Acheson, Marjie Mugno. “BPW Unique Fund Raiser Honors ‘Mother of Equal Rights,’” WE-Women’s Enterprise, January 1996, pp. 26-27. [Commemorative phonecard raises scholarship funds to carry on Dallas Attorney Hermine Tobolowsky’s legacy and “to make opportunities available to women who are seeking an education so that they, too, can make a difference.”]
Aldave, Barbara Bader. “Women in the Law in Texas: The Stories of Three Pioneers,” St. Mary’s Law Journal 25, no. 1(1993): 289.
Attlesey, Sam. “When She Spoke, Barbara Jordan Created Memories,” The Dallas Morning News, January 21, 1996, A38. The article recalls several memorable speeches by Barbara Jordan following her death.
Baker, Marilyn. "Prairie to Presidency – Women Physicians Have Overcome Ignorance, Prejudice, and a Lack of Opportunity in the Past 150 Years to Take Their Rightful Place in Texas Medicine. Many of Them Also Have Assumed Positions of Leadership," Texas Medicine, 99, no. 1(2003): 61-69.
Banks, Melissa Joe. “The City Dairy,” Texas Historian 55, no. 4(May 1995): 5-7. [About Delia J. Staton, who operated the City Dairy in Jacksonville, Texas, for more than 25 years.]
Biffle, Kent. "The Tale of Two Goodnights," The Dallas Morning News, October 6, 2002, 43A, 46A. Includes information about Corrine Goodnight, distant relative and widow of Charles Goodnight.
Bralley, F.M. “The Place and Function of the College of Industrial Arts in the Educational Scheme of the State,” The Texas Outlook 7, no. 1(January 1923): 34-35.
Bruce, W.H. “YES, Married Women Should Be Employed as Teachers in Texas Schools,” The Texas Outlook 10, no. 6(June 1926): 11-13.
Clifford, James O. “Texas Woman Sets Out to Finish Earhart Trip,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 18, 1997, A1, 10. San Antonio’s Linda Finch took off to complete Amelia Earhart’s ill-fated flight around the world.
Dingus, Anne. “Susanna Dickinson,” Texas Monthly 25, no. 3(March 1997): 308. Dickinson and her baby, Angelina, survived the fall of the Alamo on March 6, 1838. She carried the news to the Texas army in Gonzales that the Alamo had been taken by General Santa Anna. She was born in 1814 and died in Austin in 1883.
Duckers, Sarah. "The First Woman Juror in Texas." The Houston Lawyer. Jan/Feb 2008. Miss Louise Summers, a bookkeeper at Cameron Iron Works, was the first woman juror in Texas. She served on November 22, 1954, in the 152nd District Court of Harris County, Texas. She was selected as jury foreperson.
Genusa, Angela. “As the Nation Celebrates National Women’s History Month, Attorney Louise Raggio Marks 40 Years of Righting Wrongs of Texas Law,” WE-Women Enterprise 4, no. 3(March 1996): 16-17.
Howard, Vicki. “The Courtship Letters of an African American Couple: Race, Gender, Class, and the Cult of True Womanhood,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 100, no. 1(July 1996): 64-80. [The courtship of Lucia J. Knotts of Round Top, Texas, and Calvin Lindley Rhone.]
Huang, Thomas. “’So Beloved by People’: Friends Cherish Ex-Congresswoman’s Human Side,” The Dallas Morning News, January 21, 1996, A13. [Reminiscences by friends following the death of Barbara Jordan.]
Humphrey, David C. “Prostitution in Texas: From the 1830s to the 1960s,” East Texas Historical Journal 33, no. 1(1995): 27-43. [Includes information on Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, and Waco.]
Hunt, Sylvia. “’Throw Aside the Veil of Helplessness’: A Southern Feminist at the 1893 World’s Fair,” The Southern Historical Quarterly 100, no. 1(July 1996): 49-62. [About the paper Sue Huffman Brady, a Texas teacher, delivered at the Congress of Women in 1893.]
Maguire, Jack. “Jane Y. McCallum: Woman of Independence,” Etc.: The Magazine That Brings You More, March 1996, pp. 12-14.
McCarty, Kathryn Shane. “It Was Dead-Serious Humor for Texas Women in Government,” Nation’s Cities Weekly 13, no. 48(December 10, 1990): 5.
