LEACH, JOSEPH. _The Typical Texan: Biography of an American Myth_, Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, 1952. At the time Texas was emerging, the three main types of Americans were Yankees, southern aristocrats, Kentucky westerners embodied by Daniel Boone. Texas took over the Kentucky tradition. It was enlarged by Crockett, who stayed in Texas only long enough to get killed, Sam Houston, and Bigfoot Wallace. Novels, plays, stories, travel books, and the Texans themselves have kept the tradition going. This is the main thesis of the book. Mr. Leach fails to note that the best books concerning Texas have done little to keep the typical Texan alive and that a great part of the present Texas Brags spirit is as absurdly unrealistic as Mussolini's splurge at making twentieth-century Italians imagine themselves a {illust. caption = John W. Thomason, in his _Lone Star Preacher_ (1941)} reincarnation of Caesar's Roman legions. Mr. Leach dissects the myth and then swallows it. LINN, JOHN J. _Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas_, 1883; reprinted by Steck, Austin, 1936. Mixture of personal narrative and historical notes, written with energy and prejudice. MAVERICK, MARY A. _Memoirs_, 1921. OP. Mrs. Maverick's husband, Sam Maverick, was among the citizens of San Antonio haled off to Mexico as prisoners in 1842. MORRELL, Z. N. _Fruits and Flowers in the Wilderness_, 1872. OP. Morrell, a circuit-riding Baptist preacher, fought the Indians and the Mexicans. See other books of this kind listed under "Circuit Riders and Missionaries." PERRY, GEORGE SESSIONS. Texas, A _World in Itself_, McGraw-Hill, New York, 1942. Especially good chapter on the Alamo. SMYTHE, H. _Historical Sketch of Parker County, Texas_, 1877. One of various good county histories of Texas replete with fighting. For bibliography of this extensive class of literature consult _Texas County Histories_, by H. Bailey Carroll, Texas State Historical Association, Austin, 1943. OP. SONNICHSEN, C. L. _I'll Die Before I'll Run: The Story of the Great Feuds of Texas_--and of some not great. Harper, New York, 1951. SOWELL, A. J. _Rangers and Pioneers of Texas_, 1884; _Life of Bigfoot Wallace_, 1899; _Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas_, 1900. All OP; all meaty with the character of ready-to-fight but peace-seeking Texas pioneers. Sowell will some day be recognized as an extraordinary chronicler. STAPP, WILLIAM P. _The Prisoners of Perote_, 1845; reprinted by Steck, Austin, 1936. Journal of one of the Mier men who drew a white bean. THOMASON, JOHN W. _Lone Star Preacher_, Scribner's, New York, 1941. The cream, the essence, the spirit, and the body of the fighting tradition of Texas. Historical novel of Civil War. WEBB, WALTER PRESCOTT. _The Texas Rangers_, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1935. See under "Texas Rangers."