The Secret Ledger of an Early Texas Doctor: Dr. William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence and the Base, Mean, Low-Down, Trifeling, Lying, Lazy, Hog-Thieving, Indolent, Dogon', Chisel-Fisted, Cheating
by Egon Richard Tausch; William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence
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- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1571684611
- ISBN 13
- 9781571684615
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The Secret Ledger of an Early Texas Doctor: Dr. William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence and the Base, Mean, Low-Down, Trifeling, Lying, Lazy, Hog-Thieving, Indolent, Dogon', Chisel-Fisted, Cheating...
By Egon Richard Tausch; William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence
Hardcover Cloth 2000 pages. Condition Fine Dust Jacket Fine. Stated first edition 2000. Handsome black boards and gilt embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. No shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with no shelf wear - no tears, scrapes, stains, scratches, wrinkles or chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy.
Why should a respected frontier physician -- one of the few of his trade in Texas -- die in a mutually fatal Western-style shootout with his cousin?
Frontier Texas -- from its War of Independence from Mexico, to the late 1800s -- was a strictly agricultural region raising cotton and then livestock, and dotted with small villages...not much to draw an ambitious physician.
There were, of course, no medical schools in the Republic or the succeeding State. A very few doctors were born in Texas. They went East to get their education, and then came back to their beloved homeland. William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence was one of these doctors.
Lawrence wrote letters almost daily (and kept those he received), so the author could piece together the doctor's life, his virtues and obvious faults, and that of his family, his neighbors and his Texas.
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- Title
- The Secret Ledger of an Early Texas Doctor: Dr. William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence and the Base, Mean, Low-Down, Trifeling, Lying, Lazy, Hog-Thieving, Indolent, Dogon', Chisel-Fisted, Cheating
- Author
- Egon Richard Tausch; William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1571684611
- ISBN 13
- 9781571684615
- Publisher
- Eakin Press
- Place of Publication
- Waco, TX
- Date Published
- 2000
- Pages
- 95
- Bookseller catalogs
- Texana; First Editions;
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