Häftad, Engelska, 2006
191 kr
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Shirley Wright – författare
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5 produkter
5 produkter
- E-bokEngelska, 2011
133 kr
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Scotland, 1850 Beset by the potato famine and land clearances, the Park and Ridgeway families emigrate to the new stateof Texas. Their lives are altered again by tragedy during the sea voyage, and they are thrust into the cattle business in South Texas. Survivors of Indian raids and Civil War battles then struggle against cattle thieves and bushwhackers to find opportunity and romance in the emerging trail driving industry. - E-bokEngelska, 2014
59 kr
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1869--widowed with six children to raise--Cornish carpenter Henry Wright emigrates with his family to the new world. Through Vermont, Mississippi and Texas some family members move on to experience revolution and banditry while building railroads in Mexico. Others tackle the greatest project of the early twentieth century--the building of the canal in Panama. - Häftad, Engelska, 2021
198 kr
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- E-bokEngelska, 2021
57 kr
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Why did so many Scots leave their homeland in the mid-19 th Century?How did Texas become the cattle capitol of the world?What was life like in Texas in the 1800s?Follow...the eventful life of Rob Ridgeway through young romance, and repeated tragedies that drove him to take his young family on the dangerous voyage from Scotland to Texas.Journey...with Rob and his wife Laura as they arrive at the once significant port of Indianola, to start a new life in central Texas Comanche country, and learn the longhorn cattle business from Mexican and American rancheros.Experience...Civil War battles on the Nueces and Rio Grande rivers through the eyes of those same Mexican-American and German-American Rancheros.Learn...how postwar cattle drives defined a lifestyle for The Scottish Texan and for all Texans.
