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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With all - consuming passion they bent their vigorous and productive years to this high adventure , this relentless struggle on the arid Plains , and worn - out each night by gruelling labor , were reinvigorated daily by faith that ...
With all - consuming passion they bent their vigorous and productive years to this high adventure , this relentless struggle on the arid Plains , and worn - out each night by gruelling labor , were reinvigorated daily by faith that ...
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... character to die along the Natchez Trace , to turn the Mississippi Delta to their productive uses , to struggle and achieve , or to write their names in bright and bloody but lasting memory on the crumbling parapets of the Alamo .
... character to die along the Natchez Trace , to turn the Mississippi Delta to their productive uses , to struggle and achieve , or to write their names in bright and bloody but lasting memory on the crumbling parapets of the Alamo .
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From the eternal light of the stars the eyes of this tired and stoveup old cowboy sought the answer to the struggle in the dying embers of the fire , and asked himself an honest question : “ Which was the more sensible of the two ?
From the eternal light of the stars the eyes of this tired and stoveup old cowboy sought the answer to the struggle in the dying embers of the fire , and asked himself an honest question : “ Which was the more sensible of the two ?
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Inhalt
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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