01651cam a2200361 i 4500 623624850 TxAuBib 20160608120000.0 041012s2004||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2004024027 9781881515708 alkaline paper 1881515702 alkaline paper (OCoLC)56752819 DLC eng rda DLC YDX BAKER DLC TxAuBib rda Smith, John Warren, 1928- No holier spot of ground : a Texas story :an historical narrative of an early Texas family 1834-1869, being the rise and fall of a cotton plantation on the banks of the Trinity River / John Warren Smith. First edition. Huntsville, Tex. : Texas Review Press, 2004. xv, 629 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Using musty records in the attic of one of the oldest courthouses in Texas,a 6th generation Texan here tells the fascinating tale of the rise and fall of a cotton plantation north of Houston prior to the government's confiscation of the plantation property (that Emancipation Proclamation again) (Taken from book cover). 20160608. Plantation life Fiction. Cotton farmers Fiction. Trinity River Valley (Tex.) Fiction. Texas Fiction. Historical fiction. lcgft Domestic fiction. Fiction. lcgft TXKPL