About the Author

J'Nell L. Pate holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of North Texas. Her dissertation became Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards, 1887-1987. Now retired from Tarrant County College in Fort Worth, she is also the author of North of the River: A Brief History of North Fort Worth, Hazel Vaughn Leigh and the Fort Worth Boys' Club, Ranald Slidell Mackenzie: Brave Cavalry Colonel, written for juveniles, and Document Sets for Texas and the Southwest in U.S. History, a primary source reader which she edited. She makes her home in Fort Worth.