Pioneer Life In Texas. An Autobiography.

M. KRUEGER

Publication: Privately printed, 1930, N P San Antonio

First edition. 8vo. Inked gift inscription on the front free fly leaf: "To B. H. Graham In memory of M. Krueger From his family, March 8, 1930." Original gilt pictorial flexible leather binding, 225 pp., frontispiece [portrait], salutation, preface, conclusion. German pioneer born in 1851 in Greifswald, Germany and died in Wiesbaden, Germany in 1927. This autobiography was written during 1925 and covers his life from his ranch at Twin Sisters in Blanco County during the last half of the 19th Century. Describes cattle ranching, Indian skirmishes, his travels on horseback from Austin up the Colorado River to San Saba where he went on a buffalo hunt. He gives a history of the German Settlements in the Hill Country. He tells of importing "Johnson grass" from Mississippi and feeding the roots to his hogs. After ranching he moved to New Braunfels. Very good copy of a book Herd 1289, says is "rare." Eberstadt Texas 162: "An uncommon privately printed account of a German emigrant who arrived at Indianola in 1868, visited San Saba, became a traveling photographer, and founded a machine factory in San Antonio." He was not very successful as a Texas rancher. In one chapter titled "Hunting Experiences" he mentions briefly hunting the Texas jaguar, the black bear, grey wolves, mountain lions, road runners and other small game. Covers lightly rubbed at the front fore-edge and spine else a very good tight copy.

Inventory Number: 53238