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story behind the word, that is. Smith's book, however, should be of
great use to anyone who has ever wondered why, for instance, U.S.
military men called a mule a "John Daisy" (the term is a corruption
of the Navajo word for mule). This work was begun by the author's
father, who-like his son-was a military man frequently stationed in
the Southwest. The book is $19.50 from Arthur H. Clark Company,
Box 230, Glendale, California 912o9.
The Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas at
Austin has begun to release a series of atlases on the submerged lands
off the coast of Texas. These books will describe, through texts, maps,
tables, and figures, the geology, chemistry, and biology of the state-
owned lands of Texas bays and the inner continental shelf. The first
report, which covers the Corpus Christi area, has already been re-
leased and sells for $9.50 (plus $1.75 for handling and mailing and
$0.46 sales tax for Texas residents). The remaining six volumes will
be devoted to Galveston-Houston, Brownsville-Harlingen, Beaumont-
Port Arthur, Bay City-Freeport, Port Lavaca, and Kingsville; they
will be released over the next two years. Those interested in this new
series should contact the Bureau of Economic Geology, University of
Texas at Austin, Box X, University Station, Austin 78712.
On April 22, 1889, pistol and carbine shots started the land rush
into the unassigned Indian lands called Oklahoma country. At the
same time, these shots heralded the end of frontier life and the begin-
ning of the urbanization of Indian Territory. New towns sprang up all
over the territory in just one day. Towns with names like Buckhead,
Lakeview, Waterloo, or Zion "bubbled up," only to become forgotten
cemeteries in a few years. Others like Guthrie, Stillwater, and Okla-
homa City persevered and attracted merchants, newspapers, doctors,
and lawyers to create the new communities. People staked out claims
to acreage and courts were tied up for years separating valid from in-
valid land claims. These "sooner" cases-named after the epithet hung
on those who had jumped the gun and staked their claims out pre-
maturely-helped to change methods of distributing government lands
in this country. Other land runs were held after the one in Oklahoma,
but it was the Oklahoma run that first made people aware of the un-
fairness and inadequacy of this method of allocation. Now, the Okla-
homa Historical Society has released The Oklahoma Land Rush of
1889 by Stan Hoig of Central State University. Hoig has delved ex-
tensively into government reports and records, contemporary news-315
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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/m1/363/: accessed May 14, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.