Records one woman's response to pioneer life in Texas at the turn of the century.

This is the book that thousands of people have wanted to write for themselves. It takes precious family memories and stories (and over 100 photos) which were on the verge of being lost and it transforms them into an engaging and enduring story of life and living through five generations of the Ensor and Kelso families on the Texas plains. Go back in time and experience the lives of these pioneer families as they created a life for themselves in the early 1900's. Peek into the diary of thirteen year old Anna as she describes the eventful 1923 family trip from Lubbock to Amarillo and back. Listen to the uplifting story of Laxative Bromo Quinine Crim and how he got his name. Experience the range of emotions as you sit in on the true stories of life and death, first and last kisses, skunks and roosters, electric fences, explosions, fires, church bloopers, and much, much more. Then, be inspired to tell your own story.

Historia y biograf̕a de un pionero texano y sus acontecimientos en la frontera de Texas y M̌xico. Texto en ingľs.

With more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989. This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents Ornish’s meticulous research and her fascinating historical vignettes for a new generation of readers and historians. She chronicles Jewish buccaneers with Jean Lafitte at Galveston; she tells of Jewish patriots who fought at the Alamo and at virtually every major engagement in the war for Texan independence; she traces the careers of immigrants with names like Marcus, Sanger, and Gordon, who arrived on the Texas frontier with little more than the packs on their backs and went on to build great mercantile empires. Cattle barons, wildcatters, diplomats, physicians, financiers, artists, and humanitarians are among the other notable Jewish pioneers and pathfinders described in this carefully researched and exhaustively documented book. Filling a substantial void in Texana and Texas history, the Texas A&M University Press edition of Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans brings back into circulation this treasure trove of information on a rich and often overlooked vein of the multifaceted story of the Lone Star State.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1900 Edition.

August Santleben (1845-1911), was born in Hamburg, Germany. His family settled in Castroville, Texas when he was just four months old. His narratives tell the story of his adventures in Texas, including his experiences staging and freighting along the border with Mexico.