McDonald, E.L. “T.S.C.W. Launches Educational Experiment in Mexico,” The Texas Outlook 25, no. 11(November 1941): 52-53.
Mears, Michelle M. “Medicine on the Blackland Prairie: The Story of Dr. Claudia Potter,” Sound Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association 2(Fall 1994): 36-46. [Dr. Potter was born in Denton, Texas, February 3, 1882. She received her M.D. degree from the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston in 1904.]
Mendelsohn, Jennifer. “Country’s Teen of Hearts,” Denton Record-Chronicle, USA Weekend Magazine, September 27-29, 1996, pp. cover, 4-5. [This is about the 14-year-old teenager from Garland, Texas, LeAnn Rimes, who “is up for two country music awards this week—tackles love songs with the best of her broken-hearted elders.”]
Miller, Robert. “WAVES Gather to Tell War Tales,” The Dallas Morning News, March 5, 1995, H7-8. [Includes information about work performed by Gladys Davis, Virginia Bollinger and Charmian Akins who were WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, during World War II.]
Moreno, Sylvia. “Voters Can Reshape Texas Government: Fate of Treasurer Among Ballot Items,” The Dallas Morning News, October 15, 1995, A43, 48-49. [Martha Whitehead, state treasurer, speaks in favor of abolishing the Texas Treasurer’s office in the forthcoming election.]
Myers, Cindi. “Daring Dr. Sophie,” True West 41, no. 7(July 1994): 45. [“Real life ‘medicine woman’ takes her healing skills to Texas.”]
Nichols, Bruce. “Family, Friends Bid Farewell to Jordan,” The Dallas Morning News, January 21, 1996, A1, 12. [About the funeral of former congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Includes remarks of President Bill Clinton, Former Governor Ann Richards, Houston Mayor Bob Lanier; U.S. Representative Sheila Jackson Lee; and Actress Cicelly Tyson.]
Ortolon, Ken. "Public Health – Midwifery Mess – Texas Midwives and Obstetricians Are at Odds Over Proposed State Rules That Physicians Say Will Expand Midwives' Role in Delivering Newborns Despite Concerns for the Safety of Pregnant Women and Their Babies," Texas Medicine, 98, no. 12(2002): 36-41.
Pederson, Rena. "Remember 'Texas Tornado'?" The Dallas Morning News, October 6, 2002, 2J. [About Margo Jones "who started the regional theater movement in the United States, discovering playwrights like Tennessee Williams in the process and courageously producing plays like Inherit the Wind when no one else would."]
Pennybacker, Mrs. Percy V. “Teachers As Moulders of Public Opinion,” The Texas Outlook 8, no. 1(January 1924): 6-8.
Portilla-Lyon, Elizabeth de la. “Comanche and Mexican-American Curers: A Regional Approach to Folk Medicine,” Touchstone 14(1995): 70-90. [The author sets out various beliefs and practices gathered from five curanderos in San Antonio and from Comanches as found in published sources.]
Reaves, Gayle. “Struggle for Equality Called Slow: Women’s Right to Vote Was 1st Step in Process,” The Dallas Morning News, May, 28, 1995, A1, 23. [Includes information about the suffrage movement in Texas. Includes a photograph of Mrs. L.P. Evans of San Antonio casting her ballot in the November 1924 general election.]
Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Museum. “Dale Evans,” SideSaddle, 1996, pp. 12-13. [1995 honoree of the Cowgirl Hall of Fame. Dale was born Frances Octavia Smith, October 31, 1912, in Uvalde, Texas.]
Sallee, Shelley. “The Woman of It”: Governor Miriam Ferguson’s 1924 Election,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 100, no. 1(July 1996): 1-16.
Saltarelli, Mary. “A New Script for Grandbury Opera House,” Fort Worth Star-Telegram, March 19, 1997, A19-20. [Actress Marty Van Kleeck becomes managing director of the Grandbury Opera House.]
Sharpless, M. Rebecca. “The Southern Majority: Interviews with Rural Texas Women,” Sound Historian: Journal of the Texas Oral History Association 2(Fall 1994): 2-10. [Includes information from oral interviews with six women. The author interviewed them about their experiences living on cotton farms of the Texas Blackland Prairie.]
