Early in the Civil War both the North and South were confronted with an entirely new problem in logistics. George Edgar Turner writes: "It began to appear that important railroad junction points were to become major military objec-tives." Victory Rode the Rails portrays the decisive military advantage enjoyed by the side that controlled the railroads. Turner was a retired lawyer and insurance executive when his book was first published in 1953.
It "remains the best introduction to the subject of railroads and military operations during the Civil War," says Gary Gallagher in presenting this book to a new audience.

Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War

History

Turner, George E.

Americas

Univ of Nebraska Pr

Early in the Civil War both the North and South were confronted with an entirely new problem in logistics. George Edgar Turner writes: "It began to appear that important railroad junction points were to become major military objec-tives." Victory Rode the Rails portrays the decisive military advantage enjoyed by the side that controlled the railroads. Turner was a retired lawyer and insurance executive when his book was first published in 1953.It "remains the best introduction to the subject of railroads and military operations during the Civil War," says Gary Gallagher in presenting this book to a new audience.

Greenwood Pub Group

From dinosaurs to Conquistadores, The Ancient Southwest, a dynamically illustrated collection of natural history and early-day recorded history, takes its cue from the tradition of storytelling in pictures. The narrative medium is the comic strip, applied here “to increase popular interest in geology,” as one of its original contributors described the project. An enormously popular feature in the West Texas newspaper where it had originated more than fifty years ago, The Ancient Southwest has been painstakingly restored and annotated by the cartoonist and cultural historian Michael H. Price as a follow-through to a lengthy collaboration with the primary artist, the late George E. Turner. The strips, originally designed for serialized weekly publication, have gone unseen since 1951–1952. Inspired by the permanent collections of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, the cartoons cover a vast span of prehistory, from the earliest invertebrate and reptilian life to the Age of Mammals and the Paleo-Indians. The volume also contains a full restoration of Turner’s The Palo Duro Story, recounting one of the earliest Spanish explorations of North America from the viewpoint of Cabeza de Vaca. An appendix reproduces a selection of Turner’s college-newspaper cartoons of the post-WWII years, foreshadowing the style he would bring to bear upon The Ancient Southwest and The Palo Duro Story.

The Ancient Southwest & Other Dispatches from a Cruel Frontier

Price, Michael H.

Travel

TCU Press

Book by Turner, George E.; Price, Michael H.

Human Monsters: The Bizarre Psychology of Movie Villains

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

Kitchen Sink Pr

Did Billy the Kid really present a magnificent Arabian horse to a friend as a going away gift - or is this part of the tangled mythology of the Texas desperado? Was a man named "Pink" Higgins one of the best gunslingers in West Texas history - or merely a mighty accurate shooter with his favorite .45 who didn't take kindly to derogatory words about himself or anyone in his circle? These and other tantalizing nuggets from the Old West are posed in The Cruel Plains by Michael J. Price and George E. Turner, a fascinating and informative new collection of short story "puzzlers and torments" from Zone Press that explores the legends and lore of the Southwestern Great Plains. From authors who proudly claim their origins in the oil-and-cattle country of the Southwestern frontier, The Cruel Plains seeks to both inform and entertain while delving into and uncovering the mysteries of both fact and fiction that make western folklore so engaging. While many of the stories in The Cruel Plains were originally made public in the pages of the now defunct Southwest Heritage quarterly magazine, which Turner once served as publisher, they have been freshly revised in this new compilation. Turner, the longtime Editorial Art Director for the Amarillo (TX) News &amp; Globe Times before spending more than two decades as a visual effects and storyboard artist in Hollywood, Calif., also served as editor of The American Cinematographer magazine before his death in 1999. Price considered Turner a mentor, collaborator and friend after initially enjoying Turner's work in the News &amp; Globe Times and later working with him at Southwest Heritage. Price currently is Associate Editor of the Fort Worth Business Press. In their 30-year partnership, Turner and Price also authored the three-volume Forgotten Horrors movie history series, as well as Human Monsters and The Cinema of Adventure, Romance &amp; Terror. Price and Turner are also skilled illustrators who created all of the original artwork and cover art featured in The Cruel Plains.

