Rough Times, Tough Fiber: A Fragmentary Family ChroniclePalo Duro Press, 1976 - 196 Seiten Tracing the movements of the Haley, Evetts and Puett families from Virginia through the Tennessee backwoods, the deep South, and on to Texas, this book provides both genealogy and colorful insight into the sorrows of Indian removal, and the lives of Texan ranchers and cowboys through the experiences of these families. |
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... Bill . He was only three years old when his father marched off with Somervell's Texans , having been born November 13 , 1839 . All that we know of his mother is that she came from Tennessee with her husband and is said to have been of ...
... Bill . He was only three years old when his father marched off with Somervell's Texans , having been born November 13 , 1839 . All that we know of his mother is that she came from Tennessee with her husband and is said to have been of ...
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... Bill Evetts was back in Texas , and volunteered among the five hundred men Old Rip Ford raised to march on the border from Bexar . Bill's close friend , Sam W. Bishop , a veteran of the Arkansas Post campaign , as an exchanged prisoner ...
... Bill Evetts was back in Texas , and volunteered among the five hundred men Old Rip Ford raised to march on the border from Bexar . Bill's close friend , Sam W. Bishop , a veteran of the Arkansas Post campaign , as an exchanged prisoner ...
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... Bill returned to Bell County , probably in company with Sam Bishop , who caught a boat from Point Isabel to Galveston , and thence made his way home , to begin picking up the pieces of life left by war . Bill's story was all but lost ...
... Bill returned to Bell County , probably in company with Sam Bishop , who caught a boat from Point Isabel to Galveston , and thence made his way home , to begin picking up the pieces of life left by war . Bill's story was all but lost ...
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THE LAND | 1 |
The Haleys Tennessee Backwoods | 30 |
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Arkansas Bell County Benton County Bill Evetts boys Brazos brother camp cattle Chickasaw Choctaw Nation cited clan Cora Coryell County cotton Court cowboy cowmen Cumberland Mountain David Haley died drouth early Evetts family Evetts Haley father federal fighting frontier Grainger County grass Greenwood LeFlore Haley's head herd horses Indians Jackson James Haley Jim Evetts John Cloud John Haley killed land LeFlore living Major David Major Haley Mama Mama's married McElwee memory mesquite Mexican Midland miles Mingo Mississippi Moffat moved named Natchez Trace nature never night Papa Pecos Powhatan Ellis President Puett ranch range record Richland Creek ride River road Roane County rode saddle settled Sevier Smith County South Southern spirit Sterling County struggle Tennessee Texans Texas took Tough Fiber town trail treaty Uncle Durward Uncle Farrar valley wagon Washington-on-the-Brazos wrote