Personal Narratives of the West – serie
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Rip Ford's Texas
Av John Salmon Ford, Stephen B. Oates
Häftad, 1987
618 kr
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The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon "Rip" Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836. Ford stayed to participate in virtually every major event in Texas history during the next sixty years. Doctor, lawyer, surveyor, newspaper reporter, …
Frontier Ways
Sketches of Life in the Old West
Häftad, 1959
313 kr
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Edward Everett Dale gives a first-hand account of the way pioneer families and cowboys of the frontier lived. Dr. Dale has lived in a sod house, and he once rode the range as cook to a group of cowboys. In this book he draws on his varied experiences to describe all aspects of frontier life-the …
Cross Timbers
Memories of a North Texas Boyhood
Häftad, 1966
232 kr
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The activities of a young boy on a small farm in the Texas Cross Timbers during the 1880s seem especially distant today. No one can remember the adventure of a sixteen-and-a-half-mile journey, which consumed the greater part of a day; or hurried predawn dressing in a frosty cold loft while the …
Gay As a Grig
Memories of a North Texas Girlhood
Häftad, 1963
232 kr
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Ellen Bowie Holland grew up in a house at Weatherford, Texas, that had the "motherly look of a large and gallant hen hovering over too many chicks" and that was inhabited by a "lively, warm-hearted family." This book is her record of the "whole world of little things which enriched young lives" in …
Golden Frontier
The Recollections of Herman Francis Reinhart, 1851-1869
Av Herman Francis Reinhart, Doyce B. Nunis
Häftad, 1962
400 kr
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The gold rush was Herman Francis Reinhart's life for almost twenty years. From the summer of 1851 when, as a boy in his late teens, he traveled the Oregon trail to California, until a January day in 1869 when he climbed aboard an eastbound train at Evanston, Wyoming, he was a part of every gold …
My Eighty Years in Texas
Av William Physick Zuber, Janis Boyle Mayfield
Häftad, 1971
349 kr
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Almost a century and a half went into the making of My Eighty Years in Texas. It began as a diary, kept by fifteen-year-old William Physick Zuber after he joined Sam Houston’s Texas army in 1836, hoping he could emulate the heroism of American Revolutionary patriots. Although his hopes were never …
Home on the Double Bayou
Memories of an East Texas Ranch
Häftad, 1961
232 kr
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Once again, through a boy’s eyes, Ralph Jackson sees a winter sky darkened with geese and ducks, a kitchen stove glowing with cheerful warmth, Aunt May strolling in her flower garden, moonlight filtering through treetops to cast patches of white light on a sandy woodland road. Again he catches …
Recollections of Early Texas
Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins
Häftad, 1974
284 kr
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“[These reminiscences] light up for whoever will read the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas.” -J. Frank Dobie, from the forewordA firsthand account of pioneer life in east Texas.
Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers
Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields
Av Gerald Lynch
Häftad, 1987
339 kr
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Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire-and did, for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and …
