...Monica R. Gisolfi Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal . Keith J. Volanto . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews with those of others and who are strong, vigorous and co-operative actors in their communities and ecosystems" (24). Turner writes, in the preface...

...Debra A. Reid Abstract "African American Farmers and Land Loss in Texas," surveys the ways that discrimination at the local, state, and national levels constrained minority farmers during the twentieth century. It considers the characteristics of small-scale farming that created liabilities...

...Lois E. Myers Prairie Gothic: The Story of a West Texas Family . John R. Erickson . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 Agricultural History Summer with the extensive photography, the reader gets an understanding of the complexities of the process of educational reform...

...Armando C. Alonzo Abstract Conservation of natural resources in South Texas is basically a modern development that parallels the evolution of the Soil Conservation Service and other federal agricultural agencies. Since the World War II era, Hispanic producers have played an important role...

...Ron McCoy Vaquero: Genesis of the Texas Cowboy . Bill Wittliff . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 Book Reviews / 117 suspect that hundreds of American technology and sustainable agriculture or? ganizations had already been pursuing that goal for a decade, as had Murray...

...Jim Norris I Would Rather Sleep in Texas: A History of the Lower Rio Grande & the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant . Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson , James A. McAllen , and Margaret H. McAllen . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 110 / Agricultural History...

...Glen Sample Ely Frontier Texas: History of a Borderland to 1880 . Robert F. Pace and Donald S. Frazier . Copyright 2006 Agricultural History Society 2006 262 / Agricultura] History nothing about entertainments in which he and his acquaintances participated together. The editorial...

... Press, 1999 ), 12 Neil Foley , The White Scourge: Mexicans, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Texas Cotton Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997 ), 83 -84 Valerie Grim, "The Impact of Mechanized Farming on Black Farm Families in the Rural South: A Study of Farm Life...

... and especially water, a resource in short supply on the semi-arid prairies of Texas and Alberta. Larger ranchers and cattle syndicates resented the challenge posed by the settlers and feared the competition for water and grass. Supported by officials in Austin and Ottawa--who favored rapid industrial development...

...Ricky Floyd Dobbs Harder than Hardscrabble: Oral Recollections of the Farming Life from the Edge of the Texas Hill Country . Thad Sitton . Copyright 2005 Agricultural History Society 2005 494 / Agricultural History "When you arrived, we had the land and you had the Bible. Now you have...

...Paul F. Starrs Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle . William T. Hagan . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Spring ofbothsexes,whohad wieldedshovelshoursbefored, isplayedsuch"agilitywitha cambrickneedle"(l).The scenesymbolizetsheauthor'sfocuson...

...Keith Volanto Reaping a Greater Harvest: African Americans, the Extension Service, and Rural Reform in Jim Crow Texas . Debra Reid . © 2009 Agricultural History Society 2009 AgriculturHalistory Spring David La Vere'sLifeamongtheTexasIndians.BakerandHenshawfocused theirresearchin...

...Stephanie Carpenter Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 1900-1940 . Rebecca Sharpless . Copyright 2000 Agricultural History Society 2000 Book Reviews Fertile Ground, Narrow Choices: Women on Texas Cotton Farms, 19001940. By Rebecca Sharpless. Chapel Hill...

...Jim Norris © the Agricultural History Society, 2011 2011 Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs in Texas: Mexican Workers and Job Politics during World War II . By Emilio Zamora . College Station : Texas A&M University Press , 2009 . 336 pp., $60.00 , hardback, ISBN 987-1-60344...

...Learotha Williams Jr. And Grace Will Lead Me Home: African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas, 1865–1928 . By Michelle M. Mears . Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press , 2009 . 256 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-89672-654-3 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Amy Lauters As a Farm Woman Thinks: Life and Land on the Texas High Plains, 1890–1960 . By Nellie Witt Spikes . Edited by Geoff Cunfer . Lubbock : Texas Tech University Press , 2010 . 288 pp., $34.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-89672-710-6 . © the Agricultural History Society...

...Jahue Anderson Abstract This is the story of failure: in this case, an irrigation project that never met its boosters' expectations. Between 1880 and 1930 Wichita Falls entrepreneur Joseph Kemp dreamed of an agrarian Eden on the Texas rolling plains. Kemp promoted reclamation and conservation...

...Sam W. Haynes Los Brazos de Dios: A Plantation Society in the Texas Borderlands, 1821–1865 . By Sean M. Kelley . Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press , 2010 . 282 pp., $42.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8071-3687-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012...

...Sean Kelley Nassau Plantation: The Evolution of a Texas German Slave Plantation . By James C. Kearney . Denton : University of North Texas Press , 2010 . 368 pp., $25.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-57441-326-7 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 Book Reviews North...

...Diane King Copyright 2002 Agricultural History Society 2002 [Footnotes] 1 Keith Guthrie , Texas Forgotten Ports (Austin: Eakin Press, 1988 ), 1 : 21 , 26,42-^5 Hobart Huson , Refugio: A Comprehensive History of Refugio County From Aboriginal Times to 1953...