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An Oral History of Western Swing. Interviewing some fifty living legends
and performers of the form, Boyd explores the origins and development
of swing music as a distinct part of the mainstream of jazz music-what
some call "American Classical music." Cultural historians, ethnomusicol-
ogists, and music lovers can dance through the pages for $37.50, hard-
cover, or $17.95 paperback.
The legend of Jesse James lives on, but this time, with a Texas twist.
Betty Dorsett Duke's new book Jesse James Lived & Died in Texas is sure
to arouse controversy and the ghost of James, wherever he might lay.
Using photographic evidence and uncovering hitherto unknown
clues, Duke asserts that the real Jesse James moved to Texas, changed
his name to James L. Courtney, and lived in Blevins until the ripe old
age of ninety-six. Complete with comparative photographs of James
and Courtney, or James/Courtney, you can be the judge of her evi-
dence. The book is $21.95 hardcover. Contact Eakin Press at P.O.
Drawer 9o159, Austin 78709-0159, telephone 512/288-1813, or e-
mail eakinpub@sig.net.
It is appropriate that the second volume in the Ann and Lee
Lawrence East Texas History Series from the East Texas Historical
Association is the new book Camp Ford: Tyler, Texas C.S.A., by Robert
W. Glover. Lee, a former TSHA president, and Robert, retired history
instructor and chairperson of the History Department at Tyler Junior
College, co-authored the original work on Camp Ford in 1964, which
has since become a rare piece of Texana.
Robert recalls in the introduction to this new (47 PP., $7.50) mono-
graph that the whole idea for the book began in the early 196os, when
he gave a paper at the TSHA annual meeting. Camp Ford was intend-
ed as a training center for Confederate conscripts from East Texas, he
says, but it ultimately quartered perhaps as many as nine thousand
troops, prisoners, conscripts, etc., en route to becoming the largest
Civil War prisoner-of-war facility west of the Mississippi River. He and
Lee discussed the idea on the trip home, and the collaborative book
was the result.
Another result was the establishment, in 1993, of the Camp Ford
Preservation Association. Although Lee was terminally ill at the time,
he helped with the dream of developing and preserving Camp Ford as
an interpretive center. Long-term plans for the site include a museum,
full facilities, and reconstructed prisoner stockades, and "shebangs,"
the term applied to the prisoner-made shelters. In the meantime, this
fine monograph will serve as a memorial to the persons who spent397
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