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Harold D. Bugbee became known nationally in the 1940s and 1950s, writes biographer Michael R. Grauer, for his illustrations for books on western history and magazines devoted to ranching and farming. Bugbee was art curator for the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society from 1951 until his death in 1963, and a good many of his paintings are in the Canyon museum\u2019s collection. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Bugbee\u2019s life and cowboy art are featured in Grauer\u2019s richly illustrated biography, Making a Hand<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (Texas A&M University Press, $35 hardcover). The book includes more than thirty full-color plates depicting cowboy life. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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In 1947, a South Dakota man who had enjoyed Bugbee\u2019s art in Cattleman<\/em> magazine wrote him asking \u201cif you have all of your pictures in a book,\u201d adding that \u201cif you do\u2014we want to buy one.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cMore than seventy years in the wanting,\u201d writes Grauer, \u201chere is such a book,\u201d published as part of the \u201cAmerican Wests\u201d series sponsored by West Texas A&M University.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jodi Thomas: <\/span><\/strong>Popular Texas novelist Jodi Thomas has two new books out this Christmas season. Her latest novel, Christmas in Winter Valley<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (HQN, $7.99 paperback), is another heartwarming, uplifting story in her Ransom Canyon series. Thomas\u2019s stories are classified as romances\u2014and romance is certainly a significant theme\u2014but I find them to be just good, wholesome, small-town Texas tales. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Thomas also has teamed up with two other romance writers\u2014Celia Bonaduce and native Texan Racheal Miles\u2014in a trilogy of holiday historical novellas set in 1859 in Dallas, A Texas Kind of Christmas<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>(Kensington, $15.95 paperback). <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Women\u2019s Insights: Women Amplified<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong> is a collection of insightful quotations gleaned from speakers at the Texas Conference for Women over the past twenty years, compiled and edited by Lisa Bennett (Greenleaf Book Group, $21.95 hardcover.) <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Bennett organized the quotations into twenty categories, beginning with \u201cAssume You Belong\u2014and Believe in Yourself\u201d through \u201cWrite Your Own Story.\u201d A few other sections: \u201cDream Big. Find Your Courage. Take Chances.\u201d, \u201cGive Yourself Permission to Focus on Happiness,\u201d and \u201cSwear Off Perfectionism: Go for Growth.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Among the speakers quoted are philanthropist Melinda Gates, actress Viola Davis, university president Ruth Simmons, author Suze Orman, corporate executive Carly Fiorina, and basketball coach Jody Conradt. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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According to the book, more than 100,000 women and men have participated in the Texas Conference for Women since 2000. Read more at TXConferenceforWomen.org<\/a><\/strong> or on Facebook<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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