Southern Methodist University Research Articles

An Unique Shell Gorget from Wood County, Texas

During the excavations preceding the construction of Lake Fork Reservoir, archaeologists from Southern Methodist University uncovered a child's burial at the Gilbreath site (41WD538) in Wood County, Texas. The child was from 2 to 3 years of age and burial furniture consisted of five ceramic vessels and an unique marine shell gorget from the chest area. The age of the site, which has a Titus phase component, ranges from ca. A.D. 1430-1680.

Dance of Family and Community

Dance of Family and Community Susan Henderson (bio) On the Outskirts of Normal: Forging a Family against the Grain. Debra Monroe. Southern Methodist University Press. http://www.tamupress.com. 232 pages; paper, $22.50. Click for larger view View full resolution Detail from cover In her memoir, On the Outskirts of Normal, Debra Monroe tells a compelling personal story of a twice-divorced single white woman adopting a black child in small-town Texas. But it's what her journey reveals about our culture and the universal trials of motherhood that make it larger than one woman's story. The very idea of adoption brings about scrutiny of who you are and how you've lived. On paper, Monroe's career as English professor and published author look impressive, but what of the qualities she hoped would remain hidden—a shaky past with her own family, a history of choosing men who physically abused her, her habit of not letting people get too close? Given her track record in other relationships, she begins to question whether she deserved to raise a child "because it's not your life you might ruin but a life depending on you." And this honest look at where doubt meets longing had me rooting for her from the start. As the interview process continues, Monroe let the agency know that she was open to adopting a child of another race, a choice that had the extra benefits of a shorter waiting list and a higher chance that she'd be in the care of a newborn. This choice, however, proves to be a bigger issue in her small town, prompting questions like, "Have you thought that through—what you're putting yourself and the kid up against?" Potential birth mothers express concern, as well, wondering whether Monroe was a racist, a startling reminder that adoption for some carries "the specter of history—humans bought and sold. Giving a child to a white social worker is a last resort." After a series of false alarms, the baby who would become Monroe's daughter is born, a moment she describes as "letting my heart exist outside my body, and as she'd grow, letting my heart roam around the risky world." Their relationship is met with nonstop curiosity from the white community, including such shocking questions as, "What is she?" and "Is that a crack baby?" From the black community, she collects opinions about how to care for her daughter's hair. How she responds to others, Monroe realizes early on, will teach her daughter about herself and her world. Furthermore, Monroe writes of re-engaging with her own parents while, at the same time, trying to offer her child a very different upbringing. And it's this dance with the outside world—this learning to trust her own instincts as she also learned how much she needed this imperfect community—that gives her story its hard-earned wisdom. Exhausted by the intense focus on what was best for her child, Monroe's own needs suddenly intrude with guilt and urgency: "What about me? What has happened to my health? What has happened to the book I was writing? Do I dare consider dating? What if I screw up again and choose someone who's no good? What will I be modeling for my child?" It's the dance again—the tug and pull of love and fear, vulnerability and courage, care of others and care of self. My only criticism of the book is that there's a circular quality to the storytelling. Events are revisited again and again—the call that the adoption has gone through, the death of a family member, a hospital visit, the memory of a threatening neighbor. Sometimes this circular aspect of the book feels as if maybe the chapters were once separately published essays and the author chose not to unpack those essays and work them into a chronological or thematically building story. I have to admit, however, that something about this nonlinear storytelling also feels true to life. Memories are like that. They circle back on us—reminders of old wounds and vulnerabilities, roads we don't want to...

