Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine: Voices of Frontier WomenJo Ella Powell Exley Texas A&M University Press, 1985 - 275 halaman Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine are the names of popular quilt patterns, and in this volume, now in its seventh printing, sixteen pioneer women describe how they pieced together a life for their families on the harsh frontier. Their first-person narratives, selected and edited by Jo Ella Powell Exley, provide a gripping, highly personal history of the state from Stephen F. Austin's original settlement through the taming of its last frontier in the west. The stories in Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine cover nearly a century, from the log cabin days of Anglo colonization and the Old Three Hundred to the settlement of the South Plains in the early twentieth century. Through the years, Indian raids, frontier-style "society balls," the Runaway Scrape, plantation life, yellow fever, trail drives, and the bloody Council House fight in San Antonio provided some of the blocks for this quilt. The rugged sunshine of daily life and the tears of frontier hardship combine in fascinating, realistic patterns. " . . . a fascinating collection of some of the Texas women's experiences. . . . Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine, a realistic look at the women of the frontier, is a book that also instills lessons of pride and courage for today."—Southern Living |
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... John Crownover . She was tall with dark eyes and black hair , and at the age of sixteen she married John Rabb in Jonesboro , Arkansas . Two years later in 1823 , Mary and John and other members of the Rabb family decided to go to Texas ...
... John Crownover . She was tall with dark eyes and black hair , and at the age of sixteen she married John Rabb in Jonesboro , Arkansas . Two years later in 1823 , Mary and John and other members of the Rabb family decided to go to Texas ...
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... John and I took the lamp and our books and writing materials to the dining table in the hall . The night was so still that we could hear the least little noise outside . It was pitch dark , too , and we could not dis- tinguish anything ...
... John and I took the lamp and our books and writing materials to the dining table in the hall . The night was so still that we could hear the least little noise outside . It was pitch dark , too , and we could not dis- tinguish anything ...
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... John , 7 , 8-9 Insect pests , 3 , 5 , 11 , 12-13 , 66 , 151 Ioni Creek , 186 , 189 Ireland , Major John , 145 Jameson , Mr. ( of Cottle County ) , 223 Jaques ( Jacques ) , Mrs. William , 92 , 99 , 100 Jaques ( Jacques ) , William B ...
... John , 7 , 8-9 Insect pests , 3 , 5 , 11 , 12-13 , 66 , 151 Ioni Creek , 186 , 189 Ireland , Major John , 145 Jameson , Mr. ( of Cottle County ) , 223 Jaques ( Jacques ) , Mrs. William , 92 , 99 , 100 Jaques ( Jacques ) , William B ...
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Mary Sherwood Wightman Helm | 19 |
Christ Episcopal Church Matagorda | 22 |
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