A Texas Legacy Family Saga - Book 3 In the summer of 1860, America is a tinder box, ready to blow. Issues of states' rights, slavery and regionalism have come to a boiling point. Citizens across the South are willing to fight and die to maintain their Southern way of life. Texas is a tough place to be if you disagree with that philosophy. It's especially tough if you are a free Negro or friends of freed blacks. Billy Jefferson, a young scholar, now a professor with dreams of teaching freed blacks like himself, returns to America after years of schooling abroad only to disappear upon landing...

Legacy of Dreams is the first book in Dan Vanderburg's Texas Legacy family saga and takes you to the raw frontier of Texas, following two courageous young men and the women they love as they build new lives, homes and dreams in their new country. In the spring of 1829 Will Bowman and Jeff Jefferson ride into a world of political unrest, hostile Indians and backbreaking work, but unlimited opportunity. This story explores the concept of freedom at two levels: Jeff's personal account of slavery and freedom and the story of the Texans and their struggle against the tightening noose of despotism...

The slaughter of 183 Texas heroes at an old mission fort in San Antonio in the spring of 1836 sparked a series of events that changed Texas and Texans forever. Upon his victory at the Alamo, General Santa Anna ordered his army to drive all Anglos from the northern Mexican territory and torch their farms and ranches. Almost thirty thousand people, mostly women, children and the elderly fled their homes for safety beyond Texas' border just hours ahead of an army bent on their annihilation. But there were some left behind. A thirteen-year-old boy and his seven-year-old sister suddenly find...

Dan Vanderburg's collection of short stories combine humor, nostalgia and thoughts from his past. Come meet a couple of elderly ladies as they step into shoes they were never prepared to wear in "Little Old Ladies and Larceny." Hilarity and misadventure rule when Bubba and Bobby Earl get together in three outrageous tales. These stories and others from author Dan Vanderburg's vivid imagination will tickle your funny bone and give you food for thought. In this collection, Dan Vanderburg includes humorous short stories, as well as excerpts from his memoir, and poetry written over his lifetime....

In late 1835, a most unlikely soldier joined the New Orleans Grays, a volunteer fighting unit heading to Texas to help win its independence from a despotic Mexican government. "The Littlest Hero" is not the grandiose story of nation building. It is the uplifting story of a young man -- a little man in physical stature, but with a big heart who wants to earn respect and discover his destiny. Stub Lebeaux, a young dwarf, leaves his home and somewhat unconventional family, and soon learns what life, loyalty, courage under fire and the misery of war is all about. Follow the adventures of this...