About the Author

The late LAWRENCE S. CLAYTON was dean of Liberal Arts at Hardin-Simmons University. His many publications focused largely on the life and literature of the American West, especially on contemporary cowboy and ranch life. JOE W. SPECHT is director of the Jay-Rollins Library at McMurry University. A former host of his own radio show, Burning Memories: The Texas Tradition, he has contributed entries to The Encyclopedia of Country Music and has published articles in Old Time Music and The Journal of Texas Music History.