{"id":742,"date":"2018-12-31T13:45:06","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=742"},"modified":"2018-12-31T13:45:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T13:45:06","slug":"lone-star-reviewsmichelle-newby-nbcc-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/?p=742","title":{"rendered":"Lone Star ReviewsMichelle Newby, NBCC,"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/span><\/span>HISTORICAL FICTION<\/p>\n

Jeff P. Jones<\/span><\/p>\n

Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie and Clyde in the Last Days<\/span><\/p>\n

Winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize<\/p>\n

Texas Review Press<\/p>\n

Paperback, 978-1-68003-097-6, 384 pages, $18.95; October 25, 2016<\/p>\n

BIOGRAPHY<\/p>\n

John Boessenecker<\/span><\/p>\n

Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde<\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas Dunne Books (St. Martin\u2019s Press)<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-1-250-06998-6, 528 pages, $29.99 (also available in paperback and ebook); April 2016<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Si Dunn<\/p>\n

Two noteworthy new books offer widely differing perspectives<\/span> on the final days and violent deaths of outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker in 1934. And they create an enlightening synergy when read in sequence.<\/p>\n

Love Give Us One Death<\/span> is built around an intriguing mix of experimental fiction, historical accounts, court testimonies, witness statements, shifting viewpoints, photographs, song lyrics and poetry. The novel, Jeff P. Jones\u2019s<\/span> first book, takes us inside the relationship between Bonnie and Clyde and stays in their minds, at least briefly, even after they die.<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/span>Texas Ranger, <\/span>meanwhile, is a solidly researched, well-written and mostly sympathetic biography of Frank Hamer (pronounced \u201cHay-mer\u201d). He is credited with leading the manhunt that eventually tracked down and killed Bonnie and Clyde in Louisiana. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Roth, Mitchel P.<\/span><\/p>\n

Convict Cowboys: The Untold History of the Texas Prison Rodeo<\/span><\/p>\n

University of North Texas Press<\/p>\n

Hardcover, 978-157441-652-7, 448 pages, $32.95 (ebook also available); July 2016<\/p>\n

Reviewed by Si Dunn<\/p>\n

Mitchel P. Roth, a criminology and criminal justice professor<\/span> at Huntsville\u2019s Sam Houston State University, has produced an eye-opening and much-needed look inside the world-famous Texas Prison Rodeo (TPR). His well-researched book includes perspectives on the economic and political forces that led to the TPR\u2019s birth in 1931, as well as to its demise fifty-two years later, in 1986, at the hands of a budget-squeezing Texas legislature.<\/p>\n

Today, in what is known as \u201cprison tourism,\u201d millions of people around the world pay good money to tour old prisons, jails, and dungeons and buy incarceration curios in the facilities\u2019 gift shops. From the early days of the American penal system to the twentieth century\u2019s first few decades, many prisons relied on cash from tourists and visitors to help cover their operating expenses. >>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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

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Cookbooks feature barbecue, enchiladas, chili<\/h1>\n

Three colorful new cookbooks<\/span> with a Texas flavor have hit the market this fall.<\/p>\n

Texan BBQ: A Smokin\u2019 Good Cookbook<\/span><\/a><\/span> by Robert Louis Murphy<\/span> (New Holland, $35 hardcover) includes a chapter of practical barbecue cooking tips before getting to recipes for beef, lamb, pork, chicken, sides, salsas, marinades, and rubs. Murphy was raised in Breckenridge, Texas, and says that by his teen years, \u201cI could take my hunting rifle and feed fifty people later that day.\u201d He now lives in Australia, where he starred in the TV series My Kitchen Rules.<\/span><\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/span><\/span>Sylvia Casares,<\/span> owner of Sylvia\u2019s Enchilada Kitchen in Houston, has teamed up with veteran food writer Dotty Griffith to produce The Enchilada Queen Cookbook<\/span><\/a><\/span> (St. Martin\u2019s, $27.99 hardcover).<\/p>\n

Casares was dubbed \u201cThe Enchilada Queen\u201d by a Houston magazine ten years ago, and her restaurant has made Top 10 and Top 50 lists from USA Today<\/span> and Texas Monthly.<\/span> She says, \u201cI cook enchiladas \u2014 and everything \u2014 with tender loving care and fresh ingredients. I also take the time to do it right.\u201d Her book focuses on enchiladas but also covers fajitas, tamales, sides, desserts, margaritas and more.<\/p>\n

Tiffany Harelik<\/span> (\u201crhymes with garlic\u201d) has published a dozen cookbooks herself and conducts workshops on how to write a cookbook. She has even formed her own publishing house specializing in food and travel titles.<\/p>\n

Her newest book is The Terlingua Chili Cookbook: Chili\u2019s Last Frontier<\/span><\/a><\/span>(Spellbound Publishers, $24.99 paperback), focusing on recipes and stories from chili connoisseurs and cook-off competitors. \u201cIt is my hope,\u201d she writes, \u201cthat this book preserves the history, people and recipes of the greatest chili cook-off in Texas for all to enjoy.\u201d Read more on her website, tiffanyharelik.com.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/span><\/span>Ranger tales:<\/span> Mike Cox<\/span> has produced a revised and updated 400-page hardback collection of Texas Ranger Tales: Hard-Riding Stories from the Lone Star State<\/span><\/a><\/span> (Lone Star Books, $24.95). Cox, who has also written an authoritative two-volume history of the Rangers, included stories in this handsome new volume from two other collections of Ranger tales he wrote about twenty years ago, as well as some new material.<\/p>\n

The fifty stories are arranged chronologically, but each story is self-contained. Cox says, \u201cThis is a book you can read from cover to cover, or browse at your leisure.\u201d When it comes to telling stories about the old-time and modern-day Rangers, no one makes them come alive better than Mike Cox.<\/p>\n

Glenn Dromgoole\u2019s<\/span> latest book is West Texas Stories<\/span><\/a><\/span>Contact him at g.dromgoole@suddenlink.net.<\/p>\n

>> <\/span>Check out his previous Texas Reads columns in Lone Star Lit<\/a><\/span>erary Life<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Contributing Editor HISTORICAL FICTION Jeff P. Jones Love Give Us One Death: Bonnie and Clyde in the Last Days Winner of the George Garrett Fiction Prize Texas Review Press Paperback, 978-1-68003-097-6, 384 pages, $18.95; October 25, 2016 BIOGRAPHY John Boessenecker Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde […]<\/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-742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742","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=742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.etypegoogle10.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}