Deborah Liles is an Associate Professor and the W. K. Gordon Endowed Chair in Texas History at Tarleton State University. She is the coeditor of “Women in Civil War Texas: Diversity and Dissidence in the Trans-Mississippi”, and “Texas Women and Ranching: On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities”. Both are winners of the Liz Carpenter Award for Best Book on the History of Women; she is also coeditor of “African Americans in Central Texas History: From Slavery to Civil Rights”. She resides in Weatherford, Texas.