Publication: Published by The E L Steck Company,1929, Austin
First edition. 8vo. Original gilt decorated and lettered dark green cloth, 474 pp., preface. The best book on women in early Texas, this is a useful and fascinating compilation of biographies of 77 notable Texas women. One of the best sources of authentic grass roots history of social life in frontier Texas, containing valuable material relating to the Texas Revolution, Republic of Texas, Civil War, Reconstruction, and the cattle industry. Former owner's bookplate, lightly foxed along fore-edges and to endpapers, and a tiny, faint, old water stain to the bottom margin of page 474 to page 335 which becomes smaller and lighter, else a near fine copy.
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