Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick: A Journal of Early Texas

$21.95
(hardcover)

144 pages, 6 x 9 inches, 19 illustrations, notes, index
ISBN 1-89271-35-8

The classic Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick, first published in 1921, are now carefully re-edited and have extensive annotations and an index to put this widely praised work back into print in a more readable, usable and up-to-date format. Nineteen new illustrations dramatize the pioneer Texas housewife's eyewitness accounts of Indian raids, military invasions and the joys and heartbreaks of raising a family in the decades following the fall of the Alamo.

As the young wife of Samuel A. Maverick, a Yale-educated landholder whose name has entered the English language, Mary Adams Maverick mixed with generals, presidents and even a German nobleman, Prince Carl of Braunfels, who serenaded her group from a boat near her home on the Texas coast.

Sprinkled throughout her work are other memorable vignettes—of a grand procession to San Antonio’s church of San Fernando behind “twelve young girls dressed in spotless white” and a platform-borne statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe; of a dance in which the president of the Republic of Texas, Mirabeau Lamar, had trouble getting his arm around the waist of the rotund wife of San Antonio’s mayor, Juan Seguín; of the deathbed vigils for two beloved daughters.

Indeed, as historian Paula Mitchell Marks writes in the foreword, these memoirs form “a valuable record of Texas history and a personal story of endurance and grace.”

"A vivid picture of life on the Texas frontier."—The New Handbook of Texas

"The first true autobiography in Texas."—Bert Almon, This Stubborn Self: Texas Autobiographies.

"Essential."—J. Frank Dobie, Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest

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