LibGuides: Authors from the Lee College Service Area: Baytown Authors

Lee College Graduates

The Old and the Lost by Blake, Glenn
Call Number: PS 3552.L34825 A6 2016

Publication Date: 2016
Drowned Moon by Blake, Glenn
Call Number: PS 3552 .L34825 D76 2001

ISBN: 9780801865497

Publication Date: 2000

The stories in Drowned Moon are set in Southeast Texas, where the Old and the Lost Rivers meet and empty into the bay.
Return Fire by Blake, Glenn
Call Number: PS 3552 .L34825 R48 2010

ISBN: 9780801894312

Publication Date: 2010

Short story collection about the Lost & Old River area.
Staying Alive in Lampasas County by Blake, Glenn
ISBN: 9781608623495

Publication Date: 2011

Historical novel, set in Texas in the 19th century.
Black-brown solidarity: racial politics in the new Gulf South by Márquez, John D.
Call Number: F 296 .M114 2014

Publication Date: 2013

This book, written by a Lee College alum, explores the history of race relations along the Texas Gulf Coast. It includes sections that are specifically about Baytown.
Black market money: the collapse of U.S. Military Currency Control in World War II by Rundell, Walter, Jr.
Call Number: HJ 257 .R8

Publication Date: 1964
Early Texas oil: a photographic history, 1866-1936 by Rundell, Walter, Jr.
Call Number: HD 9567 .T3 R85 1977 (Oversize collection)

Publication Date: 1977
In pursuit of American history: research and training in the United States by Rundell, Walter, Jr.
Call Number: E 175.8 .R8

Publication Date: 1970
Military money: a fiscal history of the U.S. Army overseas in World War II by Rundell, Walter, Jr.
Call Number: UC 23 1941-45 .R86

Publication Date: 1980
Oil in West Texas and New Mexico: a pictorial history of the Permian Basin by Rundell, Walter, Jr.
Call Number: TN 872 .T4 R86 1982

Publication Date: 1982

Online, Print & Ebook Resources

Here are online links to local newspapers, past and present

50th Anniversary World War II Directory: Baytown area veterans by Brenda Cooper, editor
Call Number: REF D 736 .C66 1992x

Publication Date: 1992
Baytown's Famous Trophy Barber Shop by Elizabeth Courtlandt Stockett
Call Number: (OVRSZ) F 394 .B39 S76 2008

Publication Date: 2008
Baytown Vignettes: one hundred and fifty years in the history of a Texas Gulf Coast Community by John Britt and Muriel Tyssen
Call Number: F 394.B39 B3 1992

Publication Date: 1992
Black-brown solidarity: racial politics in the new Gulf South by John D. Márquez
Call Number: F 296 .M114 2014

Publication Date: 2013

This book, written by a Lee College alum, explores the history of race relations along the Texas Gulf Coast. It includes sections that are specifically about Baytown.
Early Texas Oil: a photographic history by Walter Rundell, Jr.
Call Number: (OVRSZ) HD 9567 .T3 R85 1977

This book includes a chapter on the Goose Creek oil fields.
A guide to regional research by John Britt ; Muriel Tyssen
Publication Date: 1989

Lee College professor John Britt provides a research guide for local history.
The Gulf by Jack E. Davis
Call Number: F 296 .D38 2017

ISBN: 9780871408662

Publication Date: 2017

Includes a chapter on the Goose Creek Oil fields.
Historic Native Peoples of Texas by William C. Foster
Call Number: E 78 .T4 F67 2008

Publication Date: 2008

Indigenous people of this area are discussed in Chapter 8: The Upper Texas Coast.
History of Baytown by Margaret Swett Henson
Call Number: (OVRSZ) F 394 .B39 H46 1986
History of the Humble Oil & Refining Company by Henrietta M. Larson & Kenneth Wiggins Porter
Call Number: HD 9569 .H8 L3 1959
Houston North Shore Railway by Charles C Robinson & Paul L. DeVerter
Call Number: TF 725 .H68 R63 2000 [Oversize]

History of the Houston North Shore Railway, which had lines through Baytown, Pelly, Goose Creek, McNair & Highlands.
Lee College: by the people, for the people by Walter Rundell, [Sr.]
Call Number: LD 2955 .R8

Publication Date: 1972
The Texas Indians by David La Vere
Call Number: E 78 T4 L32 2004

Publication Date: 2003

Baytown Authors

Works Published by Lee College Employees
For works published by employees of Lee College, please see the bibliography on this LibGuide.

Brothers in arms: a journey from war to peace by Broyles, William, Jr.
Call Number: DS 556.39 .B76 1986

Publication Date: 1986
Flags of our fathers [film] by Broyles, William, Jr., screenwriter
Call Number: D 743.23 .F53 2007

Publication Date: 2007
Baytown by Chuck Chandler
Publication Date: 2023
Goodnight, Mrs. Dinglewall. Sleep tight! by JoAn Watson Martin
Call Number: PZ 7 .M37 G66 2006

Publication Date: 2006
Inventing Chloe by Joan Watson Martin
Publication Date: 2008-09-01
Galveston by Morris, Suzanne
Call Number: PS 3563 .O87448 G3 1976

Publication Date: 1976
Keeping secrets by Morris, Suzanne
Call Number: PS 3563 .O87448 K4 1979x

Publication Date: 1979
Skychild by Morris, Suzanne
Call Number: PS 3563 .O87448 S59

Publication Date: 1981
A framework for understanding povery: a cognitive approach by Payne, Ruby K.
Call Number: HV 4045 .P39 2013

Publication Date: 2013
General Houston's little spy by Skinner, Cara
Publication Date: [2015?]
Beneath the seas: my World War II story by Smalling, Jack W.
Call Number: V 63 .63 A3 2004

Publication Date: 2004
Apollo 13 [film] by William Broyles, Jr., screenwriter
Call Number: TL 799 .M6 A65 1998 [DVD cabinet]

Baytown Authors at Sterling Library
Link to Sterling Municipal Library's catalog search on Baytown authors.
Dirty Bay Poetry Group
Webpage of a Baytown-based poetry group.