The Cruel Plains

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Hewell Enterprises

The publication in 1980 of "Forgotten Horrors: Early Talkie Chillers from Poverty Row" launched a new direction in film scholarship by subjecting the weirder movies of Old Hollywood’s low-rent district to the scholarly and critical attention customarily reserved for acknowledged classics from the big studios. Authors George E. Turner and Michael H. Price staked out a distinctive territory while rediscovering little-seen favorites and identifying early work from important stars-to-be and emerging major directors. “We intended the title, 'Forgotten Horrors,' to be a challenge—a self-denying prophecy,” says Mike Price in announcing a new edition, revised and expanded. “With very few exceptions, such as 'White Zombie' and 'The Vampire Bat,' these Depression-era pictures had been popularly forgotten through neglect, careless archiving, and inconsistent copyright maintenance. We sought to make them less ‘forgotten.’ “George and I covered more than 100 such films from 1929-1937 in the original edition, and within a few years of its publication many of these pictures started cropping up on the home-video market,” adds Price. “One large-scale video dealer went so far as to publish a catalogue called 'Forgotten Horrors.' Mission accomplished.” The new edition, Forgotten Horrors: The Original Volume—Except More So, features many new chapters and an introduction by Mel Brooks—the filmmaker responsible for such horror pictures as "Young Frankenstein" and David Cronenberg’s "The Fly." The expansion will serve both to unearth additional rarities and to restore much of the original manuscript. At the behest of the original publisher, the Tantivy Press of London, the authors had removed many chapters for the sake of brevity—including coverage of such significant independent films as Sam Goldwyn’s "Bulldog Drummond" and Harold Lloyd’s creepy comedy "Welcome Danger," both from 1929. These and others have been restored to the text, along with many photographs and advertising images previously unpublished. A key new discovery is a lost film by acclaimed director Edgar G. Ulmer, "The Warning Shadow"—made shortly before Ulmer’s big-time breakthrough with the Boris Karloff-Bela Lugosi starrer "The Black Cat" (1934). While "The Warning Shadow" remains a missing film, Price has traced its surviving footage to an unlikely location and reports accordingly on the find. More than 50 new chapters complete the package, ranging from weird Westerns to ghostly crime melodramas and offbeat comedies. The book’s 370 pages cover the rise of such iconic stars as Boris Karloff, Ginger Rogers, and Gene Autry; the decline of many silent-era talents who stuck around through the arrival of talking pictures in the late 1920s; and significant relationships between such major studios as Columbia and Universal and low-budget companies including Tiffany, Majestic, Victory, and Monogram. Michael H. Price and the late George Turner, longtime editor of "American Cinematographer" magazine, also are responsible for such books as "The Making of King Kong" ("Spawn of Skull Island") (1975-2002); "Forgotten Horrors Vol. 2" (2001); and "The Cinema of Adventure, Romance &amp; Terror" (1989). Price also has delivered Vols. 3-5 of the "Forgotten Horrors" series in collaboration with genre historians John Wooley and Jan Alan Henderson. A collection of Price’s film reviews for the New York Times News Service (1985-1998) is in preparation.

Forgotten Horrors: The Original Volume -- Except More So

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This Rondo Awards-nominated study describes how Richard Connell's famous story of 1924, "The Most Dangerous Game," has persisted into the New Century as an indelible influence. Michael H. Price and the late George E. Turner began tracing that influence as early as the 1960s, while interviewing the filmmakers responsible for the first adaptation, 1932's THE MOST DANGEROUS GAME. The research has continued apace, and it all comes together in THE HOUNDS OF ZAROFF. The book compiles kindred films, remakes, knockoffs, ripoffs, and toss-offs into a 250-page survey -- from the original film, through such famous titles as PREDATOR and THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, through rank obscurities like WALK THE DARK STREET and CONFESSIONS OF A PSYCHO CAT. The coverage extends into the present day, with the HUNGER GAMES pictures of 2012-2013 providing a coda. A coda, yes, but never a cul-de-sac for one of the most often-filmed stories ever to see the light of cold print.

Hounds of Zaroff: The Most Dangerous Game as a Persistent Muse to the Movies

Michael H. Price's acclaimed FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of film-history books backtracks to the middle 1940s for a thorough revision and expansion of FORGOTTEN HORRORS VOL. 3. Additional chapters, an entirely new set of illustrations, and fresh insights across the board make for a vivid account of how the independent horror movies dealt with World War II and its immediate aftermath.

Forgotten Horrors Vol. 3: Dr. Turner's House of Horrors

Bissette, Stephen R.

The FORGOTTEN HORRORS series of film-commentary books taps author Michael H. Price's backlog of monographs, magazine columns and articles, and film-festival curatorial notes for a whopping 360-page anthology of materials long out-of-print. Centerpieces include surveys of Val Lewton's acclaimed chillers of the 1940s, of Universal Pictures' less noticeable chillers and offbeat oddities, and of Western movies indebted to the great frontier painters. The book also veers away at strategic points from the more rigidly defined horror movies to consider a wealth of art-museum topics, of comic-book artistry, and of indigenous music -- all in the service of FORGOTTEN HORRORS' original argument that "horror is where you find it." The deepened context afford a vivid portrait of Price and his late colleague, George E. Turner, as scholars of the Popular Culture who also happen to take one essential genre seriously enough to place it in a broader perspective.

Forgotten Horrors Vol. 10: The Missing Years

Cliburn, Van

The eleventh volume of Michael H. Price's long-running genre-study series collects a variety of academic papers (hitherto unpublished), a selection of Price's newspaper and news-syndicate columns, and the entire manuscript of Price &amp; George Turner's "Human Monsters" -- the long out-of-print survey of villainy in the movies.

Forgotten Horrors Reader, The

Price, Christina Renteria

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Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War

Victory Rode the Rails: The Strategic Place of the Railroads in the Civil War

The Ancient Southwest & Other Dispatches from a Cruel Frontier

Human Monsters: The Bizarre Psychology of Movie Villains

The Cruel Plains

Forgotten Horrors: The Original Volume -- Except More So

Hounds of Zaroff: The Most Dangerous Game as a Persistent Muse to the Movies

Forgotten Horrors Vol. 3: Dr. Turner's House of Horrors

Forgotten Horrors Vol. 10: The Missing Years

Forgotten Horrors Reader, The