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Book Synopsis Recollections of Western Texas by : John Wright
Download or read book Recollections of Western Texas written by John Wright and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When brothers William and John Wright arrived in the United States from Ireland in 1850 and could find no other suitable employment, they joined the U.S. Army's Regiment of Mounted Rifles, which served on the Texas frontier. Their description of their experiences is unusual on several counts: it is a view of Texas in the 1850s, when personal accounts were rare, and it is written from the point of view of visitors to this nation. And because the Wrights published their book in 1857, only three years after they left the army, their story has an immediacy lacking in many memoirs. He was a man in the prime of life, tall and slender, with black plaited hair descending all the way down his back, and a countenance, whose handsome, intelligent, and dignified expression, was scarcely concealed by the red streaks of war-paint that covered it. . . . Little mercy is shown to an Indian in war, and especially by the Texan rangers, who are scarcely, if at all, advanced beyond the savage state themselves. So the prisoner was immediately tied to a tree, and a number of men were selected to shoot him. On ascertaining his fate, he instantly commenced singing his death-song . . . which vibrated like the notes of a clarion on the air of early night . . . until his voice was lost in the fatal volley, and all was over. This softcover facsimile of the Book Club of Texas's 1995 fine limited edition of 300 copies makes this classic firsthand account 04 Activeable to a broad audience for the first time since 1857. It is illustrated with wood engravings from William H. Emory's Report of the United States and Mexican Boundary Survey.
Book Synopsis Recollections of Western Texas ... 1852-55 ... by : Texas
Download or read book Recollections of Western Texas ... 1852-55 ... written by Texas and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections of Western Texas ... Including an Indian Campaign, 1822-55 ... By Two of the U.S. Mounted Rifles by :
Download or read book Recollections of Western Texas ... Including an Indian Campaign, 1822-55 ... By Two of the U.S. Mounted Rifles written by and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections of Western Texas by : John Wright
Download or read book Recollections of Western Texas written by John Wright and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections of Western Texas by : John Wright
Download or read book Recollections of Western Texas written by John Wright and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections of a West Texas Boyhood, 1897-1913 by : Clyde Preston Gilmore
Download or read book Recollections of a West Texas Boyhood, 1897-1913 written by Clyde Preston Gilmore and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the tale of growing up in West Texas.
Book Synopsis The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days by : Noah Smithwick
Download or read book The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days written by Noah Smithwick and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colorful memoir brings the Texas frontier to life, from smuggling adventures to fighting in the Texas Revolution and serving as a Texas Ranger. Having left Kentucky at nineteen, Noah Smithwick arrived in Texas in 1827 to seek his fortune in a “lazy man’s paradise.” He left in 1861, when his opposition to secession took him to California. Looking back at that time, blind and nearing ninety, Smithwick recounted the story to his daughter—and so came to be this invaluable memoir of “old Texas days.” A blacksmith and a tobacco smuggler, Smithwick made weapons for—and fought in—the Battle of Concepción. With Hensley's company, he chased the Mexican army south of the Rio Grande after the Battle of San Jacinto. Twice he served with the Texas Rangers. In quieter times, he was a postmaster and justice of the peace in little Webber's Prairie. Eyewitness to so much Texas history, Smithwick recounts his life and adventures in a simple, straightforward style, with a wry sense of humor. His keen memory for detail—what people wore and ate; how they worked and played— vividly evokes life on the frontier.
Book Synopsis Frontier and Pioneer by : Vinton Lee James
Download or read book Frontier and Pioneer written by Vinton Lee James and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Frontier and Pioneer by : Bill C. James
Download or read book Frontier and Pioneer written by Bill C. James and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Texas Sampler by : Lisa Waller Rogers
Download or read book A Texas Sampler written by Lisa Waller Rogers and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a tribute to the remarkable people who settled Texas. See the past through the eyes of a German farmwife, a slave, a Comanche chief and others.
Book Synopsis Recollections of Texas by : Tait's Magazine
Download or read book Recollections of Texas written by Tait's Magazine and published by . This book was released on with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Till Freedom Cried Out by : T. Lindsay Baker
Download or read book Till Freedom Cried Out written by T. Lindsay Baker and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 32 reminiscences presented here provide insight into the lives of the enslaved, including recollections of being sold away from parents, suffering harsh punishment by overseers, and living in misery.
Book Synopsis From West Texas to West Africa by : Vernon Hagar
Download or read book From West Texas to West Africa written by Vernon Hagar and published by . This book was released on with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Recollections of Texas by : A returned emigrant
Download or read book Recollections of Texas written by A returned emigrant and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis We Pointed Them North by : E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott
Download or read book We Pointed Them North written by E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary.... Because the cowboy flourished in the middle of the Victorian age, which is certainly a funny paradox, no realistic picture of him was ever drawn in his own day. Here is a self-portrait by a cowboy which is full and honest." And Teddy Blue himself says, "Other old-timers have told all about stampedes and swimming rivers and what a terrible time we had, but they never put in any of the fun, and fun was at least half of it." So here it is—the cowboy classic, with the "terrible" times and the "fun" which have entertained readers everywhere. First published in 1939, We Pointed Them North has been brought back into print by the University of Oklahoma Press in completely new format, with drawings by Nick Eggenhofer, and with the full, original text.
Book Synopsis The West of the Texas Kid, 1881-1910 by : Thomas Edgar Crawford
Download or read book The West of the Texas Kid, 1881-1910 written by Thomas Edgar Crawford and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Edgar Crawford--variously known as "The Texas Kid," "The Montana Kid," "Buckskin," "Kid," and "Ed"-- teamed up early with such notorious characters as Black Jack Ketchum and Henry Starr. Later Crawford took up ranching in Montana and lived to tell about the war between the cattlemen and sheepmen. He tried gold mining in California, but was soon forced to sell his holdings in order to avoid financial catastrophe. Here, published for the first time, are Crawford's recollections of life in the West from 1881 to 1910, dictated when he was past seventy years old, not long before his death in 1941. His story constitutes an amazing record of the activities of outlaw gangs of his time and provides new material about the Jackson Hole and Hole in the Wall outlaws--although Crawford was reluctant to reveal the role he played in their affairs. Crawford could understand a train or bank robber, but more than once he took the trail after a horse thief. He liked horses and intensely disliked sheep, but even so, he often opened his home as a refuge to sheepherders to save them from freezing to death in a blizzard. He loved to hunt, and some of his best tales concern adventures in search of game. The West of the Texas Kid is one man's account of the West as he knew it. Here, Thomas Edgar Crawford has helped preserve the lore and legends of the Old West.
Book Synopsis Growing Up in Texas by : Bertha McKee Dobie
Download or read book Growing Up in Texas written by Bertha McKee Dobie and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recollections of childhood in Texas by numerous authors.
