FIVE YEARS IN TEXAS;
OR,
WHAT YOU DID NOT HEAR DURING THE WAR
FROM
JANUARY 1861 TO JANUARY 1866.
A NARRATIVE OF HIS
Travels, Experiences, and Observations,
IN
TEXAS AND MEXICO.
BY
THOMAS NORTH.
CINCINNATI:
Elm Street Printing Co., 176 & 178 Elm Street.
1871.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
By THOMAS NORTH,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress.
PREFACE.
To conceive the idea, and execute the purpose of making a book, is, to a modest man, not a little monstrous; and yet, modest or immodest, monstrous or not, the author makes his best bow to the reader, and holds himself subject to criticism for not making it better. But many are running to and fro in the earth, and knowledge is being increased; for the runners, are they not making books for the million? And having run somewhat with the runners ourself, we might as well tell our story of travel too. The story is not of sailing round the world with Captain Cook, or any other Sea King. Nor is it one of Orient—of Oriental climes or times, or of its discords or chimes, but it is one that pertains to stirring events, in stirring times, in the most stirring of all stirring climes—America, our own sweet land of liberty.