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A Texas Matchmaker, Paperback / softback Book

A Texas Matchmaker Paperback / softback

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When I first found employment with Lance Lovelace, a Texas cowman, I had not yet attained my majority, while he was over sixty.

Though not a native of Texas, "Uncle Lance" was entitled to be classed among its pioneers, his parents having emigrated from Tennessee along with a party of Stephen F.

Austin's colonists in 1821. The colony with which his people reached the state landed at Quintana, at the mouth of the Brazos River, and shared the various hardships that befell all the early Texan settlers, moving inland later to a more healthy locality.

Thus the education of young Lovelace was one of privation.

Like other boys in pioneer families, he became in turn a hewer of wood or drawer of water, as the necessities of the household required, in reclaiming the wilderness.

When Austin hoisted the new-born Lone Star flag, and called upon the sturdy pioneers to defend it, the adventurous settlers came from every quarter of the territory, and among the first who responded to the call to arms was young Lance Lovelace.

After San Jacinto, when the fighting was over and the victory won, he laid down his arms, and returned to ranching with the same zeal and energy.

The first legislature assembled voted to those who had borne arms in behalf of the new republic, lands in payment for their services.

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