WTHA Publications - Yearbook, volumes 81-90

The West Texas Historical Association Review (Titled The WTHA Yearbook until 2014) is published annually.

Volume 81, 2005

  • Sweeny, Kevin. "The Evaporating Frontier: Drought and the Northwest Texas Frontier 1854-1865": vol. 81: 7.
  • Hawkins, Rusty. "A Promise Kept: The Canadian River Municipal Water Authority": vol. 81: 19.
  • Haes, Brenda. "The T-Anchor Ranch and Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory: The Cowboys and the Indians": vol. 81: 33.
  • Wright, Paul. "The Evolution of 'Barrilla' Spring": vol. 81: 53.
  • Fink, Rob. "Kings of the World:Abilene High School Fooball in the 1950s": vol. 81: 77.
  • Hoover, Sandy. "Searching for Meaning in the 'Llano Estacado": vol. 81: 90.
  • Owens, Keith. "Say It Ain't So or History à la The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance": vol. 81: 102.
  • Armes, Ashley. "Kent Hance, George W. Bush, and West Texas' 1978 Congressional Election (Outstanding Student Paper Award)": vol. 81: 113.
  • Scott, David. "The Train Crash at Crush, Texas": vol. 81: 124.
  • Campbell, Suzanne. "John W. Twohig, Irishman, Banker, and Texas Patriot": vol. 81: 131.
  • Ramirez, Abel. "Out With the Old, In With the New: The Demise of the Southwest Conference": vol. 81: 144.
  • Kuhlman, Marty. "W. P. Soash and the 'Great American Desert'": vol. 81: 156.
  • Lewis, Preston. "The WASP Who Fell from the Sky": vol. 81: 168.
  • Prose, Sam, Editor. "Notes and Documents- Charles W. Post and the Labor Unions in the Progressive Era": vol. 81: 178.
  • Paschall, Freedonia, Marleta Childs and Julia Saffell. "History in West Texas": vol. 81: 185.
  • Kreidler, Tai. "Affairs of the Association: 2004 Annual Meeting": vol. 81: 214.
  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 81: 220.
  • Fink, Tiffany, Editor. "Book Reviews": vol. 81: 226.

Volume 82, 2006

  • Eoff, Shirley M.  "San Angelo Army Air Field Bombardier School: Military and Civilian Interaction in World War": vol. 82: 7.

  • Ainsworth, Troy.  "The Second Santa Fe Expedition: Jacob Snively and the Mission to Disrupt New Mexico Commerce in 1843": vol. 82: 23.

  • Rich, Harold.  "A Distinctive Legacy: Settlement Patterns of Fort Worth's Hispanic Community": vol. 82: 35.

  • Cooper, Dana.  "Where are the Soldiers in Twentieth-Century Texas? A West Texas Community Study": vol. 82: 52.

  • Specht, Joe W.  "Great Big Taters in the Sandy Land:  The Musical Friendship of Bob Willis & Hoyle Nix": vol. 82: 67.

  • Ely, Glen Sample.  "Bedlam at Belknap:  Frontier Lawlessness on the Butterfield Overland Mail Road in Texas, 1858-1861": vol. 82: 81.

  • Glasrud, Bruce A. and James M. Smallwood.  "The Texas Tech School of Black History:  an Overview": vol. 82: 102.

  • Davis, Kenneth W.  "Lawrence and Sonja Clayton:  Ranchers, Ranching Historians, Academicians and Folklorists": vol. 82:120.

  • McWhorter, William.  "Uvalde and Eagle Pass:  The World War II Army Air Forces and Small West Texas Towns": vol. 82: 131.

  • Pruitt, Nicholas.  "Broadening the Scope:  The High Plains Klan of the 1920s": vol. 82: 156.

  • Pate, J'Nell.  "A Syrian Immigrant in West Texas": vol. 82: 170.

  • [Translated and edited by] Kueth, Allan J., Jorge Iber, Paul H. Carlson, and José Manuel Serrano Álvarez.  "Notes and Documents- Commandant General Felipe de Neve's 1783:  Rebuke of Governor Juan Bautista de Anza": vol. 82: 183.

  • Paschall, Freedonia, Marleta Childs and Julia Saffell.  "History in West Texas": vol. 82: 186.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2006 Annual Meeting": vol. 82: 205.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 82: 212.

