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They Wore No Man’s Collar Memories of an Arizona Pioneer By John Allen Ware Want to know what the real west was really like in June of 1898 then take this trip with John Allen Ware, a four-year-old, as he … Continue reading
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35 Days to Gettysburg The Campaign Diaries of Two American Enemies Author: Mark Nesbitt Two rather remarkable soldiers one Confederate, Thomas Lewis Ware; born 9 September 1838 in Lincoln County, rural Georgia to Nicholas and Matilda Stovall Ware and the … Continue reading
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