Strong in Biomaterials and Polymer Science

What was most interesting and important to our reader in 2010? Among the 270 articles published in the last two years the topics drug and gene delivery and tissue engineering could assemble the most citations in 2010, followed by more classical polymer topics such as biodegradable polymers, glycol- and biopolymers (Table 1). It's thus fair to say: Macromolecular Bioscience is strong in biomaterials and polymer science. What was most interesting to me? I have to admit that I was deeply impressed by the outstanding topical issues we published within the last year. In November, a special issue on “Instructive Materials for Functional Tissue Engineering” guest-edited by Anita Driessen-Mol, Carlijn V. C. Bouten, and Frank P. T. Baaijens (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) highlighted topics such as cardiac repair, heart valves and blood vessel replacements, and in situ bone formation, just to name a few. Issue 9 was dedicated to “Polymers in Biomedicine” (guest-edited by Andreas Lendlein, GKSS Research Center Teltow, Germany). With the help of board member Jan C.M. van Hest (Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands) we published an impressive issues on “Micro- and Nanocapsules for Biological and Biomedical Applications”. The renaissance of “Analytical Ultracentrifugation”, a topical issue organized by one of our newer board members, Helmut Cölfen (University of Konstanz, Germany) on the occasion of the 125th birthday of Theodor Svedberg, concentrated on a less classical, though not less interesting topic for Macromolecular Bioscience. All in all, the anniversary year of Macromolecular Bioscience was a year of great topical diversity, which has made it so exciting for me. A year of celebrations? Not only. It was also a year of hard work. Dealing with roughly 10% more submissions as compared to 2009, we were still able to reduce the average time to initial decision of all published articles to 35 days. But there is even more to be happy about. The number of article accesses (full-text downloads) and the number of total citations both increased by more than 20%. After one decade, Macromolecular Bioscience confirms its position among the top 5 biomaterials and the top 10 polymer journals with an ISI impact factor of 3.108. Finally, we welcome two new members to our international advisory board: We are looking forward to an intensified cooperation with Helmut Schlaad (MPI of Colloids and Interfaces, Golm, Germany) and Brent Sumerlin (Southern Methodist University, Dallas, USA). Not only our board members, but also our critical reviewers, our authors, and last but not least our readers contribute to the success of Macromolecular Bioscience. It's time to thank all of you for your commitment and your ongoing interest in our journal. Together, we are looking forward to the exciting second decade of Macromolecular Bioscience.

The Effect of Litigation Risk on Management Earnings Forecasts*

Contemporary Accounting ResearchVolume 28, Issue 1 p. 125-173 The Effect of Litigation Risk on Management Earnings Forecasts* ZHIYAN CAO, ZHIYAN CAO University of Washington TacomaSearch for more papers by this authorGANAPATHI S. NARAYANAMOORTHY, GANAPATHI S. NARAYANAMOORTHY University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSearch for more papers by this author ZHIYAN CAO, ZHIYAN CAO University of Washington TacomaSearch for more papers by this authorGANAPATHI S. NARAYANAMOORTHY, GANAPATHI S. NARAYANAMOORTHY University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignSearch for more papers by this author First published: 13 December 2010 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1911-3846.2010.01045.xCitations: 84 † Accepted by Orie Barron. We thank Tillinghast-Towers Perrin for providing the insurance data. We would like to thank several industry participants who have shared their valuable time with us. In particular, we thank Elissa Sirovatka of Tillinghast, David Allan of General Reinsurance Corporation, Dan Bailey of Bailey Cavalieri LLC, Michael Early and Frank Kastelic of the Chicago Underwriting Group, Lori Fuchs of Honeywell, Phil Norton of Arthur J. Gallagher and Co., and Paul Van Zuiden of Risk Management & Insurance Consulting LLC. We are grateful to Heowk Kiat Koh for assistance with the data collection. We acknowledge helpful suggestions from Orie Barron (associate editor), two anonymous referees, Ana Albuquerque, Romana Autrey, Paul Beck, Foong-Song Cheong, Daniel Cohen, Dain Donelson, Brian Mittendorf, Partha Mohanram, Shyam Sunder, Jake Thomas and Frank Zhang. We also thank workshop participants at the University of Texas at Dallas, Southern Methodist University, Boston University, University of Minnesota, George Mason University and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign for valuable comments. Any errors are our own. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume28, Issue1Spring 2011 (March)Pages 125-173 RelatedInformation

The business strategy of Booker T. Washington: its development and implementation

fresh reassessment of one of the most powerful black men in American history. This book will help reshape the prism through which the life, work, strategy, and contributions of Booker T. Washington are examined.--David H. Jackson Jr., author of A Chief Lieutenant of the Tuskegee Machine. Although scholars and lay persons alike most often think of Washington as an educator, this impressive text reveals that his business ideas and practices have had a much greater and longer impact on Americans, especially African Americans.--Kenneth Hamilton, Southern Methodist University. Michael Boston offers a radical departure from other interpretations of Booker T. Washington by focusing on the latter's business ideas and practices. More specifically, Boston examines Washington as an entrepreneur, spelling out his business philosophy at great length and discussing the influence it had on black America. He analyzes the national and regional economies in which Washington worked and focuses on his advocacy of black business development as the key to economic uplift for African Americans. The result is a revisionist book that responds to the skewed literature on Washington even as it offers a new framework for understanding him. Based upon a deep reading of the Tuskegee archives, it acknowledges Washington not only as a champion of black business development but one who conceived and implemented successful strategies to promote it as well.