  • Fink, Tiffany, Editor.  "Book Reviews": vol. 82: 219.

Volume 83, 2007

  • Álvarez, José Manuel Serrano and Allan J. Kuethe.  "The San Sabá Presidio and Spain's Frontier Policy in North America": vol. 83: 7.

  • McCullough, John W.  "Pre-Flights on Tech Campus: Texas Tech's World War II Pre-Flight Pilots (1943-1944)": vol. 83: 19.

  • Fink, Rob.  "Our Story: The Teaching of Texas History in the Public Schools": vol. 83: 35.

  • Campbell, Suzanne.  "Annie Black and the Soiled Doves of San Angelo": vol. 83: 45.

  • Sheffield, Wes J.  "U. S. Army Primary Helicopter School, Fort Wolters, Texas 1956-1973": vol. 83: 55.

  • Sosebee, Scott.  "Dashed Hopes and Gained Opportunities: Mexican American Education Experiences in Lubbock, Texas from the 1920s through the 1960s": vol. 83: 67.

  • Stephens, Christena.  "Mallet Ranch: What Was, What Is, What the Future Can Be": vol. 83: 87.

  • Volanto, Keith J.  "Up in Arms: Local Protest vs. Placement of Black CCC Camps in West Texas": vol. 83: 96.

  • Hawkins, Rusty.  "Alson Asa Meredith and John C. Williams Generations Apart, Water in Common": vol. 83: 111.

  • Fenton, Jim.  "The Cowboy Earl in England: The Earl of Aylesford's Mysterious Past": vol. 83: 130.

  • Toland, Lewis.  "Standing Proud from a Buckskin Line to Jericho's Road": vol. 83: 148.

  • Lewis, Cheryl.  "A Century of History Yields Far More Than Railroads, Grain Elevators, and Pied Pipers": vol. 83: 155.

  • [Introduction by] Carlson, Paul H.  "Notes and Documents- Jose Piedad Tafoya's Testimony on Behalf of Charles Goodnight in 1893": vol. 83: 188.

  • Paschall, Freedonia, Marleta Childs and Julia Saffell.  "History in West Texas": vol. 83: 200.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2007 Annual Meeting": vol. 83: 222.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 83: 231.

  • Fink, Tiffany, Editor.  "Book Reviews": vol. 83: 239.

Volume 84, 2008

  • Fehr, Kregg.  "Harbingers of Change: Wind Turbines and the Dawning of a New Age in Texas Energy History": vol. 84: 7.

  • Chambers, Clint E.  "Jack Stilwell, a Teenager on the Santa Fe Trail, 1863-1866": vol. 84: 20.

  • Eoff, Shirley.  "Crime and Punishment in Early San Angelo": vol. 84: 31.

  • Stuntz, Jean.  "West Texas Women in Ranching: Myth and Reality": vol. 84: 49.

  • Sweeney, Kevin.  "Drought in the Heart of Texas, 1864-1865": vol. 84: 58.

  • Caraway, John.  "The Texas Mohair Industry and the Seven Year Drought of the 1950's": vol. 84: 74.

  • Stewart, Tracy.  "Founding Mothers of Deaf Smith County": vol. 84: 85.

  • Mathes, W. Michael.  "Medieval Castile on the Llano Estacado: The Vásquez de Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542": vol. 84: 99.

  • Pope, Philip.  "A Failed Plains Empire: W. P. Soash on the South Plains": vol. 84: 109.

  • Kiel, Frank and Ruth.  "The History of the Brownsboro Settlement": vol. 84: 121.

  • Becker, Jack.  "Some Medieval Contributions to the American Southwest: Animal, Environmental, and Vegetable": vol. 84: 138.

  • Christian, Garna.  "'Dear Carl, Dear Ralph:' Correspondence of an Uncommon Friendship": vol. 84: 153.

  • [Edited by] Becker, Jack and Paul H. Carlson.  "Notes and Documents- 'An Account of a Trip on the Great Plains in 1877'": vol. 84: 169.

  • Paschall, Freedonia, Marleta Childs and Julia Saffell.  "History in West Texas": vol. 84: 173.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2008 Annual Meeting": vol. 84: 190.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 84: 199.

  • "Life Members, Past Presidents, and Annual Awards": vol. 84: 201.

