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12. Texas in the Twentieth Century
Barton, Jim Tom. Eighter from Decatur: Growing Up in North Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1980. RGC: F 394 .D259 B373
Bedichek, Roy. Letters of Roy Bedichek. Edited by William A. Owens and Lyman Grant. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1985. ·Subjects include politics, world events, economics, education, the University of Texas at Austin, sports, natural history, folklore, and literature. Author (1878-1959) was a farmer, jounalist, director of the University Interscholastic League, and noted naturalist. Was good friend of J. Frank Dobie and Walter Prescott Webb.) RVS: QH 31 .B38 A35 1985
Boyd, Jean A. The Jazz of the Southwest: An Oral History of Western Swing. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998. (A hybrid source. Author writes about the subject, often quoting from persons he interviewed about development of western swing, especially with respect to Bob Wills, the most important figure in the movement. Occasionally, he quotes the secondary source works of historians.) NRG, RVS: ML 3541 .B69 1998
Bullock, Bob. A Special Financial Report, August, 1984: The Geography of Texas Taxes. Austin, Texas: Comptroller of Public Accounts, Research Division, 1984. RVS: HC 107 .T4 T3941 1984
Burns, Mamie Sypert. This I Can Leave You: A Woman's Days on the Pitchfork Ranch. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1986. NRG, RVS: F 394 .P53 B87 1986
Bush, George W. A Charge to to Keep. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1999. (Written with Karen Hughes. This is a campaign autobiography, written as part of Bush's bid for the presidency of the United States in 2000. Emphasis is on the author's experiences as governor of Texas in the 1990s.) NRG, RGC, RVS: F 391.4 .B87 A3 (In Leisure Reading section, Fall 2000. Probably to be moved to main stacks later. Check catalog for exact location .)
Carr, Wagonner. Texas Politics in my Rearview Mirror. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 1993. (Humorous anecdotes of political career of man who was a state legislator in the 1950s, attorney-general in the '60s, and unsuccessful candidate for govenor and U.S. senator afterward.) EVC: F 391.2 .C33 1993
Clark, John E. The Fall of the Duke of Duval: A Prosector's Journal. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1995. (Author was the prosecuting attorney who presented who presented evidence against George Archer Parr to a federal grand jury in San Antonio in the 1970s.) NRG: KF 224 .P39 C55 1995
Connally, John Bowden. In History's Shadow: An American Odyssey. New York: Hyperion, 1993. NRG, RVS Leisure Reading Collection: E 840.8 .C66 A3
Connally, Thomas Terry (as told to Alfred Steinberg). My Name is Tom Connally. New York: Crowell, 1954. (Autobiography of Texas politician. In Texas house of representatives, 1901-1905, U.S. house , 1917-1929, U.S senate, 1929-1953. Early chapters deal with his youth in Central Texas in late 19th century.) NRG: E 748 .C76 A3
Dobie, J. Frank. Some Part of Myself. Boston: Little Brown, 1967. NRG, RGC: PS 3507 .O1833 Z52
Ely, Stanley E. In Jewish Texas: A Family Memoir. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1998. (Recounts his family history from his mother's fleeing Tsarist Russia in the late 19th century for Galveston and Houston (briefly), then to the family's long-term residence in Dallas, first in the old Jewish enclave in South Dallas and then in University Park. Author has lived most of his adult life in New York, but has made frequent trips back to Texas. The memoir ends in the 1990s.) CYP, RGC: CT 275 .E425 A3 1998
García, Mario T. Memories of Chicano History: The Life and Narrative of Bert Corona. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994. (Corona is a labor organizer and political activist. Chapters 1-3 deal with his childhood and youth in El Paso between 1918-1936. The remainder of the book has to do with Corona's life in California. Garcia interviewed Corona extensively, the result of which is this first-person narrative.) RGC, RVS: HD8073.C67 G37 1994
Goodwyn, Frank. Life on the King Ranch. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1993. (Author grew up on the ranch, where his father was section manager for the Norias Division.Years covered: 1911-1936.) PIN, RGC: F 392 .K47 G66 1993
Graves, John. Goodbye to a River: A Narrative. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1960. RGC, RVS: F 392 .B842 G7 1976
Graves, John. Hard Scrabble: Observations on a Patch of Land. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. NRG, RGC: S 521.5 .T4 G7 1974
Greene, A. C. A Personal Country. Rev. ed. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1979. NRG: F 391.2 .G66 1979
Griffin, John Howard. Black Like Me. (Updated, with a new epilogue.) New York: Penguin, 1976. CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 185.61 G.8 1976
Hastings, Frank S. A Ranchman's Recollections: An Autobiography in Which Unfamiliar Facts Bearing upon the Origin of the Cattle Industry in the Southwest and of the American Packing Business are Stated, and Characteristic Incidents Recorded. Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1985. (Author managed SMS Ranch, Stamford, Texas between 1902 and 1922.) NRG: SF 194.2 .H37 A3 1985
Heat Moon, William Least. Blue Highways: A Journey into America. Boston: Little, Brown, 1982. Part of the books deals with the author's journey through parts of Texas at about the beginning of the 1980s. NRG, RGC: E 169.04 .H4 1982. (Another copy, with different publication data, is at EVC.)