WHY BIG PEOPLE WALK MORE ECONOMICALLY THAN SMALL PEOPLE

![Figure][1] Any parent that takes their kid out for a walk knows that children tire more quickly than adults, but why is that? Do kids and small adults walk differently from larger people or do they tire faster for some other reason? Peter Weyand from Southern Methodist University, USA, is

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Architects in the Mist: Embedding the Librarian in a Culture of Design

Special Libraries, Special Challenges is a column dedicated to exploring the unique public services challenges that arise in libraries that specialize in a particular subject, such as law, medicine, and business. In each column, the author will discuss public service dilemmas and solutions that occur specifically in given subject libraries while drawing links to how such issues affect librarianship in general. Special or subject-matter librarians interested in authoring a piece for this column are invited to contact Melissa K. Aho at aho@umn.edu. Rebecca Cooper is the Architecture and Instruction Librarian at the Fiske Kimball Fine Arts Library at the University of Virginia. She holds an M.A. in Art History from Southern Methodist University, and an M.S.L.S from The Catholic University of America. Her email is rcooper@virginia.edu. *****

GREEN FOOD THROUGH TIME

Leaves are the fundamental photosynthetic unit of a plant, and yet they suffer more tissue loss to herbivory than any other plant organ (Schowalter, 2000). Traces of insect folivory, or feeding on leaves, are clearly visible on the leaf surface. For example, after an insect consumes part of a leaf, the surrounding tissue becomes thickened to prevent further damage or desiccation (Fig. 1A). Galls and mines (Figs. 1B–D) are evidence that the leaf provided shelter and food for insect eggs and larvae. Some leaves even have scars showing where they were pierced by an insect stylet to obtain food or by an ovipositor to place eggs inside the leaf. Today, angiosperms and insects dominate terrestrial biodiversity and biomass (Price, 2002) and insect folivory plays a critical role in terrestrial trophic webs and nutrient cycling. Thus, studies of plant-insect interactions through time have important implications for evolutionary biology and paleoecology. Ellen Currano earned a B.S. in Geophysical Sciences and an A.B in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago. While in college, she first visited the two places that would shape her scientific interests: the Bighorn Basin, Wyoming, and East Africa. Ellen's Ph.D. in Geosciences from Pennsylvania State University, supervised by Peter Wilf (PSU) and Scott Wing (Smithsonian Institution), included four summers collecting fossil leaves in the Bighorn Basin. After completing her Ph.D., Ellen returned to East Africa as an NSF Earth Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow. She spent a year studying the late Oligocene Chilga floras of northwestern Ethiopia, under the guidance of Bonnie Jacobs at Southern Methodist University. In fall 2009, Ellen began a tenure-track position in the Department of Geology …

The Wizard of Waxahachie: Paul Richards and the End of Baseball as We Knew It (review)