Simnacher, Joe. “Lady Bird’s Flowers: First Lady of Native Plant Effort Opens New 42-acre Research Center,” The Dallas Morning News, March 26, 1995, A43, 45. [The National Wildflower Research Center, founded by Lady Bird Johnson 12 years ago, moves to its new home on 42 acres in Travis County about 10 miles southwest of downtown Austin.]
Simnacher, Joe. “Women’s Rights Advocate Hermine Tobolowsky Dies,” The Dallas Morning News, July 27, 1995, A1, 17. [Hermine Dalkowitz Tobolowsky, Dallas lawyer, was widely regarded as the mother of the Texas Equal Rights Amendment. The amendment’s passage followed a 25 year campaign by Mrs. Tobolowsky and others for women’s legal rights. She died July 25, 1995.]
This is just the beginning of my list of articles from Journals and Newspapers. To be continued shortly . . .
Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Books on Texas Women's History
Black Women in Texas History. Edited by Bruce A. Glasrud and Merline Pitre. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2008. 256 pp. ISBN 9781603440318. [A chronological look at the experience of African-American women in Texas through eight essays covering from slavery to the beginning of the 20th century.]
Chipman, Donald and Harriet Denise Joseph. Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas: Men and Women of Spanish Texas. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2001.
Davis, Ronald L. Mary Martin, Broadway Legend. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. pp. 328. ISBN 9780806139050. [Biography of Mary Martin, 1913-1990, born in Weatherford, Texas.]
Hendrickson, Kenneth E. Chief Executives of Texas: From Stephen F. Austin to John B. Connally, Jr. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. [Includes Miriam Ferguson.]
Hutchison, Kay Bailey. American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped our Country. New York: William Morrow, 2004. [Includes: Mary Austin Holley, Ann Raney Coleman, Jane Long, Adina DeZavala, Clara Driscoll, Anne Legendre Armstrong, Selena Quintanilla, Sally Ride, Sandra Day O’Connor, Oveta Culp Hobby, and Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias.]
Irwin, Mary Ann and James Brooks. Women and Gender in the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. [Includes essay: “Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers’ Activism, 1919-1974” by Irene Ledesma.]
Jackson, Sarah Ragland. Texas Woman of Letters: Karle Wilson Baker. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. [Biography of Texas poet.]
Mackintosh, Prudence. Just As We Were: A Narrow Slice of Texas Womanhood. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Mark, Eva H. A Brief History of the Denton County Federation of Women’s Clubs. Denton, Tex.: Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1976.
Marks, Paula Mitchell. Hands to the Spindle: Texas Women and Home Textile Production, 1822-1880. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1996.
McArthur, Judith N. Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918. Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1998. 199 pp. ISBN 13-978-0-252-02376-7 (Hardback). ISBN 13-978-0-252-06679-5 (paperback). [This is one of the textbooks I use in my Women in Texas History class]
McArthur, Judith N. Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 266 pp. [Also available electronically through NetLibrary, Inc.]
McElhaney, Jacquelyn Masur. Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
McLeRoy, Sherrie. Daughter of Fortune: The Betty Brown Story. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 1997.
McLeRoy, Sherrie. Red River Women. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 1996. [Women of the West Series. A Collection of biographies of eight North Texas women.]
McNair, Joseph D. Barbara Jordan: African American Politician. Chanhassen, MN: Child’s World, 2001.
McQueary, Carl Randall and May Nelson Paulissen. Ma’s in the Kitchen: You’ll Know When It’s Done: The Recipes and History of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, First Woman Governor of Texas. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1994.
Montgomery, Rosalis. Lady in Waiting, 1944-1945. Austin, Tex.: Nortex Press, 1995.
[“A collection of letters written the last two years of World War II by the author to Col. James Robert Montgomery.”—Dust Jacket.]
Morin, Isobel V. Women of the U.S. Congress. Minneapolis: Oliver Press, 1994. [Includes Barbara Jordan.]
Morrow, Herbert C. Women's Army Corps Buildings, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Fort Bliss, El Paso County, Texas. Fort Bliss, Tex.: Cultural Resources Branch, Directorate of Environment, 1995.
