The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 55, July 1951 - April, 1952 Page: 493
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Under the title Good Soldiers Do Die, the Dallas Times Herald
has issued a booklet on James Bowie and the fall of the Alamo
written by Paul Wellman, author of the Iron Mistress. The essay,
which was first published in the Times Herald, has been taste-
fully illustrated and printed by Emilie and Fritz A. Toepperwein
of the Highland Press in Boerne.
The Shamrock Oil and Gas Corporation sends its season's
greetings with a print in color of "Blazing the Goodnight Trail"
by Harold D. Bugbee.
Three Association members and an Association publication
were honored by the Texas Institute of Letters in 1951.
At its annual meeting in Dallas in November, the Institute
announced the presentation of the $i,ooo Summerfield G. Rob-
erts award of the Sons of the Republic of Texas to Dr. Eugene
C. Barker for his book, The Life of Stephen F. Austin, Founder
of Texas, 1793-1836, the second edition of which the Association
published in 1949. The award was given for the best book on
the Republic of Texas regardless of the publication date. Dr.
Barker, the dean of Texas historians, is a distinguished professor
emeritus of the University of Texas and a long-time fellow, pa-
tron, and member of the executive council of the Association.
He is a former editor of the Quarterly and has published a num-
ber of other Texas history books.
Dr. Walter Prescott Webb, former director of the Association
and editor of the Quarterly and currently a member of its
executive council, was named a fellow, the Institute's highest
honor. Last year Association member J. Frank Dobie became
the Institute's first fellow; Dr. Webb was the second to be chosen.
He is professor of history at the University and is the author of
The Great Plains, The Texas Rangers, and Divided We Stand:
The Crisis of Frontierless Democracy. Harper's magazine in Oc-
tober and November, 1951, carried two articles by Dr. Webb,
explaining his thesis that a four-hundred year boom has ended,
leaving a frontierless age.
Association member and assistant professor of history at the
University, Dr. Joe B. Frantz won the $i,ooo Carr P. Collins
award for his book, Gail Borden: Dairyman to a Nation. The493
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