Ella Elgar Bird Dumont: An Autobiography of a West Texas Pioneer

by Ella Elgar Bird Dumont

Book Overview

A crack shot, expert skinner and tanner, seamstress, sculptor, and later writer-a list that only hints at her intelligence and abilities-Ella Elgar Bird Dumont was one of those remarkable women who helped tame the Texas frontier. First married at sixteen to a Texas Ranger, she followed her husband to Comanche Indian country in King County, where they lived in a tepee while participating in the final slaughter of the buffalo. Living off the land...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0292735952
• ISBN13: 9780292735958
• Release Date: July 1988
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Life from Civil War Mississippi to the Plains of Texas

This pioneer's account of her own life is a revealing human story of life at the time of the Civil War and the defeated South, and of those pioneers who took to the road to settle Texas after the War. Accounts in the book give a smell and flavor to the experience of that time. For those that know the history of the places and period in the book, it will bring to life the experiences of those days. Civil War action in the area around Corinth and Gun Town Mississippi and life in Memphis, wagon train travel, prairie life, marrage to a Texas Ranger, buffalo hunts, Indian encounters, raising a family on the plains, tornados, art, gardening and social life.I proudly admit to bias in that the author was my mother's aunt.

Life from Civil War Mississippi to the Plains of Texas

This pioneer's account of her own life is a revealing human story of life at the time of the Civil War and the defeated South, and of those pioneers who took to the road to settle Texas after the War. Accounts in the book give a smell and flavor to the experience of that time. For those that know the history of the places and period in the book, it will bring to life the experiences of those days. Civil War action in the area around Corinth and Gun Town Mississippi and life in Memphis, wagon train travel, prairie life, marrage to a Texas Ranger, buffalo hunts, Indian encounters, raising a family on the plains, tornados, art, gardening and social life.I proudly admit to bias in that author was my mother's aunt.

Through the Eyes of a Pioneer Woman

For any one who knows of the vast badlands west of Fort Worth and east of the Caprock of Texas, for anyone who is interested in the daily life of the pioneers settling west Texas in the post Civil War period, or for any one who collects true stories,you must add this autobiography to your library. The thrill of the buffalo hunt, the beauty of hills of white lacy gypsum sandwiched in Permian red clay are described. Ella Elgar Bird Dumont shares the details of her years,the simple pleasures of family and friends, and the anguish of loneliness as a widow living on the rolling plains. Truly a unique feminine perspective, told with the openess and details of a true pioneer woman.