Hunt, Annie Mae. I Am Annie Mae: An Extraordinary Woman in Her Own Words: The Personal Story of a Black Texas Woman. Collected and edited by Ruthe Winegarten and Frieda Werden. 3rd ed. Austin, Texas: Rosegarden, 1989. EVC, PIN: E 185.93 .T4 H864 1989. (The 2nd edition, published in 1984, is at NRG. The 1st edition, published in 1983, is at RGC and RVS. A later edition is at CYP, EVC, NRG, PIN, RGC, and RVS. Publication data is Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. The call number is E 185.93 T4 H864 1996.)
Johnson, Rachel Ruth Wood. Memories Are Forever: A Personal Remembrance of Growing Up and Life in Texas and the American Southwest, 1904-1986. (Women in History, number 111.) Dallas: Monument, 1987. RVS: F 391 .J66 1987.
Johnson, Rebekah Baines. Letters from the Hill Country: The Correspondence between Rebekah and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Austin, Texas: Thorp Springs Press, 1982. RGC: E 848 .J66 1982
Jordan, Barbara. Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1979. CYP, NRG, PIN, RGC, RVS: E 840.8 .J62 A33
Lambert, Paul F., and Kenny A. Franks, eds. Voices from the Oil Fields. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984. (Interviews with both men and women. Most have to do with Oklahoma experiences, but documents 3, 10, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 20 have Texas material.) RGC, RVS: HD 8039 .P42 U68195 1984
Lipscomb, Mance (as told to Glen Alyn). I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman. New York: W. W. Norton, 1993. (Tape-recorded recollections of Lipscomb, transcribed and arranged in narrative form by Alyn. Lipscomb was a black blues musican who lived most of his life (1895-1976) in Navasota.) RGC: ML 420 .L67 A3 1993
López, Tiffany Ann, ed. Growing Up Chicana/o, an Anthology. New York,William Morrow, 1993. (Materials relevant to Texas are on pp. 127-132, 219-230, 251-269.) RVS: PS 508 .M4 G76 1993
McCallum, Jane Y. A Texas Suffragist: Diaries and Writings of Jane Y. McCallum. Austin, Tex.: E. C. Temple, 1988. NRG, RGC: JK 1899 .M35 A3 1988
McMurtry, Larry. In a Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas. Austin, Texas: Encino Press, 1968. NRG: F 3912 .M25 (One-day reserve item.).(Reprint, 1983, with different publication data, is at PIN, RGC, and RVS. Only the RVS copy circulates. The others are one-hour reserves.)
