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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... memory , and settle peacefully in the saddle to prowl the ranges of the past , hopefully not eternally arid , in an attempt to find something of more lasting signi- ficance in the lives of my vital and sometimes violent people than the ...
... memory , and settle peacefully in the saddle to prowl the ranges of the past , hopefully not eternally arid , in an attempt to find something of more lasting signi- ficance in the lives of my vital and sometimes violent people than the ...
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... memories , to marry a trail- driver on the borders of Texas . Nearly a century later I retraced their course in an ... memory : " He performed every duty with an eye single to the public welfare and his own unblemished honor . " With ...
... memories , to marry a trail- driver on the borders of Texas . Nearly a century later I retraced their course in an ... memory : " He performed every duty with an eye single to the public welfare and his own unblemished honor . " With ...
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... memory & renown may be occupied by my descendants " -evidence of his " respect and love ... for the Methodsit Church & people of God . " Having thus attested his spiritual faith and loyalties , he turned next to provision for his four ...
... memory & renown may be occupied by my descendants " -evidence of his " respect and love ... for the Methodsit Church & people of God . " Having thus attested his spiritual faith and loyalties , he turned next to provision for his four ...
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THE LAND | 1 |
To Troubled Texas | 9 |
Bill Evetts and Allie Puett | 19 |
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Arkansas Bell County Benton County Bill Evetts boys Brazos brother calves camp cattle Chickasaw Choctaw Nation cited clan Cora Coryell County cotton Court cowboy cowmen Cumberland 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 valley wagon Washington Washington-on-the-Brazos wrote