Rough Times, Tough Fiber: A Fragmentary Family ChronicleTracing 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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Here on January 17 , 1867 , Bill Evetts married Allie Puett , a girl of seventeen , and settled down in a log house with a dirt floor , in a typically Texas frontier home . I can recall her but dimly from having come with Mama for a ...
Here on January 17 , 1867 , Bill Evetts married Allie Puett , a girl of seventeen , and settled down in a log house with a dirt floor , in a typically Texas frontier home . I can recall her but dimly from having come with Mama for a ...
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Jackson was not only a product of the frontier , sharing the frontiersmen's well - grounded impatience of a policy of appeasement toward the Indians , but was , besides , an imperious and wilful man to whom the frontier looked for ...
Jackson was not only a product of the frontier , sharing the frontiersmen's well - grounded impatience of a policy of appeasement toward the Indians , but was , besides , an imperious and wilful man to whom the frontier looked for ...
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wide - ranging scouts against the Indians by Colonel William R. Shafter and his frontier troops . " Ten miles east by north of the site of Midland were the Mustang Holes or Springs — named by Captain R. B. Marcy , as he made the first ...
wide - ranging scouts against the Indians by Colonel William R. Shafter and his frontier troops . " Ten miles east by north of the site of Midland were the Mustang Holes or Springs — named by Captain R. B. Marcy , as he made the first ...
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THE LAND There Is Just Something About It | 1 |
To Troubled Texas | 9 |
Bill Everts and Allie Puett | 21 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
became Bell Bill bought boys brother called camp carried cattle chief Choctaws close County Court cowboy Creek dangerous David David Haley death died early east Evetts father fighting followed force frontier Grandpa grass Haley Haley's hand hard head hold hope horses Indians interest Jackson John killed known land later leaving letter living looked Major Major Haley Mama March married memory Midland miles Mississippi Moffat moved named nature never night noted once Papa passed Plains President ranch range recall record removal returned River road saddle seemed sense settled sometimes South Southern spirit spring story struggle Tennessee Texas took town Trace trail treaty turned Uncle wrote
Bibliografische Informationen
| Titel | Rough Times, Tough Fiber: A Fragmentary Family Chronicle |
| Autor/in | James Evetts Haley |
| Verlag | Palo Duro Press, 1976 |
| Original von | University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitalisiert | 7. Nov. 2007 |
| Länge | 196 Seiten |
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