Plantation Life In Texas By Elizabeth Silverthorne Elizabeth Silverthorne is a free-lance writer/researcher who lives in Salado, TX. She has written many articles and stories for people of all ages including writings for children. Her main topics center … Continue reading
Six Years with the Texas Rangers 1875 to 1881 By James B. Gillett Six Years with the Texas Rangers 1875 to 1881 By James B. Gillett What an exceptional story of just six years of a man’s life which reads … Continue reading
This is not a boring book. As a Texan, born and bred, I had misgivings about just how interesting military plans and movements by Yankee troops would be. Perhaps it is the places I’ve been that I could relate to, … Continue reading
All Anybody Ever Wanted of Me Was to Work The Memoirs of Edith Bradley Rendleman Edited by Jane Adams Its Union County, Illinois around 1880’s; John Bradley, born 1848 in Kentucky and his wife Mary Curtis born in 1850 in … Continue reading
Massacre on the Lordsburg Road A Tragedy of the Apache Wars Marc Simmons, Author The preface brings us to March 28, 1883, approximately noon when Judge Hamilton C. McComas, wife Jennie and six year old, blond haired/blue eyed, Charley, … Continue reading
“Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family” Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Author Oxford University Press 1994 The secondary title of this book certainly sums up the Percy family and many others mentioned therein. This is a family of apparent brilliant … Continue reading
A Slave No More John M. Washington Wallace Turnage By David W. Blight In reading the narrative of Washington, born in Virginia and Turnage, a teen in Alabama, the vision that each had for their journey into freedom is quite … Continue reading
Samuel Smith a Revolutionary Soldier Samuel Smith, at age 16 years in 1779, entered the Revolutionary War as a Private in Westmoreland County, Virginia with Captain Daniel Morgan’s Virginia Company. His address at that time is stated as; ”living on … Continue reading
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