  • Stuntz, Jean, Editor.  "Book Reviews": vol. 84: 206.

Volume 85, 2009

  • Levario, Miguel A.  "Cowboys and Bandidos: Authority and Race in West Texas, 1913-1918": vol. 85: 7.

  • Stephens, Christena.  "Double Murder in a Small West Texas Town": vol. 85: 28.

  • Grimshaw, Joe.  "Adrift on a Sea of Oil: Population Change in Desdemona, Texas": vol. 85: 38.

  • Gossman, David M.  "McDonald Observatory: The Origins and Development of a West Texas Scientific Institution": vol. 85: 51.

  • Murrah, David.  "When 'Methodism Grew Mightily:' The First One Hundred Years of the Northwest Texas Conference of the United Methodist Church": vol. 85: 69.

  • Anderson, H. Allen.  "The Laying of the Cornerstone: Lubbock's Most Memorable Armistice Day": vol. 85: 81.

  • Duarte, Gloria.  "Eva Camuñez's Teaching Career, 1932-1942": vol. 85: 96.

  • Townsley, Bill  "Sleuthing the Mysteries of West Texas' Spider Rocks Treasure": vol. 85: 108.

  • Hardman, Peggy.  "Building a Place of their Own: The Kerrville State Sanatorium for 'Negroes'": vol. 85: 121.

  • Ainsworth, Troy.  "Mabel Welch: El Paso's First Woman Architect": vol. 85: 139.

  • Crider, Jonathan B.  "Desertion and Race in the Llano Estacado: The Trial of William L. Umbles, Buffalo Solder": vol. 85: 153.

  • Collins, Marilyn.  "'Coin' Harvey's Ozark Trails Association: Early Road Markers Preserved in Texas": vol. 85: 168.

  • Weiner, Robert G.  "A Brief 100 Year Personal History of the Lubbock and West Texas Musical Heritage": vol. 85: 175.

  • Collett, James.  "Tour of Duty: The West Texas Service of Stephen Carpenter": vol. 85: 193.

  • Matthews, Becky.  "From Log Cabins to the TEA Party: A History of Homeschooling in Texas": vol. 85: 205.

  • Shirley, Ruth Ann.  "'Prisoners Among Prisoners:' Conflicts at Camp Barkeley, Texas": vol. 85: 217.

  • Hinkle, Mary Nell and Betty Rathjen, Editors.  "Notes and Documents- 'An Outing near Sanderson, Texas in 1915'": vol. 85: 231.

  • Paschall, Freedonia, Marleta Childs and Julia Saffell.  "History in West Texas": vol. 85: 233.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2009 Annual Meeting": vol. 85: 253.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 85: 264.

  • "Life Members, Past Presidents, and Annual Awards": vol. 85: 267.

  • Stuntz, Jean, Editor.  "Book Reviews": vol. 85: 273.

Volume 86, 2010

  • De Leon, Arnoldo.  "Tejanos in Northwest Texas: Rural Folks or Urbanites?": vol. 86: 8.

  • Camp, Harman.  "John Ringo in Texas: Much Hoo Doo About Nothing.": vol. 86: 33.

  • Fink, Robert.  "'Sometimes You Win, Sometimes You Lose, Sometimes it Rains': Major League Baseball Comes to Abilene, Texas": vol. 86: 42.

  • Caraway, John.  "Dallas Scarborough: Abilene Attorney and Civic Leader": vol. 86: 53.
  • Saunders, Thomas L. "Six-Man Football Comes to Texas: The Fisher County Six-Man Football League of 1936:" vol. 86: 62.
  • Hathorn, Billy. "Mayor Ernest Angelo, Jr., of Midland and the 96-0 Reagan Sweep of Texas, May 1, 1976": vol. 86: 77.
  • Clark, Robin.  "F. Vandervoort: The Judge Who Wasn't a Judge": vol. 86: 92.
  • Neal, Bill. "Ardor in the Courts!: Sex and Law in Frontier Texas": vol. 86: 110.
  • Woodrick, James, Editor.  "Notes and Documents- 'West Texas in 1853: An Account of a Wagon Train Expedition Seeking Gold in the Guadalupe Mountains'": vol. 86: 124.
  • Ainsworth, Len, Editor. "Notes and Documents- 'Crimmins and Cameron'": vol. 86: 158.
  • Stuntz, Jean, Editor.  "Book Reviews": vol. 86: 170.
  • Paschall, Freedonia and Marleta Childs.  "History in West Texas": vol. 86: 199.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2010 Annual Meeting": vol. 86: 224.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 86: 240.

