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Rob Potter (left), onetime secretary of the navy of the Texas Republic and later a senator in the Republic’s congress, isn’t the main character of this novel with a bodice-ripper title. Harriet Potter is, but there’s no picture of her that I can find on the Web. Nor is the book a bodice-ripper, really, but a real adventure story of a resourceful and brave 19th century woman, only a part of which concerns Potter. Well, a large part. The reviewers at the novel’s Amazon site make it plain that this is a true woman’s book, which many women seem to pass on to their daughters.
This reviewer does likewise. But I think most men would enjoy it, even if some of the male characters are pretty despicable. The most interesting part is that Harriet and Rob were real, and most, if not all of the novel (certainly not all of the dialogue) is based on Harriet’s reporting of her life–in a lengthy, unpublished memoir that came to the attention of the Texas Historical Commission many years ago. The novel was originally published in 1959, but it’s a very contemporary read and one of the most memorable books I’ve encountered. Get a copy. You won’t be disappointed.
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This personal guide to Texas writing, by the writer/journalist A.C. Greene, has become my touchstone of late. Although I have read many of the books in it, such as Aransas, Lonesome Dove, Goodbye to a River, Hold Autumn in Your Hand, Charles Goodnight, Adventures With a Texas Naturalist, and Six Years With the Texas Rangers, there’s still many more to go. It’s been criticized for what it leaves out, which is to say a lot of cowboy and cattle industry books and history-as-history. Some, like the stark Journal of the Secession Convention of 1861 and The Commanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement, are hard to find–though the former is now available free in pdf on the Web. I’m going to try Love Is a Wild Assault next, a novel of the Texas Republic.
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THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 