Author : Sarah Harkey Hall
Publisher : Eakin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781681792163
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (921 download)
Book Synopsis Surviving on the Texas Frontier - Personal Recollections of Life in Nineteenth-Century Texas by : Sarah Harkey Hall
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.