900 Miles on the Butterfield Trail
A.C. Greene
1994, University of North Texas Press, Denton, TX
0-9293-98-73-4
Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to be – less than three years in its span – the saga of the Butterfield Trail remains a romantic high point in the westward movement, forming familiar elements in historical plots, functioning as a vibrant backdrop against which mythic adventures, western thrillers, movie serials, and television spectacles have raced.
Incorporating newly found historical documents and changes in the landscape, as well as exploring myths and legends that surround the Butterfield Trail, Greene’s account is the latest tribute to the 2800-mile drama that stretched from the Mississippi River to the Pacific coast.
Lone Stars of David – The Jews of Texas
Compiled and edited by Hollace Ava Weiner & Kenneth D. Roseman
2007 – Brandeis University Press
Published by University Press of New England
In association with the Texas Jewish Historical Society
ISBN-13:978-1-58465-622-7
Jewish life in the United States is too often told from an East Coast perspective. Lone Stars of David presents a different panorama, with narratives of Jews who ventured to Texas before the battle of the Alamo, who fought the Confederacy, who herded cattle up the Chisholm Trail, who drilled for oil, and who formed Jewish communities far from New York’s Lower East Side.
The Jewish population of Texas totals 131,000, a mere 0.6 percent of the state’s residents, yet its impact has been wide-spread. This anthology explores the resiliency, diversity, and adaptability of Jews in the Lone Star State, a place with its own powerful sense of identity.
Harvey Girl
by Sheila Wood Foard
2006 - Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 0-89672-570-7
Harvey Girls served gourmet meals to passengers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. During the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s, Harvey Houses were a familiar sight to train travelers in the American West. There were one hundred Harvey Houses and about a hundred thousand Harvey Girls over the years. In a time when there were limited career choices for women, becoming a Harvey Girl offered rare independence for young ladies.
In 1919 one such Harvey Girl is feisty Clara Fern Massie, an Ozark farm girls who runs away fro hoe on hour fourteenth birthday after standing up to her harsh father. Heading west and taken a job as a waitress- a Harvey Girl – the underage Clara struggles to learn the demanding "Harvey Way" and shed her farm-girl image to become a confident, independent woman.
BOSS - 21 Simple Rules to Make Your Business Grow and Keep Your People Happy
Management Tips for Today from a Nineteenth Century Cattle Drive
Tim & Dana Frazier
2006 McWhiney Foundation Press,Abilene, TX
ISBN-13: 978-1-933337-10-4
10: 1-933337-10-9
Rancher Oscar Thompson was ready to trust his son, Webster, with the family business. By lantern light, he scribbled twenty-one simple rules for the boy to follow when he took over as boss to a team of cowboys the next morning, driving 2,000 head of cattle to market.
These salient pieces of management advice, written in the 1880s, remain as applicable today in a downtown high-rise as they once were on a lonely Texas prairie.
Consulting team Tim and Dana Frazier build upon these bits of wisdom and bring them to modern business. Adding their own insights from more than forty years of working and managing, the authors creatively partner the historical with the modern-day application of each instruction.