Gregg Cantrell received his PhD from Texas A&M University. His books include Kenneth and John B. Rayner and the Limits of Southern Dissent (University of Illinois Press) andStephen F. Austin, Empresario of Texas (Yale University Press). He is also coeditor of Lone Star Pasts: Memory and History in Texas (Texas A&M University Press) and coauthor of The History of Texas (Harlan Davidson Press). He is vice president of the Texas State Historical Association and a member of the Texas Institute of Letters. He teaches courses in Texas and American history and is currently writing a history of the Texas Populist Party.

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