Texana Book Reviews

Texana Book Reviews
(by Mike Cox)

For nearly twenty 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 in the Austin-American Statesman, the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the Amarillo Globe-News, and the Brownsville Herald. 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.

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.

1999 Reviews

October 17, 1999 -- Fall Harvest of Books
February 7, 1999 -- The Texas Coast
January 3, 1999 -- Texas Local Histories

1998 Reviews

December 6, 1998 -- Stocking Stuffers--and More
November 20, 1998 -- Indexes--and Indexes
November 6, 1998 -- Texana Titles for '99
October 30, 1998 -- Texas Travel Guide for Dogs
October 23, 1998 -- Keeping Books Dry
October 16, 1998 -- Two Texas Newspapermen
October 9, 1998 -- Texas Broadcasting: First Fifty Years
October 2, 1998 -- Texas Bird Guide for Children
September 25, 1998 -- Texas Travelguides
September 18, 1998 -- Early Military Scouting Diaries
September 11, 1998 -- Recording Family Histories
September 4, 1998 -- Creative? Cookbook
August 28, 1998 -- Alamo Triography
August 21, 1998 -- Lone Ranger Still Rides
August 14, 1998 -- "Shipwrecked" on Matagorda Island
August 7, 1998 -- Book Lists and the Texana Top 50
July 31, 1998 -- Inscriptions in Old Books
July 24, 1998 -- Mid-summer's Mail Miscellany
July 17, 1998 -- Texas: An Early German's View
July 10, 1998 -- Texas Folk and Folklore
July 3, 1998 -- Archaeological Field School
June 26, 1998 -- Adopting Bunnies
June 19, 1998 -- Red Blood and Black Ink
June 12, 1998 -- Bookmobiles: A Forgotten Service
June 5, 1998 -- Ghosts of Jefferson
May 29, 1998 -- Summer Gifts
May 22, 1998 -- Books About West Texas
May 15, 1998 -- O'Henry Revisited
May 8, 1998 -- Bedichek's Letters
May 1, 1998 -- From Autocamp to Motel
April 24, 1998 -- El Llano Estacado
April 17, 1998 -- Goliad (and Fannin's Orphans)
April 10, 1998 -- James Lowry's Scrapbook
April 4, 1998 -- Ft. Brown and South Texas
Mar. 27 , 1998 -- Mier Expedition: A Definitive History
Mar. 20, 1998 -- Respite in Big Bend
Mar. 13, 1998 -- The Texas J Factor
Mar. 6, 1998 -- Alamo Books
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

Dec. 19, 1997 -- Fruitcake, Protein and Pumpkin Pie
Dec. 12, 1997 -- Last Picture Show -- Revisited
Dec. 5, 1997 -- Dead Turkeys
Nov. 28, 1997 -- 1998-99 Texas Almanac
Nov. 21, 1997 -- Little Red Cowboy Hat
Nov. 14, 1997 -- Pecos River Queen
Nov. 7, 1997 -- Texas Book Festival: Chapter 2
Oct. 31, 1997 -- Texas Ghosts
Oct. 24, 1997 -- Book Curses: Borrower Beware
Oct. 17, 1997 -- Rarest 20th Century Texas Book
Oct. 10, 1997 -- Mythology of the Old West
Oct. 3, 1997 -- Alamo City: A Worldclass Attraction
Sept. 26, 1997 -- Monarchs and More
Sept. 19, 1997 -- Roosevelt's Rough Riders?
Sept. 12, 1997 -- Hunting Dead Ships
Sept. 5, 1997 -- G-Rated Places
Aug. 15, 1997 -- Surf Fishing in the Gulf
Aug. 8, 1997 -- Alamo Not Forgotten
Aug. 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 -- Texans in the Civil War
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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