Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas, Volume #1 - Paperback

by A. J. Sowell (Author)

By: A.J. Sowell, Pub. 1900, reprinted 2025, 378 pages, soft cover, ISBN #978-163914-631-4. This book is volume one of a two volume set of books attempting to recite unwritten history of life on the border, especially in Southwest Texas. The brave men and women within these pages helped settle this frontier along with blazing the way for immigration into the southwest. Their stories are told through authentic sources and many times from the early settler himself. These biographies are told in great detail covering their life before arriving and then concentrating on stories of their life fighting Indians and Mexicans on the frontier. Surnames of biographies: Adams, Boales, Berry, Burrell, Brucks, Binnion, Briggs, Bowles, Brucks, Bramlett, Buckalew, Burney, Castro, Conrads, Carr (2), Charobiny, Click, Clark, Cox, Colwell, Davenport (3), English, Etter, Fenley, Haby, Haller, Harby, Hartman, Hays, Hicks, Highsmith, Huehner, Huffman, Hunter, Jack, James, Jarvis, Jones, Kelly, Kennedy (2), Kinchaloe, Lawhon, Keakey, Lowe, Maney, Mann, Metzgar, Miller, Moore, Nowlin, Outlaw, Patterson, Peters, Rees, Reinhart, Richarz, Rogers, Rothe, Saatoff, Scull, Sevier, Shane, Smith, Tinsley, Thompson, Taylor (2), Tom, Van Pelt, Vought, Wallace, Wanz, Ware, Watson, Wernette, Westfall, Weynard, Wilson, Winters, Witt, and others