Warren Corbett. The Wizard of Waxahachie: Paul Richards and the End of Baseball as We Knew It. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2009. 430 pp. Cloth, $24.95. Often characterized as a tall, tough, silent Texan, Paul Richards spent much of his sixty years in baseball confounding this epithet. In his fascinating, well-researched biography of Richards, Warren Corbett admirably captures Richards's life in and away from baseball. An experienced writer, Corbett engagingly chronicles the many ups and downs of Richards's long career. After twenty-five years as a player at nearly all levels of organized baseball and several as a minor-league manager, Richards received an opportunity manage the Chicago White Sox in 1951. It was as a manager and general manager that Richards earned his well-deserved legacy as an ornery trendsetter. Richards the innovator introduced an oversized catcher's mitt catch knuckleball pitchers. He was one of the first managers use pitch counts protect his pitchers and on-base percentage judge hitters. While not at the forefront of racial integration, he generally played players on merit and treated his charges equally. Corbett ably contrasts Richards's on-field innovation with his narrow-minded, remote leadership style. In spite of his aloof manner, Richards possessed a peculiar ability create a surprising level of devotion in some of his players. During his tenure in various major-league front offices, Richards surrounded himself with a close circle of acolytes, consisting mainly of other southerners who had once played or coached under him. By the time he was seventeen, Richards had grown to be a lanky six feet one, with black hair, brown eyes, a prominent jaw, an unusually long neck, and pointed chin, and had become a baseball sensation around Waxahachie, Texas (15-16). At least four major-league teams hoped sign him, but Brooklyn Dodger scout Nap Rucker won Richards over and nabbed him for a one thousand dollar bonus. The Dodgers farmed Richards Pittsfield in the Eastern League, and the youngster began his career several thousand miles from home. Richards spent the next twenty-one years as a baseball nomad bouncing up and down between the majors and minors. Corbett nicely provides Richards's career highlights without getting bogged down in the day-to-day minutiae. As a twenty-one-year-old, Richards was converted catcher, generally regarded as a thinking man's position and one at which he would excel. He was less successful with the bat, however. Despite stellar minor-league statistics, Richards could never break out against major-league pitching: in 1,602 major-league at bats, he hit only .227 and slugged .3o1; in 5,059 minor-league at bats, he hit .295 and slugged .473. Corbett never really pursues this surprising dichotomy. Richards's baseball intelligence was recognized at a young age, and in 1938 when he was only twenty-nine, Atlanta (a Southern Association club at the time) promoted him player-manager. In his first year, Richards won the pennant and the four-team playoff as well. Thirteen years later, Richards received a shot as a major-league skipper, working for general manager Trader Frank Lane with the White Sox. Throughout the book, Corbett does a nice job of explaining Richards's key managerial philosophies. …

The Wizard of Waxahachie: Paul Richards and the End of Baseball as We Knew It (review)

Reviewed by: The Wizard of Waxahachie: Paul Richards and the End of Baseball as We Knew It Alan C. Atchison The Wizard of Waxahachie: Paul Richards and the End of Baseball as We Knew It. By Warren Corbett, foreword by Brooks Robinson, introduction by Tony La Russa. (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2009, Pp. 448. Black-and-white plates, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 9780870745560, $24.95 cloth.) The recent election of Whitey Herzog to Baseball's Hall of Fame revives thoughts of other major league managers famous for their innovations and baseball knowledge. Unlike Herzog, some failed to win a single pennant. Paul Richards, the Wizard of Waxahachie, belongs to this group. But Warren Corbett's well-researched and well-written biography does not focus on this failure; instead, it uses the life of the North Texan to analyze the changes in professional baseball—and to a lesser extent life in the United States—during the middle decades of the twentieth century. The result is a book that will appeal to baseball strategists and fans of the game's and the state's history. Richards's early years, based on 1980s interviews of Paul Richards and later interviews with Richards's daughter Paula, describe a typical life in Texas just after the turn of the century. Corbett notes Richards's obsession with baseball while providing a clear portrait of daily living in Waxahachie, Texas. Then, using a mixture of primary and secondary sources, Corbett follows the Wizard through his undistinguished playing career to his emergence as one of the most-respected minds in baseball, and finally, to Richards's slow disengagement from the game. Corbett examines the many changes in the national pastime over those decades, some initiated by Richards himself, including an oversized catcher's mitt, pitch counts and "B.A. with base on balls" (111), Richards's term for on base percentage. Interestingly, the impact, at least of the latter two, has been much greater forty years after Richards introduced them. As the century progressed, the relation between baseball and American culture weakened. The Wizard of Waxahachie disconnects the two simply by focusing exclusively on Richards's managerial career after World War II. Here, fans of this Golden Age of Baseball will find an excellent look into Richards's influence on the building of two then perennial losers, the Chicago White Sox and the Baltimore Orioles, into the pennant winners of 1959 and 1966, respectively. Of course, by the time those pennant years came, Richards was elsewhere. Included elsewhere are the Houston Colt .45s and the Texas Rangers (with [End Page 93] stops in Atlanta and again in Chicago interrupting his time in Texas). Unfortunately for fans in the Lone Star State, Richards did not do for the clubs in his home state what he did for the Chicago and Baltimore nines. Corbett's account of Richards's tenure in both Texas cities provides insight into the reasons for the failures and, possibly, for why neither franchise has won baseball's ultimate prize, a World Series championship. Throughout, Corbett provides a balanced profile of Richards, noting his personal failures while avoiding unfair character assassinations. Comments from associates of Richards, players and administrators, encompass praise and disparagement. Corbett claims, "Richards's style fell between McGraw's and Herzog's . . . Richards was respected by many but loved by none" (254). Those with positive memories of Richards include Brooks Robinson and Tony LaRussa, who provided the book's foreword and introduction, respectively; neither essay should be overlooked. For fans attracted solely to the contemporary game, these opening comments will be the best part of the book; those who delve further will be rewarded with an intriguing look at the game before free agency "end[ed] baseball as we know it" (316). Baseball researchers, especially those seeking the origins of many of the game's innovations, will find Corbett's commentary and bibliography valuable. His work will help keep Richards's impact on baseball from being forgotten in a society infatuated with winners. Alan C. Atchison Texas State University—San Marcos Copyright © 2010 The Texas State Historical Association

