Brief Biographical Information and Selected Works of Bobby Lynn Shehorn

This fourth-generation Texan and native of Temple resides in Austin. His first book, Pioneer History of Dallas, Texas, is a historical narrative and features fifteen biographical sketches.

With over forty years in the music business and the last ten in research, writing and photography, Shehorn continues to perform and work on other books, while lecturing and contributing text and photography to several international and regional publications.

Bobby recently launched Texas Tattoo Magazine. For an extended bio click here.

	Texas Tattoo Magazine, Volume 1, editor in chief, graphic designer, contributing writer and photographer, (Austin, Texas:Tannehill Press, October 2009), 84 pages.
	*"Electric Eye, Tattooing on Tulsa Time ," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, July 2009, 3-page article, text and all photos.*
	*"Lady Luck—Chicks 'n' Ink," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, February 2009, 2-page article, text and all photos.* *"Alamo City Tattoo Expo 2008," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, February 2009, 14-page cover feature article, (photo co-credit only).*
	*"Master Inkers, Master Masons," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, December 2008, 4-page article, text and photos.*
	"Jewel Preston Lightfoot: Tower of Strength and Wisdom, " Transactions Texas Lodge of Research, Vol. XLI, (Waco, Texas: Texas Lodge of Research A.F.&A.M., 2008).
	*"Larry Shaw: Carrying On the Family Tradition," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, September 2008, 8-page cover feature article, text and photos.*
	*"R.I.P., Old Rip," Texas Highways: The Travel Magazine of Texas, June 2008.*
	*"Ink In Arizona: Top Shops in the Desert," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, June 2008, 11-page cover feature article, text and all photos.*
	*"Tattoos Rock Little Rock-The First-Ever Inksplosion,"Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, January 2008, 4-page article, text and photos.*
	*"Friday the 13th-Tattooathon on Main Street," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, December 2007, 2-page article, text and photos.*
	*"Travis Troublemaker-Dutch-American Traditionalist," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, November 2007, 5-page cover feature article, text and photos.*
	*"Ink's O.K. in Oklahoma ," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, September 2007, 11-page cover feature article, text and photos.*
	*"Gill 'The Drill' Montie: The Last of the Tattoo Pirates," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, July 2007, 10-page cover feature article, text and photos.*
	*"You, Me and Him: The Craft Will Never Die, " Masonic Magazine, Spring 2007, 3-page feature article.*
	"Chris Treviño: Horimana's Spiritual Path to Irezumi," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, November 2006, 16-page magazine supplement, text and photos.
	*"Bobby Shaw: Second Generation of Greatness," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, October 2006, 5-page cover feature article, text and photos.*
	*"Gnosticism in the Third Degree," Masonic Magazine, September 2006, cover article.*
	*"Bob Moreau: Mentor of Masters," Skin&Ink: The Tattoo Magazine, September 2006, 7-page cover feature article, text and photos.*
	*"The Masonic Legend of Enoch," Philalethes Magazine, April 2005, the bimonthly publication of the international Masonic research society.*
	Pioneer History of Dallas , Texas : A Masonic Perspective, 1848–1874, (Lancaster, VA: Anchor Communications, 2005), hardcover, 262 pages, 60 ills., bibliography, notes, and index.
	*"Egyptian Pyramid Builders and Freemasonry," Transactions Texas Lodge of Research, Vol. XXXV,* (Waco, Texas: Texas Lodge of Research A.F.&A.M., 2002).
	"Founding Fathers of Freemasonry in Dallas ," Transactions Texas Lodge of Research, Vol. XXXI, (Waco, Texas: Texas Lodge of Research A.F.&A.M., 2001).
	Alan B. Govenor and Jay F. Brakefield," Deep Ellum and Central Track: Where the Black and White Worlds of Dallas Converged," book review, Legacies, A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Fall 1999.

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