Carl Coke Rister: 2 books
by Carl Coke Rister, Sarah Ann Horn
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
No homeseekers were ever plagued with more bad luck than those who followed the Englishman John Charles Beales to southern Texas late in 1834. On the banks of Las Moras Creek, not far from the Rio Grande, they established the colony of Dolores. Among them were the British-born Sarah Ann Horn and her...
by Carl Coke Rister
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Robert E. Lee In Texas introduces a little known phase of the great General’s career—his service in Texas during the four turbulent years just preceding the Civil War—at Camp Cooper, watching the federal government’s “humanizing” experiment with the wild Comanches; at San Antonio, commanding...