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Stephen L. Moore, a sixth generation Texan, graduated from Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, where he studied advertising, marketing and journalism. He currently serves as director of marketing for an electronics firm in the Dallas area. Steve originally collaborated with SFA professor Bob Gruebel and Confederate Air Force historian Bill Shinneman on The Buzzard Brigade: Torpedo Squadron Ten at War. His second book, Taming Texas: Captain William T. Sadler’s Lone Star Service, is a biography of one of his early Texas ancestors -- who was a Texas Ranger captain, a veteran of San Jacinto, and a Texas Legislator, among his many accomplishments. He is also author
of a four-part series on the early Texas Rangers, entitled Savage
Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas. Volume
I was published in February 2002, and Volume IV is planned for release
in the near future. Steve has also finished writing a trio of World
War II submarine histories. Spadefish: War Patrols of a Top World
War II Submarine and War of the Wolf: Texas' Memorial Submarine
USS Seawolf were released by Atriad Press. A third volume,
Presumed Lost, covering the U.S. submarine veteran POWs
of World War II will be released in 2009.
“One of
my goals in writing history,” he says, “is using numerous
first-person accounts to bring the action to life for the reader.”
His interest in the early Texas Rangers stems from research of several
of his ancestors who served on the Texas frontiers in the 1830s. Steve lives north of Dallas in Lantana, Texas, with his wife Cindy and their children Kristen, Emily and Jacob. |
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Steve’s
critically acclaimed Eighteen Minutes: The Battle of San Jacinto
and the Texas Independence Campaign was released in 2004.
He has since given battle lectures for the Daughters of the
Republic of Texas at the Alamo, in the San Jacinto Museum of History
and at the 40th Anniversary San Jacinto Descendants assembly.
Steve has been a featured author at the Texas Book Festival
in Austin, is a contributing writer for the Texas Ranger Hall of
Fame and Museum’s online Dispatch Magazine and helps
review books for the Texas State Historical Association's Southwestern
Historical Quarterly.