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After one brother is killed by Confederate vigilantes, Louisa, youngest daughter in a German American family living in Texas, sets off to rescue another brother from a Union prison camp.
After her family moves from Germany to Texas in 1847, fifteen-year-old Tina chronicles in letters to her grandmother their struggle to survive in a strange new place while preserving their traditional German ways.
A must read for anyone with an interest in the far Southwest or Native American history.
American slaveholders used the wealth and leisure that slave labor provided to cultivate lives of gentility and refinement. This study provides a vivid portrait of slaveholders at home and at play as they built a tragic world of both 'sweetness' and slavery.
A twelve-year-old runaway slave is torn between desire for freedom and affection for the woman who has protected him, as the impending Battle of Sabine Pass threatens to engulf their part of Texas.
A critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.
What Western Do I Read Next? describes and indexes approximately 1,900 titles published between 1989 and 1998, providing access to information genre readers need to select their next best read: title, series, author, publisher, characters, locale, time period, plot summary and similar authors.
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