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Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors - James Hughes Callahan and the Day Family in the Guadalupe River Basin (Hardcover)
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Texas Rangers, Ranchers, and Realtors - James Hughes Callahan and the Day Family in the Guadalupe River Basin (Hardcover)
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A native Georgian, James Hughes Callahan (1812 - 1856) migrated to
Texas to serve in the Texas Revolution in exchange for land. In
Seguin, Texas, where he settled, he met and married a divorcEe,
Sarah Medissa Day (1822 - 1856). The lives of these two Texas
pioneers and their extended family would become so entwined in the
events and experiences of the nascent nation and state that their
story represents a social history of nineteenth-century Texas. From
his arrival as a sergeant with the Georgia Battalion, through the
ill-fated 1855 expedition that bears his name, to his shooting
death in a feud with a neighbor, Callahan was a soldier, a Texas
Ranger, a rancher, and a land developer, at every turn making his
mark on the evolving Guadalupe River Basin. Separately, Sarah's
family's journey reflected the experience of many immigrants to
Texas after its war of independence. Thomas O. McDonald traces the
pair's respective paths to their meeting, then follows as,
together, they contend with conflict, troublesome social mores, the
emergence of new industries, and the taming of the land, along the
way helping to shape Texas culture as we know it to this day. With
a sharp eye for character and detail, and with a wealth of material
at his command, author Thomas O. McDonald tells a story as
crackling with life as it is steeped in scholarly research. In
these pages the lives of the Callahan and Day families become a
canvas on which the history of Texas - from revolution, frontier
defense, and Indian wars to Anglo settlement and emerging legal and
social systems - dramatically, inexorably unfolds.
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