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| Mary L. Scheer |
This month marks publication of a new book,
Women and the Texas Revolution, edited by Mary L. Scheer of Lamar University. I have an essay in this book entitled "Up Buck! Up Ball! Do Your Duty!": Women and the Runaway Scrape." Other essays in the book have been written by historians Lindy Eakin, Jean A. Stuntz, Mary Scheer, Angela Boswell, Dora Elizondo Guerra, Jeffrey D. Dunn, and Laura Lyons McLemore. The director of the University of North Texas Press, Ronald Chrisman, and his staff, have done a commendable job of creating a first-class volume. This book is one of the first publications to consider explicitly the role that women played in the Texas Revolution, examining Anglo-American, Tejana, Native American, and Black women in an inclusive manner. It is the hope of everyone involved in the writing and production of this book that it will become a useful title for readers who want to broaden their knowledge about the Texas Revolution and the important role that women have played in the history of the Lone Star State. Early comments about the book in this regard are every encouraging. Noted historian James L. Haley, who has written a number of best-selling titles found on Texas history bookshelves, has said: "The gathering of scholars in this book is formidable. They have produced a well-done series of well documented vignettes of women in the revolutionary period." Historian Paula Mitchell Marks observes "
Women and the Texas Revolution is a fresh and valuable addition to works on the Revolution and on women in nineteenth-century Texas. It is a serious and multifaceted treatment of a topic that has come in for very little scholarly study."
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