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The Man of Only Yesterday: Frederick Lewis Allen

Payne, Darwin

Harper and Brothers

In what remains the only full-length biography of Owen Wister (1860–1938), Darwin Payne details the life of the man who created the popular image of the cowboy that dominated American culture from the early 1900s to the 1960s. Payne follows Wister from his privileged childhood in Philadelphia, to his undergraduate days at Harvard, to his musical studies in Europe, to his “discovery” of the West, and through his maturation as an individual and a writer. Payne draws on Wister’s own voluminous papers and writings in delineating, for the first time, the real-life incident that prompted Wister to invent the character of “the Virginian,” and in presenting the actual individual whom the famous character most closely resembles. Payne also provides intimate details about Wister’s surprising friendships with such prominent American figures as Theodore Roosevelt, William Dean Howells, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Frederic Remington, and John Jay Chapman.

Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Bison Books

In what remains the only full-length biography of Owen Wister (1860â1938), Darwin Payne details the life of the man who created the popular image of the cowboy that dominated American culture from the early 1900s to the 1960s. Payne follows Wister from his privileged childhood in Philadelphia, to his undergraduate days at Harvard, to his musical studies in Europe, to his âdiscoveryâ of the West, and through his maturation as an individual and a writer. Payne draws on Wisterâs own voluminous papers and writings in delineating, for the first time, the real-life incident that prompted Wister to invent the character of âthe Virginian,â and in presenting the actual individual whom the famous character most closely resembles. Payne also provides intimate details about Wisterâs surprising friendships with such prominent American figures as Theodore Roosevelt, William Dean Howells, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., William James, Frederic Remington, and John Jay Chapman. (20110302)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Southern Methodist Univ Pr

Judge Sarah T. Hughes is perhaps best remembered as the woman who swore in Lyndon Johnson as president aboard Air Force One on November 22, 1963, after President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. But long before then, she had been making headlines as the foremost woman Democrat in Texas. In 1935, over the protests of a local senator who said she should be home washing dishes, Sarah T. Hughes was appointed the first woman district judge in Texas. She was nominated for vice president of the United States at the 1952 Democratic National Convention, and in 1961 she was nominated by President John F. Kennedy as a federal district judge. A feminist who devoted her life to liberal causes, she presided over the three-judge panel and wrote the opinion that overturned Texas’s abortion laws in 1970 in Roe v. Wade, a decision upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, a decision that has rocked American society and politics to this day.

Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes

Community & Culture

Texas A&M University Press

Quest for Justice: Louis A. Bedford Jr. and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Texas

Follows Dallas' phenomenal growth from an ancient Indian settlement to the 7th largest city in the US.(1982)

Dallas, an illustrated history

History

Americas

Windsor Publications, Inc.

Newly revised edition of a book that first appeared in 1994 and sold out of the first two printings. The present edition brings the history of Dallas up to date, reaching into the year 2000. It's a lively but authoritative history of Dallas in the 20th century. Special attention to local politics, race relations, crime, and civic leadership.

Big D: Triumphs and Troubles of an American Supercity in the 20th Century

Three Forks Pr

Behind the Scenes: Covering the JFK Assassination

Historical

University of North Texas Press

Texas Chronicles: The Heritage and Enterprise of the Lone Star State [Hardcover]

Texas Chronicles: The Heritage and Enterprise of the Lone Star State

Jostens Pub. Group

This new illustrated history of Dallas, written in a lively style, offers fresh insights into the city’s meteoric emergence as one of the nation’s most celebrated cities. Many of the accompanying illustrations have never before been published. The author, Darwin Payne, and the illustrations editor, Michael V. Hazel, are widely known for their studies of Dallas and its surrounding areas.

Dynamic Dallas: An Illustrated History

Heritage Media Corporation

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The Man of Only Yesterday: Frederick Lewis Allen

Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East

Owen Wister: Chronicler of the West, Gentleman of the East

Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes

Quest for Justice: Louis A. Bedford Jr. and the Struggle for Equal Rights in Texas

Dallas, an illustrated history

Big D: Triumphs and Troubles of an American Supercity in the 20th Century

Behind the Scenes: Covering the JFK Assassination

Texas Chronicles: The Heritage and Enterprise of the Lone Star State

Dynamic Dallas: An Illustrated History