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Hotter 'n pecos and other west Texas lies
\"Collected tales, some taller than others, offer glimpses into Texas west of the hundredth meridian. Four parts--Working in the Oil Patch, Riding the Range, Down on the Farm, and Weather--humorously reflect on the nature of West Texans living in an environment that is \"Hotter 'n pecos\"\"--Provided by publisher.
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Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air
From Buddy Holly and the Crickets to the Flatlanders, Terry Allen, and Natalie Maines, Lubbock, Texas, has produced songwriters, musicians, and artists as prolifically as cotton, conservatives, and windstorms. While nobody questions where the conservatives come from in a city that a recent nonpartisan study ranked as America's second most conservative, many people wonder why Lubbock is such fertile ground for creative spirits who want to expand the boundaries of thought in music and art. Is it just that \"there's nothing else to do,\" as some have suggested, or is there something in the character of Lubbock that encourages creativity as much as conservatism? In this book, Christopher Oglesby interviews twenty-five musicians and artists with ties to Lubbock to discover what it is about this community and West Texas in general that feeds the creative spirit. Their answers are revealing. Some speak of the need to rebel against conventional attitudes that threaten to limit their horizons. Others, such as Joe Ely, praise the freedom of mind they find on the wide open plains. \"There is this empty desolation that I could fill if I picked up a pen and wrote, or picked up a guitar and played,\" he says. Still others express skepticism about how much Lubbock as a place contributes to the success of its musicians. Jimmie Dale Gilmore says, \"I think there is a large measure of this Lubbock phenomenon that is just luck, and that is the part that you cannot explain.\" As a whole, the interviews create a portrait not only of Lubbock's musicians and artists, but also of the musical community that has sustained them, including venues such as the legendary Cotton Club and the original Stubb's Barbecue. This kaleidoscopic portrait of the West Texas music scene gets to the heart of what it takes to create art in an isolated, often inhospitable environment. As Oglesby says, \"Necessity is the mother of creation. Lubbock needed beauty, poetry, humor, and it needed to get up and shake its communal ass a bit or go mad from loneliness and boredom; so Lubbock created the amazing likes of Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock, Terry Allen, and Joe Ely.\"
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Interference
Kate Hamilton is a congressman's daughter, used to the world of Washington politics, but after some pictures of her cause a mild scandal, she finds herself exiled to her aunt's West Texas farm and animal shelter, in the district where her father is planning to run for office-- and then she discovers that politics in a small town can be even nastier than Washington, especially when it involves the local high school football team.
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Militarizing the border : when Mexicans became the enemy
As historian Miguel Antonio Levario explains in this timely book, current tensions and controversy over immigration and law enforcement issues centered on the US-Mexico border are only the latest evidence of a long-standing atmosphere of uncertainty and mistrust plaguing this region. Militarizing the Border: When Mexicans Became the Enemy, focusing on El Paso and its environs, examines the history of the relationship among law enforcement, military, civil, and political institutions, and local communities.?In the years between 1895 and 1940, West Texas experienced intense militarization efforts by local, state, and federal authorities responding to both local and international circumstances. El Paso’s “Mexicanization” in the early decades of the twentieth century contributed to strong racial tensions between the region’s Anglo population and newly arrived Mexicans. Anglos and Mexicans alike turned to violence in order to deal with a racial situation rapidly spinning out of control.
?Highlighting a binational focus that sheds light on other US-Mexico border zones in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Militarizing the Border establishes historical precedent for current border issues such as undocumented immigration, violence, and racial antagonism on both sides of the boundary line. This important evaluation of early US border militarization and its effect on racial and social relations among Anglos, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans will afford scholars, policymakers, and community leaders a better understanding of current policy . . . and its potential failure.
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Hydraulic fracturing, fault system architecture, and the details of anthropogenic earthquakes in the post-Pennsylvanian Delaware Basin of West Texas
Since about 2009, oil and gas production activities in the Delaware Basin of West Texas and southeast New Mexico have caused a rapid increase in rates of seismicity. This seismicity has been driven primarily by pore fluid pressure increases caused by subsurface injection of both waste saltwater and hydraulic fracturing fluids. High-quality teleseismic monitoring shows that earthquakes have been concentrated in previously dormant fault systems. The analysis of the timing of earthquake occurrence and magnitudes in two southern Delaware Basin fault systems indicates that continuous versus sporadic seismic energy release corresponds with continuous versus sporadic hydraulic fracturing and saltwater disposal activities proximal to the faults, respectively. Treating earthquake magnitudes as a proxy for fault displacement reveals that fault reactivation occurs in patterns that resemble segmented faults both hard and soft linked and that this distribution is likely a faithful representation of the fundamental architecture of the reactivated fault and not simply a function of pore pressure perturbation. The spatial distribution of earthquake magnitudes in the two fault systems illuminates the strong control that preexisting fault system architecture exerts on fault reactivation. Larger earthquakes tend to occur in larger, likely hard linked, fault segments. This suggests that a priori knowledge of a fault system's architecture can provide some degree of predictability for induced seismicity.
