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Contributing Editor<\/span><\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span>TEXAS HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY<\/p>\n

Jane Eppinga<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry Ossian Flipper: West Point\u2019s First Black Graduate<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Wild Horse Press<\/p>\n

Paperback, 234 pages, with b\/w images, 978-1-68179-006-0, $19.95<\/p>\n

September 21, 2015 (originally published 1996)<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Si Dunn<\/p>\n

In 1877, 2nd Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper,<\/span> the first African-American graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, was assigned, predictably, to the 10th U.S. Cavalry, one of two black units known as \u201cBuffalo soldiers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unpredictably, Flipper survived both the harsh racial criticisms and a devastating court martial that ended his young army career. He went on to become a versatile and noteworthy figure in late nineteenth-century American history, as author Jane Eppinga ably demonstrates in this recently updated edition of her book first published in 1996. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Texas Reads<\/span>Glenn Dromgoole<\/span><\/h1>\n

>> archive<\/span><\/a><\/span>FBI agent finds small-town chief\u2019s job challenging<\/span><\/h1>\n

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Dallas author Melissa Lenhardt<\/span> introduces readers to the new police chief in town, Jack McBride, in her debut novel, Stillwater<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Skyhorse Publishing, $24.99 hardcover).<\/p>\n

McBride moves to the fictional East Texas small town of Stillwater to take the chief\u2019s position in hopes of bringing some stability to his life and that of his thirteen-year-old son, Ethan.<\/p>\n

This should be an easy assignment for a former FBI agent, he figures, a town with a very low crime rate. But on his first day on the job he encounters what appears to be a murder-suicide but soon realizes it\u2019s a double murder, perhaps drug-related.<\/p>\n

And on the first day, he also meets bookstore owner Ellie Martin and is immediately attracted to her. McBride\u2019s wife left him and their son a year ago, and they\u2019ve had no contact with her since. He is finally ready to file for divorce despite Ethan hoping somehow for a reconciliation.<\/p>\n

On his second day on the job, McBride is pistol-whipped, his squad car is stolen and burned, and his suspect flees the county.<\/p>\n

On the third day, he investigates a young boy\u2019s report of finding a skeleton in the woods. That reopens a fifty-year-old case involving some prominent citizens, including McBride\u2019s predecessor, the corrupt longtime police chief who used his power for personal gain.<\/p>\n

Stillwater<\/span> is a page-turner (I breezed through it in two days) and covers a lot of ground in McBride\u2019s action-packed first week on the job.<\/p>\n

The novel\u2019s ending leaves readers anticipating the sequel, The Fisher King,<\/span> scheduled for November.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>UH football, basketball:<\/span> History teacher and former high school coach Robert D. Jacobus<\/span> has produced a thoroughly researched and compelling account of the groundbreaking University of Houston football and basketball teams of the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Jacobus tells the story of UH breaking the color barrier in Texas under football coach Bill Yeoman and basketball coach Guy V. Lewis in Houston Cougars in the 1960s: Death Threats, the Veer Offense, and the Game of the Century<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $29.95 hardcover, 392 pages). The book is based on nearly 250 interviews as well as published accounts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe UH story,\u201d Jacobus writes, \u201cis both a team history and a history of integration of college athletics throughout the South. \u201cThis book,\u201d he continues, \u201crecounts many courageous decisions that put the UH Cougars near the top of America\u2019s college football and basketball world.\u201d<\/p>\n

The main characters in the story are Yeoman, Lewis, football star Warren McVea, and basketball stars Elvin Hayes and Don Chaney, all of whom were interviewed extensively by Jacobus. At the end of the book, Jacobus provides a list of all the people he interviewed and sources he consulted as well as an extensive index. <\/p>\n

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Glenn Dromgoole<\/span> is co-author, with Carlton Stowers, of 101 Essential Texas Books<\/span><\/a><\/span> Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/h1>\n

Lone Star Lit welcomes Kristine Hall to Lone Star Book Blog Tours; thanks to outgoing blog coordinator Pope<\/h1>\n

<\/span><\/span><\/span>Lone Star Literary Life <\/span>makes a change to its team lineup this month with the arrival ofKristine Hall as book tour coordinator for Lone Star Book Blog Tours. Hall, a professional reviewer for numerous publicity services, authors, and publishers, is a graduate of Texas A&M University and earned her master’s degree in library science from Sam Houston State University. She is an active member of the Texas Library Association and a proud member of the Grammar Police. Her book reviews can be found on her blog, Hall Ways.<\/p>\n

We bid farewell, with great thanks for her service during our first year, to our inaugural blog tour coordinator, librarian Tabatha Pope of Spring. Pope remains on the team as a tour blogger.<\/p>\n

If you blog about Texas books and authors and would like to apply to participate in Lone Star Book Blog Tours\u2014for the joy of reading, and free advance copies of new books in your interest areas\u2014contact Kristine Hall at\u00a0 kristinethall@yahoo.com<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

We’ll also be officially rolling out our new blog tour and publicity site next week. Take a sneak peek at www.LoneStarPublicity.com.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Contributing Editor TEXAS HISTORY, BIOGRAPHY Jane Eppinga Henry Ossian Flipper: West Point\u2019s First Black Graduate Wild Horse Press Paperback, 234 pages, with b\/w images, 978-1-68179-006-0, $19.95 September 21, 2015 (originally published 1996) Reviewed by Si Dunn In 1877, 2nd Lieutenant Henry Ossian Flipper, the first African-American graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}