The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days. E-book. Formato EPUB Noah Smithwick   -  Noah Smithwick, 2016  - 

A blacksmith and a tobacco smuggler, Noah Smithwick made weapons for the Battle of Concepcion, and he fought in that battle. With Hensley's company, he chased the Mexican army south of the Rio Grande after the Battle of San Jacinto. Twice he served with the Texas Rangers. In quieter times, he was a postmaster and justice of the peace in little Webber's Prairie. Eyewitness to so much Texas history, Smithwick recounts his life and adventures in a simple, straightforward style, with a wry sense of humor. His keen memory for detail--what the people wore, what they ate, how they worked and played-- vividly evokes the sights, sounds, and smells of the frontier.

A Facsimile Reproduction of the Evolution of a State: Or Recollections of Old Texas Days. E-book. Formato PDF Noah Smithwick   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The work primarily begun to beguile the tedium inci dent to the author's loss of sight was partly published in the galveston-dallas News, where it seemed to attract ia votable notice; in so much that we were repeatedly urged to put it in book form for preservation. The extreme age of the author, he being then 89, rendered it expedient to hasten the work. Sixty years was a wide gulf for a single memory to span, and being away in California where he had neither the benefit of old associations to refresh his memory, nor the advantages of extended historical re search to assist him on doubtful points, and his death oc curring before the final revision was completed, it is quite possible there may be slight errors. For these, if they exist, we beg the readers' indulgence.