M. Scott Sosebee is a professor of history at Stephen F. Austin State University and is executive director and editor of the East Texas Historical Association. He is the co-editor (with Paul J. P. Sandul) of the anthology Lone Star Suburbs: Life on the Texas Metropolitan Frontier and the author of Henry C. "Hank" Smith and the Cross B Ranch: The First Stock Operation on the South Plains. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas.

The history of the Mallet Ranch and the DeVitt family, scions of a West Texas legacy.