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Surviving on the Texas Frontier - Personal Recollections of Life in Nineteenth-Century Texas

Author : Sarah Harkey Hall
Publisher : Eakin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781681792163
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (921 download)

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Download or read book Surviving on the Texas Frontier - Personal Recollections of Life in Nineteenth-Century Texas written by Sarah Harkey Hall and published by Eakin Press. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few accounts of life in nineteenth-century Texas provide the vivid poignancy of these recollections set down by Sarah Harkey Hall in 1905. Her narrative, written at age forty-eight for her children, captured the rhythms of daily and seasonal life in frontier San Saba County and chronicles her struggle for physical and emotional survival, as well as struggles of her family and community. Unlike many pioneer memoirs written for later generations, Sarah does not assume a nostalgic or triumphant tone and does not glide over life's daily hardships in a new country.The result is a remarkable record of frontier endurance, a record more bitter than sweet. Sarah's parents settled in 1853-1854 on Richland Creek in Central Texas, within the vast boundaries of Bexar County. They were among the first immigrants in the region, locating "one mile east of Richland Springs among the recently vacated wigwams of the Comanche Indians." Sarah's manuscript was transcribed by her great-granddaughter, Maidrell Henry of Kingsland.

Surviving on the Texas Frontier

Author : Sarah Harkey Hall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890159866
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Surviving on the Texas Frontier written by Sarah Harkey Hall and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few accounts of life in the nineteenth century Texas provide either the vivid personal detail or the poignancy of these recollections set dwon by Sarah Harkey Hall in 1905. Her narrative, written at age forty-eight for her children, captured the rhythms of daily and seasonal life in frontier San Saba County and chronicles her struggle for physical and emotional survival, as well as the struggles of her family and community.

A Boy from Barnhart

Author : Herbie R. Taylor
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1462039529
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book A Boy from Barnhart written by Herbie R. Taylor and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has a story to tell, a legacy to leave to both living family and future generations. In his memoir, A Boy from Barnhart: Times Remembered, author Herb Taylor shares his life story and legacy, from his coming of age on large ranches and small towns in West Texas to his subsequent career as a professional army officer. Taylor writes of life and its realities during the drought years of the 1950s. He chronicles the people, places, ideas, and incidents he encountered during a twenty-eight year army career, as well as his struggle with a lifelong alcohol addiction and the death of his childhood sweetheart after a thirty-five year marriage. He writes of the good times and the not so good, the ordinary and the unusual, in a casual, personal, and informative way that captures the times and his life experiences. Equal parts genealogy, history, travelogue, and memoir, Taylors memories are the emotional account of a life well-lived, as well as an interesting and intricate record of times gone by.

On the Texas Frontier

Author : Mrs. Henry Harrison Beck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781564743039
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book On the Texas Frontier written by Mrs. Henry Harrison Beck and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of life on the Texas frontier in the latter half of the nineteenth century shows the joys & hardships of every-day domestic life as the family moved from place to place, defining itself as Texas designed its own unique character.

Parson Henry Renfro

Author : William C. Griggs
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292775652
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Parson Henry Renfro written by William C. Griggs and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The years following the Texas Revolution held even more turbulent events as diverse droves of pioneers crossed the Sabine and Red Rivers to start new lives in Texas. Early Texas society contended with religious issues, family life in a rugged environment, and the Civil War. This cultural history was clearly reflected in the life of frontier preacher Henry C. Renfro. Migrating to Texas in 1851, Renfro enrolled in the fledgling Baylor University and became a Baptist preacher. Eventually disillusioned with Baptist orthodoxy, Renfro was disenfranchised on charges of infidelity as he embraced the ideals of the Free Thought Movement, inspired by the writings of men such as Thomas Paine, Spinoza, and Robert Ingersoll. Renfro's Civil War experience was no less unusual. Serving as both soldier and chaplain, Renfro left a valuable legacy of insight into the conflict, captured in a wealth of correspondence that is in itself significant. Drawing on a vast body of letters, speeches, sermons, and oral histories that had never before been available, this chronological narrative of "The Parson's" life describes significant changes in Texas from 1850 to 1900, especially the volatile formation and growth of Baptist churches in North Central Texas. William Griggs' study yields numerous new details about the Free Thought Movement and depicts public reaction to sectarian leaders in nineteenth-century Texas. The author also describes the developing Central Texas region known as the Cross Timbers, including the personal dynamics between a frontier family and its patriarch and encompassing such issues as property conflicts, divorce, and family reconciliation. This work unlocks an enlightening, engaging scene from Texas history.

