Books in Stories for Young Americans Series series

Book by Gonzales, Catherine

Searching for a better life, Mina and her parents leave their German fatherland in 1845 and sail to Texas where they find hardship, tragedy, and adventure

A biography of the restless adventurer who made his reputation with a hunting knife, became a successful farmer and businessman, and died in the siege of the Alamo.

Recounts the daily life of Anna Maria and her family in Panna Maria, the first Polish settlement in Texas

Chronicles the experiences of William Roberts and Elizabeth Pryor, two young settlers of Texas who grow up together, get married and begin to shape the future of the land in the first half of the nineteenth-century

A biography of the Texas pioneer and leader in the Texas Revolution of 1835 and 1836.

Sofia and Wilhelm, two young German children accompany their parents to Fredericksburg, Texas, where the German families make peace with the Indians and begin building homes

A biography of Henrietta Chamberlain King, who helped build one of the world's largest cattle empires, the King Ranch in Texas.

Traces the career of Jean Lafitte through his days as a Gulf of Mexico buccaneer to his role as defender of New Orleans and his final disappearance in 1826 under uncertain circumstances.

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Three children once again become involved with Jean Lafitte, thought by many to be dead, in dangerous adventures in Texas.

A fictionalized biography of Churchill Roberts, a second generation Texan who joined the Thirteenth Calvary Battalion during the Civil War and fought in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana.