"Texas Flags"— Published in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Full title: Texas Flags  by Robert Mabbery Jr. Published in association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas A&M University Press.

Robert Maberry, Jr., wrote this book as guest curator for the exhibition Texas Flags 1836-1945 at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He has also served as the director of the Historical Flags of Texas Project, a conservation effort sponsored by the Friends of the Texas Historical Commission. His Ph.D. in history is from Texas Christian University, where he has taught U.S. and Civil War history.

The Lone Star State takes its name from the icon on its famous flag, a flag whose story adds a unique dimension to the dramatic history of Texas. This beautiful book vividly portrays the significance of the red, white, and blue standard with its single five-point star, the visual distillation of more than a hundred years of history.

In the flag's early incarnations, homespun cotton, ladies' silk dresses, and various other goods provided the materials used for banners to lead Texans in battle and in nation-building. Historian Robert Maberry, Jr., skillfully traces the use of the lone star symbol in the nineteenth century and describes in detail the various Texas flags that have either incorporated it or used other symbols altogether.

The Texas flags pictured and described in this book are historical objects of considerable artistry and, in many cases, ingenuity on the part of their makers in times of scarcity.

Some of these historic flags still exist and remain sources of inspiration. Their stories, and those of other banners that have long since disap-peared, reveal much about the cultural and aesthetic preferences of the age in which they were fashioned and about the political winds in which they were unfurled.

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