Staggering: Life and Death on the Texas Frontier at Staggers Point

Author : Avrel Seale
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312744421
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book Staggering: Life and Death on the Texas Frontier at Staggers Point written by Avrel Seale and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-12-10 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1829, recent arrivals from Ireland began moving to a patch of wilderness near the Brazos River in Mexican Texas. They came seeking freedom and fortune. What they found was malaria, war, the constant threat of gruesome Indian massacres, wolves, panthers - and an abiding happiness that has kept many descendants there to this day. At Staggers Point, near modern-day Bryan, Texas, they collided and coexisted with four other cultures: Americans, American Indians, Mexicans, and enslaved African Americans. These families bore witness to the greatest political upheavals of nineteenth century America, and their lives spanned the full range of human experience - from scratching out a living on a primitive frontier; to fleeing and fighting bands of Comanches and other American Indians, the Mexican army, and common criminals; to the joys and sorrows of raising children beyond the reach of civilization. Though they were common pioneers, to us their experiences, their feats, and their very survival are staggering.

The Evolution of a State, Or, Recollections of Old Texas Days

Author : Noah Smithwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (324 download)

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Download or read book The Evolution of a State, Or, Recollections of Old Texas Days written by Noah Smithwick and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Experiences of Men and Women in Texas

Author : Silke-Katrin Kunze
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3638690989
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)

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Download or read book Experiences of Men and Women in Texas written by Silke-Katrin Kunze and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2007-07 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Culture and Applied Geography, grade: 1,3 (A), Dresden Technical University (Anglistics/American Studies), course: Seminar: Community, Race, & Gender on the 19th-Century American Frontier, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: This paper carries the title "Experiences of men and women in Texas" and is closely related to the subject of the Nineteenth Century American Frontier, the Voices of Frontier Women in specific. The westward expansion connected to the different frontiers in North America brought along new opportunities, of which making a fortune and leading a better life can be mentioned. According to Frederick Jackson Turner′s "The Significance of the Frontier in American History", the frontier life many people sought furnished them with traits that dominate the American character today: "That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that masterful grasp of material things, lacking in the artistic but powerful to effect great ends; that restless, nervous energy; that dominant individualism, working for good and evil, and withal that buoyancy and exuberance which comes with freedom - these are traits of the frontier, or traits called out elsewhere because of the existence of the frontier." In the seminar this paper refers to, several frontiers were mentioned and discussed. Among them the Hispanic and the Indian Frontiers as well as the Ranching and Cattle Frontier, all of which seem to play a role in Jo Ella Powell Exley′s Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine. This book forms the basis of the findings following this foreword. In it, sixteen Frontier Women describe parts of their lives, whether it be conflicts with Indians and Yankee soldiers or struggles against natural forces. It covers a time frame from about 1821 until about 1905, thus, of course, including the year 1890 when t

Tandem Lives

Author : Henrietta Baker Embree
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 1572335041
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Tandem Lives written by Henrietta Baker Embree and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mythology of the frontier Texas woman portrays her as fiercely independent, strong willed, and adventurous. This eye-opening book, however, offers a far more complex and intimate version of women's cultural experiences in mid-nineteenth-century Texas by publishing, for the first time, the diaries of Henrietta Baker Embree and Tennessee Keys Embree. Henrietta and Tennessee were the sequential wives of Dr. John W. Embree of Belton, Texas, a physician, slaveholder, farmer, merchant, and man of mercurial temperament. Their diaries reveal the social and personal challenges women experienced in a region beset first by the Civil War and then by Reconstruction and offer insights into the two women's struggles to survive as battered wives in a society that offered little support-and less chance of escape-for women bound by nineteenth-century ideas about gender roles. In the preface and other editorial matter that accompany the two diaries, Amy L. Wink draws on extensive primary research to fill in the blanks of Henrietta's and Tennessee's lives and place them in historical context. The diaries themselves richly illuminate how these women coped with such issues as domestic violence, childrearing, faith, frailty, and mortality. Most significantly, they show how Henrietta and Tennessee-and, by extension, countless other women like them-used their writing to construct their sense of personal identity and thereby to empower themselves in the face of debilitating external forces. An important contribution to the fields of history, women's studies, psychology, and literature, Tandem Lives reveals anew the rich insights offered by the autobiographical writings of ordinary women. Amy L. Wink, PhD is an adjunct professor at Austin Community College in Austin, Texas and also works with clients as a writing coach and mentor. She is the author of She Left Nothing In Particular: The Autobiographical Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Women's Diaries and has written for InsideHigherEd.com and other publications. For more information, visit her website, amywink.com, and the companion website to Tandem Lives, embreediaries.com.

