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Celia Hayes
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Sorry - these are the questions that I got asked, when I went to give talks to local book clubs who had read the first two books of the Trilogy. I could see a pattern forming - in that I was being asked the same questions by different people, so I...
October 30
Am I missing something here? Who asked the questions and what book club are you talking about again? I wasn't aware True West was a book club???
October 29
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I’ve done three book club meetings so far with groups who have read one or anther of the Trilogy, and have another two scheduled in the hear future, so I thought I’d get around to answering some of the questions that I have been asked about the se...
October 29
I don't have any, Dot - any more than what I had found a couple of years ago in a genealogy discussion group ..IIRC, he did have brothers, but I know very little about him, other than what I have put into this article. David Paul Smith, in Frontie...
July 7

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At 4:18pm on February 14, 2009, Wade Dillon said…
Indeed, there's more to the Alamo than just the 13 day siege and battle! I love it all!
At 7:47am on January 21, 2009, Wolfgang said…
Celia, Seeing you're interested in cabins and cabin construction you might like to take a look at my web site. The "cabin" page. I tried to post a link here and it doesn't seem to work. If you go to my profile you can find the link to my web site and then go to the "cabin" page. Thanks for the intesting post about cabin construction. I built mine from necessity for shelter just as the western pioneers did. And never enlarged it for reasons given in my account of construction on the "cabin" page.

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writer
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http://www.celiahayes.com
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http://open.salon.com/user_blog.php?uid=3183
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Reading, gardening, sewing, blogging - and I used to build miniatures.
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Well, there they all are - The Adelsverein Trilogy ... all about the German settlements in 19th century Texas - simply lashings of adventure, true love, cruel war, bitter feuds, Comanche raids, kidnapped children, Texas rangers... and cows. Lots of cows.

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Random Book Club Questions and Comments: Adelsverein

I’ve done three book club meetings so far with groups who have read one or anther of the Trilogy, and have another two scheduled in the hear future, so I thought I’d get around to answering some of the questions that I have been asked about the setting and the characters – both the real ones, and the ones that I made up.

Question: How could a very intelligent and observant girl like Magda – who grew up on a farm - be so clueless about sex when it comes to her wedding night?

Answer: Firs… Continue

Posted on October 29, 2009 at 3:17pm — 2 Comments

Celia Hayes

Frontier Surgeon

The practice of medicine in these United (and for the period 1861-1865, somewhat disunited) States was for most of the 19th century a pretty hit or miss proposition, both in practice and by training. That many sensible people possessed pretty extensive kits of medicines – the modern equivalents of which are administered as prescriptions or under the care of a licensed medical professional – might tend to indicate that the qualifications required to hang out a shingle and practice medicine were s… Continue

Posted on March 18, 2009 at 7:30am — 2 Comments

Celia Hayes

A Deep-Dyed Villian

He really was a black hat, this particular villain; he was known and recognized throughout the district – around Fredericksburg and the German settlements in Gillespie County – by a fine, black beaver hat. Which was not furry, as people might tend to picture immediately – but made of felt, felt manufactured from the hair scraped from beaver pelts. This had been the fashion early in the 19th century, and made a fortune for those who sent trappers and mountain-men into the far, far west, hunting a… Continue

Posted on March 15, 2009 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

Celia Hayes

My Name on the Marquee



All righty, then - I was on the marquee two weeks ago at the felicitously named Butt Holdsworth Memorial Library, to give a talk about the German settlements in the Hill Country. On Sunday, I will be at the old German Free School in Austin, to do another. Three PM - the address is 507 E… Continue

Posted on March 13, 2009 at 4:54pm —

Celia Hayes

Bidwell-Bartleson, 1841

The westward movement of Americans rolled west of the Appalachians and hung up for a decade or two on the barrier of the Mississippi-Missouri. It was almost an interior sea-coast, the barrier between the settled lands, and the un-peopled and tree-less desert beyond, populated by wild Indians. To be sure, there were scattered enclaves, as far-distant as the stars in the age of “shanks’ mare” and team animals hitched to wagons, or led in a pack-train: far California, equally distant Oregon, the pu… Continue

Posted on March 8, 2009 at 8:16am —

 
 
 

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