The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515003090)

Just why my father moved, at the close of the civil war, from Georgia to Texas, is to this good hour a mystery to me. While we did not exactly belong to the poor whites, we classed with them in poverty, being renters; but I am inclined to think my parents were intellectually superior to that common type of the South. Both were foreign born, my mother being Scotch and my father a north of Ireland man, -as I remember him, now, impulsive, hasty in action, and slow to confess a fault. It was his impulsiveness that led him to volunteer and serve four years in the Confederate army, -trying years to my mother, with a brood of seven children to feed, garb, and hous

Author: Andy Adams
ISBN-10: 1515003094
ISBN-13: 9781515003090
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2015
Pages: 134
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.42lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.29d