Cooke County Chronicles Part Two PDF Download

Author: Sharon Hess
Publisher: Outskirts Press
ISBN: 9781598002416
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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Book Description
Word spread across the mountains and down into the valleys from one place to another, "There is land, good land to be had in Texas." Men, women and children packed the wagons with as much as they could carry and headed toward the "Promised Land." Many had to eliminate their belongings along the trail as swollen rivers and deep gullies made traveling precarious. Furniture, household goods and clothing were not all that was left behind in the wilderness; people were left; the men who were slain by the attacking tribes of warring Indians were laid to rest beneath the tall trees along some quiet trail; women who died giving birth in the back of a Conestoga wagon and small children and older adults who fell prey to sickness and disease were left in shallow graves along the trail. There were thieves that lay in wait for the wagon trains; copperheads and rattlers who lay coiled beside a rock or beneath a small shrub and the bitter cold that could cause a person to lose a toe or a finger overnight or the blistering summer heat that left the mind numb following a heatstroke. But, on they came; driven by the need, the desire, for a place to call home; a place to raise good crops and to rear healthy children. A place where they could put down roots and a rich heritage that they could leave for their children and grandchildren. That dream came true for many. There are descendants of these brave souls who still reside within the county. Go back to a time when a man's word was his bond; a time when a pistol in the hand of a law-abiding citizen put the lawless on the run and a time when rewards were achieved by the sweat from a person's brow. Come and meet the settlers to a land, that when they arrived, was as wild as any territory west of the Mississippi or north of the oceans. Come and learn how they lived out their lives in a place that was to become, Cooke County, in a place called the Lone Star State, Texas.