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Flower of the Wilderness, Mother Neff and the State Parks of Texas

Flower of the Wilderness, Mother Neff and the State Parks of Texas

Flower of the Wilderness, Mother Neff and the State Parks of Texas

Martha Deeringer

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2014
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When the state of Texas was only nine years old, newlywed Isabella Neff and her husband, Noah, traveled a thousand miles in a light wagon from safe, settled Virginia to set up housekeeping on the Texas frontier. Nothing about the trip or their new home in Coryell County would be easy. Isabella and Noah would raise nine children on the Texas prairie, including a son who would become governor of Texas...

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