Authors:Jinx Schwartz, Elizabeth Maul Schwartz,
Publisher: Sundowners
Keywords: texicans
Number of Pages: 289
Published: 2005-05-31
List price: $13.50
ISBN-10: 1932695079
ISBN-13: 9781932695076

NOT another story about Davy Crockett, Jim Bowie, Sam Houston and the boys. Decades before Crockett, Bowie or Houston even set foot in Texas, Frederick Stockman was already there. Author Elizabeth Schwartz, a ninth-generation Texan, has delved deep into her ancestral roots to create this moving story of the Frederick Stockman familys’ courageous determination to make Texas their home during the turbulent period between 1806 and 1836. The Texicans was inspired by a Texas history book calling her ancestral clan a "congenial society for evil"--rogues "skilled in many forms of