Crowley County Combined Library

Relates the experiences of the Texas woman who, along with her baby, survived the 1836 massacre at the Alamo.

Biography of Erastus Smith, known as Deaf because of his inability to hear, celebrating the gumption that led the sickly man from New York to Texas where he became strong, married, earned the respect of his neighbors, and became a hero in Texas' fight for independence from Mexico.

From the 1500s to the present, different voices and perspectives of men and women--Indian, Mexican, Spanish, Texan, and American--recount the history of the Alamo and its region.

A biography of George Saunders, a cowboy who endured cattle drives, stampedes, and skirmishes with Indians on the Texas frontier during and after the Civil War.

In 1921, aviation pioneer Betsy Coleman arose from the poverty of the Texas cotton fields to capture the hearts of the black population of America.

Examines the settlement of the south-central region of the United States through the lives of seven explorers and founders, including Daniel Boone in Kentucky, and Stephen Austin and Sam Houston in Texas.

WHAT IS THIS BOOK ABOUT? Indian attacks, outlaws, rattlesnakes, smallpox and blizzards are a few of the true-to-life dangers experienced by Addie Slaughter, daughter of the famous John Horton Slaughter, a Texas Ranger, famed Cochise County Sheriff and an early settler of the San Bernardino Valley in the late 1800s. In first-person narrative, author Susan Krueger, Ed.D., expertly speaks for Addie, who tells her adventurous, sometimes heartbreaking,...