A complete facsimile of the 1910 book. Contains data, both social and economic, concerning life on the Texas frontier. Much of the book concerns the area around Castroville, Texas and Medina County.

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.

Excerpt from A Texas Pioneer: Early Staging and Overland Freighting Days on the Frontiers of Texas and Mexico On the opposite side of the river from where we settled was a camp of Lipan Indians, who were then friendly with the whites, and when they visited us, my parents would sometimes allow the two elder children to return with them to their settlement. They were very generous. 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.