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Kate
10-19-2005, 10:47 AM
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True Women

Author: Janice Woods Windle


Book Description:

Alive and pulsating with the events of our history, TRUE WOMEN tells the story of two dynastic family lines in Texas, the Kings and the Woodses. Euphemia Texas Ashby King could ride and shoot like any man, and she was there when Sam Houston's rag-tag army routed Santa Anna at San Jacinto . . . . Though she risked her plantation running the Yankee cotton blockade during the Civil War, Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods still had to defend her family from a corrupt Yankee officer . . . . Bettie Moss King survived wolves, storms, and the Ku Klux Klan to steer her family through the turbulent birth of modern times.

Inspired by the author's own Texas roots, here is an unforgettable saga of the grit, determination, and courage of TRUE WOMEN.


About the Author:

Janice Woods Windle is the author of the novels Hill Country and the forthcoming America, Amerika. A lifelong Texan, she currently resides in San Antonio with her husband Wayne.



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clogaholic
01-27-2006, 07:19 AM
I've seen the movie but haven't read the book yet. It was very powerful.

txgurl
01-27-2006, 11:29 AM
I read this book years ago, and I remember it being very good and interesting. I couldn't put it down until I finished it. It is definitely worth reading.

Kathy
01-27-2006, 02:21 PM
My other favorite Texas history fiction is "Love is a Wild Assault". Its about the same time frame: Texas independence, the Runaway scrape and life in Texas as a republic...and then a state...and about a strong woman. I recommend it highly.

Charger
02-02-2006, 09:10 AM
I read True Women a few years ago and thought it was great! As usual, the movie was not as good :(