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Recollections of Early Texas: The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins (Personal Narratives of the West)
Recollections of Early Texas The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins - Personal Narratives of the West
Author: John Holland Jenkins, John Holmes Jenkins III (Editor)
"John Holland Jenkins was thirteen and a half years old when the Alamo fell in 1836 and he became a soldier of the Texas Republic under General Sam Houston.... [But] it was not until 1884, when he was past sixty years old, that he began writing down . . . the reminiscences that, as now put into book form, light up for whoever will read [the...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780292770379
ISBN-10: 0292770375
Publication Date: 1987
Pages: 307
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Publisher: University of Texas Press
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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This is a very good read, it gives a first hand account of life in Texas and how harsh and brutal the times were in Texas when Commanches roamed the countryside.


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