Only rarely are the complete facts of an educational institution's history available to later generations of scholars, students, and the general public. In this volume, W. Reed Quilliam, Jr., has provided the facts of the creation and early operation of the "Texas Tech University School of Law" beginning with the dream of Al Allison, self-described as a "Levelland country lawyer," for the establishment of a law school at Texas Tech.

Quilliam, as a member of the Texas Legislature, was in a position to see enacted the 1965 legislation that authorized the funding for the new law school. He...