Nash, Sunny. Bigmama Didn’t Shop at Woolworth’s. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. [Award winning writer, photographer, and television producer, Sunny Nash writes about her grandmother and growing up in Candy Hill, a segregated neighborhood in Bryan, Texas, in the 1950s in a time of segregation and change.]
Neblett, Elizabeth Scott. A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Paulissen, May Nelson and McQueary, Carl R. Miriam: The Southern Belle Who Became the First Woman Governor of Texas, Miriam Amanda Ferguson. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1995.
[Biography of Governor Miriam Ferguson.]
Payne, Darwin. Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes. Forward by Barefoot Sanders. Afterword by Sarah Weddington. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2004.
Perry, Nellie M. and Sandra Gail Teichmann. Woman of the Plains: The Journals and Stories of Nellie M. Perry. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M Press, 2000.
Pierce, Paula Jo and Liz Carpenter. Let Me Tell You What I've Learned: Texas Wisewomen Speak. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2002.
Puryear, Pamela Ashworth. Dressing Victorian: Being a Brief Overview of Women's Victorian Clothing in Texas, 1837-1900; with Notes on Recreation of the Styles. Brenham, Tex.: Hermann Print Shop, 1987.
Quarles, Deborah. “Lewisville Woman Takes Silver at Pan Am,” Denton Record Chronicle, March 15, 1995, C1-2. [Gypsy Lyn Lucas, a 20-year-old roller speed skater, won second place in the Women’s 500-meter race at the Pan American Games in Mar Del Plata, Argentina.]
Ramsey, Jr., Jack C. Texas Sinners and Revolutionaries: Jane Long and Her Fellow Conspirators. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 2001.
Reynolds, Clay. A Hundred Years of Heroes: A History of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show. Fort Worth, Tex.: Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, 1995.
[Includes information about Texas women, such as the Boys and Girls Hog Club Show, Cowgirls, Girls Rodeo Association, Kirmiss (a debutante-like presentation of young ladies at the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show), Tad Lucas, Prostitution, Daughters of Southwestern Ranchers, and Glamour Girl competition.]
Rice, Melinda. Lone Star Ladies: A Travel Guide to Women's History in Texas. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 2002.
Rogers, Mary Beth. Barbara Jordan: American Hero. New York: Bantam Books, 2000.
Rowe, Beverly J. Women's Status in Texarkana, Texas in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
Russell, Charles H. Undaunted: A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. [A biography of Elise Waerenskjold. “Opens a window into immigrant life in Texas’ Norwegian colonies from 1847 to the end of the nineteenth century.”]
Sanders, Marc, Ruthe Winegarten, and Harry Robinson, Jr. The Lives and Times of Black Dallas Women. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Publications, 2002.
Seagraves, Anne. High Spirited Women of the West. Hayden, Idaho: Wesanne Publications, 1992. [Includes Belle Starr, pp. 101-121.]
Shire, Al, compiler and editor. Oveta Culp Hobby. Houston, Tex.: Western Lithograph, 1997.
Siegel, Dorothy Schainman. Ann Richards: Politician, Feminist, Survivor. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996. [From childhood in Lakeview, Texas, to the Governor’s mansion.]
Silverthorne, Elizabeth and Geneva Fulgham. Women Pioneers in Texas Medicine. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1997.
Sizemore, Evelyn. The Turtle Lady: Ila Fox Loetscher of South Padre. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 2002.
Snapp, Elizabeth and Harry F. Snapp. Read All About Her! Texas Women's History: A Working Bibliography. Denton, TX: Texas Woman's University Press, 1995. 1,070 pp. ISBN 0-9607488-3-0 (Hardback)
Spruill, Marjorie Julian. One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement. Troutdale, OR: NewSage Press, 1995. [Includes essay: “Minnie Fisher Cunningham’s back door lobby in Texas: Political Maneuvering in a one-party state,” by Judith N. McArthur.
Stillwell, Hallie Crawford. My Goose Is Cooked: The Continuation of a West Texas Ranch Woman’s Story. Assembled by Betty Heath. Edited by Kelly S. Garcia. Alpine, TX: Center for Big Bend Studies, 2004.
Taylor, Quintard and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. African American Women Confront the West: 1600-2000. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. [Includes in Chapter 3: The Antebellum West: A Texas Slave’s Letter to her Husband, 1862, and Chapter 15: Lulu B. White and the Integration of the University of Texas, 1945-1950 by Merline Pitre.]
