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  • Frontier and Pioneer Recollections of Early Days in San Antonio and West Texas

    Vinton Lee James (1858-1939) was the son of the Texas surveyor and pioneer John James (1819-1877), whose second wife was Annie Milby, the daughter of William Polk Wilby (1809-1887) whose family has been so influential in the development of Houston.The material presented in this book is the result of years of experience and effort to present phases of life in early San Antonio and West Texas to the ... Read more

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  • The Millheim and Cat Spring Pioneers: German Immigrants Building a New Life in Texas

    The Millheim and Cat Spring PioneersGerman Immigrants Building a New Life in TexasThis book is a continuation of an effort began in 2015 by a handful of individuals with an interest in the history of the German settlements at Cat Spring and Millheim in Austin County, Texas. Three of the early literary works by Millheim settlers have been republished -- Experiences and Observations and A History of ... Read more

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  • Texas 1840

    Anyone who is as fascinated about the era surrounding the establishment of the Republic of Texas as I am, will understand my excitement on discovering this book in German written in 1840. G.A. Scherpf was a German who had been living for some time in New York and decided to undertake an expedition to see with his own eyes which of the conflicting reports about Texas were true. He became so ... Read more

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  • A Life for Mankind - The Biography of Hugh Joseph Schonfield

    This book could have started with "Once upon a time there was a Jewish boy who had a dream...." because it describes the life of a personality who was driven by a strong destiny, fueled by the discovery of Jesus as the Messiah of history and with a plan to save mankind from self destruction. He became a renowned biblical researcher, the founder of a world nation and was to influence both the meek ... Read more

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  • For Love and for Prussia

    No longer a very young man, Philipp Wilhelm Sack, is discharged from Frederick the Great's army after battling and getting wounded fighting Napoleon. Before starting a new career in the government, he decides to take a journey in the part of Germany he loves, meeting up with relatives on the way. He falls in love and gets involved in religious differences, putting off marrying his sweetheart due ... Read more

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  • A German Paradise in Texas: The Fate of German Emigrants to Texas in the 1840’s

    A German Paradise in Texas – The Fate of German Emigrants to Texas in the 1840's is a gripping historical novel about the Germans who left their home country more than 150 years ago.False promises of a better life and incompetent organizers attracted thousands who had little to lose back home to look for a new life in Texas with the hope of creating a New Germany free from tyranny and poverty. ... Read more

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  • A Life for Mankind

    This book could have started with "Once upon a time there was a Jewish boy who had a dream...." because it describes the life of a personality who was driven by a strong destiny, fueled by the discovery of Jesus as the Messiah of history and with a plan to save mankind from self destruction. He became a renowned biblical researcher, the founder of a world nation and was to influence both the meek ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Lone Star Arises in Texas: The Struggles That Led to a New World

    Texas is well known to everyone as the setting for Indian tales and Wild West romances and most have also heard of the oil wells and sulfur pits, cattle herds, and cotton fields that secure it a place in the world economy. But who knows anything about the fact that in the vast areas that stretch between the Mississippi and the Rio Grande deep into the Plains, historical events as charming as they ... Read more

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  • Footprints of Five Generations

    There are yet among us men and women who braved the dangers and hardships of a frontier life in order that we may be enjoying the advantages and wealth of the present. Some of these have not great wealth and while others are drawing a small pension from the State, there are still others who are in dire poverty and never expect to ride on a concrete highway for pleasure and recreation. What they ... Read more

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  • A Lone Star Arises in Texas: The Struggles That Led to a New World

    Texas is well known to everyone as the setting for Indian tales and Wild West romances and most have also heard of the oil wells and sulfur pits, cattle herds, and cotton fields that secure it a place in the world economy. But who knows anything about the fact that in the vast areas that stretch between the Mississippi and the Rio Grande deep into the Plains, historical events as charming as they ... Read more

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  • The Engelking Letters

    'The Engelking Letters' is a collection of letters written by or pertaining to Ferdinand Friedrich Engelking 1810-1885.They tell their own story of the struggles of this early Texas pioneer who, despite many hardships, gradually established himself and his family in the new Republic of Texas after emigrating from Germany.Sometimes the reader will be reduced to tears when reading of the death of ... Read more

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  • A German Paradise in Texas: The Fate of German Emigrants to Texas in the 1840’s

    A German Paradise in Texas – The Fate of German Emigrants to Texas in the 1840's is a gripping historical novel about the Germans who left their home country more than 150 years ago.False promises of a better life and incompetent organizers attracted thousands who had little to lose back home to look for a new life in Texas with the hope of creating a New Germany free from tyranny and poverty. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus