The TSHA is pleased to announce the return of a classic in this 
second edition of Watt Matthews of Lambshead by renowned 
photographer Laura Wilson. In this new edition, Wilson adds an 
afterword to her original award-winning photographic essay, 
published in 1989 when Watt Matthews was ninety years old and 
the vital force behind a vast West Texas ranch. Watt was the 
ninth and last child of pioneering parents who had established the 
ranch on the banks of the Clear Fork of the Brazos in 1858, and, 
in the words of historian David McCullough, "created a family 
kingdom so large and still so true to its traditional way of life that 
visitors sometimes have to remind themselves that it is all real." 
Except for four years at Princeton, Watt spent his entire life on the 
ranch, which had remained its own separate world into the late 
twentieth century. Those days are beautifully chronicled in Wilson's 
photographs and, in this new edition, she brings the story of 
Lambshead Ranch up to the present by writing of Watt's funeral 
and what has happened to the ranch since Watt's death in 1997. 

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LAURA WILSON of Dallas has published four books of photographs. 
Her latest book, Avedon at Work (2003), documents her six years 
as assistant to photographer Richard Avedon. Her photographs have 
also appeared in numerous periodicals, including the New York 
Times Magazine and Vanity Fair.