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Taming the Land
A postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. Hundreds of people took up cameras, and photographers of note chose some of their best work for duplication as photo postcards—sold for a nickel and mailed for a penny to distant friends and relatives.
These postcards, which now enjoy another kind of craze in the collecting world, left what author John Miller Morris calls a significant visual legacy of the history and social geography of Texas. For more than a decade, Morris has been finding and studying the photographers and methodically gathering their postcards. In Taming the Land, he shares those finds with readers, introducing each photographer and providing interpretive descriptions of the places, people, or events depicted in the photographs. The stories the cards tell—in the images captured and the messages carried—add an exceptional dimension to our understanding of life in rural Texas a century ago.
Taming the Land presents postcards from twenty-four counties in the booming Texas Panhandle. This is the first book in a set called Plains of Light, which will collect and document turn-of-the-twentieth-century photo postcards from all over West Texas.
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Coccidioidomycosis Cases at a Regional Referral Center, West Texas, USA, 2013–2019
We describe 73 patients with coccidioidomycosis diagnosed or treated at a regional referral center in West Texas, USA. Patients most at risk worked in oil production or agriculture; the most-associated health factors were smoking and diabetes. Patient demographics suggest that access to care may affect coccidioidomycosis diagnosis in this region.
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Avian haemosporidians of breeding birds in the Davis Mountains sky-islands of west Texas, USA
Avian haemosporidians are protozoan parasites transmitted by insect vectors that infect birds worldwide, negatively impacting avian fitness and survival. However, the majority of haemosporidian diversity remains undescribed. Quantifying this diversity is critical to determining parasite–host relationships and host-switching potentials of parasite lineages as climate change induces both host and vector range shifts. In this study, we conducted a community survey of avian haemosporidians found in breeding birds on the Davis Mountains sky islands in west Texas, USA. We determined parasite abundance and host associations and compared our results to data from nearby regions. A total of 265 birds were screened and infections were detected in 108 birds (40.8%). Most positive infections were identified as Haemoproteus (36.2%), followed by Plasmodium (6.8%) and Leucocytozoon (0.8%). A total of 71 haemosporidian lineages were detected of which 39 were previously undescribed. We found that regional similarity influenced shared lineages, as a higher number of lineages were shared with avian communities in the sky islands of New Mexico compared to south Texas, the Texas Gulf Coast and central Mexico. We found that migratory status of avian host did not influence parasite prevalence, but that host phylogeny is likely an important driver.
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Impact of Access to Breast Care For West Texas Program on Early Detection and Regional Breast Cancer Mortality
Introduction
This study aimed to assess whether the Access to Breast Care for West Texas (ABC4WT) program impacted regional breast cancer detection and mortality in the Texas Council of Governments (COG)1 region.
Methods
Interrupted time series analyses were utilized to evaluate the impact of the intervention. Spearman’s rank correlation and cross-orrelation analyses were performed to assess the relationship between the total number of screenings and (i) the total number of breast cancer detected and (ii) the proportion of early-stage cancer detected and the (pre-whitened) residuals. A three-way interaction model compared pre-and post-intervention mortality in COG 1 with the COG 9 region (control).
Results
Increased screening rate was associated with increased breast and early-stage cancer incidences (P = .001 and P = .002, respectively). There were significant positive cross-correlations between the total number of screenings and the total number of breast cancer detected (r = .996) and the proportion of early-stage cancer detected (r = .709) without a lag even after pre-whitening. Univariate analysis showed that regional mortality decreased with time (P < .001) and after intervention (P = .001). Multivariate analysis did not show any significant difference in time (P = .594), intervention (P = .453), and time and intervention interaction (P = .273). The three-way interaction model showed no difference in the baseline mortality and pre-intervention trend difference in COG 1 and COG 9 regions. However, there was a significant pre-post intervention trend difference in mortality COG 1 compared to the COG 9 region (P = .041).
Conclusion
Implementing the ABC4WT program was associated with the early detection of breast cancer and reducing regional mortality in the COG 1 region.
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