  • "Life Members, Past Presidents, and Annual Awards": vol. 86: 242.

Volume 87, 2011

  • Murrah, David J.  "'He Stole My Courthouse' : S.B. Hale and the Hansford County Seat Fight of the 1920s": vol. 87: 8.

  • Taylor, Travis.  "Garrison Life at Fort Chadbourne, 1852-1861": vol. 87: 23.

  • Crawford, Patrick.  "Tracking Ancient Beasts: The Saga of the Glen Rose Dinosaur Footprints": vol. 87: 35.

  • Baumgardner, Karl.  "Gentle Persuasion Gone Awry: An Analysis of the Spanish Attempts to Convert the Indians of Spanish Texas": vol. 87: 52.

  • Stuntz, Jean.  "The Early African American Community in Amarillo": vol. 87: 63.

  • Weiner, Robert G.  "Lubbock and West Texas Unsung Musical Hero: The Legendary Stardust Cowboy": vol. 87: 72.

  • Chambers, Clint E.  "Simpson Everett 'Jack' Stillwell: Teamster, Hunter, Frontier Scout, Cowboy, Lawman and Judge": vol. 87: 84.

  • Liles, Debbie.  "Uncontested Ground: The Northwestern Frontier of Texas, 1846-1855": vol. 87: 98.

  • Weaver, R G.  "Home-Brewed: Organized Crime in West Texas in the 1950s": vol. 87: 118.

  • Hathorn, Billy.  "Mayor Jim Reese of Odessa and the Republican Party in the Permian Basin": vol. 87: 127.

  • Chapman, Karla J., PeeWee Roberson and Stacy A. Jacob.  "Rabid Advocates for Fair Play in Football: H. J. Lutcher Stark and L. Theo Bellmont's Vision Becomes the Southwest Conference": vol. 87: 153.

  • Perrin, John, editor.  "Notes and Documents- United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans Collection": vol. 87: 167.

  • Stuntz, Jean, Editor.  "Book Reviews": vol. 87: 176.

  • Paschall, Freedonia and Marleta Childs.  "History in West Texas": vol. 87: 196.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2010 Annual Meeting": vol. 87: 219.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 87: 231.

  • "Life Members, Past Presidents, and Annual Awards": vol. 87: 233

Volume 88, 2012

  • Barr, Alwyn.  "Black Cowboys: Background and Roles in Texas": vol. 88: 8.

  • Cummins, Victoria.  "James Swann in West Texas: An Artist in the Making at Sul Ross" vol. 88: 18.

  • Hammond, Jim. "The Family Forts on the Southern Plains": vol. 88: 33.

  • Lewis, Preston.  "San Angelo Horses Across America": vol. 88: 43.

  • Roach, Lauren.  "The Life and Legacy of Laura Bush," vol. 88: 67.

  • Kuhlman, Marty.  "West Texas State During the War Years": vol. 88: 76.

  • Pospisil, JoAnn.  "Mariscal Mine's Contribution to the Quicksilver Industry" vol. 88: 96.

  • Anderson, H. Allen.  "John C. Granbury and the Modernist-Fundamentalist Controversy of 1931-32": vol. 88: 118.

  • Collett, James.  "It Matters Not: Camp Cooper, Texas, 1861": vol. 88: 133.

  • Williams, Stuart. "The South Plains and 'Southern-ness'": vol. 88: 145.

  • [Edited by] Guthrie, Montie. "Notes, Documents, and Sundries- From Santa Anna to the Stockyards": vol. 88: 166.
  • "Notes, Documents, and Sundries- JA Cattle Company": vol. 88: 173. [Edited by] Austin Allison.

  • [Editor] Stuntz, Jean.  "Book Reviews": vol. 87: 176.

  • [Editors] Paschall, Freedonia and Marleta Childs.  "History in West Texas": vol. 88: 201.

  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2011 Annual Meeting": vol. 88: 222.

  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 88: 232.

  • "Life Members, Past Presidents, and Annual Awards" : vol. 88: 234.

