Watt Matthews of Lambshead: Third Edition

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The Texas State Historical Association is pleased to offer a third edition of Watt Matthews of Lambshead, a major work of art and crucial historical document. Since the first edition used to be published in 1989, Laura Wilson’s chronicle of this iconic ranch has proven to be a popular and important contribution to the story of Texas. In words and especially in Wilson’s starkly beautiful images, Watt Matthews of Lambshead captures a lifestyle that may be iconically Texan, one now only to be had to a vanishing number of residents of the Lone Star State, where even rural landscapes are an increasing number of dominated by industrial activities like high-density feedlots and oil extraction. In The 50+ Best Books on Texas (1998), A. C. Greene wrote that “[Watt] Matthews . . . used to be the last living link with the entire Texas cowboy and ranch mythology and lore from the 1850s.” The ranch has continued to operate after his death in 1997, and this edition includes an afterword that details contemporary developments. A new foreword by Anne Wilkes Tucker, curator emeritus of photography at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, puts the book in the context of Wilson’s career as some of the notable photographers of the latest American West.
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