Mary L. Scheer is professor and chair of the history department at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. She is the author of The Foundations of Texan Philanthropy, editor of the award-winning Women and the Texas Revolution (UNT Press), and co-editor of Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History and Texan Identities (both UNT Press).
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This will be a very successful book-with topics part familiar and part surprising, but always informative and entertaining. Each essay is written by an established scholar, and is based on significant research in a combination of primary and secondary works."" - Cary D. Wintz, author of Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance and co-editor of Major Problems in Texas History ""This is an engaging book comprised of chapters each by an authority on the Texas past. I thoroughly enjoyed each of the essays. It was interesting to me as a historian to read about incidents in the Texas past that my colleagues have studied far more than I have."" - T. Lindsay Baker, author of Gangster Tour of Texas and Ghost Towns of Texas