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~ " ~ L O N N TAYL O R is a historian and writer who retired to Fort Davis, Texas, with his wife, Dedie, after twenty years as a historian at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, DC. He received a BA in history and government from Texas C hristian University in 1961 and did graduate work at New York University before returning to Texas to enter the museum field. He served as curator and director of the University ofTexas at Austin's Winedale Historical Center from 1970 to 1977; as curator of history at the Dallas Historical Society from 1977 to 1979; and as curator and deputy director of the Museum of New Mexico in Santa Fe from 1980 to 1984. Taylor's books include Texas Furniture: The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840-1880 (with David Warren, University of Texas Press, 1975); The American Cowboy (with Ingrid Maar, Library of Congress, 1983); New Mexican Furniture, 1600-1940 (with Dessa Bokides, Museum of New Mexico Press, 1987); The Star-Spangled Banner:The Flag That Inspired the National Anthem (Harry N. Abrams, 2000); and The Star-Spangled Banner:The Making ofan American leon (with Kathlenn Kendrick and Jeffrey Brodie, Smithsonian Books, 2008). He writes a weekly column about Texas called "The Rambling Boy," for the Marfa Big Bend Sentinel. +- 1 99 ...

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