A Visit from Father: And Other Tales of the Mojave

DON WORCESTER, born in Tempe, Arizona, received the B.A. degree from Bard College and the M.A. and Ph. D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has published extensively on Latin American history and on the history of the American West. His books include children’s books and historical fiction as well as scholarly history. He has served as president of Western Writers of America, the Western History Association, and Westerners International and has won two WWA spurs and the 1988 Saddleman Award. In 1987 Texas A&M University Press published his The Texas Longhorn: Relic of the Past, Asset of the Future. He is Ida and Cecil Green emeritus tutor at Texas Christian University, where for nine years he chaired the history department.