Border Wars of Texas
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| Partner: | buecher.de |
| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Shields, James T. De) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Border Wars of Texas: Being an Authentic and Popular Account in Chronological Order, of the Long and Bitter Conflict Wage Between Savage Indian Tribes and the Pioneer Settlers of Texas The present volume is the progressed efforts of the author´s long cherished design to prepare a popular and reliable narrative of border warfare and Texas frontier history, no satisfactory account in connected form having ever before appeared; indeed it is the first serious attempt in that direction, and the author´s purpose will have been accomplish if it should prove of value and be handed down to posterity with increasing interest to each generation, which is but natural as we recede further and further from that dark era of fearful strife so long waged between the red men and their white conquerors. Let the reader remember that this work has been put forth and executed through great labor and painstaking research for data, and a judicious sifting of the wheat from the chaff, that the story might conform to truth, and thus possess a positive value, a mine of historical wealth which will prove the most wholesome of mental pabulum; though the story be told with lack of facileness; with more regard for exactness of statement than ornateness of style or grandiloquence. The complete story in all its thrilling details will never be told, from the lack of reliable data and because of the vastness of such an undertaking - a so fittingly expressed by the versatile J. H. Beadle, as he crossed Red River into Texas on his tour of the "Western Wilds": "Here we enter the land of border romance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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