Southwestern Historical Quarterly

On the cover: Although Indianola, Texas, is now a ghost town, it was once an important port on the Gulf Coast. This 1860 illustration by Helmuth Holtz shows how the settlement might have appeared about the time of the events in one of the articles in this issue of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, “‘A Chicken for Breakfast at the Expense of Mr. Rebel’: The Journal of Sergeant Nelson Howard, Company E, 13th Maine Infantry on the Texas Coast, 1863–1864,” edited by Jerry Thompson. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.

On the cover: Photograph of a football helmet hanging from two strings by Dewy G. Mears, May 24, 1949. SPL_DM-49-C5707, Dewey Mears Photography Collection, Austin History Center, Austin Public Library. October is the time of year for the sport most famously associated with Texas: football. In this issue of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly, authors Benjamin Downs, Patrick Tutka, Chad Seifried, and Cameron Dean explore the early history of the game in the Lone Star State with their article “The Development of TCU Football and the Construction of TCU Stadium: Building Community and Establishing Legitimacy, 1896–1930.”