The leading American botanist of the nineteenth century, Asa Gray helped organize the main generalizations of the science of plant geography. The manual of botany that carries his name is still in use today. Friend and confidant of Charles Darwin, Gray became the most persistent and effective American protagonist of Darwin's views. Yet at the same time, he believed that religion and Darwin's theory of natural selection could coexist. A. Hunter Dupree's authoritative biography offers the first full-length interpretation of one of America's most important men of science. 505 pages, indexed. View More...
A comprehensive history of the Pruit family; dating back to the 1600's. 241 pages, indexed.
Names include: Amstutz, Coffelt, Guilliams, Meador, Rowe, Tchinski, View More...
Comanche Days is composed of Gillies memories of his friends from his early days. Quana Parker, Charley Ross are among those friends. Bicentennial Series in American Studies, III.
Enos M. Yoder (1883-1966) married Anna Beachy as his second wife. Anna did a splendid job of writing circle letters and keeping records. Her diary begins in 1925 and continues to 1978.
Stuart uses her own family story—from the seventeenth century through the present—as the pivot for this epic tale of migration, settlement, survival, slavery and the making of the Americas.
Anne H. Sutherland explores just how the experiences of two of the early Anglo land-grant families—the Robertsons and the Sutherlands—shaped Texas events and how they handed down those experiences from one generation to another, transforming two Scots-Irish families into what in hindsight we have branded Anglo-Texans. The story of these two pioneering families, told through their letters, poems, diaries, and oral histories, embodies western expansion and political upheaval. Settling in central and southeast Texas, these families struggled to build a new Texas and make a life for their children... View More...
Annie Vaughan Clary was the author of the book "The Pioneer Life". She says: "My father, Melton Stuard Bourland, Jr., was the youngest of five children consisting of a brother Earl; and three sisters, Carrie, Gela, and Ollie. Daddy was born in the State of Texas." One of the many stories she relates concerns how her father killed two men in self defense, his apparently wrongful conviction, his escape from jail, and his life as a fugitive under the alias Charles A. Darnell.
The memoirs were dictated to Charles M. Barnes by Antonio Menchaca. His father Marcos Menchaca was in military service at the presidios at San Xavier, at San Marcos, and at San Saba. He then moved to San Antonio and settled there. Antonio, born in 1800, was a Texas patriot and was influencial in the town. Yanaguana Society Publications Volume II, Number 386 of 500 copies.
An illustrated self-portrait is a collection of personal and professional anecdotes that recount many of the golf icon's experiences in an accessible manner, in a volume complemented by twelve removable facsimiles of such personal items as a tip card on how to work around various golf challenges, a letter from Eisenhower repaying a bet, and a winning USGA 1960 U.S.
The techniques and records used to successfully conduct African American genealogy are shown using the story of Griffin and his brothers as examples. This is the story of their struggles during and after slavery, and it follows their descendants to the present day. 213 pages. View More...
Nick Mersfelder was born in 1858 in the Platanate of Bavaria. His family came to America in and settles in Ohio. Nick came to Austin, Texas, in 1879. He became a Texas Ranger and then traveled to Fort Davis, Jeff Davis County, where he settles.
Judge Hayes emigrated from Missouri to Los Angeles in1850. He was an attorney and law professional in Los Angeles and San Diego until his death in 1877.
It is a rare individual who becomes a legend in his own time. The Reverend B.M.G. Williams seems to have accomplished just that.
His familiar title, Uncle Bert, implies an existing warm relationship, yet few people remain who knew him when he first arrived in El Paso, Texas, in 1894.
It is for this reason that Bernice Dittmer's thoroughly researched biography of B.M.G. Williams provides yeoman service. She tells his story with loving care, reaching far back into his English heritage to give us information never before made public. 322 pages, indexed.
Names include: Bonules, Coisbe, Howlan... View More...
The book begins with Buck's early life, the shooting of Barney Riggs, and his move to Columbus, New Mexico. Continues with the followup on the Villistas and the Columbus Raid, prohibition, and the Depression. Signed by the author.
Trances Reardon family from its settlement in Ireland, then Illinois and Wisconsin. This book is a recounting of the local history surrounding them and their descendants to the present day. Inscribed. indexed
This narrative provides the story of Wiley Post, his beloved Lockheed Vega, The Winnie Mae, and his pressure suit, which was the world's first, practical flight-pressure suit. Includes First Day of Issue cancellation for two Wiley Post Air Mail stamps on inside front cover from Oklahoma City.
Immortalized in the classic novel and films, the real "Rooster" Cogburn was as bold, brash, and bigger-than-life as the American West itself. Now, in this page-turning account, Cogburn's great-great-grandson reveals the truth behind the fiction--and the man behind the myth. . .He was born in 1866 in Fancy Hill, Arkansas, the descendant of pioneers and moonshiners. Six foot three, dark eyed, and a dead shot with a rifle, Franklin "Rooster" Cogburn was as hard as the rocky mountain ground his family settled. The only authority the Cogburn clan recognized was God and a gun. And though he never pa... View More...
Homer Maxey's was a bank war of a different kind. Wrongful foreclosure and the litigation hold-up game stretched his resources but not his tenacious desire for economic justice. This is an odyssey of civil litigation and personal will. Indexed. 338 p. * View More...
This book follows the enigmatic commander in chief of the Union forces through the last year and a half of the Civil War. It is both a revelatory portrait of Ulysses S. Grant and the dramatic story of how the war was won.
As a single female in India and as a medical pioneer, Rebekah Ann Naylor helped develop Bangalore Baptist Hospital in India where she is administrator and surgeon. As a pastor/seminary president's daughter, her early years were shaped by those who view one's calling inviolable. Believing God wants her to be a missionary physician, she became the first woman to graduate from surgical residency program at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.351 pages; indexed View More...
As a single female in India and as a medical pioneer, Rebekah Ann Naylor helped develop Bangalore Baptist Hospital in India where she is administrator and surgeon. As a pastor/seminary president's daughter, her early years were shaped by those who view one's calling inviolable. Believing God wants her to be a missionary physician, she became the first woman to graduate from surgical residency program at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.351 pages; indexed View More...
David Perry was an American soldier who fought in the Revolutionary War, which resulted in the founding of the United States – this autobiography recalls his early years, and his role in the conflict.Born in colonial Massachusetts on August 8th, 1741, Perry had a difficult childhood – the death of his mother when he was merely seven meant he was sent to live with his uncle to learn the trade of tanning and shoemaking. Like many boys of his time, he received basic militia and leadership training in the countryside of New England, and saw battle whilst a teenager. Perry's earliest memories of co... View More...
