Calico Chronicle is the source book for teachers, students, historians, customers, reenactors, or history buffs searching for costume history of the Texas Frontier and the American West--an area which has had scarce documentation, verbal or visual. Author Betty J. Mills has fitted together priceless pieces of the past found in excerpts from letters, diaries, oral histories, historic journals, and even police blotters, to compile an account that reveals much about the lifestyles of frontier women. Paperback, 191 pages.