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This edition is abridged and annotated with updated information.A judge from Prussia. A French Texas Ranger. Emigrants from all over the U.S.Their names and stories are mostly now forgotten but were recorded in this 1900 volume by Andrew Jackson Sowell. They were mostly young, hardy, and looking for new opportunities in land they felt was wide open but, in fact, was inhabited by Native Americans. The lives of these early pioneers is part of the history of the American West.The original bound edition of this book ran over 1100 pages and most of that content is here. It's the story of an incredibly violent and adventurous time that was lived by the people whose stories you find here. Sowell talked to them all and created one of the most interesting collections of personal histories of the wild West.
Andrew Jackson "Jack" Sowell (1848-1921) came from a family of warriors. John Newton Sowell, his grandfather, who fought in the War of 1812, came to Texas in 1829 and was one of the founders of Gonzales, Texas. Jack's father, Asa J. L. Sowell, fought in the Mexican and Civil Wars, and served as a Texas Ranger. Andrew Jackson Sowell (1815-1883), Jack's uncle, fought in the Texas War of Independence, the Mexican War, and the Civil War and served as a Texas Rangers. As a young and inexperienced Texas Ranger, Jack Sowell fought many battles against the Kiowa and Comanche in northwest Texas during the Wichita campaign of 1870-1871. By 1871, he was already writing his first book, Rangers and Pioneers of Texas (1884). Rangers and Pioneers of Texas tells the stories of the settlers who experienced violent, and often lethal, clashes with American Indians. Sowell was not a pedestrian author: every story is based on his experience as a ranger or the oral accounts of people he interviewed.
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The book leads the reader through the past to the present and here leaves him amid active and progressive men who are advancing, along with him, toward the future. Including, as it does, lives of men now living, it constitutes a connecting link between what has gone before and what is to come after. It is therefore fitting that it should be dedicated to a prominent man of our day in preference to one of former times. The matter presented, in the nature of things, is largely biographical. There can be no foundation for history without biography. History is a generalization of particulars. It presents wide extended views. To use a paradox, history gives us but a part of history. That other part which it does not give us, the part which introduces us to the thoughts, aspirations and daily life of a people, is supplied by biography. The men whose deeds are recorded in this book were or are deeply identified with Texas, and the preservation in this volume in enduring form of some remembrance of them—their names, who and what they were—has been a pleasant task to one who feels a deep interest and pride in Texas—its past history, its heroes and future destiny.
Reliable accounts of battles, wars, adventures, forays, murders, and massacres together with biographical sketches of many of the most noted Indian fighters and frontiersmen of Texas.