Captain John B. Denton...
Author: William Allen
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Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780795013454
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Allen
Publisher:
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Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 9780795013454
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Allen
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Published: 2015-11-16
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9781519356321
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A short biography of Captain John B. Denton and other material concerning his death in 1841 defending the Texas frontier and his re-burial on the Denton County, TX courthouse lawn in 1901.
Author: William Allen
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9780267962716
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Excerpt from Captain John B. Denton, Preacher, Lawyer and Soldier: His Life and Times, in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas The life of Captain John B. Denton as herein contained is a true picture of the man and his times. All fiction has been carefully avoided. It was a temptation, and it would have been both pleasing and easy to the author to have interwoven fascinating pictures of fiction, but this would not have been just and true to the 'pioneer settlers, who desire nothing but the truth. They want the Simple truth told of an old companion who spent his life on the out skirts of civilization. But even the truth spoken in its simple strain is sometimes stranger than fiction. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: William 18th Cent Allen
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9781014542304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author: Mike Cochran
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2021-11-15
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1574418505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Denton County and the City of Denton are named for pioneer preacher, lawyer, and Indian fighter John B. Denton, but little has been known about him. In this extensive, in-depth look into the life and death of Denton, Mike Cochran has made use of new materials not available to previous biographers to help bring the story to life. John B. Denton was an orphan in frontier Arkansas who became a circuit-riding Methodist preacher and an important member of a movement of early settlers bringing civilization to North Texas. He was a participant in the first missionary effort to bring Methodism to Texas, answering a call from William B. Travis to bring Methodists to the new republic. Denton then became a ranger on the frontier, ultimately being killed in the Tarrant Expedition, a Texas Ranger raid on a series of villages inhabited by various Caddoan and other tribes near Village Creek on May 24, 1841. He was leading a small raiding party that had separated from the larger group led by General Edward Tarrant when he was shot by native defenders. Denton’s true story has been lost or obscured by the persistent mythologizing by publicists for Texas, especially by pulp western writer, Alfred W. Arrington, and by the self-aggrandizing stories told by members of the Tarrant raiding party. His death came at a time when entrepreneurs were trying to attract Anglo settlers to the Republic of Texas and were especially apt to glorify the early settlers. Denton was further made a martyr of the church by Methodist historians. Cochran separates the truth from the myth in this meticulous biography, which also contains a detailed discussion of the controversy surrounding the burial of John B. Denton and offers some alternative scenarios for what happened to his body after his death on the frontier. This is the definitive, fact-based biography of John B. Denton.
Author: Nita Thurman
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9780967002040
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Carol E. Roark
Publisher: TCU Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9780875652795
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Keep this handy guide in your glove compartment or purse. Historic sites and buildings in this book have some type of official historical designation. Maps guide you to sites in Fort Worth and surrounding communities, and lively text expands on the history of each entry.
Author: Olyve Abbott
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Published: 2001-08-24
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1556228422
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Legends of abandoned old graveyards and some not so abandoned abound-the crying dog in the cemetary well, the wandering ghost of Long Tom March, who carries a deck of cards and won't rest until he finds a winning poker hand. Next to a graveyard where an arm is buried, the old piano in the fogotten church plays. These and other tales along with some more recent real-life experiences will intrigue you, skeptic or not. Read the tales with an open mind. They are for pleasure, a bit of paranormal, a little seriousness, and hopefully a laugh or two. If you are a nonbeliever in the supernatural, you may change your skepticism is etched in stone. Then again the author learned that nothing is etched in stone forever. This humorous book also includes some unusual coffins, tombstones, and epitaphs as well as some early Texas burial traditions.