Surviving on the Texas Frontier - New Hardback with Dustjacket and Free Shipping

Description: Surviving on the Texas FrontierPersonal Recollections of Life in Nineteenth-Century Texas - The Journal of an Orphan Girl in San Saba County By Sarah Harkey HallIntroduction by Paul Mitchell Marks Few accounts of life in nineteenth-century Texas provide the vivid poignancy of these recollections set down by Sarah Harkey Hall in 1905. Her narrative, written at age forty-eight for her children, captured the rhythms of daily and seasonal life in frontier San Saba County and chronicles her struggle for physical and emotional survival, as well as struggles of her family and community. Unlike many pioneer memoirs written for later generations, Sarah does not assume a nostalgic or triumphant tone and does not glide over life's daily hardships in a new country. The result is a remarkable record of frontier endurance, a record more bitter than sweet. Sarah's parents settled in 1853-1854 on Richland Creek in Central Texas, within the vast boundaries of Bexar County. They were among the first immigrants in the region, locating "one mile east of Richland Springs among the recently vacated wigwams of the Comanche Indians." Sarah's manuscript was transcribed by her great-granddaughter, Maidrell Henry of Kingsland. Author bio“I was born in this perilous time, and by nature, I inherited all caution and care. My first recollection is of fear of Indians, sitting up at night listening to the whistle of the Comanches all around and shivering with fear and trembling. We were taught never to go but a short distance from our little hut, for it was no uncommon thing to get news of some family being massacred in the most horrible and cruel manner, with the capture of the women and perhaps little innocent girls being carried off with them. At the same time, they would have the scalp of father and brothers to present to the captives, and if they showed any grief, their torture was only increased until relieved by death. We would often venture out to the old vacated wigwams to gather trinkets left by the Indians, beads, and the like. We always had strand after strand of them, which our childish hearts enjoyed. Although once we were missed by our parents, we would hear the call, ‘Come here children, you will be picked up by the Indians,’ then we would take to our heels.” — Sarah Harkey Hall Hardback with Dustjacket & Free Shipping In United States

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