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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This Land— “ There Is Just Something About It ” I a HAD SPENT MY BEST , that is my early and most zestful years , as a cowboy upon the Plains of Texas . Then late in life , on an early spring morning , while the sun caressed our placid ...
This Land— “ There Is Just Something About It ” I a HAD SPENT MY BEST , that is my early and most zestful years , as a cowboy upon the Plains of Texas . Then late in life , on an early spring morning , while the sun caressed our placid ...
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To The Staked Plains Papa APA TURNED HIS speculative interest and bent toward land and headed for West Texas . He knew what to do with a cotton farm , and following the western trend of settlement , located at Norton , in Runnels County ...
To The Staked Plains Papa APA TURNED HIS speculative interest and bent toward land and headed for West Texas . He knew what to do with a cotton farm , and following the western trend of settlement , located at Norton , in Runnels County ...
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For long and weary years we poured out our unrelenting efforts and our scanty savings from other sources , and stayed with that arid land which was our ranch , while time loped by in its easy , effortless stride .
For long and weary years we poured out our unrelenting efforts and our scanty savings from other sources , and stayed with that arid land which was our ranch , while time loped by in its easy , effortless stride .
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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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