The Forty Eighters On Possum Creek

Author : W. A. Trenckmann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933337845
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek written by W. A. Trenckmann and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forty-Eighters of Possum Creek: A Texas Civil War Story is a departure for State House Press. This remarkable work of vintage historical fiction focuses on the life of one young man, Kuno Sartorius, who grows up and comes of age in a community of educated German immigrants during the waning months of the Civil War. Author William Trenckmann serialized the novel in his newspaper, Das Bellville Wochenblatt [The Bellville Weekly]. His novel, Die Lateiner am Possum Creek is one of the few works of fiction to treat the plight of the minority Texas Germans during the war. However, it is more than a German story, and provides vignettes of all aspects of life, and of all classes in Texas, on both the home front and the Trans-Mississippi theater. Throughout are the young men from all walks of life brought together by Confederate conscription and facing the same hardships of war. Expertly translated and annotated by James C. Kearney, this novel becomes a shadow memoir of the American Civil War. The educated German settlers of Millheim had fled their native land because of strife and revolution, choosing the bucolic life on the Texas frontier over the sophisticated university towns of Germany. Their children, though, faced uncertainties of their own as Texas seceded and joined the Confederacy and depended on all military aged men to do their part in a cause few Germans in the neighborhood cared for, and to perpetuate slavery which most abhorred. Kearney's notes help the reader navigate the story, and reveal the "story behind the story."

Author : W. A. Trenckmann
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1933337869
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Forty-Eighters on Possum Creek written by W. A. Trenckmann and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Forty-Eighters of Possum Creek: A Texas Civil War Story is a departure for State House Press. This remarkable work of vintage historical fiction focuses on the life of one young man, Kuno Sartorius, who grows up and comes of age in a community of educated German immigrants during the waning months of the Civil War. Author William Trenckmann serialized the novel in his newspaper, Das Bellville Wochenblatt [The Bellville Weekly]. His novel, Die Lateiner am Possum Creek is one of the few works of fiction to treat the plight of the minority Texas Germans during the war. However, it is more than a German story, and provides vignettes of all aspects of life, and of all classes in Texas, on both the home front and the Trans-Mississippi theater. Throughout are the young men from all walks of life brought together by Confederate conscription and facing the same hardships of war. Expertly translated and annotated by James C. Kearney, this novel becomes a shadow memoir of the American Civil War. The educated German settlers of Millheim had fled their native land because of strife and revolution, choosing the bucolic life on the Texas frontier over the sophisticated university towns of Germany. Their children, though, faced uncertainties of their own as Texas seceded and joined the Confederacy and depended on all military aged men to do their part in a cause few Germans in the neighborhood cared for, and to perpetuate slavery which most abhorred. Kearney’s notes help the reader navigate the story, and reveal the “story behind the story.”

Author : Daniel J. Gelo
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574419382
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German Texas Frontier in 1853 written by Daniel J. Gelo and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2024-03-15 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ferdinand Lindheimer was already renowned as the father of Texas botany when, in late 1852, he became the founding editor of the Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung, a German-language weekly newspaper for the German settler community on the Central Texas frontier. His first year of publication was a pivotal time for the settlers and the American Indians whose territories they occupied. Based on an analysis of the paper’s first year—and drawing on methods from documentary and narrative history, ethnohistory, and literary analysis—Daniel J. Gelo and Christopher J. Wickham deliver a new chronicle of the frontier in 1853. In keeping with Lindheimer’s background as a naturalist, the natural resources available are a constant subject for reporting. One special concern is the availability and ownership of wood, so essential for building lumber, fencing, and fuel. Most dramatically, the discovery of trace amounts of gold encouraged prospecting by German and Anglo settlers, which later influenced decisions to remove Indians to reservations. The activities of the area’s Indian peoples emerge in weekly details not found in other sources. Some Lipan Apaches are killed when the army does not learn of their peaceful intentions; restitution is made at Fredericksburg. A settler named Gadt is murdered, and Tonkawas are suspected. A horse raid southeast of San Antonio is blamed on the Lipans but turns out to be the work of non-Indians in disguise. The Delawares are driven temporarily to Indian Territory. Comanche men leave their families at Fort Chadbourne to embark on a raid against the Lipans. The Penateka band of Comanches honors the peace agreement they signed with the Germans six years earlier, but their days in the region are numbered. Lindheimer enhances the reportage with lengthy features on related subjects and exerts a strong editorial voice as he seeks to influence the development of a distinctive Texas German identity. His work, explained in this new study, will appeal not only to students of Texas history and ecology, Indigenous populations, immigration, intercultural encounters, and nineteenth-century Americana, but also to general readers who enjoy the rediscovery of hidden history.

Author : Margaret Maron
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892964451
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bootlegger's Daughter written by Margaret Maron and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1992-05 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This smart, sassy series introduces Deborah Knott, candidate for district judge--and daughter of an infamous bootlegger. Deborah's campaigning is interrupted when disturbing new evidence surrrounding a murder that has never been solved surfaces and she is implored to investigate.

