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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
the works of Frederic Remington held at the Amon Carter Museum of West-
ern Art. Most museum exhibition catalogues have limited value after the ex-
hibition is dismantled. It is to the credit of Peter H. Hassrick, who wrote the
accompanying essay, that this catalogue has more lasting value.
The essay covers the early years of Remington, his family and his training
through his early popular acceptance. In many ways this is the most arresting
part of the essay. The middle and late (if an early death at 48 is late) de-
velopment of Remington is more familiar and seems to need fleshing out but
undoubtedly this was limited by the catalogue's format.
The many small reproductions adequately illustrate the author's essay but
fail to give the reader an idea of Remington's masterful handling of color and
paint. The footnotes should give the enthusiastic student more sources for
further study.
It would be unfair to criticize this work for being neither a definitive biog-
raphy nor an in depth critique of Remington's paintings. This would be be-
yond the limitations of an exhibition catalogue. Hassrick does tease us, how-
ever, with tempting bits of information that point out the weaknesses of most
writers on Remington-they seldom take him seriously as a painter while as-
sailing his critics for the same shortsightedness. More detailed information on
the Impressionist influence on Remington's treatment of light, more comment
on his rather daring compositions and less emphasis on his subject matter
would go a long way to remove Remington from semi-artistic limbo. Hassrick
can only be faulted for whetting our appetites.
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts BARNEY DELABANO
Bcomtown: A Portrait of Burkburnett. By Minnie King Benton. (Wichita
Falls: Nortex Offset Publications, Inc., 1972. Pp. 65. Illustrations, notes,
bibliography. $4.95.)
Terrell, Texas: 1873-1973. By Jack Stoltz. (San Antonio: The Naylor Com-
pany, 1973. Pp. xiii-- 170o. Illustrations, notes, bibliography. $6.95.)
Minnie K. Benton's short history of Burkburnett focuses largely upon the
oil boom of 1918 to I922, a time when peak production reached I00,00o bar-
rels per day. Included are comments about the town before the boom and
afterwards, but the author apparently based this book upon her twenty-one
year old master's thesis at North Texas State, and concludes it with a chapter,
"Present-Day Burkburnett, 1952," and a four-page epilogue concerning more
recent events.
Jack Stolz's history of Terrell, in contrast, is longer and more detailed. In-
stead of moving chronologically through the story as did Benton, he discusses
topics such as political structure, water supply, fire control, sewerage, schools,
and the state hospital. The best parts of both books are the biographical
sketches-Burke Burnett and John C. Hardin from Burkburnett, and Edward
H. R. Green of Terrell. Neither author, however, offers much analysis or
comparison to other places. Their bibliographies are too brief, neither has an
index, and both lack adequate footnotes. But, if you go to find a history of528
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