texas.

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SHARON A. NAVARRO and RODOLFO ROSALES are associate professors of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio. Navarro is the author of Latina Legislator, co-author of Politicas, and co-editor of Latino Americans and Political Participation. Rodolfo is the author of the Illusion of Inclusion: The Untold Political Story of San Antonio.

SYBIL ROSEN was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, and holds a BFA from the University of North Carolina-Greensboro. A screenwriter and playwright, she has won many awards. A short documentary for which she wrote the narration was nominated for an Academy Award in that category, and while she wrote for the TV show Guiding Light, it won an Emmy for best writing. She currently lives in Whitesburg, Georgia.

MICHELLE ROSS is the author of two previous story collections: There’s So Much They Haven’t Told You, winner of the Moon City Press Short Fiction Award and finalist for the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award for Short Stories; and Shapeshifting, winner of the Stillhouse Press Short Story Award. Ross lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband and son.