Life Record of HW Grabber Texas Ranger

Published by Nevan O Shaughnessy on March 15, 2018March 15, 2018

Life Record of HW Grabber Texas Ranger.

PRESENTING A VERY RARE FIRST EDITION hardback copy of The Life Record of H.W. Grabber, A Terry Texas Ranger 1861 – 1865 Sixty-Two Years in Texas. Copyright 1916 by H.W. Grabber.

This EXTREMELY RARE book is in good condition….some fraying and losses to cover and spine, some discoloration to the cloth cover, but otherwise very good for it’s age.

This book was part of the extensive Dallas private collection.

This is a EXTREMELY RARE First Edition TEXAS Book !!

THIS IS THE ‘HOLY GRAIL’ OF TEXAS BOOKS!!

First edition. 8vo. Three quarter leather and cloth, frontis., (portrait of H. W. Graber), 442 pp., preface. One of the finest narratives relating to the 8th Texas Cavalry and his reminiscences of early Ellis and Dallas Counties. His experiences during the Civil War were both numerous and varied in nature, as he was wounded in Tennessee and captured, tried to escape, and was imprisoned. Eventually he was paroled and rejoined his command in time to take part in the middle Tennessee Campaign. Eventually, at the end of the war, he returned to Texas after declining parole and requesting to be sent home. One of the rarest and desirable of the Texas Confederate regimentals. Howes G279, “printed in a small edition.”