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August Santleben was born in 1845 in Hanover. Just three and a half months later his parents decided to leave Germany to emigrate to America. The family settled in Medina County, Texas, and Santleben grew up experiencing life on the wild American frontier.His book, A Texas Pioneer, is often revered as one of the greatest frontier memoirs of the Old West. Through the course of the text Santleben recounts tales of staging and freighting through Texas and Mexico and clashing with Indian, Mexico, and American thieves . . . Read more Look inside

Englishman Frank Collinson went to Texas in 1872, when he was seventeen, to work on Will Noonan’s ranch near Castroville. He lived the rest of his life in the southwestern United States, and at the age of seventy-nine began writing about the Old West he knew and loved.. . ." Read more Look inside

A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier

Found inside: "About five miles above, upon the west bank, a sort of religious colony of Silesian Poles has been established since our return. One or two hundred arrived on the ground in February, 1855, seven hundred more in the autumn, and some five hundred additional in 1856. The site was chosen by their ghostly father, who accompanied them, without discrimination, and the spot has proved so unhealthy as to induce a desertion of about one-half the survivors, who have made a settlement in the eastern upper corner of Medina County . . .  " Read more Look inside

During his early childhood years, World War II was on everyone’s mind. His dad went off to war while his mother stayed behind caring for his little brother, Jose Antonio. Luis A. Jiminez was born January 9, 1937 and raised in the small west Texas town of Presidio Texas. His early formative years started at the age of nine, when he was sent to Moye Military School in Castroville, Texas, where he continued to be a Moye cadet for the next five years until he graduated from the eighth grade . . . Read more

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