Volume 89, 2013

  • Gracy, David B.  "Cows Have Calves: The Hesitant Beginning and Remarkable Career of Cowboy, Cattleman, Rancher George Washington Littlefield": vol. 89: 8.
  • Liles, Debbie.  "Inventing the Past: How Historiography Contributes to Deceptions in Small Communities": vol. 89: 27.
  • Mosser, Delores and Sami Simpson.  "La Pista de Agua Vida: The Portales Valley Trail": vol. 89: 45.
  • Ginn, Jody Edward and William A. McWhorter.  "'The First Battle of Palmito Ranch': From the Papers of Colonel John Salmon 'Rip' Ford": vol. 89: 59.
  • Bickers, Margaret.  "Conserving Chaotic Waters: The Canadian River, 1918-1941": vol. 89: 75.
  • Sledge, Robert W.  "The First West Texas Weatherman: Isaac M. Cline and West Texas Weather": vol. 89: 89.
  • Hathorn, Billy.  "Roy Bean, Temple Houston, Bill Longley, Ranald Mackenzie, Buffalo Bill Jr., and the Texas Rangers: Depictions of West Texans in Series Television, 1955-1967": vol. 89: 102.
  • Thornton, Kevin.  "San Angelo and the Boer War": vol. 89: 124.
  • Wright, Paul.  "Mose E. Kelley Papers: The Big Bend's Dead Sea Scrolls": vol. 89: 146.
  • [Edited by] Weaver, Robert G. "Notes, Documents, and Sundries - The Merchant of Eagle Pass": vol. 89: 177.
  • [Editor] Bowman, Tim. "Book Reviews": vol. 89: 182.
  • [Editor] Paschall, Freedonia.  "History in West Texas": vol. 89: 209.
  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2012 Annual Meeting": vol. 89: 234.
  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 89: 242.
  • "Life Members, Past Presidents, and Annual Awards" : vol. 89: 244.

Volume 90, 2014

  • Carlson, Paul H.  "The Nicolette Hotel and the Founding of Lubbock": vol. 90: 8.
  • Hunt, Alex.  "The McCorkle Debacle: A JA Land Fraud Case": vol. 90: 20.
  • Logsdon, Joshua.  "Western Welfare: The Pauper System in West Texas, 1876 to 1930": vol. 90: 35.
  • Murrah, David.  "Replacing the I-35 Bias with an I-20 Bias: The Landmark Work of Richardson, Holden, and Wallace": vol. 90: 47.
  • Theiss, Ray.  "The Lost Mission: Finding the San Clemente, 1684": vol. 90: 57.
  • Fleming, Elvis E.  "Long Before 'Luckenback': Waylon and Willie and Other Country Music Stars I Met in the 1950s": vol. 90: 65.
  • Dowdle, Zach.  "'In the Land of Sandstorms and Sand': Locating Texas Technological College in 1923": vol. 90: 75.
  • Stephens, Christena.  "'Thou art a priest forever...': The Early Priests that Shaped Nazareth, Texas": vol. 90: 103.
  • Turner, Leland.  "Frontier Cattle Economies and Environment in West Texas and the Queensland Outback": vol. 90: 113.
  • [Edited by] Allison, Austin.  "Notes, Documents, and Sundries - Newspapers, Oil, and Railroad Land": vol. 90: 129.
  • [Edited by] Carlson, Paul H.  "Notes, Documents, and Sundries - Document to Create Modern Lubbock": vol. 90: 136.
  • [Editor] Bowman, Tim.  "Book Reviews": vol. 90: 143.
  • [Editor] Allison, Austin. "Publications in West Texas History": vol. 90: 160.
  • Kreidler, Tai.  "Affairs of the Association: 2014 Annual Meeting": vol. 90: 163.
  • "Annual Financial Report of the Executive Director": vol. 90: 173.
  • "Life Members, Past Presidents, and Annual Awards" : vol. 90: 175.

    WTHA YEARBOOKS INDEXED BY VOLUME:
    1-10 (1925-1934)
    11-20 (1935-1944)
    21-30 (1945-1954)
    31-40 (1955-1964)
    41-50 (1965-1974)
    51-60 (1975-1984)
    61-70 (1985-1994)
    71-80 (1995-2004)
    81-90 (2005-2014)
    91-99 (2015-2023)
    100-109 (2024-2029)

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