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If you read and enjoyed my history FROM JAMESTOWN TO TEXAS, I believe you will also be interested
in the companion novels entitled TRAILS WEST. These novels, which are done in a timeline format, feature the same characters.
They chronicle the stories and roots of many families whose members fought either at the Alamo or at San Jacinto. Many of
these same families had ancestors who participated in other great battles such as King's Mountain, Cowpens, and Guilford Courthouse
during the American Revolution. Although
both the history and the novel start out in 1821, they go back in time to the early 1600's and trace the parallel families
of William Barrett Travis, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, Andrew Jackson, and Daniel Boone. Important characters like our first
President George Washington, General Nathaniel Greene and Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, who played such vital roles in the
American Revolution are also associated with many members of the families of focus. These prominant families intermarried
with the families depicted in this series of books. They go back to the blue blood of Europe. The families originate in Scotland,
Ireland, England, France and Germany. They are also stories about the Native Americans these colonists encountered and
stories of slavery and the Black Americans. The novels are somewhat of a cross between Lonesome Dove and Little House on the
Prairie, always dealing with the same basic family groups as they move westward settling the new frontier. I had one
reader who compared them to Louis L'Mour whose writings my father absolutely adored. The books I have written are filled with echoes of the events portrayed
in Braveheart, the Patriot and Gone with the Wind. Send me an email at Betty Meischen for
more information on ordering or if you want a signed, autographed copy.
HAPPY TRAILS!
Betty
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Photo
of OLD AUSTIN COUNTY TEXAS COURTHOUSE taken ca 1910 in Bellville.
Betty was only 10 when the beloved old courthouse
burned. Her mother Sibyl Smith shed tears the day the wrecking ball swung into its staunch, masonry sides, which refused
to fall under repeated strkes.
Alas, a new modern structure was built on the same site. Betty's trails and much of
her research began here.
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FAMILIES
OF FOCUS These are all direct family lines of Betty
Meischen that are reviewed in the book From Jamestown to Texas and Virginia: The Cradle of America: Austin,
Ball, Barrett, Bell, Boutwell, Bradshaw, Brooks, Claud/Cloyd/Cloud, Dandridge, Doddridge/Dodrill/ Daughtry/ Daughtery/ Doty/
Dougherty, Dowling, Duke, Gardner, Greer, Grimes, Granville/Grenville, Guinn/ Gwinn/Gwyn/Guinn, Hammock/Hammack, Hartgrove/
Hargrove/ Hargrave, Jackson, James, Kendall, King, Lambert, Lewis, Mayo, Maxwell, Middleton, Miller, McCrary, Moore, Morgan,
Munn, Potter, Smith, Spruill, Standley/Stanley, Stephenson, Valentine, Ward, Wilson, Williamson, Young German Lines: Grimes/Greim, Haedge, Hoffman, Platte, Pluennecke, Meischen, Miller,
Schiller, Schmidt Associated and parallel lines
(married into/cousins multiple times and next door neighbors): Adams, Alford, Alexander, Allen, Anderson, Armstrong, Atkins,
Atkinson, Baker, Barham, Bennett, Benton, Blake, Boone, Bray, Brewer, Brown, Bryan, Bird/Byrd, Cato, Carter, Corbin, Childers,
Christian, Clark, Clayton, Claughton, Crawford, Cook, Cox, Crenshaw, Crockett, Cummings, Curry, Davis, Drew, Dunn, Ellis,
Fielding, Ferguson, Green/Greene, Harris, Harrison, Harrell, Hill, Hinton, Holland, Holmes, House, Houston, Hughes, Hull,
Jamison, Jennings, Jones, Larimore, Lee, Lindsey, Lowry, Kuykendall, Macon, Malone, Martin, Matthews, McBride, Miles, Morrow,
Nichols, Parham, Parker, Portis, Pugh, Osborne, Ramsey, Ray, Reid/ Reed, Reams, Ruffin, Taylor, Travis, Turner, Washington,
Walker, Weir, West, White, Willis, Wood, Wright, Wyche For
more information on these families and their history click here.
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