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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
ines the revolution against the background of political and cultural
tension that developed between the two dominant groups on the
Mexican frontier. In order to clarify this complex struggle for inde-
pendence, the author describes the economic, social, and political prob-
lems that created misunderstanding and led to the Texans' efforts to
protect their interests. He traces these efforts, which included di-
plomacy, political maneuvering, and the final military solution. How
these often misunderstood political and military problems were met is
the story presented in this incisive study of the revolutionary events
that will soon be celebrated in our sesquicentennial. The Texas Revo-
lution may be ordered for $12.95 (cloth) or $6.50 (paper) and is also
available in a special limited edition of one hundred for $40.oo. This
edition is boxed, and contains a map and illustrations.
The Association is proud to make these three Texas classics avail-
able once again. They may be ordered from Texas A&8M University
Press (Drawer C, College Station 77843-4354) for the prices listed,
plus tax (5.125%0). The Fred H. and Ella Mae Moore Texas History
Reprint Series will be producing other facsimile editions of important,
out-of-print Texana in the future.
In May, 1984, Cisco Junior College issued volume I, number I, of
the Cross Timbers Review. The Review is meant to provide a mix of
fiction, poetry, literary criticism, history, and biography relating to the
Southwest, and this first issue accomplishes its goal quite well. Fiction
is represented by two short pieces: "Time of the Panther," by Paul
Ruffin, and "The Battle of Dove Creek," an excerpt from Elmer Kel-
ton's new novel Stand Proud. The latter short story is a recounting of
the disastrous battle, south of San Angelo in January, 1865, between
peaceful Kickapoo Indians, who were migrating to Mexico, and Texas
state border guards, who had mistaken the Indians for a raiding party.
Kelton's story focuses on the experiences of Frank Claymore and his
friend Homer Whitcomb as they try to stay together and to stay alive
throughout the desperate and ill-advised encounter. While Ruffin's
short story is set in Alabama rather than in the Southwest, the events
described have the qualities that are shared by rural areas in the early
part of this century and by adolescent boys growing up in them. Liter-
ary criticism is represented by Don B. Graham's essay on Benjamin
Capp's unpublished first novel--a work that is untypical of Capp's
later novels in that it is set in a contemporary period, the 1930s-and
by William T. Pilkington's analysis of N. Scott Momaday's House
Made of Dawn. Poetry is ably represented by works of Daryl E. Jones,312
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 88, July 1984 - April, 1985, periodical, 1984/1985; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101210/m1/360/: accessed May 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.