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History that is full of anecdotes settlers told their progeny,
By Jan (Texas) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fort Worth: A Frontier Triumph (Paperback)
This is an excellent book for anyone interested in the history of North Texas. The author was a trained historian and high school teacher who compiled her notes from a lifetime of research at the urging of a local publisher. She writes in a fast-paced style for the public, and captured the tales told by the major characters to their progeny while preserving the facts. I was fascinated to read of the division of the vote in Tarrant County on the issue of secession, and Sam Houston's effort to convince Texans not to join the Confederacy if they did indeed secede, but to return instead to their previous Republic. (Tarrant County did vote to secede by 28 votes out of approximately 800 cast.) Garrett tends to describe her subjects in a positive, hero-worshipping style, and she reveals her own unconscious racial bias in her chapter on Reconstruction, in which she describes the choices and behaviors of the recently freed ex-slaves with no empathy if they departed at all from the wishes of their former masters. It was also interesting to learn how early the very first cattle drives began through what would become "Cowtown." As a hometown reader, I was amused that she describes former locations in terms of locations from the '60s and '70s that now no longer exist! Amusing! In summary, I agree with a reviewer writing at the time of publishing: this author captured "the spirit" of the times. Highly recommended reading!
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THE prairies stretching from the wooded banks of the forks of the Trinity, and sweeping on beyond to the Red River, were sources of nourishment and power to the prairie Indians and to the invading white man; but they were also areas of conflict. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Fort Worth, Tarrant County, United States, Red River, Colonel Johnson, Major Arnold, White Settlement, Mexican War, Bird's Fort, Captain Daggett, Rio Grande, Van Zandt, East Texas, Clear Fork, Colonel Terry, Civil War, Johnson's Station, New Orleans, North Texas, Captain Terrell, Confederate Army, San Antonio, Julian Feild, Cynthia Ann, Charles Turner Browse Sample Pages:
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THE prairies stretching from the wooded banks of the forks of the Trinity, and sweeping on beyond to the Red River, were sources of nourishment and power to the prairie Indians and to the invading white man; but they were also areas of conflict. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Fort Worth, Tarrant County, United States, Red River, Colonel Johnson, Major Arnold, White Settlement, Mexican War, Bird's Fort, Captain Daggett, Rio Grande, Van Zandt, East Texas, Clear Fork, Colonel Terry, Civil War, Johnson's Station, New Orleans, North Texas, Captain Terrell, Confederate Army, San Antonio, Julian Feild, Cynthia Ann, Charles Turner Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Fort that Became a City: An Illustrated Reconstruction of Fort Worth, 1849-1853 (Chisholm Trail Series) by William Potter in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Camino Del Norte: How a Series of Watering Holes, Fords, And Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate 35 in Texas (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University) by Howard J. Erlichman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Billy Rose Presents . . . Casa Manana (Chisholm Trail Series) by Jan Jones in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Frontier Defense in the Civil War: Texas' Rangers and Rebels (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University) by David Paul Smith in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Stories from the Barrio: A History of Mexican Fort Worth by Carlos E. Cuellar in Back Matter
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