Texana Book Reviews

Texana Book Reviews
(by Mike Cox)

For the past fifteen years, Austin-based freelance writer Mike Cox has entertained and informed Texas newspaper readers with his widely-read reviews of books about Texas. Currently, his syndicated column runs weekly in the Austin-American Statesman, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the Matagorda Advocate, and the Amarillo Globe-News. It also runs monthly in the Bryan Eagle. Combined circulation for these newspapers is well over one-third of a million readers.

Through an exclusive arrangement with the author, Lone Star Junction is pleased to present back issues of these syndicated book reviews for on-line access by our viewers. New articles will continue to be added--delayed approximately two to four weeks following their publication in the newspapers.

The book reviews are indexed below in the order of the dates originally published in the Austin-American Statesman--most recent article first. We hope that you enjoy the on-line version of the reviews.

1998 Reviews

Feb. 27 , 1998 -- Texas New Year
Feb. 20, 1998 -- The Mexican War: A Look Back
Feb. 13, 1998 -- Black History in Texas
Feb. 6, 1998 -- Ranching in Texas and the West
Jan. 30, 1998 -- With Santa Anna in Texas
Jan. 23, 1998 -- Baker and "The Kid"
Jan. 16, 1998 -- Big Thicket of East Texas
Jan. 9, 1998 -- Don't Toss the D. J.!!

1997 Reviews

December 19, 1997 -- Fruitcake, Protein and Pumpkin Pie
December 12, 1997 -- Last Picture Show -- Revisited
December 5, 1997 -- Dead Turkeys
November 28, 1997 -- 1998-99 Texas Almanac
November 21, 1997 -- Little Red Cowboy Hat
November 14, 1997 -- Pecos River Queen
November 7, 1997 -- Texas Book Festival: Chapter 2
October 31, 1997 -- Texas Ghosts
October 24, 1997 -- Book Curses: Borrower Beware
October 17, 1997 -- Rarest 20th Century Texas Book
October 10, 1997 -- Mythology of the Old West
October 3, 1997 -- Alamo City: A Worldclass Attraction
September 26, 1997 -- Monarchs and More
September 19, 1997 -- Roosevelt's Rough Riders?
September 12, 1997 -- Hunting Dead Ships
September 5, 1997 -- G-Rated Places
August 15, 1997 -- Surf Fishing in the Gulf
August 8, 1997 -- Alamo Not Forgotten
August 1, 1997 -- Crime in Texas
July 25, 1997 -- Good Guys: Texas Lawmen
July 18, 1997 -- Bad Guys: Outlaws of the Southwest
July 11, 1997 -- Catfish Humor
July 4, 1997 -- Official Guide to Texas State Parks
June 27, 1997 -- Histories of Blacks in Texas
June 20, 1997 -- Stories of Texans in World War II
June 13, 1997 -- The Texas Horny Toad
June 6, 1997 -- Official Guide to Texas State Parks
May 30, 1997 -- Into the Frontier
May 23, 1997 -- Cowboy Boots, Spurs, and Rope
May 16, 1997 -- Larry King
May 9, 1997 -- Big Bend Country
May. 2, 1997 -- Ink Ruins Books
Apr. 25, 1997 -- Diverse Spring Assortment
Apr. 18, 1997 -- Disaster at Texas City
Apr. 11, 1997 -- Cyber-Texana
Apr. 4, 1997 -- Sam Houston: A Sneak Preview
Mar. 28, 1997 -- Geo-Texas: from Fossils to Meteorites
Mar. 21, 1997 -- New Books on Old Spanish Texas
Mar. 14, 1997 -- Revisiting Your Favorite Books
Mar. 7, 1997 -- Texas Gardening
Feb. 28, 1997 -- Jean Laffite: Prince of Pirates
Feb. 21, 1997 -- J. Evetts Haley: A True Texas Legend
Feb. 14, 1997 -- Michener: A 336-Page Bibliography
Feb. 7, 1997 -- Black Texans
Jan. 31, 1997 -- Purple Dinosaurs?
Jan. 24, 1997 -- O. Henry Booklet
Jan. 17, 1997 -- Roy Bean Country
Jan. 10, 1997 -- Memorable Quotations
Jan. 3, 1997 -- Poor Mathematicians; Good Bookkeepers

1996 Reviews

Dec. 27, 1996 -- Texas' New Year
Dec. 20, 1996 -- The Mexican War: 1-1/2 Centuries Later
Dec. 13, 1996 -- Christmas Books
Dec. 6, 1996 -- Texas Sayings
Nov. 29, 1996 -- Outlaw John Wesley Hardin
Nov. 22, 1996 -- Early Fort Worth History
Nov. 15, 1996 -- Correspondence Updates
Nov. 8, 1996 -- Alamo Still Remembered
Nov. 1, 1996 -- Civil War Battlefields
Oct. 25, 1996 -- Boyce House: Early Texas Storyteller
Oct. 18, 1996 -- Have Gun Will Travel
Oct. 11, 1996 -- King Ranch
Oct. 4, 1996 -- Diary of Hermann Seele
Sept. 20, 1996 -- Humble Oil's Texas Sketchbook
Sept. 13, 1996 -- Texas Rangers: The Legend Begins
Sept. 6, 1996 -- How to Find a Book
Aug. 30, 1996 -- Travelling in Texas
Aug. 23, 1996 -- The Grizzly Bear in the Southwest
Aug. 16, 1996 -- Texas and Texans in the Civil War
July 26, 1996 -- Pecos River
July 19, 1996 -- Spain and the Gulf of Mexico
July 5, 1996 -- Chuckwagon and Capitol Cookbooks
June 28, 1996 -- The Indians of Texas
June 21, 1996 -- Bonnie and Clyde
June 14, 1996 -- Early Movie-Making in San Antonio
May 31, 1996 -- Summer Reading
May 24, 1996 -- County and Local Histories
May 17, 1996 -- Coyotes
May 10, 1996 -- Old Fort Griffin
April 26, 1996 -- Texana -- A Core Reading List
April 19, 1996 -- The Legacy of J. Evetts Haley
April 12, 1996 -- Indian Papers of Texas and the SW
April 5, 1996 -- Memories of a Black Sharecropper

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