"All the more desirable coastal land of the New World had been acquired by the 1840s and 50s. The Scots-Irish entered this country through the Mid-Atlantic States rather than New England. They settled first in Virginia and Maryland and then moved on to Kentucky and Virginia. Some went further south from there, while others moved west. Raiders and Horse Thieves is the story of my early childhood in Cedar Creek, Texas (Bastrop County), during the final days of World War II. Due to Reconstruction and the Great Depression, economic growth in this central Texas County had been severely restricted....
"All the more desirable coastal land of the New World had been acquired by the 1840s and 50s. The Scots-Irish entered this country through the Mid-Atl...
