Frontier Ways

Edward Everett Dale

• Paperback | Engels | Personal Narratives of the West
• Edward Everett Dale gives a first-hand account of the way pioneer families and cowboys of the frontier lived. Dr. Dale has lived in a sod house, and h... Lees meer

The Golden Frontier

Herman Francis Reinhart

• Paperback | Engels | Personal Narratives of the West
• The gold rush was Herman Francis Reinhart's life for almost twenty years. From the summer of 1851 when, as a boy in his late teens, he traveled the Or... Lees meer

The Cross Timbers

Edward Everett Dale

• Paperback | Engels | Personal Narratives of the West
• The activities of a young boy on a small farm in the Texas Cross Timbers during the 1880s seem especially distant today. No one can remember the adven... Lees meer

My Eighty Years in Texas

William Physick Zuber

• Paperback | Engels | Personal Narratives of the West
• Almost a century and a half went into the making of My Eighty Years in Texas . It began as a diary, kept by fifteen-year-old William Physick Zuber aft... Lees meer

Gay as a Grig

Ellen Bowie Holland

• Paperback | Engels | Personal Narratives of the West
• Ellen Bowie Holland grew up in a house at Weatherford, Texas, that had the "motherly look of a large and gallant hen hovering over too many chicks" an... Lees meer

Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers

Gerald Lynch

• Paperback | Engels | Personal Narratives of the West
• Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire--and did, for some. But these myths hav... Lees meer

Rip Ford's Texas

John Salmon Ford

• Paperback | Engels | Personal Narratives of the West
• The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon "Rip" Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836. For... Lees meer

Home on the Double Bayou

Ralph Semmes Jackson

• Paperback | Engels | Personal Narratives of the West
• Once again, through a boy's eyes, Ralph Jackson sees a winter sky darkened with geese and ducks, a kitchen stove glowing with cheerful warmth, Aunt Ma... Lees meer

Recollections of Early Texas

• Paperback | Engels | Personal Narratives of the West
• "[These reminiscences] light up for whoever will read the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas." -J. Frank Dobie, from the foreword A firstha... Lees meer