Books in the Personal Narratives of the West series

The memoir of a man who was part of a part of every gold discovery that stirred the West, from the summer of 1851 when he traveled the Oregon trail to California, until a January day in 1869 when he climbed aboard an eastbound train at Evanston, Wyoming.

Through the recollections of Edward Everett Dale we are able to view a pattern of life in rural America now gone forever.

This is the story of and by an outspoken Texian, complete with his attitudes, principles, and moralizings, and the nineteenth-century style and flavor of his writing.

The memoir of a man's boyhood on a ranch in east Texas.

A firsthand account of pioneer life in east Texas.

The memoirs of a man who participlated in virtually every major event in Texas history from 1836 to 1896.