{"product_id":"stapleton-clayton-r-stapleton-9798181103160","title":"Stapleton: Sons of '24","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Stapleton family has been moving west for six generations. In 1838, they finally stop.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e is the concluding volume of the Stapleton trilogy - a family saga that began when Dr. Thomas William Stapleton crossed from England to Virginia in 1676 and set a dynasty in motion. Through the Carolinas, into Alabama, deeper into Florida, and now across the Gulf of Mexico to the black soil of the Colorado River valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut first, Texas has to survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the cannon smoke clears at the Alamo in March 1836, William Stapleton Senior is already moving - pulling his family through the chaos of the Texas Revolution, along the banks of the San Jacinto, and away from a Florida they can no longer call home. What follows is not a heroic march. It is something quieter and harder: the slow, unglamorous work of turning raw land into a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1874, the Stapletons have built something that will last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Promised Land\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of what it cost them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on primary documents, land records, and family history stretching back to colonial Virginia, Clayton R Stapleton reconstructs a world that history wrote around but rarely wrote down - the frontier children, the silent census entries, the names that almost didn't survive. This is their story, told in full.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStapleton: The Sons of '24 - Book Three\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eCompleting the trilogy that began with\u003c\/i\u003e The Long Way to Florida \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e From Gum Swamp to Texas Wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Clayton R. Stapleton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798181103160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/11\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.27lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Clayton R. Stapleton","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49173606629631,"sku":"9798181103160","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_79ad7b73-b4b1-4d53-94f1-9eee28f74358.jpg?v=1788955492","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/stapleton-clayton-r-stapleton-9798181103160","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}