The Romance Of Davis Mountains And Big Bend Country A History By Carlysle Graham Raht Drawings By Waldo Williams

Author : Carlysle Graham Raht
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330362068
Total Pages : 423 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Davis Mountains and Big Bend Country written by Carlysle Graham Raht and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-25 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Romance of Davis Mountains and Big Bend Country: A History I claim no literary merit for this work. Its very nature, wherein truth of statements is of the first importance, precludes the possibility' of artistic writing. In gathering my data I have attempted to eliminate the personal viewpoint of the narrator, as well as of myself. I have used much material as it was given to me, simply because I feel that the original expresses more clearly than I could express the subject dealt with. I have tried to produce a work that will be of value to my readers. This book has been written under varying and trying circumstances. It has taken me two and a half years to compile my data and write the manuscript. During that time I traveled 57,000 miles in a car, over good roads and bad and in all sorts of weather. My work has been interrupted by both sickness and sorrow, and very often my feet have wavered from the path I had chosen for them to tread. Still, I feel that I have done my best and that there are many who will appreciate this work. For those I am writing this introduction. It is impossible to name separately the sources from which I have drawn my material, and I must rest content to express my appreciation collectively to the hundreds who have contributed their knowledge to this book. The cover design was drawn by Mr. Waldo Williams, who, like myself,.is a native of the Southwest. To him and his father, Judge O. W. Williams, I owe much material and many suggestions. I further wish to thank for assistance rendered and data given, Mr. Barry Scobee, Capt. J. B. Gillett, Capt. John R. Hughes, Col. Geo. T. Langhome, Mrs. Julia Lee Brown, Lieut H. O. Flipper, and C. E. Way. In this work I have tried to convey something of the real West as it was and as it is. I have before me a letter from an old pioneer, which breathes the spirit of the West. He says - "The West? There is no more West. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.