In the mid-1800s, twelve-year-old Kitty and her family demonstrate a pioneer spirit and bold courage as they struggle to create a homestead on the prairie in northeast Texas

Product Description: This colorful biography brings to life the legendary statesmen, warrior, and friend of the Cherokee, Sam Houston. From running away and joining a band of Cherokees to avoiding classes at school, to leading men into battle, Houston's larger-than-life and flamboyant personality is encapsulated in this life telling...read more

Product Description: The heroic life of Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas, is vividly portrayed in this biography that describes how a gentle man finished the work of his father and helped found an independent Texas. Detailing how Austin inherited a grant of land with instructions to form a colony in Spanish-controlled Texas, this biography tells of how Stephen spent the next fifteen years negotiating, cajoling, and eventually taking up arms against the newly independent Mexico to help found the Republic of Texas...read more

Relates how Jane Long and her maidservant Kian held one of the first forts in Texas against Indian attacks and Jane gave birth to the first Anglo baby born in Texas