Recollections of Western Texas

Recollections of Western Texas
Title Recollections of Western Texas PDF eBook
Author John Wright
Publisher Texas Tech University Press
Pages 124
Release 2001
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780896724365

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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.

Recollections of Western Texas ... 1852-55 ...

Recollections of Western Texas ... 1852-55 ...
Title Recollections of Western Texas ... 1852-55 ... PDF eBook
Author Texas
Publisher
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Release 1857
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Recollections of Western Texas

Recollections of Western Texas
Title Recollections of Western Texas PDF eBook
Author John Wright
Publisher
Pages 88
Release 1857
Genre Frontier and pioneer life
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Recollections of a West Texas Boyhood, 1897-1913

Recollections of a West Texas Boyhood, 1897-1913
Title Recollections of a West Texas Boyhood, 1897-1913 PDF eBook
Author Clyde Preston Gilmore
Publisher
Pages 104
Release 1994
Genre Farm life
ISBN

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Tells the tale of growing up in West Texas.

Recollections of Western Texas

Recollections of Western Texas
Title Recollections of Western Texas PDF eBook
Author John Wright
Publisher
Pages 109
Release 1995
Genre Texas
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The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days

The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days
Title The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days PDF eBook
Author Noah Smithwick
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 382
Release 2010-07-05
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0292787529

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This colorful memoir brings the Texas frontier to life, from smuggling adventures to fighting in the Texas Revolution and serving as a Texas Ranger. Having left Kentucky at nineteen, Noah Smithwick arrived in Texas in 1827 to seek his fortune in a “lazy man’s paradise.” He left in 1861, when his opposition to secession took him to California. Looking back at that time, blind and nearing ninety, Smithwick recounted the story to his daughter—and so came to be this invaluable memoir of “old Texas days.” A blacksmith and a tobacco smuggler, Smithwick made weapons for—and fought in—the Battle of Concepción. With Hensley's company, he chased the Mexican army south of the Rio Grande after the Battle of San Jacinto. Twice he served with the Texas Rangers. In quieter times, he was a postmaster and justice of the peace in little Webber's Prairie. Eyewitness to so much Texas history, Smithwick recounts his life and adventures in a simple, straightforward style, with a wry sense of humor. His keen memory for detail—what people wore and ate; how they worked and played— vividly evokes life on the frontier.

Frontier and Pioneer

Frontier and Pioneer
Title Frontier and Pioneer PDF eBook
Author Vinton Lee James
Publisher
Pages 210
Release 1938
Genre Frontier and pioneer life
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