Grace & Gumption: The Cookbook

The G&G Cookbook is a social history of Fort Worth told through food and the follow-up book to Grace and Gumption: Stories of Fort Worth Women. Readers will gain glimpses of pantries, kitchens, and dining rooms of the past and learn about the women who presided over them.

We learn a great deal about what the people of Fort Worth have eaten over the past century and a half. The cookbook takes a new approach to American culinary studies, recording the lives of Fort Worth women as well as discussing the food that they prepared and ate.

Want to learn more about The G&G Cookbook? Join us at the Nation Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in Fort Worth, Texas for a special event at on August 18th.

Ma Ferguson Featured in Texas Highways

The August issue of Texas Highways has an article about Miriam “Ma” Ferguson. Ma was the second woman in the United States to take an oath to office and the first female governor of Texas. The first time she ran for office she didn’t know until her husband announced her candidacy to the press. She told voters that said she would follow the advice of her husband and Texas thus would get "two governors for the price of one." As a governor for two terms, she tackled some of the tougher issues of the day.

To learn more about Ma Ferguson, read Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928.

" Captures the rough 'n' tumble nature of Texas politics in the 1920s when three main issues--the Ku Klux Klan (Hood), `Ma' Ferguson (Bonnet), and Prohibition (Little Brown Jug)--were the focus of attention. . . . the Texas political state, always fascinating and colorful, comes to life in Brown's book." --Southern Historian