Author:
McDonald, Thomas O., 1942- author.
Imprint:2021
Physical Description621 pages : ill., maps ; 25 cm
Note:The Callahan Family in North Carolina and Georgia, 1760-1836 -- The Georgia Battalion, 1835-1836: "Texas needed soldiers, not resolutions" -- The Families of Johnson and Sarah Day, 1794-1836: "Brother Day denied the charge" -- The Day Families from Gonzales to Seguin, 1837-1839: "As a citizen and representative" -- The Ranger Years, 1840-1841: "Avenging sword" -- The Ranger Years, 1842-1843: "Capt Calleghan Cooley ... called on the men not to be excited" -- Sarah Hembree Day's Extended Family, 1837-1849: "Good wife" -- From Seguin to Prairie Lea, 1843-1853: "Field of civilization" -- Brazoria County, 1837, to Rio Blanco, 1853: "All are land-hunting" -- Erskine Cattle Drive to California, 1854: "The cattle stompeded last night" -- Pittsburg Land Company, 1853-1856: "Comfortable home at a fair price" -- The Callahan Expedition, 1855, Context: "Pero es tan solo un río!" -- The Callahan Expedition, 1855, Preparation: "Follow them up and chastize them wherever they may be found" -- The Callahan Expedition, 1855, Plan: "We intend to hunt up the Lipans in particular" -- The Callahan Expedition, 1855, Skirmishes: "We whipped them, four to one" -- The Callahan Expedition, 1855, Repercussions: "A vast deal of magniloquent indignation" -- The Callahan Expedition, 1855, Historical Perspective: "Use my creative imagination only to fill in the gaps" -- The Blassingame-Callahan Affair, 1856: "Oh, Lord" -- Blassingame-Callahan Affair Repercussions, 1856-1860: "Made an assault with a sixshooter" -- Blassingame-Callahan Affair Repercussions, 1857-1867: "Disturbed by impolite conduct" -- Probate, 1856-1873: "Estate of James H. Callahan, deceased" -- Orphans, September 1856-April 1926: "Loved and respected" -- Destinies, 1856-2012: "This is it" -- Appendix: San Antonio Committee on Slave Recovery letter to Emilio Langberg
Note:"The lives of James Hughes Callahan, Sarah Medissa Day, and their extended families become a social history of nineteenth-century Texas during the days of the Revolution, the Republic, and early statehood"-- Provided by publisher.
