When a wagon train accident separates a traveling family and strands five helpless children and Grammie in the Texas wilderness of 1848, it is up to twelve-year-old Robbie to find them food and shelter and help them all survive.

The adventures of a young greenhorn cowpoke in Texas after the Civil War.

It is said one piece of fabric can tell of the hardships, blessings, and realities of a woman's life, as well as her community's life.
In nineteenth-century Texas women's hands created most of the clothes their families wore, the blankets used to cover their tired bodies, and the textiles that furnished their homes. Spinning, weaving, dyeing, and knitting of clothing and linens gave them the palette] to display their abilities and their dreams of a better future. These day-to-day activities of Texas women spinners and weavers come to life in the award-winning author Paula Mitchell Marks'...