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time friend and former Yale roommate of Bill Goetzmann, and David
Farmer of Taos, New Mexico, biographer of Stanley Marcus.
Goetzmann has published dozens of books and articles, but he is best
known for what has come to be called his "exploration trilogy," Army Ex-
ploration in the American West, 80o3-1863 (1959), Exploration and Empire:
The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West (1967),
which won the Pulitzer Prize for History, and New Lands, New Men: Ameri-
ca and the Second Great Age of Discovery (1986). All three volumes are still in
print and available from the TSHA.
Goetzmann has been at UT-Austin since 1964 and has trained more
than sixty doctoral graduates and more than forty masters graduates. His
students hold faculty positions from coast to coast and include such no-
table scholars as Stephen Pine of Arizona State University, a recent
McArthur Foundation fellowship winner, Brian W. Dippie of the Univer-
sity of Victoria in British Columbia, and George Ward, assistant director
of the TSHA and managing editor of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
A little-known fact about Goetzmann is that Harry Ransom brought him
to Austin ostensibly to be director of the TSHA, but by the time the posi-
tion became available he had founded the American Studies Program
(now a UT department) and did not feel that he could leave it.
Goetzmann broke into television with his 1986 PBS series, The West of
the Imagination (accompanied by the book of the same title). Based on a
popular course that he had originated and still teaches at UT-Austin, the
series called attention to the increasingly popular field of American West-
ern art, which has continued to grow, according to a recent article in Time
Magazine. In addition, as Eric Widing of Christie's, Inc., a New York City
auction house, points out, "People look at Western art more seriously now
for its contribution to American culture." Goetzmann has also recently
written a screenplay based on Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession, also a
TSHA publication and the story that Cormack McCarthy used in his chill-
ing novel, Blood Meridian.
Stanley Marcus is, of course, best known for his role as head of the
world-famous Neiman Marcus department store in Dallas. He has long
since retired from that position and written a number of books, including
Minding the Store, Quest for the Best, and His & Hers. But, Marcus is a man of
many accomplishments. Few people remember, for example, how he
helped "freeze" fashions during World War II so that the country's pro-
ductive strength could be devoted to winning the war rather than to new
fashions. David Farmer, former director of the DeGolyer Library at South-
ern Methodist University, points out in his recent biography that Marcus
has lived with books all his life and was the primary motivation for found-
ing the original Book Club of Texas in 1929. Until recently, Marcus wroteOctober
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