Margaret Swett Henson: 2 books

Book cover of The Samuel May Williams Home

The Samuel May Williams Home

The Life and Neighborhood of an Early Galveston Entrepreneur

by Margaret Swett Henson, Deoloce Parmalee
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013

Built in the winter of 1839-1840, this house, and the Texas pioneer who inhabited it, are the central focus of this thoroughly researched and well-written study of Galveston's merchant elite—Gail Borden, Michel Menard, Thomas McKinney, and others—a generation of leaders who did much to shape their city and Texas itself.
Book cover of McKinney Falls

McKinney Falls

The Ranch Home of Thomas F. McKinney, Pioneer Texas Entrepreneur

by Margaret Swett Henson
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014

McKinney Falls State Park, which lies across the Colorado River from Austin, is the 672-acre center of a 40,000 acre tract where Texas pioneer Thomas Freeman McKinney established his ranch. This carefully researched and well-written history relates the fascinating life story of the influential frontiersman...
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