Brian DeLay . War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.‐Mexican War . (The Lamar Series in Western History.) New Haven : Yale University Press , in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. 2008 . Pp. xxi, 473. $35.00.

Brian DeLay . War of a Thousand Deserts: Indian Raids and the U.S.‐Mexican War . (The Lamar Series in Western History.) New Haven : Yale University Press , in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. 2008 . Pp. xxi, 473. $35.00.

Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill , editors. Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories . (American Encounters/Global Interactions.) Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University . 2010 . Pp. x, 373. Cloth $89.95, paper $24.95.

Benjamin H. Johnson and Andrew R. Graybill , editors. Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories . (American Encounters/Global Interactions.) Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University . 2010 . Pp. x, 373. Cloth $89.95, paper $24.95.

BENJAMIN H. JOHNSON, ANDREW R. GRAYBILL, editors. Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories. (American Encounters/Global Interactions.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. 2010. Pp. x, 373. Cloth $89.95, paper $24.95

BENJAMIN H. JOHNSON, ANDREW R. GRAYBILL, editors. Bridging National Borders in North America: Transnational and Comparative Histories. (American Encounters/Global Interactions.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. 2010. Pp. x, 373. Cloth $89.95, paper $24.95

Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter's Last Goodbye (review)

Reviewed by: Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter's Last Goodbye Nancy Lord Full Moon at Noontide: A Daughter's Last Goodbye. By Ann Putnam. Dallas, TX: Southern Methodist University Press, 2009. 255 pages, $22.50. Anyone who has traveled with loved ones through modern America's version of old-age death—that is, the years of increasing debilitation; the drugs and operations and medical interventions; the sequences of emergency rooms, hospitals, "rehabilitation" facilities, nursing homes, and hospice care—will find familiar country in Ann Putnam's memoir. She delivers a story both profoundly painful and somehow life-affirming, lifted into literature by her sharp intelligence and luminous writing. As she puts it, "In old age, the hold to decorousness is a hold to a full moon waning" (57). Full Moon at Noontide is the story of Putnam's final devotions to her parents and her beloved uncle, her father's identical twin. Beginning with her father's stroke, we accompany all three elders as they physically and mentally come apart; we witness Putnam's dutiful, only-child attentions to them. But she also revisits the bonds between the three and the past, the forces that shaped their lives, and the love they bestowed upon her as a child. As she asks and answers in her preface, "What interest might there be in reading of this inevitable journey taken by such ordinary people? Turned to the light just so, the beauty and laughter of the telling transcend the darkness of the tale" (xxi). Much, of course, has been written about death and dying. (We might remember Freud: "The goal of all life is death.") Many memoirs and texts purport to be guides of one sort or another—to get us through, to provide practical or spiritual sustenance. Thankfully, Putnam, a Hemingway scholar and professor of creative writing and women's studies at the University of Puget Sound, chose a different path. Her honest narrative [End Page 194] does not gloss the ugly realities of aging and the difficult choices that families must make. What she does do is show respect for everyone involved and write with—not about—beauty. Here is her father: "And the sudden, garbled speech. He'd wake in the morning to find another part of him had flown off in the night" (151). For all Putnam's erudition, her touchstones in this book are not literary; they're family stories, dreams, sometimes popular culture (shared television programs, songs, baseball). I might have expected more references to literature in such a book, beyond the ones to Thoreau and his metaphors that show up early. I kept thinking, surely this Hemingway scholar will have something to say about Hemingway's suicide or the renewal his war-torn Nick Adams found in "Big Two-Hearted River"; surely she'll then launch into a consideration of suicide as an end-of-life choice, or she'll reflect on nature's healing qualities. Or perhaps she'd relate to another text about caring for an elderly parent, such as Oregonian John Daniel's award-winning Looking After: A Son's Memoir (1996). The lack of such contextualizing, however, may well be offset by the purity of the experience Putnam so elegantly describes, unencumbered by events outside her family intimacies. Nancy Lord University of Alaska Anchorage Copyright © 2010 The Western Literature Association