Watch here for new titles being added each week . . .
Chipman, Donald and Harriet Denise Joseph. Explorers and Settlers of Spanish Texas: Men and Women of Spanish Texas. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2001.
Davis, Ronald L. Mary Martin, Broadway Legend. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2008. pp. 328. ISBN 9780806139050. [Biography of Mary Martin, 1913-1990, born in Weatherford, Texas.]
Hendrickson, Kenneth E. Chief Executives of Texas: From Stephen F. Austin to John B. Connally, Jr. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1995. [Includes Miriam Ferguson.]
Hutchison, Kay Bailey. American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped our Country. New York: William Morrow, 2004. [Includes: Mary Austin Holley, Ann Raney Coleman, Jane Long, Adina DeZavala, Clara Driscoll, Anne Legendre Armstrong, Selena Quintanilla, Sally Ride, Sandra Day O’Connor, Oveta Culp Hobby, and Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias.]
Irwin, Mary Ann and James Brooks. Women and Gender in the American West. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. [Includes essay: “Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers’ Activism, 1919-1974” by Irene Ledesma.]
Jackson, Sarah Ragland. Texas Woman of Letters: Karle Wilson Baker. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. [Biography of Texas poet.]
Mackintosh, Prudence. Just As We Were: A Narrow Slice of Texas Womanhood. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 1996.
Mark, Eva H. A Brief History of the Denton County Federation of Women’s Clubs. Denton, Tex.: Texas Federation of Women's Clubs, 1976.
Marks, Paula Mitchell. Hands to the Spindle: Texas Women and Home Textile Production, 1822-1880. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1996.
McArthur, Judith N. Creating the New Woman: The Rise of Southern Women's Progressive Culture in Texas, 1893-1918. Chicago, University of Illinois Press, 1998. 199 pp. ISBN 13-978-0-252-02376-7 (Hardback). ISBN 13-978-0-252-06679-5 (paperback). [This is one of the textbooks I use in my Women in Texas History class]
McArthur, Judith N. Minnie Fisher Cunningham: A Suffragist's Life in Politics. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 266 pp. [Also available electronically through NetLibrary, Inc.]
McElhaney, Jacquelyn Masur. Pauline Periwinkle and Progressive Reform in Dallas. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1998.
McLeRoy, Sherrie. Daughter of Fortune: The Betty Brown Story. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 1997.
McLeRoy, Sherrie. Red River Women. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 1996. [Women of the West Series. A Collection of biographies of eight North Texas women.]
McNair, Joseph D. Barbara Jordan: African American Politician. Chanhassen, MN: Child’s World, 2001.
McQueary, Carl Randall and May Nelson Paulissen. Ma’s in the Kitchen: You’ll Know When It’s Done: The Recipes and History of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, First Woman Governor of Texas. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1994.
Montgomery, Rosalis. Lady in Waiting, 1944-1945. Austin, Tex.: Nortex Press, 1995.
[“A collection of letters written the last two years of World War II by the author to Col. James Robert Montgomery.”—Dust Jacket.]
Morin, Isobel V. Women of the U.S. Congress. Minneapolis: Oliver Press, 1994. [Includes Barbara Jordan.]
Morrow, Herbert C. Women's Army Corps Buildings, William Beaumont Army Medical Center, Fort Bliss, El Paso County, Texas. Fort Bliss, Tex.: Cultural Resources Branch, Directorate of Environment, 1995.
Nash, Sunny. Bigmama Didn’t Shop at Woolworth’s. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1996. [Award winning writer, photographer, and television producer, Sunny Nash writes about her grandmother and growing up in Candy Hill, a segregated neighborhood in Bryan, Texas, in the 1950s in a time of segregation and change.]
Neblett, Elizabeth Scott. A Rebel Wife in Texas: The Diary and Letters of Elizabeth Scott Neblett, 1852-1864. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Paulissen, May Nelson and McQueary, Carl R. Miriam: The Southern Belle Who Became the First Woman Governor of Texas, Miriam Amanda Ferguson. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Press, 1995.
[Biography of Governor Miriam Ferguson.]
