Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine
By Jo Ella Exley (Editor)
Paperback
296 pages
Dimensions (in inches): 0.91 x 9.06 x 6.11
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press; (July 1990)
Jo Ella Exley has complied and edited a collection of writings of
frontier Texas through the eyes of Texas Pioneer women. This has
to be one of the best books I’ve read describing life in early Texas.
Some of the women came from much but most from little, but they all
shared in the determination to survive the Texas Frontier. Whether
it was Mary Rabb, one of Austin’s original “Old Three Hundred”, or Silva
King brought to Texas enslaved, one word can be used to describe them
all, “tough”. Mary Blankenship homesteading on the staked plains
of West Texas at the dawn of the twentieth century best described the
loneliness and hardship of life on the frontier with this quote, “We had
plenty of time to be still and know God. He was our closest
neighbor.”
Texas Bob
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