Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1464
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Rogers-Skelton and Allied Families
Author: Helen Rogers SkeltonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1084
Book Description
Thomas Rogers and his eldest son migrated to America in 1620 on the Mayflower. Thomas was born ca 1586-1587 probably in Dorcetshire or Wilshire. He married Grace __?__. Out of this union, a number of children were born. Thomaśs wife and younger children remained in England. He died in February 1621 at which time his wife married his brother William. After William died, his wife married Roger Porter and left England to come to America.
Special Scientific Report
Author: Let's Cross Before Dark
Author: Bill WinsorPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665565616
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 627
Book Description
Let’s Cross Before Dark... A History of the Ferries, Fords and River Crossings of Texas The state of Texas claims over 12,000 named rivers and streams stretching approximately 80,000 linear miles within its boundaries. In this book, Bill Winsor identifies and locates over 550 named river crossings within the state that once served as vital destinations for Native Americans, European explorers, and Mexican and American soldiers and colonists. Winsor has catalogued their origins and histories. Included in the work are maps of major rivers and their crossings as well as select images of early ferry operations of Texas. In addition to an alpha index of the crossings, the 625-page book presents an in-depth examination of the roles principal rivers and their crossings assumed in the framing of Texas history. Each of its fourteen chapters explores the founding of these various sites and the characters that brought them to life. This information, under one cover, presents an incomparable resource for future generations to better understand and appreciate the historical relevance of these vanishing theaters of history.
The Serials Directory
Author: The Official Record of the United States Department of Agriculture
Author: United States. Department of AgriculturePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Slavery and Freedom in Texas
Author: Jason A. GillmerPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820351326
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
In these absorbing accounts of five court cases, Jason A. Gillmer offers intimate glimpses into Texas society in the time of slavery. Each story unfolds along boundaries—between men and women, slave and free, black and white, rich and poor, old and young—as rigid social orders are upset in ways that drive people into the courtroom. One case involves a settler in a rural county along the Colorado River, his thirty-year relationship with an enslaved woman, and the claims of their children as heirs. A case in East Texas arose after an owner refused to pay an overseer who had shot one of her slaves. Another case details how a free family of color carved out a life in the sparsely populated marshland of Southeast Texas, only to lose it all as waves of new settlers “civilized” the county. An enslaved woman in Galveston who was set free in her owner’s will—and who got an uncommon level of support from her attorneys—is the subject of another case. In a Central Texas community, as another case recounts, citizens forced a Choctaw native into court in an effort to gain freedom for his slave, a woman who easily “passed” as white. The cases considered here include Gaines v. Thomas, Clark v. Honey, Brady v. Price, and Webster v. Heard. All of them pitted communal attitudes and values against the exigencies of daily life in an often harsh place. Here are real people in their own words, as gathered from trial records, various legal documents, and many other sources. People of many colors, from diverse backgrounds, weave their way in and out of the narratives. We come to know what mattered most to them—and where those personal concerns stood before the law.
Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Federal Register
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Delegated legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858–1861
Author: Glen Sample ElyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806154640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross-purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding American Indians, and Anglo-American outlaws. Before the Civil War, the Texas frontier was a sectional transition zone where southern ideology clashed with western perspectives and where diverse cultures with differing worldviews collided. This is also the tale of the Butterfield Overland Mail, which carried passengers and mail west from St. Louis to San Francisco through Texas. While it operated, the transcontinental mail line intersected and influenced much of the region's frontier history. Through meticulous research, including visits to all the sites he describes, Glen Sample Ely uncovers the fascinating story of the Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas. Until the U.S. Army and Butterfield built West Texas’s infrastructure, the region’s primitive transportation network hampered its development. As Ely shows, the Overland Mail Company and the army jump-started growth, serving together as both the economic engine and the advance agent for European American settlement. Used by soldiers, emigrants, freighters, and stagecoaches, the Overland Mail Road was the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern interstate highway system, stimulating passenger traffic, commercial freighting, and business. Although most of the action takes place within the Lone Star State, this is in many respects an American tale. The same concerns that challenged frontier residents confronted citizens across the country. Written in an engaging style that transports readers to the rowdy frontier and the bustle of the overland road, The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail offers a rare view of Texas’s antebellum past.