True Women
 

True Women

by Janice Woods Windle

Alive and pulsating with the events of our history, TRUE WOMEN tells the story of two dynastic family lines in Texas, the Kings and the Woodses. Euphemia Texas Ashby King could ride and shoot like any man, and she was there when Sam Houston's rag-tag army routed Santa Anna at San Jacinto . . . . Though she risked her plantation running the Yankee cotton blockade during the Civil War, Georgia... (read more)

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  • Rated 3.666667 stars
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  • Rated 4.5 stars
 

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  • dixielandings

    dixielandings said:

    I remember only bits and pieces of this story, but I was very moved, partly because I'm a Texan, but also partly because of being in the midst of an identity crisis when I read it. It was emotional reading.

    posted Wednesday, September 5 2007
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