Five Years in Texas Or, What you did not hear during the war from January 1861 to January 1866. A narrative of his travels, experiences, and observation

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More about Texas--Plot against the Writer's Life--Pretext for the Attack--Prompt Action of Deputy Sheriff Hardin--Fear of Secret Assassination--Advised to Leave the Place--Went to San Antonio--Thence to Mexico--Lost in the Wilds of Western Texas--How We Got Out--The Two Mexican Rancheros--Gen. F. J. H.--Extradition of Don Manuel G. Rejon--Cortinas--The Writer's Family Flooded Out in San Antonio--They Come to Him in Matamoras 173-182