Darrell Royal and the University of Texas Longhorns

Darrell Royal passed away recently at age 88. A college football legend and Texas iconic figure, Royal coached the University of Texas Longhorns to two national championships, Southwest Conference championships and numerous bowl appearances.

Click here to see our books about Coach Darrell Royal and the storied University of Texas football program.

For more information on the book shown at the left, click on the link below.

Coach Royal: Conversations With A Texas Football Legend, by Darrell Royal, with John Wheat

Native American Poetry from the Blue Cloud Abbey

Whiting Books has recently listed a number of issues of the Blue Cloud Quarterly, an out-of-print, important journal of Native American poetry. These issues are from the 1980s: 

Blue Cloud Quarterly issues

The Blue Cloud Abbey, near Marvin, South Dakota, recently closed (5 August 2012). At their Web site, this notice is now posted:

The monastery was founded by monks from Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana in 1950. Benedictine monks were involved in ministry on several nearby Indian reservations, an association that gave rise to the publication of a quarterly journal devoted to the literature of Native Americans. The abbey also had an historical collection of glass plate negatives featuring Native Americans from the late 1800s to early 1900s, which can be seen on the U.S. Geological Survey site.