Author : Sportsman's Connection
Publisher : Sportsman's Connection
ISBN 13 : 1885010702
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Tennessee Fishing Map Guide written by Sportsman's Connection and published by Sportsman's Connection. This book was released on 2016-07-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Newly updated for 2016, the Western Tennessee Fishing Map Guide is a thorough, easy-to-use collection of detailed contour lake maps, fish stocking data, and the best fishing spots and tips from area experts. Fishing maps, detailed area road maps and exhaustive fishing information for western Tennessee fisheries are provided in this handy eBook. Between the monster catfish of the Mississippi and the crappies of Lake Kentucky, you shouldn't run out of fishing opportunities in the western third of the Volunteer State. Of course, if that's not enough we've also included the stream fishery and over 70 other lakes. The book features editorial by Doug Markham, Max Moss, Jeff Samsel, Vernon Summerlin and Keith "Catfish" Sutton. Whether you’re after stripers on Lake Barkley, bass on Pickwick Lake or big crappies on Reelfoot, you'll find all the information you need to enjoy a successful day out on the water on one of the region's many excellent fisheries. Know your waters. Catch more fish with the Western Tennessee Fishing Map Guide.

Author : Margaret Maron
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 9780892966554
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home Fires written by Margaret Maron and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At a stop along her campaign trail, Judge Deborah Knott attends a community picnic at the Mt. Olive Church. When the historic building is destroyed by a fire shortly after the outing; and the charred skeleton of a young man is found among the ashes; Knott begins her own investigation into the tragedy. Earlier national news reports of a fire at a local African-American church had already gained the attention of Wallace Adderly, a Black Panther from the 70s. Knott and Adderly team up to discover if the blazes are merely coincidence, or the work of a racist arsonist. As the number of suspects rises, Deborah finds herself re-examining her own beliefs and values as she and Adderly race to prevent another devastating loss in the community.The mass market edition of Killer Market (Mysterious Press 8/97) will be published simultaneously with Home Fires Burning.A Main Selection of The Mystery Guild.

Author : Wayne County Historical Society (Wayne County, Tenn.)
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563118238
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Bible Records, Wayne County, Tennessee written by Wayne County Historical Society (Wayne County, Tenn.) and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matt White
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603445560
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Prairie Time written by Matt White and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt White's connections with both prairie plants and prairie people are evident in the stories of discovery and inspiration he tells as he tracks the ever dwindling parcels of tallgrass prairie in northeast Texas. In his search, he stumbles upon some unexpected fragments of virgin land, as well as some remarkable tales of both destruction and stewardship.

Author : Gen Griffin
Publisher : Gen Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1523653027
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Give Me Some Sugar written by Gen Griffin and published by Gen Griffin. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's two days before the wedding of the year, but all anyone in Possum Creek can talk about is the decapitated head that's just been found in the trunk of Callahan County's least favorite deputy's car. Half the county thinks the skull is just another one of Addison's pranks, but when more pieces of the corpse turn up it becomes obvious that someone a whole lot more dangerous than Addison might be gunning for a piece of a Kerry Longwood. Gracie Malone has enough problems on her hands without having to worry about whether or not Kerry has finally gone homicidal. All she wants to do is tie the proverbial knot with Cal and sail off into the sunset on their 14-day honeymoon cruise to the Bahamas, but life in Possum Creek is never that easy. Someone has sent wedding invitations to every name she'd written on her personal 'do not invite' list, changed her catering menu from filet mignon to fried bologna and put live fish in the swimming pool for her bachelorette party. Gracie is clueless as to who the saboteur is or why they so desperately seem to want her to walk down the aisle looking like a bridal vampire on her way to a funeral, but she quickly realizes she and her friends need to get to the bottom of this mess before her wedding turns into a bigger disaster than Kerry's police career.

Author : Gen Griffin
Publisher : Gen Griffin
ISBN 13 : 1386550728
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book If Pigs Could Fly written by Gen Griffin and published by Gen Griffin. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing ever stays calm in Possum Creek for long. After watching her husband make-out with another woman during her best friend's wedding, Katie has been forced to acknowledge that her own happily ever after is more like a B-rated horror movie than a fairy tale. Katie loves her daughter more than life itself, but she's pretty sure that Ian loves his Xbox more than he loves either one of them. Addison, the man Katie's been secretly in love with from the safety of the friend-zone for most of her adult life, thinks she's pathetic. At least, that's what his girlfriend told her. Katie doesn't know what her future holds, but she knows it's past time for a change. She's done wasting her life trying to please Ian while silently lusting after Addy. She's ready to move on and leave her feelings for both of them in the past. Addison Malone thinks the dust has finally settled after his sister's wedding. He couldn't be more wrong. The evidence in a rash of burglaries that have struck Possum Creek and the surrounding area make it apparent that he and his friends are being betrayed by someone they've always considered one of their own. When Katie makes it clear that she's ready to walk away from him forever, Addison is left scrambling to fix their relationship while he's still trying to get to the bottom of the crime spree.