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2 Signed Walter E Long Austin Texas Texana Books. Both signed limited Editions<br>limited to 1000 copies. Four Score years published in 1971 has a post mortem<br>hand written inscription to Homer Garrison Jr Texas Ranger chief/Director of<br>DPS. Homer Garrison's bio is below along with Walter Long's.<br>"For all Time to come" first edition copyright 1964 signed and numbered as<br>shown. This one has a few stains on the edge of the pages as shown, they don't<br>penetrate far into the book. The other is very clean. Selling both rare signed<br>books. Both 8 5/8" x 11.25"<br><br>These books and many more I'll be listing shortly are from the estate of Homer<br>Garrison III, the son of Homer Garrison Jr.<br><br>LONG, WALTER EWING (1886–1973).Walter Ewing Long, businessman and civic leader,<br>was born on November 1, 1886, near Ladonia, Texas, the son of Andrew Davison and<br>Alice Madora (McCown) Long. He graduated from high school in Ladonia in 1905 and<br>from Austin College in Sherman with a B.A. degree in 1910 and an M.A. degree in<br>1911. He received a law degree with honors from the University of Texas in 1914,<br>but instead of practicing law he took a job with the San Antonio Chamber of<br>Commerce. Long became secretary of the Austin Chamber of Commerce in 1915; he<br>later was manager of that group for thirty-five years. Long was considered the<br>father of Austin city planning. He also helped organize the Colorado River<br>Improvement Association, which evolved into the Lower Colorado River Authority<br>and built the dams forming what is now the Highland Lakes chain. He obtained<br>options on land eventually used to increase the size of the University of Texas<br>campus, and in 1922 he arranged a sale of bonds to construct the Stephen F.<br>Austin Hotel, for many years a convention center in the city. He founded the<br>Texas Legislative Service in 1925 and supervised its activities for forty years;<br>he gave its collection of legislative history (1925–65) to the Texas State<br>Library. After his retirement in 1949 Long continued to work on various<br>committees and to write on his favorite subjects, Austin and Central Texas.<br>Among his many publications were Flood to Faucet (1956), The Longhorn Crossing<br>(1960), For All Time to Come (1964), and Stephen F. Austin's Legacies (1970). He<br>was appointed to the Texas State Library and Historical Commission in 1954, and<br>he served as president of the Texas Fine Arts Association. He was also a member<br>of the executive council of the Texas State Historical Association. He was<br>married to Janet Kaape on March 30, 1915, and they were the parents of two<br>children. Long died in Austin on November 8, 1973, and was buried in Oakwood<br>Cemetery.<br><br>GARRISON, HOMER, JR. (1901-1968). Homer Garrison, Jr., Texas Ranger chief and<br>director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, son of Homer and Mattie<br>(Milam) Garrison, was born in Kickapoo, Anderson County, Texas, on July 21,<br>1901, the eldest of nine children. After graduation from Lufkin High School he<br>went to work in the office of his father, who was district clerk in Angelina<br>County. Garrison received his first experience as a law officer at nineteen,<br>when was appointed a deputy sheriff of Angelina County. In 1929 he became a<br>state license and weight inspector for the Texas Highway Department, and he<br>joined the Texas Highway Patrol when it was organized in 1930.<br><br>When the Department of Public Safety was founded in August 1935 Garrison became<br>the first assistant director. Among his initial duties was the task of<br>developing a training program for DPS officers. At the request of the governor<br>of New Mexico, he was sent to that state to help organize the New Mexico State<br>Police. During World War II he was offered an appointment by Gen. Douglas<br>MacArthur to reorganize and supervise the Japanese national police system for<br>the War Department, but he declined in deference to his duties as director of<br>the DPS and chief of the Texas Rangers.<br><br>Among the many honors bestowed upon him during the nearly thirty years he served<br>as the head of the state law-enforcement agency was the presentation of the<br>sixth Paul Gray Hoffman Award, conferred annually by the Automotive Safety<br>Foundation for distinguished service in highway safety. In 1963 Governor John<br>Connally appointed Garrison director of civil defense and disaster relief for<br>the state of Texas and chairman of the State Defense Council. The same year the<br>governor also named him director of the Governor's Highway Safety Commission. In<br>May 1966 he was elected chairman of the resolutions committee and a member of<br>the steering committee of the Southern Region Highway Policy Committee of the<br>Council of State Governments; in January 1967 he was named a member of the<br>National Motor Vehicle Safety Advisory Council.<br><br>Colonel Garrison became director of the Department of Public Safety and chief of<br>the Texas Rangers in 1938. Under his leadership numerous major programs were<br>developed, and the organization grew to a total of some 3,400 employees. The<br>programs included crime control, police traffic supervision, driver licensing,<br>vehicle inspection, safety responsibility, accident records, safety education,<br>defense and disaster service, and police training.<br><br>Garrison married Mary Nell Kilgo on June 1, 1939, and they had one son. Garrison<br>died on May 7, 1968, and was buried in the State Cemetery, Austin. A Texas<br>Ranger museum at Fort Fisher was named for him.<br><br>BIBLIOGRAPHY: Ben Procter, "The Texas Rangers: An Overview," in The Texas<br>Heritage, ed. Ben Procter and Archie P. McDonald (St. Louis: Forum, 1980).<br>Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.<br><br>Bill Carter<br><br>"GARRISON, HOMER JR." The Handbook of Texas Online. [Accessed Wed Aug 7 11:36:57<br>US/Central 2002].
