Product Description: The great achievements and fascinating life of Jane Long, Mother of Texas, are celebrated in this captivating biography. Readers will learn how Jane, orphaned as a young child and widowed at an early age, raised three children on her own and opened and operated a successful boarding house in Brazoria, the main port of Texas...read more

Product Description: The great achievements and fascinating life of Jane Long, Mother of Texas, are celebrated in this captivating biography. Readers will learn how Jane, orphaned as a young child and widowed at an early age, raised three children on her own and opened and operated a successful boarding house in Brazoria, the main port of Texas...read more

An introduction to the life of Jane Wilkinson Long, a Texas pioneer who experienced the early days of that state and who was the mother of the first Anglo baby born there.

Recounts the life of Rosa Kleberg, a German woman living on the Texas frontier during the Texas Revolution and the years following.

Discusses women in the early history of Texas from the sixteenth century to the siege at the Alamo.

Susanna Dickenson is spared at the fall of the Alamo by General Santa Anna who hoped that her account would discourage resistance, but her story rallies the Texans

Text and photographs trace the life of the fearless pioneer who became known as the Mother of Texas.

Susanna Dickenson is spared at the fall of the Alamo by General Santa Anna who hoped that her account would discourage resistance, but her story rallies the Texans