Texas Dames: Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout Lone Star History
"Texas Dames" (The History Press, $19.95 paperback) is subtitled "Sassy and Savvy Women Throughout Lone Star History" and includes 53 stories of women, many of whom you probably haven't read about before, such as the Rev. Mary Billings of Hico, perhaps the first ordained women minister in Texas. She was 68 when her husband ordained her in 1892, and she became an outspoken proponent of prohibition. --Glenn Dromgoole,Lubbock Avalanche-Journal