McWhorter, Frankie (as told to John R. Erickson). Cowboy Fiddler. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 1992. (Memoirs of life on a ranch, fiddle playing [including much about working with Bob Wills], etc..Years covered: late 1940s-1980s.) RVS: F 391.4 .M28 R3 1991
Monday, Jane Clements, and Betty Bailey Colley. Voices from the Wild Horse Desert: The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. (Between 1989-1985 the authors interviewed more than sixty members of vaquero families, ranging in age from 20 to 93. Most of the book consists of the words of the interviewees.) RVS: 395 .M5 M63 1997
Morehead, Richard. 50 Years in Texas Politics: From Roosevelt to Reagan, from the Fergusons to Clements. Burnet, Texas: Eakin Press, 1982. RGC, RVS: F 391.2 .M674 1982
Morris, Celia. Storming the Statehouse: Running for Governor with Ann Richards and Dianne Feinstein. New York: C. Scribner's, 1992. PIN, RGC: F 391.4 .R53 M67 1992
Morris, Willie. North Toward Home. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967. CYP: CT 275 .M59444 A3
Nash, Sunny. Bigmama Didn't Shop at Woolworth's. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. (African-American autobiography.) RVS: F 394 /B94 M 37 1996
Owens, William A. Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song: A Texas Chronicle. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1983. RGC: ML 429 .O85 A3 1983
Owens, William A. This Stubborn Soil: A Frontier Boyhood. With an introduction by John Graves. New York: Lyons & Burford, 1986. (Author recounts struggle to overcome poverty and hunger in early 20th-century East Texas, and to obtain an education.) RVS: F 392 .L36 O9 1986
Pryor, Cactus. Inside Texas: Commentaries from KLBJ-AM, Austin, Texas. Bryan, Texas: Shoal Creek Publishers, 1982. NRG, RGC: F 385 .P794 1982
Rather, Dan (with Peter Wyden). I Remember: Growing Up in Texas. Boston: Little, Brown, 1991. . (Author's "affectionate and nostalgic memoir about growing up in Texas during the late 1930s and 1940s." Much about family and small town life near Houston.) CYP: PN 4874 .R28 A3 1991
Richards, Ann. Straight from the Heart: My Life in Politics and other Places. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1989. NRG, PIN, RVS: E 840.8 R49 A3 1989
Rigler, Lewis C., and Judyth W. Rigler. In the Line of Duty: Reflections of a Texas Ranger Private. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1995. (Author served in Texas law enforcement from 1941 to 1977, first as a Department of Public Safefy patrolman, then as a Texas Ranger.) CYP: HV 7911 .R53 A3 1995
Roach, Joyce Gibson, ed. Collective Heart: Texans in World War II. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1996. (Relevant material: the first ten documents, which are primary source memoirs by various persons who experienced the war on the "home front" in Texas.) RVS: D 769.85 .T4 C65 1996
Robinson, Dorothy Redus.The Bell Rings at Four: A Black Teacher's Chronicle of Change. Austin, Tex.: Madrona Press, 1978. (Author, an African American, chronicles 46-year experiences as Texas educator. Tells of segregated schools, desegregation movement [including effects on both blacks and whites], author's teaching philosophy, etc.) RVS: LA 2315 .T42 R627 1978
Stillwell, Hallie Crawford. I'll Gather My Geese. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1991. (Reminiscences, beginning in 1918, of a ranchwoman and journalist in the Marathon area in the Big Bend country of Texas.) NRG: F 394 .M295 S75 1991
Stimpson, Eddie. My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression. Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1996. (Author born in 1929 into a farm family living in southern Collin County. Some of the reminiscences continue into the early 1950s.) NRG: F 394 .P62 A75 1996
Strickland, Ron. Texans: Oral Histories from the Lone Star State. New York: Paragon House, 1991. (More than fifty testimonies, including those by Elmer Kelton, Bum Bright, Larry L. King, Marvin Zindler, Percy Foreman, John Henry Faulk, A. J. Judice, Clem Mikeska, and Alan Bean. Also bank robbers, Texas Rangers, ranchers, politicians, and many others.) PIN: CT 262 .S87 1991
Stricklin, Al. My Years with Bob Wills. 2nd edition. Burnet, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1980. RGC: ML 417 .S92 A3 1980
Texas. State Data Center. Census 1980: Final Population and Housing Counts for Texas: Cities, Counties, SMSAa. Austin, Texas: The Office, 1981. NRG Reference: HB 3525 .T3 C367 1980
Timmons, William. Twilight on the Range: Recollections of a Latterday Cowboy. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962. NRG, RGC: F 596 .T53
United States. Bureau of the Census. 1990 Census of Housing: Detailed Housing Characteristics: Texas. 2 vols. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, 1993. NRG: HB 3525 T3 C36744 1990
United States. Bureau of the Census. 1990 Census of Population and Housing. Summary Population and Housing Characteristics. Texas. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Commerce, Economics and Statistics Administration, Bureau of the Census, 1991. NRG, RGC, RVS HB 3525 T3 C3674 1990. NRG: HB 3523 .T3 G46
White, Charley C., and Ada Morehead Holland. No Quittin' Sense. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1991 (reprint of 1969 ed.). (White's life story, based on tape recordings of his own narrative, written down in book form by Holland. White was an African-American minister in rural East Texas. Was first a Baptist, then a member of the Church of God in Christ. Events covered begin in early 20th century and continue to about 1967.) NRG, RGC, RVS: BX 6455 .W47 A3 1994. (RGC has an older copy whose call number ends in 1969 instead of 1994.)
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