Payne, Darwin. Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes. Forward by Barefoot Sanders. Afterword by Sarah Weddington. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 2004.
Perry, Nellie M. and Sandra Gail Teichmann. Woman of the Plains: The Journals and Stories of Nellie M. Perry. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M Press, 2000.
Pierce, Paula Jo and Liz Carpenter. Let Me Tell You What I've Learned: Texas Wisewomen Speak. Austin, Tex.: University of Texas Press, 2002.
Puryear, Pamela Ashworth. Dressing Victorian: Being a Brief Overview of Women's Victorian Clothing in Texas, 1837-1900; with Notes on Recreation of the Styles. Brenham, Tex.: Hermann Print Shop, 1987.
Quarles, Deborah. “Lewisville Woman Takes Silver at Pan Am,” Denton Record Chronicle, March 15, 1995, C1-2. [Gypsy Lyn Lucas, a 20-year-old roller speed skater, won second place in the Women’s 500-meter race at the Pan American Games in Mar Del Plata, Argentina.]
Ramsey, Jr., Jack C. Texas Sinners and Revolutionaries: Jane Long and Her Fellow Conspirators. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 2001.
Reynolds, Clay. A Hundred Years of Heroes: A History of the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show. Fort Worth, Tex.: Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show, 1995.
[Includes information about Texas women, such as the Boys and Girls Hog Club Show, Cowgirls, Girls Rodeo Association, Kirmiss (a debutante-like presentation of young ladies at the Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show), Tad Lucas, Prostitution, Daughters of Southwestern Ranchers, and Glamour Girl competition.]
Rice, Melinda. Lone Star Ladies: A Travel Guide to Women's History in Texas. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 2002.
Rogers, Mary Beth. Barbara Jordan: American Hero. New York: Bantam Books, 2000.
Rowe, Beverly J. Women's Status in Texarkana, Texas in the Progressive Era, 1880-1920. Lewiston, N.Y.: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002.
Russell, Charles H. Undaunted: A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2005. [A biography of Elise Waerenskjold. “Opens a window into immigrant life in Texas’ Norwegian colonies from 1847 to the end of the nineteenth century.”]
Sanders, Marc, Ruthe Winegarten, and Harry Robinson, Jr. The Lives and Times of Black Dallas Women. Austin, Tex.: Eakin Publications, 2002.
Seagraves, Anne. High Spirited Women of the West. Hayden, Idaho: Wesanne Publications, 1992. [Includes Belle Starr, pp. 101-121.]
Shire, Al, compiler and editor. Oveta Culp Hobby. Houston, Tex.: Western Lithograph, 1997.
Siegel, Dorothy Schainman. Ann Richards: Politician, Feminist, Survivor. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996. [From childhood in Lakeview, Texas, to the Governor’s mansion.]
Silverthorne, Elizabeth and Geneva Fulgham. Women Pioneers in Texas Medicine. College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University Press, 1997.
Sizemore, Evelyn. The Turtle Lady: Ila Fox Loetscher of South Padre. Plano, Tex.: Republic of Texas Press, 2002.
Snapp, Elizabeth and Harry F. Snapp. Read All About Her! Texas Women's History: A Working Bibliography. Denton, TX: Texas Woman's University Press, 1995. 1,070 pp. ISBN 0-9607488-3-0 (Hardback)
Spruill, Marjorie Julian. One Woman, One Vote: Rediscovering the Woman Suffrage Movement. Troutdale, OR: NewSage Press, 1995. [Includes essay: “Minnie Fisher Cunningham’s back door lobby in Texas: Political Maneuvering in a one-party state,” by Judith N. McArthur.
Stillwell, Hallie Crawford. My Goose Is Cooked: The Continuation of a West Texas Ranch Woman’s Story. Assembled by Betty Heath. Edited by Kelly S. Garcia. Alpine, TX: Center for Big Bend Studies, 2004.
Taylor, Quintard and Shirley Ann Wilson Moore. African American Women Confront the West: 1600-2000. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. [Includes in Chapter 3: The Antebellum West: A Texas Slave’s Letter to her Husband, 1862, and Chapter 15: Lulu B. White and the Integration of the University of Texas, 1945-1950 by Merline Pitre.]
Watch here for new titles being added each week . . .
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