{"id":474,"date":"2018-12-31T12:26:39","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=474"},"modified":"2018-12-31T12:26:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T12:26:39","slug":"lone-star-reviewsmichelle-newby-nbcc-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=474","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/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

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Photographer Jesse Cancelmo provides nearly two hundred color photos<\/span> of underwater life in the Gulf of Mexico in his gorgeous coffee-table book, Glorious Gulf of Mexico: Life Below the Blue<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Texas A&M University Press, $30 flexbound).<\/p>\n

The 600,000 square miles of the international gulf connects five U.S. states, six Mexican states, and Cuba. Cancelmo said he hopes his book might demonstrate \u201chow much sense it makes for each of the three countries interconnected by this magnificent body of water to work together to preserve and protect it for future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cancelmo\u2019s photos capture the stunning and rarely seen underwater beauty of the gulf, with sections devoted to the Mexican gulf waters, the northern coast of Cuba, the Dry Tortugas of Florida, the area from middle Florida to Alabama and Mississippi, and the gulf waters of Texas and Louisiana.<\/p>\n

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Civil War years: <\/span>Lucy Pier Stevens was twenty-one when she arrived for a visit at her aunt\u2019s farm near Bellville, Texas, on Christmas Day 1859. A resident of Ohio, she would spend the entire Civil War in Texas.<\/p>\n

Another Year Finds Me in Texas: The Civil War Diary of Lucy Pier Stevens<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Vicki Adams Tongate <\/span>(University of Texas Press, $29.95 hardcover, 376 pages) offers the rare insights of a young woman from the north who couldn\u2019t go home.<\/p>\n

Her diary covers the years 1863\u201365, with introductory and concluding chapters by Tongate about Lucy\u2019s life before and after the diary.<\/p>\n

Historical novel:<\/span> Carroll Mart Sinclair<\/span> of Tyler has written a historical novel, Tree of Justice?<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Early Sundown Studio, $15.95 paperback) based on his own family\u2019s experiences in Centerville, Texas, in 1919.<\/p>\n

Most of the book deals with the day-to-day life of poor, white, hard-working farming families in East Texas, focusing on two families in particular \u2014 the Dorsetts and the Sinclairs. The Dorsetts travel by wagon from Alto to Centerville to earn money picking cotton for Jim Sinclair, and the two families become good friends and look forward to being together during cotton-picking season the next year.<\/p>\n

But, in the last forty pages of the 174-page novel, the story turns tragic when a family member\u00a0 is murdered \u2014 and the book\u2019s title (Tree of Justice?) comes into play. The oak tree, says author Sinclair, stood for about seventy-five years in front of the Leon County courthouse in Centerville before it was removed in the 1960s.<\/p>\n

Read more at treeofjustice.com<\/a><\/span>. The book is available online in paperback and e-book editions.<\/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-474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474","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=474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}