A woman's life in Texas, before the cattle drives, before the Alamo. Before the legends were born. She was there, and she saw it all. On the day that she was twelve years old, Margaret Becker came to Texas with her parents and her younger brothers. The witch-woman looked at her hands, and foretold her future; two husbands, a large house, many friends, joy, sorrow and love. The witch woman would not say what she saw for Margaret's younger brothers, Rudi and Carl - for Texas was a Mexican colony. Before the Becker children were full-grown, the war for Texas independence would come upon them all...
A woman's life in Texas, before the cattle drives, before the Alamo. Before the legends were born. She was there, and she saw it all. On the day that ...
The Adelsverein Trilogy, now combined in a single hardbound edition, is a saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new life on the hostile frontier. They came from Germany to Texas in 1847, under the auspices of the "Mainzer Adelsverein" - the society of noblemen of Mainz, who tried to fill a settlement in Texas with German farmers and craftsmen. Christian "Vati" Steinmetz, the clockmaker of Ulm in Bavaria, has brought his sons and daughters: Magda - passionate and courageous, courted by Carl Becker, a young frontiersman with a dangerous past. Her sister Liesel...
The Adelsverein Trilogy, now combined in a single hardbound edition, is a saga of family and community loyalties, and the challenge of building a new ...
In the second volume of the Adeslverein Trilogy, the Steinmetz family and their friends have settled in the wild and beautiful Texas Hill Country. They have made peace with the Comanche, built new homes, and happy and prosperous lives - but all of this is threatened by the advent of the Civil War.
In the second volume of the Adeslverein Trilogy, the Steinmetz family and their friends have settled in the wild and beautiful Texas Hill Country. The...
The Quivera Trail is intended as a sequel to the Adelsverein Trilogy, as it picks up in 1875, with Dolph Becker courting and marrying a young Englishwoman, Isobel Lindsay-Groves. Isobel has several problems, the first of them being a domineering and cruelly judgemental mother, and the second, that she has made a dreadful hash of her debut year and failed to marry - marry well, or marry anyone at all. She is plump, socially inept, loves dogs and horses and wishes wistfully for a quiet modest country life. Dolph Becker is the answer to a prayer, for he offers all that ... but the price for...
The Quivera Trail is intended as a sequel to the Adelsverein Trilogy, as it picks up in 1875, with Dolph Becker courting and marrying a young Englishw...
In the year 1885, proper young Bostonian Sophia Brewer flees everything she has ever known, in fear of her life and takes up a new life in the West under another name, as a Harvey Girl working in railroad stop restaurants. She finds independence and adventure, friends and just possibly romance. But there are still secrets in her life, secrets which might put everything about her new life in peril.
In the year 1885, proper young Bostonian Sophia Brewer flees everything she has ever known, in fear of her life and takes up a new life in the West un...
