The Galveston Dispatches space opera I packed no clothes

I packed no clothes

Heroism gets a man killed quickly

but to Birdie

A collection of three interconnected novellas that follow each generation of the iconic Swagger family--grandfather Charles

The Galveston Dispatches space opera I packed no clothesIn 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First German Lutheran Church school in Galveston, Texas. He spent the next eleven years writing letters to his family about a place that was very different from his Swiss home. The climate was harsh, with stifling heat and bitter cold, droughts and floods. He provides a firsthand account of the treatment of slaves, frontier