The Other Texas Frontier

Author : Harry Huntt Ransom
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477306307
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Other Texas Frontier written by Harry Huntt Ransom and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One is tempted to say that wherever there was a frontier in America there was a counterfrontier and that the main purpose of this counterfrontier was not only to help man grow or dig or catch or kill his livng but also to put this man in communication with the traditions of his kind and thereby secure to his descendants the benefits of the free mind.” —Harry Huntt Ransom The reflections of Harry Huntt Ransom (1908–1976) in The Other Texas Frontier present an alternative to the stereotypical picture of the brash, blustery heroes of the Texas frontier. Here, in six highly readable essays, Ransom posits a thesis of the counterfrontier: a quiet settling of the land by thoughtful, undramatic citizens who, he says, were the other Texans—the Texans without guns. Three of the essays are profiles of gifted men from Texas’ nineteenth century: Ashbel Smith, physician, diplomat, and first president of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas; Sherman Goodwin, physician, horticulturalist, bibliophile (and Ransom’s own grandfather); and Swante Palm, Swedish immigrant, bibliographer, and generous patron of the University of Texas libraries. Harry Huntt Ransom, one of Texas’ most accomplished men of letters and for forty-one years an integral part of the University of Texas System as professor, dean, president, and chancellor, leaves an extraordinary legacy to Texas for both his educational and literary service. Though educated out of state, he returned to his native Texas after completion of his PhD at Yale to teach, research, and write in the fields of copyright law, literary history, and bibliography. As founder of the Humanities Research Center, he was squarely in the tradition of the men he was writing about. Compiled and edited after Ransom’s death by his wife, Hazel H. Ransom, the literary sketches of The Other Texas Frontier form a book that Ransom himself had outlined but had not completed.

Recollections of Western Texas

Author : John Wright
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896724365
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (243 download)

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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.

Victorian Lady on the Texas Frontier

Author : Ann Raney Thomas Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Lady on the Texas Frontier written by Ann Raney Thomas Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a pioneer woman in 19th century Texas is told through her journal.

Olmsted's Texas Journey

Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1632207389
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Olmsted's Texas Journey written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reporter’s account of the people, culture, and terrain of Texas in the mid-1800s. Frederick Olmsted was a journalist when he made his journey through Texas. Tasked with covering the state of slavery during the quiet years before the Civil War, he took copious notes about the people, places, and cultures of the Texas of his day. These notes, in the form of a journal, would become his seminal work, Olmsted’s Texas Journey. In Olmsted’s Texas Journey, the reader gets to travel back in time and witness Texas as it once was, and see how today’s Texas, with its variety of peoples and traditions, still shares a deep connection to the richness of its past. But his great Texas journey was in fact so much more. As he made his way to that great state, he took copious and wonderful notes of all the others he passed through. From Maryland to California, and Ohio to Louisiana, Olmsted’s great history chronicles every detail that he observed. This truly is a classic piece of American literature.

Homesteads Ungovernable

Author : Mark M. Carroll
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292712286
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Homesteads Ungovernable written by Mark M. Carroll and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2001-04-15 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When he settled in Mexican Texas in 1832 and began courting Anna Raguet, Sam Houston had been separated from his Tennessee wife Eliza Allen for three years, while having already married and divorced his Cherokee wife Tiana and at least two other Indian "wives" during the interval. Houston's political enemies derided these marital irregularities, but in fact Houston's legal and extralegal marriages hardly set him apart from many other Texas men at a time when illicit and unstable unions were common in the yet-to-be-formed Lone Star State. In this book, Mark Carroll draws on legal and social history to trace the evolution of sexual, family, and racial-caste relations in the most turbulent polity on the southern frontier during the antebellum period (1823-1860). He finds that the marriages of settlers in Texas were typically born of economic necessity and that, with few white women available, Anglo men frequently partnered with Native American, Tejano, and black women. While identifying a multicultural array of gender roles that combined with law and frontier disorder to destabilize the marriages of homesteaders, he also reveals how harsh living conditions, land policies, and property rules prompted settling spouses to cooperate for survival and mutual economic gain. Of equal importance, he reveals how evolving Texas law reinforced the substantial autonomy of Anglo women and provided them material rewards, even as it ensured that cross-racial sexual relationships and their reproductive consequences comported with slavery and a regime that dispossessed and subordinated free blacks, Native Americans, and Tejanos.

Taming Texas' Frontier

Author : Jerry Lackey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781792345784
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book Taming Texas' Frontier written by Jerry Lackey and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Five Years a Cavalryman: Or, Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas Frontier, Twenty Odd Years Ago

Author : H. H. McConnell
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781378514870
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (148 download)

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Download or read book Five Years a Cavalryman: Or, Sketches of Regular Army Life on the Texas Frontier, Twenty Odd Years Ago written by H. H. McConnell and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2018-02-22 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Reminiscences of Frontier Life

Author : I B Hammond
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781022000971
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of Frontier Life written by I B Hammond and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Isaac B. Hammond shares his personal experiences of living on the frontier during the 19th century. He recounts tales of adventure, danger, and resilience, painting a vivid picture of what life was like for those who tamed the wilds of early America. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.