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Table of Contents:

• Pioneers
• John Peter Kelsey
• Amanda Catherine Brooks
• Move to the border
• A bandit raid
• Social and business life in Mexico
• More events of life in Mexico
• Papa and Mama find me
• Hannah Rebecca Allen becomes Anna Marietta Kelsey
• My new home
• Trip up the Mississippi
• J.P. Kelsey returns to Texas
• Papa's overseers
• The Rio Grande
• Ringgold Barracks (1880-84)
• Big ranches
• Visiting Grandma
• Catarino Garza revolution
• Mama tells me of my adoption and papa's passing
• Race riot

• Politics in Starr County
• Early education in Starr County
• Fun at Uncle Ed's
• Mama's passing
• I get acquainted with my own family
• The early days of automobiles in Starr County
• I extend my operations
• 1917-1918
• Mexican customs
• Visits in Mexico
• The railroad comes to Rio Grande City
• Miscellany
• A fitting memorial
• Pets I have owned
• Snake stories
• South Texas birds
• Notes and anecdotes
• 1950-1951.

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Author/Creator:

Kelsey, Anna Marietta, 1863- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Through the years: reminiscences of pioneer days on the Texas border [by Kelsey, A.M.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Through the years [by Kelsey, A.M.] (San Antonio, Naylor Co. [1952] — OCLC Number 2631886)

Subjects:

Kelsey, Anna Marietta, 1863-

Frontier and pioneer life — Texas

Frontier and pioneer life

Texas

Genres:

Biographies

General Notes:

Includes index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Portal to Texas History, viewed September 18, 2018).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 179 pages) : illustrations

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

F391.4.K45 A3 1952eb

OCLC Numbers:

948133361