No Saloon in the Valley is a wise exploration of the prohibition movement at the grassroots. As a cultural and social historian, James Ivy is admirably sensitive to the tangled skein of religion, honor, race, gender, and regionalism that made up the Texas controversies over the liquor traffic. Finally we have a history in which Tejanos and African Americans are joined together with the 'short-haired women and long-haired men' of the prohibitionist crusade.

No Saloon in the Valley is a wise exploration of the prohibition movement at the grassroots. As a cultural and social historian, James Ivy is admirably sensitive to the tangled skein of religion, honor, race, gender, and regionalism that made up the Texas controversies over the liquor traffic. Finally we have a history in which Tejanos and African Americans are joined together with the 'short-haired women and long-haired men' of the prohibitionist crusade.

James D. Ivy's No Saloon in the Valley is more than simply a pathbreaking work on southern prohibition—and it is certainly that. Finely crafted, deeply researched, and engagingly written, this is the book to read on the ambivalent impulses behind the New South Reform.