Practical Considerations for Sustainability: “On the Other Hand”1

In a recent Washington Post article, William M. Kirwin and Gerald Turner (Chancellor of the University System of Maryland and President of Southern Methodist University, respectively) claim without equivocation that the present business model in the 120 universities that comprise the NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) is unsustainable. Writing on behalf of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, both advocate that data and common sense should drive institutional leaders toward immediate reform.

Death Like Sudden Death

Death Like Sudden Death Brad Vice (bio) Hills Like White Hills. W. D. Wetherell. Southern Methodist University Press. http://www.tamu.edu/upress/SMU/smugen.html. 243 pages; cloth, $22.50. Anyone one who has ever been a student of a freshman literature class has probably spent at least a small amount of time pondering the metaphorical nature of the "hills" in Ernest Hemingway's famous, and often taught, short story "Hills Like White Elephants." But how many of us have considered the literal nature of these hills? A prize-winning author of almost twenty books, W.D. Wetherell has written a new collection of stories, Hills Like White Hills, that seems to be deeply engaged with the literal dangers of the world, but also the stories we tell in order not to succumb to these fears. In the title story, "Hills Like White Hills," the protagonist, Anderson, searches the jagged mountains of New Hampshire for the wreckage of his son's airplane, which disappeared the previous Christmas Eve. As the anniversary of the plane's disappearance draws close, the likelihood of finding the wreckage and closure seems bleak at best. In this acute but highly functioning state of grief, Anderson is disdainful of fantasy in any shape or form, and he has even lost his own ability to imagine anything other than "his son's final seconds." Over and over, he places himself inside the cockpit: it was always the rushing vertigo, the blinding forwardness, the shoulder straps tightening, straining, snapping—but try as he would, summon up all of his courage, he could never get past that moment, imagine impact, not unless he knew for certain where that impact had happened. This "blinding forwardness" has erased his ability to see the hills that surround him as anything other than hills. Anderson remembers how once on camping trip, he and his son had played a car game, "trying to make each mountain into a familiar shape. A llama, a roller coaster, an elephant." But there are no elephants in the hills now: "The hills that confronted him out the windshield refused to be anything but stark white hills, and the deeper he drove into them, the more their literalness seemed to matter, matter hard." Later in the story, we are told that Anderson fears his son's disappearance will "become an unsolved mystery, written up in anniversary articles when the rest of the news was thin, fodder for hacks. Literalness was what he wanted, answers. Hills like white hills. Death like sudden death." At this point, the reader may suspect that Wetherell is trying to out-Hemingway Hemingway. But the story makes a subtle yet dramatic shift, when Anderson's hunt leads him to a woman who has reported hearing a plane in the mountains on Christmas Eve—Sarah Hall, an elderly invalid who has lived in the mountains her entire life. And with her entrance into the story, the "blinding forwardness" of Anderson's narration begins to wander into a Katherine Anne Porter-esque stream-of-consciousness. Sly point-of-view shifts vacillate between Anderson and Sarah, and though the plane she reports hearing roar through the hills was piloted not by Anderson's son on Christmas Eve last year, but by her first lover on Christmas Eve, 1932—Anderson is finally able to escape the terrible literalness that has been pressing in on his life and is able to receive that most precious of gifts—a story. Thus, perhaps Wetherell's collection may be read to say story is the antidote to grief, though some of the characters in the collection lose the saving grace of stories rather than finding balm in them. In "That Old Montana Pure," one can't help but chuckle upon reading the first sentence of the story: "My father was the best cowboy singer in the state of Maine." What follows is a portrait of a somewhat ridiculous man who has dedicated his life to a profession his daughter considers clownish. Sandy spends part of her childhood in the 1950s singing embarrassing duets at state fairs and church socials with her dad, celebrity cowboy Jack Stang, before her father abandons his family...

