Recollections of Early Texas (eBook, ePUB)

Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins
Redaktion: Jenkins, John Holmes

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"[A] firsthand account by one who measured up to the demands of danger and hardships and lived to write about it... Invaluable... Well documented." - Library Journal As a teenager in the 1950s, John Holmes Jenkins set to work on collecting and editing his great-great-grandfather's writings about his experiences on the Texas frontier. John Holland Jenkins joined General Sam Houston's army at age thirteen after losing his stepfather at the Alamo. In addition to fighting the Mexicans, he faced peril from Indian warriors as well as the everyday difficulties of pioneer life. His reports on the events of the time were included in newspapers with very small readerships-and, his descendant would discover, were sometimes used word-for-word in respected history textbooks without any credit given to the source. This volume includes these memoirs of the Texas Republic and early statehood, along with illustrations, notes, biographical sketches, a bibliography, and an index. "Fascinating... A commendable job." - The New York Times "[These reminiscences] light up for whoever will read the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas." -J. Frank Dobie, from the foreword

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 347
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780292788602
• Artikelnr.: 63555537

Autorenporträt

Edited by John Holmes Jenkins III

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Austin's Little Colony
II. Valuable Additions Arrive
III. Mexican Invasion
IV. Brushy Creek and Plum Creek
V. Comanches, Caddoes, and Cherokees
VI. More Mexican Trouble
VII. The Mier Expedition
VIII. The Texan Santa Fe Expedition
IX. People of Note.
X. Recollections at Random
XI. In All Fairness
XII. Hunting and Social Life
XIII. From the Sublime to the Ridiculous
XIV. In Conclusion
Biographical Notes
Bibliography
Index