Frontier Tales of Texas-Louisiana Borderlands Hardcover – October 12, 2022

A previously unpublished book by author W. T. Block from a 1988 manuscript.Table of ContentsChapter 1–Buccaneers, Bandits, and Buried Treasure.Crazy Ben Dollivar's Secret Gold Cache.A Buccaneer Household in Galveston.Shellbank, Louisiana.Legend of John Mcgaffey's Gold.Uncle Charlie Cronea.Yocum's Inn.The Legacy of Jean Lafitte in Southwest Louisiana.The Legend of John Fletcher's Buried Treasure.A Tale of Jean Baptiste's Brass Cannon.Chapter 2–Tales of the Civil War in Texas and Louisiana.The Sinking of the United States Gunboat Dan.Civil War Comes to Jefferson County, Texas.Uncle Joe Chasteen was Sabine's Walking History Book.The Tale of Two Old Cannons.Catherine Magill Dorman.Endnotes–Catherine Magill Dorman.Myths of Sabine Pass' Fort Griffin Exploded.Sgt. H. N. Connor.Rebel Paul Revere Traveled 1,000 Miles to Warn of Invasion.Fort Manhassett.Endnotes–Fort Manhassett.Blockade-Running Seaports.Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.Endnotes–Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana.Singeing General Taylor's Beard.The Battle of Calcasieu Pass, Louisiana.Col. Julius G. Kellersberger.The Skirmish at Sabine Lighthouse.Chapter 3–The Romance of Southeast Texas.The Tale of Hardin County's Wild Family.Early Southeast Texas Newspapers.Sabine Lake.Early Southeast Texas Docs.The 'Opelousas Trail'When Moby Dick Came to Port Arthur.Bolivar Peninsula. 206Sabine Pass' Famed Oil Pond.The Spanish in Jefferson County, Texas.When Southeast Texas Mail Had 4 Feet.A Tale of Sabine Pass.Tulips Amid the Bluebonnets.The Neches River Cotton Steamboats.Chapter 4–Emerald of the Neches.Beaumont's Fabulous Wiess Brothers.A Brief History of Pioneer Entertainment in Beaumont, Texas.The Case of Beaumont's Missing Marble Corpse.Early Beaumont Education.Henry R. Green.The Patriotism of Beaumont, Texas.The Sawdust City in the 1880s.Chapter 5–Hurricanes, Storms, and Weather.Early Weather in Southeast Texas.Texas Hurricanes of the 19th Century.The Night that Johnson's Bayou, Louisiana Died.The Great Storm of 1886.Chapter 6–Indians and Violence.Southeast Texas Indian Homeland.Jefferson County's Role During the Texas Revolution.The Orange County War of 1856.The 'Hanging Tree' of Orange, Texas.A Killer's Trail of Thread.Seth Carey's Escape from the Murderous Yocum Gang.Myth of Texas Executions Debunked.Chapter 7–Biographies of the Border Frontiersmen.Thomas F. McKinney.Robert Kidd.William F. McClanahan.David R. Wingate.Captain Peter D. Stockholm.Henry J. Lutcher.Capt. George W. O'Brien.Capt. K. D. Keith.Christian Hillebrandt, Cattle Baron.Chapter 8–Frontier Religious Life.Rev. Vitalus Quinon.Part I: A Plucky Texas Priest.Part II: Rev. Fr. Quinon As Church Builder.Pattillo Higgins.Port Arthur's Trinity Lutheran Church.Methodism Came to Port Neches in 1881.The Pauline Letter.Chapter 9–Oil, Lumber, and Railroads.The East Texas Railroad.A Tale of King Lumber.Early-Day East Texas OilSpindletop HillIndex Read more