Tisa Wenger . We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. 2009 . Pp. xx, 333. Cloth $59.95, paper $22.95.

Tisa Wenger . We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom . Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press , in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. 2009 . Pp. xx, 333. Cloth $59.95, paper $22.95.

Historic Texas from the Air (review)

Book Reviews Jesús F. de la Teja, Editor Hütoric Texas from the Air. By David Buisseret, Richard Francaviglia, and Gerald Saxon, photographs by Jack W. Graves Jr. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2009. Pp. 218. Illustrations, color and b&w photographs, maps, index. ISBN 9780292719279, $45.00 cloth.) Fans of T. R. Fehrenbach's Texas: A Salute from Above (World Publishing Services , 1985) will delight in a new volume ofaerial photographs ofthe state: Historic Texasfrom theAir, by David Buisseret, Richard Francaviglia and Gerald Saxon, with photography byJack W. GravesJr. The authors of Historic Texas set out to help the reader explore the history of Texas in its geographic context, using angled aerial photographs of some of the most significant sites of the state's past. Through this unconventional point of view, the authors achieve what would be difficult from any other perspective: the visual story of how the land has shaped Texans, and how Texans have shaped the land. The isolation early Texans must have felt is more palpable to the twenty-first century reader after viewing Fort Davis from the air and the barren, rocky landscape surrounding it. A bird's eye view of Galveston and its seawall makes it apparent how dramatically Texans have changed the land since Cabeza de Vaca first was shipwrecked on the island's inhospitable shores. The volume also includes sites that could not be fully appreciated from any other angle—the twisted tangle offreeways that make up the Fort Worth Mixmaster , the immensity of the scattered rocks at the Alibates Flint Quarries near Amarillo , the contrast of the wild, craggy landscape of the Palo Duro Canyon alongside neat, patchwork-quilt squares of agricultural land. Each of Graves's brilliant photographs is accompanied by a summary of the historic significance of the site. The volume is supplemented with other relevant images—satellite photographs of Texas from NASA, both contemporary and historic maps, detailed pictures of significant features of the sites (such as the pictographs at Hueco Tanks) and historic illustrations and documents. The authors of Historic Texas from the Air succeed in presenting an inclusive version of the history ofTexas, devoting significant space to the Native American and Spanish contributions to the story of the land. Curiously, however, while they include sections on Baylor University, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Texas at El Paso and Southern Methodist University, they neglect Texas A&M University and Rice University, two more of Texas's leading institutions of higher learning. 530Southwestern Historical QuarterlyApril Historic Texas from the Air deserves a place on the bookshelves of teachers and students of Texas history, as well as those with a general interest in the subject . It is both a work of scholarship and art, and it offers a rare and important perspective. League City, TexasElizabeth Chapman New Guide to Spanish and Mexican Land Grants in South Texas. Compiled by Galen D. Greaser. (Austin: Texas General Land Office, 2009. Pp. 344. Illustrations, figures, glossary, bibliography, index. $15.00 paper.) Don't let die title mislead you. This New Guideis much more thanjust a revamping of the 1 988 index to the Spanish and Mexican land grants available from the Texas General Land Office. Based on Virginia H. Taylor's 1976 Index to Spanhh and Mexican Land Grants and on the 1 988 guide written by William Todd IV under the direction ofJesús F. de la Teja, this New Guide is written by Galen D. Greaser, a 25-year veteran of the General Land Office. In this work Greaser provides the best and most extensive overview of the history ofland grants in South Texas from 1740 to the twentieth century. The history, tided Once Upon a River" encompasses the first half of the book, more than 150 pages, and includes four appendices , while the second half provides a far more detailed and complete list of the land grant records. Galen Greaser's keen interest in the history of Hispanics in Texas has led him to research South Texas land grants. His scholarship is amply evident in the many footnotes and in the in-depth research into the materials available from the historic archives in Saltillo, Monterrey, Mexico City, and...

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